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Vitro NasuIconoclastic Incubator
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Photo of Montgomery Clift by Stanley Kubrick (via)
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Montgomery Clift doing a little dance at Paestum – photo by Kevin McCarthy
(Repost – see previous posts)
In Praise of Monty Clift – (Sheila’s Variations)
Being Everyone 
See more from here.
Ward Schumaker may not be like everyone, he seems to be everywhere.. he will definitely be at his opening in New York.
Saturday, October 29 · 3:00pm – 5:00pm (Opening)
Location
O K Harris Gallery
383 West Broadway
New York, NY
Nashville
Moon Atlas 
Moon Atlas 
opening, 5-8 pm, Thursday, 03 November.
The show remains up until 17 December.
Zeitgeist Gallery | 1819 21st Avenue South | Nashville, TN
“My illustrated version of Paris France by Gertrude Stein appeared in the Seeing Gertrude Stein Five Stories exhibit
at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum and will now move to Washington, DC, to appear in Insight and Identity,
Contemporary Artists and Gertrude Stein, at Stanford-in-Washington.” Ward Schumaker via email.
Seeing Gertrude Stien Five Stories 
Body Precious Always Shine (Alice and Gertrude)
I love my wifey so completely
Oh so completely, and she is
To have a lovely cow a real
Cow splash goes the cow now,
Splash splash splash lovely
Baby smelly cow comes out of
Baby anyhow now
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The Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden
“Even the smallest of voices need to be heard” a placard held by the young Lego artist. (Scroll down..to see her with her lego towers).
Two years ago on Oct 18 Nancy Spero passed away.
As both artist and activist, Nancy Spero’s career spanned fifty years. She was renowned for her continuous engagement with contemporary political, social, and cultural concerns. Spero chronicled wars and apocalyptic violence as well as articulating visions of ecstatic rebirth and the celebratory cycles of life.
Oct 18
Birthday of James Brooks – a wonderful painter.
Foucault an Introduction – Part 1, Psychiatry, Power, Oppression, Depression, Philosophy
Michel Foucualt
Michel Foucalut was born on 15 October 1926 (Same birthday as Friedrich Nietzsche)
RIchard Hamilton 
Picasso’s Meninas
Les Mots et Les Choses (The Order of Things)
The book opens with an extended discussion of Diego Velázquez’s painting Las Meninas and its complex arrangement of sightlines, hiddenness, and appearance. Then it develops its central claim: that all periods of history have possessed certain underlying conditions of truth that constituted what was acceptable as, for example, scientific discourse. Foucault argues that these conditions of discourse have changed over time, from one period’s episteme to another. Jean Piaget, in Structuralism,[1] compared Foucault’s episteme to Thomas Kuhn’s notion of a paradigm. Foucault demonstrates the parallelisms in the development of three fields: linguistics, biology, and economics.
Click to view Images From The Writings Of Michel Foucault (Youtube)
These were culled from a variety of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s works – from the early “Madness and Civilization” (1965) through the last two published volumes of “The History of Sexuality” (1985-1986) – and some key essays …
In order:
1. Michel Foucault, cover illustration for Alan Sheridan’s ‘The Will To Truth’;
2. The Ship of Fools (‘Madness and Civilization’)
3. Marquis de Sade, by Man Ray (‘The Order of Things’)
4. ‘Las Meninas’, by Velazquez (‘The Order of Things’)
5. Friedrich Nietzsche, by Munch (‘Nietzsche, Genealogy, History’)
6. Don Quixote, by Picasso (‘The Order of Things’)
7. Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon (‘Discipline and Punish’)
8. Jeremy Bentham (‘Discipline and Punish’)
9. Philippe Pinel (‘Madness and Civilization’)
10. Friedrich Hoelderlin (‘The Father’s “No” ‘)
11. David Ricardo (‘The Order of Things’)
12. Georges Bataille {‘Preface to Transgression’)
13. Jorge Luis Borges (‘The Order of Things’) (continue below)
(see more from youtube comment)
Michel Foucault 
sings his philosophy through a surreal collage landscape. The film is from a series of mini-musicals based on the works of the great philosophers.
NOTHING IS FUNDAMENTAL by Victor Bellomo & David Pace (3 min)
Badiou interviews Michel Foucault (1965) 1/3 English Subtitles (youtube)
The Dark Brain of Piranesi (previous post -scroll down to see Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky debate).
Whether or Not.. (Bonus + Invisiblity of the Market, etc).
Wide White Flow at Paul Cooper (short clip)
Hans Haacke News – (youtube lecture)
Star gazing by Hans Haacke
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24 January 2011 post: Hans Haacke, Selected Works & Interview
You mentioned that you’d advise students to prepare for the “long haul”–how have you sustained your work through the years?
One rule I set for myself right early on was that I should not be dependent on the vagaries of the art market. It has given me a degree of independence. I wouldn’t have dared doing certain things without that. Teaching has given me the economic base one needs. But it’s not only for the money. I enjoy teaching. I learn a lot from students.
Trickle Up
Haacke’s interest in real-time systems propelled him into his criticism of social and political systems.[2] In most of his work after the late 1960s, Haacke focused on the art world and the system of exchange between museums and corporations and corporate leaders; he often underlines its effects in site-specific ways. (wiki)
No comment and strong decisions – artists Occupy Wall Street
How they did it? From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere.
Oct 10 1945 – The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China
National Day in China (see more Wang Ningde here, don’t click on dead links.)
Message from Chinese activists and academics in support of Occupy Wall Street
This letter of solidarity, signed over by 50 intellectuals and activists in China, was posted to Utopia yesterday. Thanks to everyone for the translation and editing work!
Zizek Speaks to Occupy Wall Street
He steered the discussion away from the Cold War debate between communism and capitalism, noting that former communists, particularly in China, “are today the most efficient, brutal capitalists.”
The communist revolution “failed absolutely,” he said, suggesting that “the only way we are communist is that we care about the commons,” citing the environment as an example.
Apart from that Oct 10 birthday links
Photo by Fung Lin Hall
Happy birthday Sherman Alexie! October 7, 1966
Sherman is a writer, poet, filmmaker, and occasional comedian.
His cool homepage .fallsapart.com
Happy birthday to Emiri Baraka
Who Will Survive America?
Somebody blew up America
Occupy Wall Street Archive is here.
Forrest Bess (October 5, 1911 – November 10, 1977) Painter, fisherman, visionary, eccentric – Forrest Bess was one of the most original American artists of his generation
Bess showed at Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City, along with artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. In the 1950s, he also began a life-long correspondence with art professor and author Meyer Schapiro, and sexologist John Money
Bess makes it clear that his paintings were only part of a grander theory, based on alchemy, the philosophy of Carl Jung, and the rituals of Australian aborigines, which proposed that becoming a hermaphrodite was the key to immortality. In 1960, Bess operated on himself to become a pseudo-hermaphrodite. This physical manifestation of his theory never achieved the results he had hoped for and, ironically, this quest for immortality was the beginning of a slow decline in both his health and his creative output
His letter 
October 5 birthday
Denis Diderot + Lumiere (previous post -L’espirit de France )
Kate Winslet Listen America (She played a mother of Esther Freud)
Happy birthday Steve Reich
City Life 
Proverb was based on the text of Wittgenstein- “How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life!“.
Unrelated link: Michel Houellebecq’s new book Map and Territory reviewed (guardian)
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Merrill Lynch Wall Street Waltz (Digital photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)
Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall street
Occupy Together (check the listings for your local headquarters).
I support these protests (Rootaction.com)
Take a Whiz on Wall Street: Danish Artists Move JPMorgan’s Executive Bathroom to a Lower East Side Diner
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The Market is open (Digital photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)
(Lumiere and company direct link)
Arthur Penn (September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010)
Arthur Penn brought the sensibility of ’60s European art films to American movies.
Left Handed Gun, The Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde, Night Moves, Mickey One. LIttle Big Man, Four Friends., Alice’s Restaurant (see Previous post )
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The Chase (Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Angie D and Jane Fonda in Chase.)
Marlon hijinks with Sam Spiegel, the producer on “The Chase”
(Arthur in an interview)
Arthur 
with Jonas Mekas
Previous post – learn from Arthur about Bucky Fuller and the history of Black Mountain College.
Arthur Penn on Ingmar Bergman(his last interview)
Anthropologist Erikson is mentioned here.
Irving Penn and Arthur Penn (artists brothers – vanity fair)
On being brothers
There was an inherent competition and inherent admiration—both, you know. It was fragile … except that we knew our lives sort of depended on each other. His wife, Lisa, was an absolute marvel. We all four were very close.
And the secret to their success …
I do think it was something we learned from each other. [A beat.] I just don’t know what.
Update Arthur Penn died a day after his birthday Sept 28, 2010..
Obit from Vanity Fair
(Thanks Marlene Sarroff)
Color field painter dies at 63 Stephen Mueller – Sept 24, 1947 – Sept 16, 2011
Stephen Mueller obit at ARTCRITICAL
He would have been 64 years old today.
His Bombsite interview (lots of interesting stuff here)
I’m interested in demonstrating the folly of duality; I’m deliberately toying with that thing about figure/ground, which is which. The ground being the way we set up what we think reality is, the warp and woof of how we see our situation. The paintings are not constricted or rigidly mathematical; it’s like the fiction of our perception is ready to fall apart, the whole grid is ready to collapse, or change.
