Vitro Nasu

Chinese Box

On June 30, 1997, in Hong Kong, the Union Jack was lowered for the last time over Government House as Britain prepared to hand the colony back to China after ruling it for 156 years
Wayne Wang’s film “The Chinese Box starred Jeremy Iron & two great actresses from China, Gong Li & Maggie Cheung (M.C was happy to play this scarfaced woman – a departure. .The film took place during the transition, using the real footage, Prince Charles was there.. very emotional moment in history.

Ruben Blades singing here (excerpt from Chinese Box on youtube)

Fan Ho’s never-before-seen Hong Kong images on show in exhibition and new book

Fan Ho – (8-october-1937-19-june-2016), see more photos here.

Bruce Lee
(Bruce with IP Man)

Ann Hui (Hong Kong/Macao Filmmaker who won many lifetime achievement awards)
Maggie was directed by Ann Hui in Ann’s autobiographical film.

Autumn Moon directed by Clara Law

Full film of Autumn Moon by Clara Law here (Youtube)

Clara Law

Chinese surname shortage –
Two Tony from Hong Kong here..

In the middle is Tony Leung Chiu Wai and the bottom is Tony Leung Ka Fai

Noah Tayler as Hitler, John Cusack as an art dealer.

Max – trailer

The central mystery of Hitler, William Boyd writes in a recent Times Literary Supplement, is: “How on earth could a dysfunctional, deranged, down-and-out homeless person in pre-First World War Vienna become, 20 years later, Chancellor of Germany?” A peculiar and intriguing film named “Max” argues that he succeeded because he had such a burning need to be recognized–and also, of course, because of luck, good for him, bad for us. If Hitler had won fame as an artist, the century’s history might have been different. Pity about his art.

“Max” imagines a fictional scenario in which the young Adolf Hitler (Noah Taylor) is befriended by a one-armed Jewish art dealer named Max Rothman (John Cusack) in Munich in the years following World War I. Both served in the German army and fought in the same battle, where Rothman lost his arm. The dealer opens an avant-garde art gallery in a vast abandoned factory, showcasing artists such as George Grosz and attracting important collectors–and Hitler, clutching his portfolio of kitsch. Rothman takes pity on this man and is friendly to him, moved by the pathos beneath his bluster. (Roger Ebert)

Considers the scripts to Max (2002) and Being John Malkovich (1999) the best he has read. (IMDB)

Cusack with Arundhati Roy (2016)

Happy birthday John Cusack, Mel Brooks and Kathy Bates.

Mel Brooks Hitler Rap (youtube)

Kathy Bates made two films based on Stephen King, Misery and Dolores Claiborne and she won an Oscar with Misery.

See funny photos from here..

Judy Davis and Peter Weller (they were in two films in the past, Naked Lunch and the New Age)
Happy birthday Peter Weller!

From 2013 interview
Peter Weller on feminism, sequels, and more.
On Judy Davis – Peter said,

I did two movies with her, and she may be the most brilliant actress… well, one of the most brilliant actresses. I’ve had the pleasure of working with her and Diane Keaton and Dianne Wiest, and those three actresses are unbeatable. Unbeatable!

Peter Weller is also an art historian, (via his wiki)

Italian Renaissance Art History.[13] In October 2013 he filed his dissertation,[14] entitled “Alberti Before Florence: Early Sources Informing Leon Battista Alberti’s De pictura”, and was awarded his doctorate in 2014

Naked L. Trio
With David Cronenberg and William S Burroughs

On Naked Lunch (youtube)

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(With Diane Keaton in Shoot the Moon)

Petern Weller is an art historian today.

Edit DeAK

Art critic Edit deAk has died. Doyenne of a downtown New York art world that was the playground for many a nascent movement and ideology—punk, Pictures, New Wave, No Wave, and postmodernism—DeAk wrote for Artforum, Interview, ZG, and Art Random, among other publications. She was also, perhaps most famously, the cofounder—with artist-critic Walter Robinson and writer Joshua Cohn—of Art-Rite, an art periodical published from 1973 to 1978. Artists such as Alan Vega (of the band Suicide), Dorothea Rockburne, Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Pat Steir, and Rosemary Mayer designed covers for the paper.

New York City Ballet dancer Ulrik Trojaborg, artist/critic Edit DeAk, and art luminary Andy Warhol discussing Polaroids at The Odeon, 1986.

Edit DeAK

photo via 98 Bowery com

NYtimes obit

Ms. DeAk founded Art-Rite in 1973 with Walter Robinson and Joshua Cohn, two fellow students at Columbia University. Its stated goal was to provide “coverage of the undercovered.”
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Attuned to the emerging alternative galleries and performance spaces in downtown Manhattan, the journal, published out of Ms. DeAk’s SoHo loft, turned the spotlight on art at the margins: performance art, video art, conceptual art and outsider art. She had a special affection for street art, which she once called “information from the middle of the night.”
Ms. DeAk’s critical style was personal, quirky and inventive, with adjectives like “nuancical” popping up unexpectedly.

Vito Acconci arranging cushions for PersonA, curated by Edit deAk, April 1974
artistsspace

Vito Acconci – previous post

Kurt Schwitters (Dada, sound poetry, the first installation artist)
(via)

Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn under threat from property developers
German artist’s ‘outstanding’ unfinished work in Cumbria could be sold after art institutions refuse to save it

Derek Wallcott museum closing

2009 – archpaper – Frank Lloyd Wright Obsession is more novel than we thought
(The Women by T C Boyle is based on Frank Lloyd Wright)

T C Boyle homepage

Page 2 – from his homepage

Taliesin West –
Frank Lloyd Wright and his curious asian collection (Previous post)

(via Irving Penn-From Hells Angels to Hitchcock.. )

Balthus (Photo by Irving Penn)

See portraits of Jean Cocteau, Colette, Claude Levi-Strauss, David Smith by Irving Penn (previous post) here.

The son of a watchmaker and a nurse, Penn was born June 16, 1917, in Plainfield, N.J., and grew up in Philadelphia. His younger brother, Arthur, became a successful movie director with “Bonnie and Clyde” in 1967.

Arthur Penn was his brother – (about the two of them – from Vanity Fair)

Jack Tilton

Jack Tilton (1951–2017)

Jack Tilton Gallery

Art News obit _ Relentlessly Venturesome art dealer died

Nytimes Obit

Jack Tilton, an art dealer whose gallery was instrumental in discovering or giving crucial early exposure to Marlene Dumas, Kiki Smith, David Hammons and other artists who later became prominent, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 66.

The cause was complications of cancer, his wife, Connie Rogers Tilton, said.

Mr. Tilton, who began his career as an assistant to Betty Parsons at her renowned 57th Street gallery, had an eye for the new and a thirst for discovery. He was particularly keen on finding young artists just coming into their own and giving them the needed push.

Several artists who are now well established, including Francis Alys, Glenn Ligon, and Fred Holland, who died last year, benefited from his backing. He was also a prescient, intrepid explorer of Chinese art, using his gallery to showcase work by artists like Huang Yong Ping and Zhang Peili.

Jack Tilton gallery introduced me to Blinky Parlermo’a art

Fairefield Porter -Portrait of Schuyler and John Ashbery.. 57-58

Fairefield Porter – was born on June 10, 1907 – a painter and an art critic.

On Fairefield Porter Respect For Things As They Are
by JOHN ASHBERY

Mystery that is essential to reality – Fairefield Porter

John Ashbery (Harpers – )

He has often said that the artist’s role is to make himself misunderstood, but such a position needn’t be taken as mere obfuscation. It might be entertained as a sort of blessing or benediction, something akin to the one he offers in
And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name”:

Something
Ought to be written about how this affects
You when you write poetry:
The extreme austerity of an almost empty mind
Colliding with the lush, Rousseau-like foliage of its desire to communicate

Something between breaths, if only for the sake
Of others and their desire to understand you and desert you
For other centers of communication, so that understanding
May begin, and in doing so be undone.He has often said that the artist’s role is to make himself misunderstood, but such a position needn’t be taken as mere obfuscation. It might be entertained as a sort of blessing or benediction, something akin to the one he offers in

Ashbury’s poem from Paris Review

Larry Rivers: Pyrography: Poem and Portrait of John Ashbery II, 76 x 58 inches, 1977
A Vanguard of Friends

Ashbery and Rimbaud

Where is Rimbaud? (Previous post)

(Elgawimmer)
Donald as a cross dresser
1999, charcoal and pastel on paper
10 feet x 14 feet

Donald Duck by Joyce Pensanto

Happy birthday Donald Duck June 9 1934

Donald Duck debuted – here –

Happy birthday Johnny Depp (Before Night Falls, he had double roles)
trailer here .

Fear and loathing (see Las Vegas, Hunter Thompson, Ali and Depp)

Walt Disney and Shostakovich

Act Natural
(Orange blob escaped from the white house)
(art by Miranda July)

via Spotlight

Each year Sight & Sound updates their list of ‘The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time’. The huge jury of critics, programmers and academics came to the grand total of 846 while the number of films by female directors they chose was… 1.

JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE 1080 BRUXELLES (1975) directed by Chantal Akerman –

Chantal Akerman was only 25 when she made this film (the same age that Welles made CITIZEN KANE in fact).

Chantal Akerman, at the 1982 Venice Film Festival, where she presented her romantic and choreographic masterwork “Toute une Nuit.”

Photograph by Raymond Depardon / Magnum
New Yorker (A Chantal Akerman Retrospective)

William Hurt
(A Couch in NY)

Chantal Akerman’s Point of View..