Vitro Nasu

The Harlem Renaissance produced three of America’s most beloved writers—the poets Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, and the Baha’i philosopher, Alain Locke. These three men, close friends throughout their lives, completely changed America’s–and the world’s–perceptions about what black people could accomplish as artists and intellectuals.

Alain Locke( and Langston Hughes- via)

Art and Activism (Harvard) by Adam Kirsch

Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization

Alain Locke

Photo by Gordon Parks

Alain Locke is widely acknowledged as the intellectual architect of the Harlem Renaissance (also known as the New Negro movement). Locke eloquently elaborated on the concept of the New Negro, an urbane individual who is knowledgeable and proud of his or her history and aware of his or her potential and power as a citizen in a democratic society. Locke graduated from Harvard College in 1907 and was the first black Rhodes Scholar. He received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard in 1918 and went on to be a professor of philosophy at Howard University.(via)

Alain Locke & Eleanor
(photo via Black Plato on World Citizenship )

The New Negro – An Interpretation edited by Alain Locke

(Buñuel directing Catherine Deneuve in Tristana)
Photo by Mary Ellen Mark

Mutant eggplant web art see Toledo and Tristana.

Tristana and filming of the film in Toledo.
Dazzling adaptation of the novel by Benito Porez Galdós
about a woman who seeks what little independence is available
to a young unmarried woman in turn-of-the-century Spain.

Moreau as a chambermaid from the Diary of Chambermaid by Luis .
This chambermaid (Jeanne Moreau) was a cool oberserver.

(Truffaut and Buñuel)

“God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.”
― Luis Buñuel

It was Pierre Clementi who suggested to Buñuel that the character of Deneuve’s lover should wear the leather coat, gold teeth, and moth-eaten socks.

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Lorca and Buñuel in la verbena de San Antonio de la Florida (Madrid) in 1923 – h/t – Salvador Fortuny Miro)

The story goes that Federico Garcia Lorca (the pilot here) erroneously believed that the film by Dali and Bunuel Un Chien Andalou (an Andalucian Dog) referred to him, coming from Granada, having recently fallen out with his surrealist friends. This to my mind seems doubly pained paranoia if you have seen the film. And who needed Dali as a friend anyway? (Walt Disney actually).

(Nina with James Baldwin)
A Raised Voice
How Nina Simone turned the movement into music.

See a painting Homage to Nina Simone here.

It took her one hour to write Mississipi Goddam

Dr. Nina Simone- –Alabama Got Me So Upset (previous post)

Wild is the Wind..his tribute to Nina Simone.. (How David Bowie helped Nina out of a slump)..

Nuovomondo

What Happend Miss Simone? (Film)

Art News obit
Artlyist

Geys was perhaps best known for his strong social and political motives of his work

Superdemocratie.ensembles.org.

In many respects, he is a disciple of Marcel Duchamp, who defended the strategy of undisclosed withdrawal. Geys has chosen to build his work on provincial references. All his exhibitions are accompanied by an issue of the newspaper Kempens Informatieblad, which he publishes himself and designs like a local, free circulation newspaper.

Peter Paul Rubens & Jef Geys Combined Artworks

I.Materialise.com/

Jeff Geys
Self-portrait

Happy New (Y)ear of Earth Dog! starting February 16, 2018 to February 4, 2019.
(Earth dog is Communicative, serious, and responsible in work)

Spike loved Maria Callas and his family love and miss him forever.

Ellis began working on the book in 2010 after Kubrick’s death by canine lymphoma as a way of working through his grief over the dog’s death

Independent filmmaker Sean Ellis (previous post- Metro Manila to Prague)

James Dean ‘s dog here.

Dog by Ed Ruscha

Oof oof and various cheeses

Monty and Monty Socrates
Read how Monty Socrates found his family and his brother and sister.

Best in show – A film clip + fun dog photos and a link to 8 ways to prepare your pets for war.

Les Poets Maudits
Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, Brussels Oct 07, 1873

Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud

Happy Valentine!
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Michiyo Aratama from Kokoro

Natsume Soseki was born on February 9, 1867

Natsume Soseki – Kokoro (adapted by Kon Ichikawa)

Natsume Soseki (previous post)

Kon Ichikawa archive here.

Shimura Takashi and Ingmar Bergman
(During the awarding of the Selznick-Goldlorbeer-award on 29th June 1961 in Berlin on accasion of the Berlinale Film Festival. )

RIP Shimura Takashi – Feb 11, 1982 (Shimura appeared in 21 of Akira Kurosawa’s 30 films)

(Ingmar Bergman archive here)

Happy birthday Jeon Do-yeon!

Jeon Do Yeon with Jia Zhangke and Gael Garcia Bernal (Cannes film festival 2014)

Soseki
and Glenn Gould

Soseki was Glenn’s favorite author.

Sorekara (top) Soseki as the face on 1000 Japanese yen (bottom).

Warhead 2017 (Trump/Jong-un)

Warhead 2017 (Trump/Putin)

Nancy Burson

Nancy Burson (wik)

Burson is best known for her pioneering work in morphing technologies which age enhance the human face and still enable law enforcement officials to locate missing children and adults. Her Human Race Machine, which allows people to view themselves as a different race, is used worldwide as an educational diversity tool that provides viewers with the profound visual experience of being another race

William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac – photo by Allen Ginsberg

Beatmuseum.

Our Paranoid Friend had a dinner with Susan Sontag

Naked L. Trio
With David Cronenberg and William S Burroughs

Peter Weller is now an Italian Renaissance art hisotrian. (see previous post)

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Initially Gus wanted Tom Waits for the role that went to Matt Dillon. Drugstore Cowboy was based on a true story. William S. Burroughs changed the profession for his part to that of a priest. He only wanted to work for one day so they shot everything in a day.

Gus Vant Sant

Uncle Howard -Howard Brookner made a documentary of William S. Burroughs.

J.G. Ballard
More about this..here

(Self-portrait-1960)

Vivian Maier

Wiki

Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago’s North Shore, pursuing photography during her spare time. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed worldwide

via her wiki.. John Maloof, curator of some of Maier’s photographs, summarized the way the children she nannied would later describe her:

“She was a Socialist , a Feminist, a movie critic, and a tell-it-like-it-is type of person. She learned English by going to theaters, which she loved. … She was constantly taking pictures, which she didn’t show anyone.”

Tim Roth invites you to Vivian M.

How were you involved in Vivian getting her first posthumous gallery show here in L.A.?
I said, “I have a friend who has a really lovely gallery. Why don’t we do the L.A. [photos] and I’ll host it?” So we’ve been doing it ever since. We try to do one a year. We do some new pieces, and we try and get some of her prints — which are very rare — in there as well. The ones that she printed probably at the corner store.

What drew you to her eye?

A favorite photographer of mine on the documentary side would be Don McCullin. Stuff that I really admire in cinema would be Ken Loach. Within the photographs is sort of a critique of society. She has that. I thought it was extraordinary. You can see in her framing and in her point of view and in how the equipment that she was using changed.

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V.M – an anoymous portrait of america (See more photos here)

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Vivian Maier (repost)