Vitro Nasu

Photo by Fung Lin Hall

Carlos Amorales

Carlos Amorales Mexico CIty
Black Cloud – Black Paper Moths

See more vibrant art from Latin American art – (archive)

Museum Hours and Performances here.

Photo by Fung Lin Hall

Fabiola Project closes on Oct. (De Menil, Houston)

Francis Alÿs (See his projects here)

Three decades of paintings – Liverpool Binnial (Art Net)

Francis Alÿs (wiki)

Francis Alÿs (born 1959, Antwerp) is a Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist. His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. After leaving behind his formal training as an architect and relocating to Mexico City, he has created a diverse body of artwork and performance art that explores urbanity, spatial justice, and land-based poetics. Employing a broad range of media from painting to performance, his works examine the tension between politics and poetics, individual action and impotence. Alÿs commonly enacts paseos—walks that resist the subjection of common space.[1] Alys reconfigures time to the speed of a stroll, making reference to the figure of the flâneur, originating from the work of Charles Baudelaire and developed by Walter Benjamin.[2] Cyclical repetition and return also inform the character of Alÿs’ movements and mythology—Alÿs contrasts geological and technological time through land-based and social practice that examine individual memory and collective mythology. Alÿs frequently engages rumor as a central theme in his practice, disseminating ephemeral, practice-based works through word-of-mouth and storytelling.

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(Senator Inouye and JFK)

“None of us realized the potency yet of this medium–how many homes it was going to, what kind of affect it was having on people and so forth.. I think everybody who works in the visual medium would love to have that kind of innocence again.” Arthur Penn

Close ups..a knee jerk response.. the Media killed Nixon- (youtube)

Arthur Penn on JFK-Nixon Debates

See more photos from Mark Shaw’s Kennedy Archive (Life photographer)

The Right Way to Remember Rachel Carson

Not until the end of her life did she write the work for which she is now known. Before then, she had always thought of herself as a poet of the sea.
By Jill Lepore

Rachel Carson (wiki)

Rachel Carson org.

How to Marry a Millionaire – (2015 Acrylic by Tomoo Gokita)

Chloe Sevigny, Kazumi Hayashi, Lily Ludlow, and Tomoo Gokita)

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Tomoo Gokita “PEEKABOO” exhibition opening and after party at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

On view until June 24th, 2018 at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, 3 Chome-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Tomoo Gokita Mary Boon Gallery

Artnet

Bathing Beauty Sculptures

New Yorker obit

Artnet (see the portrait)
Kitaj

Guardian obit
Writer Friends paying tribute (guardian)

Roth with Milan Kundera

The New Yorker the Book of Laughter
(Philip Roth and his friends. By Claudia Roth Pierpont)

Playfulness and humor were also crucial to Roth’s regard for the work of Milan Kundera, to whom “The Ghost Writer” is dedicated.

Roth’s work speaks, at heart, of his crazy, complete love for America. But it also says how fragile this America is, vulnerable to its own ghosts, in constant freefall. It’s that ambivalence, that anxious love, demanding and sometimes desperate, that distinguished him from the other writers of the American pastoral—Mailer, Malamud, Bellow. And its that love that gave Roth such a singular place in the landscape of American and world literature. I remember the day I spent with him, the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration. We watched the ceremony, live on CNN. I observed him surreptitiously. I listened to his commentary. What struck me was his mix of disgust, malice, and satisfaction, as a novelist, at having predicted and described it all in advance. —Bernard-Henri Lévy

(Kundera, Vera Kundera and Roth)

Tablet magazine

Tablet reached the home of Milan Kundera, the great Czech novelist and friend of Philip Roth, in Paris. Kundera wasn’t feeling well.
After a formative visit to Eastern Europe in 1972, Roth came to champion a group of writers, including Kundera, who became known as “Writers from the Other Europe,” the name of the series of novels Roth shepherded into print in America through the 1980s. Through these publications, English-language audiences were introduced to the work of Kundera, Bruno Schulz, Tadeusz Borowski, Daniol Kiš, Joseph Brodsky, Bohumil Hrabal, and György Konrád, among other writers working under the tyranny of Soviet occupation.
Above all, Kundera and Roth’s was a friendship between two great novelists, one of whom understood love and the other who understood anxiety, and both of whom were extremely funny on the page.
Vera Kundera, Milan’s wife, had one comment she wanted everyone to hear: “Those cretins in Stockholm never gave him his prize,” she said, adding, “those cretins.”

Baby P. Roth

“I don’t wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature”
(Interview -via)

Wiki

In 1990, Roth married his longtime companion, English actress Claire Bloom. In 1994 they separated, and in 1996 Bloom published a memoir, Leaving a Doll’s House, that described the couple’s marriage in detail, much of which was unflattering to Roth. Certain aspects of I Married a Communist have been regarded by critics as veiled rebuttals to the accusations in Bloom’s memoir.

Eight of Philip Roth’s novels and short stories have been adapted as films: Goodbye, Columbus; Portnoy’s Complaint; The Human Stain; The Dying Animal, adapted as Elegy; The Humbling; Indignation; and American Pastoral. In addition, The Ghost Writer was adapted for television in 1984.[55] In 2014, filmmaker Alex Ross Perry made Listen Up Philip, which was influenced by Roth’s art.

Would there ever be another writer like Roth? (Paris Review)

Photo by Fung Lin Hall (Scottsdale, Arizona)

RIP Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark; September 13, 1928 – May 19, 2018)

Purveyor of Love Hope American Darkeness

Wall and Love

Imperial Love installed at Berlin

Whitney (Beyond Love)

Photo by Fung Lin Hall

Love in Hebrew installed in Jerusalem Noguchi Garden (Previous post)

See a better photo of Ahava

How Love nearly ruined Robert Indiana’s career (mental floss)

his wiki here

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The Shoplifters wins Palme d’Or.

Japan Times – Kore eda, Master of Humanism

Winners at Cannes here.

Palme d’Or: “Shoplifters,” Hirokazu Kore-eda

Grand Prix: “BlacKkKlansman,” Spike Lee

Jury Prize: “Capernaum,” Nadine Labaki

Special Palme d’Or: “The Image Book,” Jean-Luc Godard

Best Actress: Samal Yeslyamova, “Akya”

Best Actor: Marcello Fonte, “Dogman”

Best Director: Pawel Pawlikowski, “Cold War”

Best Screenplay (tie): Alice Rohrwacher, “Happy as Lazzaro” & Nader Saeivar, “Three Faces”

Camera d’Or: “Girl,” Lukas Dhont

Short Film Palme d’Or: “All These Creatures,” Charles Williams

Queer Palm (Feature): “Girl,” Lukas Dhont

Queer Palm (Short): “The Orphan,” Carolina Markowicz

Kore eda Films from previous posts.
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Still Walking

Nobody Knows
Film Quiz + Nobody Knows + Cities & Neglected Children

Previous Cannes festival.

Kiki, for whom After the Storm is her fifth Koreeda film, described the director as among one of the most observant she has seen in her 55-year career.

Kiki, Kore eda, Nagase etc

Best selling author and genre breaking journalist dies at 88. (NPR obit)

Louis Menand (New Yorker) Tom Wolf, Sage of Status Anxiety

Satire associates aspiration with fatuousness and newness with faddishness, and Tom Wolfe was skilled at making those reductions.

Satire is highbrow populism. (Hence Wolfe’s diatribes against modernist art and architecture.)

(Sam Shepard played Chuck Y )

SF Gate obit

Philip Kaufman, the San Francisco filmmaker who directed the adaptation of “The Right Stuff,” also wrote the screenplay for the 1983 film.
“The book was such a great piece of writing that in a way it could not be put into a film,” Kaufman said. “He was going for a spirit of something that maybe all people have in common. That ineffable quality that can’t even be mentioned. It took me five years to make the movie.
“Tom saw it at a private screening,” Kaufman added. “There is a scene where Sam Shepard (as Chuck Yeager) is arriving by horseback in the high desert like a cowboy in a leather jacket. He sees this small test airplane sitting alone in the desert being fueled. Everyone who has tried to ride this plane has died, and now he is looking at this plane, the bronc that can’t be broken. It is, in a way, the meeting of the Western in the movies with the future.
“When Tom saw this he just started applauding, I am told. When the movie was over, he asked if he could see it again right now, all the way through. He loved it.”

(Pictured in 1996 with the writer Hunter S Thompson at the 25th anniversary party of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)

Tom W on Hunter (Youtube)

Tom Wolf wiki

Of particular influence was his professor Marshall Fishwick, a teacher of American studies, educated at Yale. More in the tradition of anthropology than literary scholarship, Fishwick taught his students to look at the whole of a culture, including those elements considered profane.[citation needed] Wolfe’s undergraduate thesis, entitled “A Zoo Full of Zebras: Anti-Intellectualism in America,” evinced his fondness for words and aspirations toward cultural criticism. Wolfe graduated cum laude in 1951.

Astronaut Scott Kelly to Tom Wolf (Vanity Fair)

Doris Lessing (Photo by Ida Kar)

Doris Lessing – A Retrospective.

Doris Lessing – A mother much misunderstood

Doris and her mother – a capable and talented woman who was extremely frustrated.

Doris Lessing archive

(Title:Brett Felsen – painting by Per Kirkeby)

Painting is the real reality behind the so-called reality of our everyday experience. We only see it in glimpses.
– Per Kirkeby

Per Kirkeby dies at 79.

Artforum obit described Kirkeby as a romantic painter.

“Kirkeby is a romantic painter, but he has ‘described’ the mysticism of the landscape, focusing on the tension between pattern or structure and seemingly structureless fluidity,” Donald Kuspit wrote in the March 2002 issue of Artforum.

Documentary on Per Kirkeby – Danish film The Man Falling .

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(Brick Sculpture installation)
Palais de Beaux arts Kopenhagen

Dark Thought
Crown Point Press

Brooklynrail –Perk Kirkeby- Serial Thinking

Wiki

Artnet

Per Kirkeby is a Danish artist whose interest in geology and natural environments has exerted great influence over his paintings and brick sculptures. Entrenched in the conceptual understanding of a structure, Kirkeby works within parameters to contain the urgency of abstract mark making. “A structure-less painting is, to me, a painting that does not matter. Structure mirrors your degree of responsibility toward the work,” he said of making art. “You can’t just let it float around in pretty colors. It needs a kind of core. But this is an inner structure.” Born on September 1, 1938 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Kirkeby studied geology at the University of Copenhagen, but continued to pursue his art practice, producing paintings, sculpture, films, and prints. During the 1960s, Kireby’s performance art led him to collaborations with Conceptual artists, including Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, and Charlotte Moorman. Sadly, in 2013 Kirkeby suffered a serious brain injury in a fall, and has since been unable to paint.

“…our wars of machines and technology make ‘progress’ ever more impersonal and deadly – a ‘progress’ that has not guaranteed man’s human, moral, and civil growth.” Ermanno Olmi

His filmography..MUBI

Previous post (Olmi filmed Jannis Kounellis)

Guardian obit

Ermanno Olmi, Palme d’Or winner for Tree of Wooden Clogs, dies aged 86

Award-garlanded Italian director renowned for his commitment to realism and non-professional actors was a winner at both Cannes and Venice

More about Il Posto from this obit.

Olmi’s breakthrough came in with his 1961 wry sophomore feature, Il Posto, a somewhat autobiographical coming-of-age tale about a small-town teenager who gets a job as a messenger for an unnamed corporation in Milan. The film—which co-starred Olmi’s wife, Loredana Detto—was followed in 1963 by I Fidanzati, another portrait of young adulthood set against the backdrop of Italy’s industrial north.

Film Reference (See photo of Rod Steiger and Ermanno Olmi)

Viet Thanh Nguyen
and Ariel Dorfman wiki

Displaced: Refugee Writers Ariel Dorfman & Viet Thanh Nguyen on Migration, US Wars & Resistance
(Democracy Now- Amy Goodman)

Happy birthday Ariel Dorfman!

Guardian – on Dorman, not to belong anywhere is not a bad thing for a writer.

Roman Polanski adapted Death and the Maiden

A. D. Homepage

When Mandela Became Real to Me
By Ariel Dorfman