Happy New (Y)ear of the Pig – Feb 5, 2019 – January 24, 2020


  • Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch
    Happy New Year of the Pig (or Inoshishi in Japanese, meaning wild boar)

  • Chinese New Year in 2019 starts on Tuesday, February 5th and ends on January 24th, 2020. Conforming to the chinese horoscope , the year of the Pig 2019 comes right after the Year of the Dog (2018) and before the year of the Metal Rat (2020)!

    Ohara Koson (Wild Boar -Ukioe)

    Inoshishi <> Inoshishi by Amikami
    (Image source)

    The Happy Pig
    Tomoo Gogita (Cloe Sevigny saw his exhibit in Japan)

    All I Need Is Ham – (Remixed from Obama’s Inaugural poem)

  • Here is a trailer Pigsty by Pasolini (seemingly unpalatable and enigmatic film).

    Porcile (Pigsty) by Pasolini.

    A savage parody of Godard, Resnais and… Pasolini, ironically chronicling the ‘existential anguish’ of the children of the bourgeoisie, it features Léaud as a mystic youth whose being finally merges with ‘nature’: he gets eaten by the pigs he loves.

    The first, “Orgia,” was originally conceived as a possible companion piece to Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert, and concerns a 15th-century cult of cannibals who must eventually reckon with Church and State. The second, “Porcile,” involves a West German industrialist and Nazi war criminal whose son (played by Truffaut and Godard regular Jean-Pierre Léaud) likes to copulate with pigs.

  • James with pig 1aaJamesfarmbig photo by Dennis Stock