Archive for May, 2020

RIP Chrsito is now with Jeanne-Claude

Sunday, May 31st, 2020
  • Artnet obit

    Christo, Jeanne Claude Home page

    Christo… he lost his partner a few years ago.. Jeanne Claude they were both born on June 13.. they were like twins. When they wrapped the islands in Biscayne Bay Miami.. I lived in Miami Beach .. my house was on the waterfront.. saw this installation.. also sailed around the islands.

    Artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff walks on his monumental installation “The Floating Piers” he created with late Jeanne-Claude, on June 16, 2016 during a press preview at the lake Iseo, northern Italy. Some 200,000 floating cubes create a 3-kilometers runway connecting the village of Sulzano to the small island of Monte Isola on the Iseo Lake for a 16-day outdoor installation opening on June 18. / AFP / Filippo MONTEFORTE / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION – TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)

    See Reichstag Berlin II Wrapped, 1990–2000

  • Adam Frelin

    Christo and his late wife Jeanne-Claude have always been outsized influences on my art, even from the beginning. When I was lucky enough to be part of the team that was awarded a Bloomberg grant a few years ago for Breathing Lights, I was asked what artist I wanted to meet with about the project. I said Christo. Instead I got to meet with Maya Lin (not a bad second choice). I own all of their films and most of their books, and have studied them endlessly. Along with their immense impact on environmental art, I have also thought they they have never been properly recognized as the grandparents of social practice art. Their importance in my life cannot be underestimated. I so hope that their L’Arc de Triomphe project, which after initially being proposed 50 (!) years ago just received approval this year, will still move forward.
    You were two of the good ones. Thank you, and goodbye.

  • May 31 2020 – Christo passed away. RIP.. photo collage by Fung-Lin Hall

    Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Thursday, June 13, 2013

  • RIP Elsa Dorfman (1937-2020) – Boston Portrait Photographer

    Sunday, May 31st, 2020
  • Elsa Dorfman Homepage
    (Harvey Silverglate, Elsa Dorfman, Allen Ginsberg, December 21, 1995.)


    Eroll Morris (documentary filmmaker on Elsa Dorfman The B-Side)

    Elsa Dorfman

    American portraitist Elsa Dorfman, known for her intimate large-format Polaroids of friends, artists, celebrities, and herself, has died at age eighty-three from kidney failure, the Boston Globe reports.

  • Harvard Magazin on Elsa Dorfman

  • Elsa Dorfman Wiki

    Raising awareness
    Dorfman suggested elements of healing through her work in a variety of ways. She photographed terminal cancer patients, emphasizing their dignity. In 1995, she collaborated with graphic artist Marc A. Sawyer to illustrate the booklet 40 Ways to Fight the Fight Against AIDS. She photographed people, both with and without AIDS, each engaged in one of forty activities that might help AIDS victims in their daily life. The photographs were exhibited 1995 at the Lotus Development Corporation in Cambridge, in Provincetown and in New York City. The artist donated the costs of producing the photographs for this project.[16]

    Dorfman co-starred in the documentary No Hair Day (1999) as she’s taking the portraits of three women undergoing treatment for breast cancer

  • Robert Creeley
    The above image shows two books by
    Robert Creeley, the one pictured is Elsa’s Housebook which I bought on my first trip to Boston.

  • Irm Hermann, who was in 20 Fassinder films passed away

    Thursday, May 28th, 2020
  • Irm Hermann, actress, Berlin

    Irm Hermann dies aged 77

    The actor, who collaborated with the director on films including Fear Eats the Soul and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, also featured in Herzog’s Woyzeck

    Merchant of Four Seanson’s

    Irm Hermann wiki

  • Irm Hermann – troubling Fassbinder actress

  • RIP Larry Kramer – Author, Aids Activist

    Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
  • Larry Kramer, Aids activist dies

    Larry Kramer, groundbreaking author and Aids activist, dies aged 84

    Larry Kramer wiki

  • Mark Ruffalo Came To Love Larry Kramer While Making “The Normal Heart”

  • “Larry cried in my arms once. He was so young. I melted.” — Ken Russell

    (via Lisi Tribble)

    Larry Kramer scripted “Women in Love”

    Ken Russell – http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/2011/11/28/ken-russell-the-mad-music-lover/

    Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Monday, July 3, 2017

  • Masks & Social Distancing Surreal Art Selection

    Monday, May 25th, 2020
  • 1NewshaT
    Newsha Tavolian (artist from Tehran)

    Lee and Penck

    1aJamesLeeByers
    (James Lee Byers and Penck holding hands with the wood statue)


  • Christ Returns.

    Paolo Gioli

  • MalalaiMalalai is one of the only police women in Kandahar. Unlike other women in the region, Malalai works alongside…

    Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Sunday, June 10, 2012

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    Joel Peter Witkin

    Bob Dylan – Tight Connection to My Heart

    Saturday, May 23rd, 2020

  • (Michael McClure, Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg)

    During his 1965 tour with the Hawks, Bob visited Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s book store, City Lights, in San Francisco, and posed in an alley behind the store.
    Bob’s original intention was to use one of the pictures from this session on the cover of his next album, Blond on Blonde.

  • Tight Connection to My Heart directed by Paul Schrader

    Paul Schrader, writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, and director of late 70s sleaze gems Blue Collar, Hardcore, and the climate dread classic First Reformed, teamed up with Dylan for a doozy of a music video for “Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love),” from 1985’s divisive Empire Burlesque lp. True to form for both artists, the video is an elliptical and visually ambiguous affair, something either half-remembered or imagined all together.

  • (Visiting Rubin Carter)


  • Dylan and Levon Helm

    NYtimes Obit When Levon died <> <>Dylan responds (Rolling Stones)

  • RIP Susan Rothenberg – (Life of Painting & Bruce Nauman)

    Tuesday, May 19th, 2020

  • Susan Rothenberg Art News Obit

    Susan Rothenberg, Trailblazing Painter with a Taste for the Understated and Indefinable, Is Dead at 75

  • Susan Rothenberg- Pontiac

  • Studio visit to Susan and Bruce Nauman

  • President Obama meets with national security aides John Brennan, foreground, and Denis McDonough in front of a painting titled Butterfly by Susan Rothenberg

  • Adieu Michel Piccoli (27 December 1925 – 12 May 2020)

    Monday, May 18th, 2020
  • Michel Piccoli acting veteran dies aged 94

  • 1aStéphane-Audran-Feet-363791

    Via Wiki Feet (Les Noces rouges Year -Claude Chabrol)
    Michel Piccoli and Audran directed by Buniel

  • Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Sunday, December 27, 2015

    Posted by Fung-Lin Hall on Sunday, December 27, 2015

    (Vincent, François, Paul and the Others – directed by Claude Sautet)

    He was once married to Juliette Greco, see photo from here.

    Michel Piccoli 10 Eessential Films

    RIP Lynn Shelton, director of Your Sisters Sister, Laggies at 54

    Saturday, May 16th, 2020
  • Director Lynn Shelton, who brought an independent spirit to film and TV, dies at age 54

    (LA Times)


    (Lynne Shelton, August 27, 1965 – May 15, 2020)

    Photo via

  • Working collaboratively with her actors, discussing with them plot details and allowing them to improvise scenes, she devised a directorial style melding strong narrative hooks with detailed character work and a feeling of sustained intimacy.via

  • Variety obit

    Her career took off after Humpday bowed at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Starring Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore and Duplass, it was acquired by Magnolia Pictures for distribution and would screen in the Director’s Fortnight section at Cannes.
    Humpday received the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award in 2010.
    Your Sister’s Sister (2011), a comedic love triangle, starred Duplass, Rosemarie DeWitt and Emily Blunt and premiered at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival.
    She followed with Touchy Feely (2013), starring DeWitt in an idiosyncratic story of a massage therapist who develops an aversion to human touch, and Laggies (2014), with Keira Knightley portraying a woman in the throes of a quarter-life crisis.

    Photos of Michiko Kon – Mistress of the Dark

    Monday, May 11th, 2020
  • More photos (Pinterest)


  • (Self Portrait)

    Japan Times -Arts, Mistress of the dark

    Some of Kon’s recent work has been created in Mexico and it’s not difficult to see a correspondence between their macabre festivity and the visual traditions of the Day of the Dead festivities. In a pointed departure from her usual depiction of imaginary and/or inanimate, objects, Kon appears in a self-portrait with her face made up as a skull. She cradles a doll in her lap with one hand, while holding on to the brim of her sombrero with the other, as though it might blow away in the wind. It’s an odd mix of poised calculation and kitschy tourist snapshot that doesn’t fit comfortably with the main body of her work.

    Bye Good Golly Little Richard

    Saturday, May 9th, 2020

  • Good Golly Little Richard sure influenced Beatles.

    See a video of Tutti Fruitty from the obit (Rolling Stone)

    Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock Who Broke Musical Barriers, Dead at 87

    Pianist-singer behind “Tutti Frutti,” “Good Golly Miss Molly” and “Long Tall Sally” set the template that a generation of musicians would follow.

  • Bob Dylan on Little Richard Tribute

    I just heard the news about Little Richard and I’m so grieved. He was my shining star and guiding light back when I was only a little boy. His was the original spirit that moved me to do everything I would do. I played some shows with him in Europe in the early nineties and got to hang out in his dressing room a lot. He was always generous, kind and humble. And still dynamite as a performer and a musician and you could still learn plenty from him. In his presence he was always the same Little Richard that I first heard and was awed by growing up and I always was the same little boy. Of course he’ll live forever. But it’s like a part of your life is gone.

  • RIP Michael McClure – A Beat Poet, San Francsico Renaissance

    Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
  • Michael McClure helped launch the SF Renaissance dead at 87

    Michael was incredibly gracious, erudite, and totally dedicated to the poet’s calling,” said Elaine Katzenberger, publisher of City Lights, which put out McClure’s works going all the way back to 1963’s “Meat Science Essays.” “He was a sometimes-trickster, most definitely a provocateur, and yet, quite solicitous and patient, a sage who was beautiful inside and out.”

    That first public reading for McClure, then 22 years old, was overshadowed by the introduction of “Howl,” by Allen Ginsberg. But McClure outlasted all of the Beats in a career that spanned more than 60 years. He published more than 30 books of poetry, plays and anthologies, most recently 2017’s “Persian Pony” and 2016’s “Mephistos and other Poems,” the latter anchored by a poem that took him 16 years to write.

  • M.McClure
    via

    Like Snyder and Whalen and Ginsberg and Kerouac, his work has always had affinities with Eastern religion and mysticism, but he brings an emphatic and declarative style to his transcendent, arching, naturalistic vision.

  • The Air

    for Robert [Duncan] and Jess [Collins]

    Clumsy, astonished. Puzzled
    as the gazelle cracked
    in my forepaws/

    The light body twitches/

    A slight breeze moves among whiskers.

    The air curves itself to song
    A trace, a scent lost among whiskers.
    A form carved in the air
    and lost by eye or ear.
    The herd’s thunder or the whack
    of a tail on earth
    evident only in dim vibration
    less than a whirr of brush (and bushes).
    Not a sound in a flat stone.
    (Less than a fly
    about the ears.)
    An object, a voice, an odor.
    A grain moving before the eyes.
    A rising of gases/
    An object/
    An instant/Tiny, brighter
    than sunlight.

    The sound of a herd. The sound of a rock/
    A passing.
    Michael McClure