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Sound of Two Hand Angel

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Sound of Two Hand Angel Bruce Conner

PETER ORLOVSKY

July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010

Death of Peter Orlovsky – Anne Waldman
5.30.2010

I thanked him for his presence in our lives, his poetry his care and love for Allen, his work at Naropa. Ah, I thought a flash of recognition shivering through! slight movement of mouth, light coming in on his handsome face through the window now, and Judy singing om a hum vajra guua padma siddhi hum in crystal voice said “don’t be afraid”. Joined in. Last breathes, one coming late, staggered: his heart/breath stopt. Poet Christina Lovin in room with nurse gave gentle witness who checked the clock 11:39 I think or so a.m.

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Four Poems Peter Orlovsky

  • Litrary Kicks

    Orlovsky has written and performed his own poetry, though he never fully established a literary identity for himself that transcended his status as Ginsberg’s lover. Interestingly, one of his biggest fans seemed to be Jack Kerouac, whose letters contain many admiring comments about Orlovsky’s work (as well as a personal respect for him that is uncharacteristic for the curmudgeonly Kerouac). Orlovsky’s poems do have a definite charm and a certain logic, and his work may someday find a larger fan club.

    Leslie Scalapino leslie July 25 1944 – May 28 2010
    Photo via SPDT smaill press

    Dangerous Harvest

    Those of us who enjoyed experimental work, loved the wild ride of her poems, some of which were influenced by Buddhist writings. One of things I found fascinating about Leslie was that her interactions in person felt almost exactly like her poems. She spoke like she wrote, and almost seemed to move through life like her poems did.

    Disbelief

    Leslie links from Ron Silliman

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    Adieu LouBou

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    Louise Bourgeois (25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010)
    (Update David Salle on Louis Bourgeois – 2017)

    Artdaily obit

    Artist Louise Bourgeois, whose sculptures exploring women’s deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death were highly influential on younger artists, died Monday, her studio’s managing director said.
    Bourgeois had continued creating artwork — her latest pieces were finished just last week — before suffering a heart attack Saturday night, said the studio director, Wendy Williams.

    Great obit from Adrian Seale

    He salutes her dirty mind and tender heart …
    Her art was one of transformations, of ferocious vulnerability and tender violence.

    R.I.P Lou Bou

    died on Monday at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. She was 98.
    The death was reported by Wendy Williams, the managing director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio.

  • Life in pictures (Guggenheim)

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    Louise Bourgeois archive since 2004 here

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    Marina Full of Grace


    Amir Baradaran – Behind Canvas Act II

    Amir Baradaran Dear Marina, do you accept this marriage?

    Amir Baradaran third act

    How Marina Abramovic’s Red-Velvet Rope at MoMA Works

    The line to sit opposite Marina Abramovic in the atrium at MoMA has become as much a part of her performance as the artist herself. A slew of celebrities, including James Franco, Rufus Wainwright, and Björk, have shown up, one guy has visited fourteen times, and waits as long as eight hours have been recorded. (As to how Abramovic pees, her assistant swears she holds it in.)

    Here is a mystery man in tears, a frequent visitor – 14 times in all.

    Women in Veil 33 min.

    List of celebrities from Flickr file..(looked for Christopher Walken but not found – he was rumored to be in Day 33)
    Alan Rickman 9 min.

    Isabelle Huppert 16 min.

    Christian Amapour 2 min

    Arthur Danto 10 min (He was wheeled out, Marina did not restore his legs)

    With Bjork having a telephathic conversation

    More list of celebrities here.

    The Artist as a Museum Piece by John Haber

    When performance art becomes a museum piece, is it still performance? Marina Abramovic aims for grandeur but has me wondering.

    Artist in green marinafamily08 uniform and little girls with weapons but no shoes.
    2008 Florence Biennale

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    Viaggio in Italia

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    Is this Contempt in black & white?
    Viaggio in Italis by Rossellini

    VOYAGE TO ITALY was critically savaged when it was first released in the US in an English version called STRANGERS, running nearly 20-minutes shorter than the original. It was attacked as being “dull,” “plodding,” “slow,” “hackneyed,” “meandering,” “poorly photographed,” “poorly written,” and “incompetently directed.” At the same time, the French “new wave” critics called it a masterpiece: Jacques Rivette wrote that on its appearance, “all other films suddenly aged 10 years,” and Jean-Luc Godard rhapsodically described it as being among “the most beautiful of films.”

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    Ingrid & Sanders
    “Oh it’s nice in the sun” (clip from film on youtube)

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    Roberto and Ingrid on the set of Stromboli.

    “Ingrid and Roberto felt like the whole world was against them,” Parks explains, “but Ingrid was sane enough to realize that they had to have a professional down there to take photos of them making the picture. She had seen a story of mine in LIFE, so she asked me to come to the island. Perhaps she thought I would do the story with more discretion.”

    Gordon Parks.

    Gordon Parks took photographs of Ingrid Bergman at Stromboli..

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    R.I.P Shusaku Arakawa

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    WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE from Reversible Destiny

    Arakawa arakawa July 6, 1936 – May 18, 2010
    The news of Arakawa’s passing came from Mario Ambrosius on Facebook.

    Arakawa, Whose Art Tried to Halt Aging, Dies at 73 by FRED A. BERNSTEIN (Nytimes)

    Arakawa, a Japanese-born conceptual artist and designer, who with his wife, Madeline Gins, explored ideas about mortality by creating buildings meant to stop aging and preclude death, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 73.

    Arthur Danto, the art critic and philosopher, who had known Arakawa for nearly 40 years, said, “He really felt they were doing the most important kind of work, to overcome death.” But, Mr. Danto said, “How that was going to happen was never clear, to anyone outside Madeline and him.”

    Arakawa and Gins were reportedly victims of Bernard Madoff, losing several million dollars when Madoff’s Ponzi scheme collapsed (wiki)

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    The Canal + Carlson & Company

    The Canal Canal_FINAL Lee Rourke

    It is published in the UK on 15th July 2010 and in the US 15th June 2010 by Melville House.

    Readysteady review of Everyday

    Lee Rourke is the author of Everyday, a collection of short stories published by Social Disease. He is also Reviews Editor for 3AM Magazine and edits (with the help of the inimitable Matthew Coleman) his own literary litzine Scarecrow.

    Dogmatika

    Since 2004, as editor of the on-line literary site Scarecrow, Lee Rourke has made it his business to “bang the drum for the unheard, the unconventional, the eccentric, the revolutionary and the radical”, turning his back on “the mainstream bookish blatherskites” and championing “misunderstood, ignored and abandoned underground and independent literary fiction and culture.” There’s something to be said for sticking to your guns:

    I have been reading a lot of Heidegger (boredom/mood), Ballard (technology/violence), Beckett (ennui/repetition), Pessoa (emptiness/the ordinary) recently and, in particular, an amazing book called Montano’s Malady by Enrique Vila-Matas (literary suffocation). The Canal could not have been written without the guidance of the above. It’s hard not to be influenced by such writing.

    Roubard interviewed at Sponge

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    Knife Slicing the wall by Claes Oldenburg and his proposed drawing.

    Carlson & Company

    The company, based in San Fernando, California, was founded in 1971. It became one of the best-known resources for artists seeking to produce complicated, large-scale and frequently costly artworks.
    “Many artists trying to make work that involves high-tech and precise execution would go to Carlson and they could often figure things out that no one else could,” said New York art adviser Allan Schwartzman.
    The firm fabricated some of the most technically challenging artworks created during the six-year rise of contemporary art prices which began in 2002.

    Koon’s fabricator Carlson Shuts at recession hits Big Art

    Besides Koons, Carlson was the producer of choice for dozens of top contemporary artists, including Doug Aiken, John McCracken and Charles Ray.

    See artworks and the list of artists here.

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    I Dwell in Possibilty


    (direct link to youtube)

    Bill Murray read poetry to Manhattan Construction Workers

    Meanwhile here are some photos from Arizona labor camp.

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    Emily Dickinson, “I dwell in possibility” (#657)

    I dwell in Possibility–
    A fairer House than Prose–
    More numerous of Windows–
    Superior–for Doors–

    Of Chambers as the Cedars–
    Impregnable of Eye–
    And for an Everlasting Roof
    The Gambrels of the Sky–

    Of Visitors–the fairest–
    For Occupation–This–
    The spreading wide my narrow Hands
    To gather Paradise–

  • The house that Wittgenstein built in Vienna (is now the Bulgarian embassy)

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    Sushi, Green Tea & Alan Ebnother

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    Alan Ebnother in front of his studio in Stanley, New Mexico.

    Alan Ebonether a painter living in New Mexico came through Phoenix to pick up Jutta who is flying into Phoenix. He came a bit early. We took him to a Sushi restaurant and we had fun chatting about everything.

    They will drive to L.A and then continue to SF where Alan is showing his works at the gallery.
    We’ve been FB friends and this is the first time we met.

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    Mobile phone photos by Alan Ebnother.

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    Alan attacked the sushi systematically one by one and created this monolithic tower of emptied plates. We ate tuna, tamago, shrimp, squid, conch, California rolls, dragon rolls, tempura sushi, hamachi, salmon and eel. We drank many cups of green tea and ate ginger to detox. The best part was our conversation and this is the first time I ate sushi without paying much attention to the food.

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    No this is not a Wasabi painting nor did he grind green tea to make this color.

    Opening is May 6 at George Lawson Gallery
    Alan Ebnother page at the gallery here.

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    Mobil phone photo by Alan Ebnother
    Alan and Jutta loved the Joshua Trees.

    Time Lapse.. previous post (See Alan with John Cage and other great artists).

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    R.I.P Dan Asher

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    See photos and read his journey to Siberia.
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    Das Man in the Moon (obit)

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    James Kalm (dailymotion) – goes to galley to show us Dan’s works.

    Having known Dan Asher for over twenty five years, James Kalm is saddened to hear the news of his passing. This video was originally meant as a documentation of Dan’s show at the Mitchell Algus Gallery, not a memorial. We’ll all miss you Dan.

    Benefit for the artist Dan Asher April 1

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    Dog Day Afternoon – Bas Jan Ader and Dede Allen

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    Documenatary film of his life.

    Birthday of Bas Jan Ader April 19, 1942.

    Bas Jan Ader was born to idealistic ministers in the Dutch Reformed Church on April 19, 1942. His father was executed by the Nazis for harboring Jewish refugees when Ader was only two years old. A rebellious student, he failed art school at the Rietveld Academy, where friend Ger van Elk recalls that he would use a single piece of paper for the entire semester, erasing his drawings as soon as they were finished. At the age of 19 he hitchhiked to Morocco, where he signed on as a deckhand on a yacht heading for America.

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    Art review Cultural Monster

    A newly found video (very short and enigmatic)

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  • Pioneering film editor Dede Allen, whose work on movies like Serpico and The Hustler revolutionised American cinema, has died aged 86.

    R I P Dede Allen Dede Allen 1923-2010.‎

    She was an extraordinary editor.

    Her influence also manifests itself in other visual media; television commercials, music videos, animation, and children’s television compress many images into very short sequences. Almost every music video owes its rapid, nontraditional editing constructs to Allen. In retrospect, Allen expresses concern about her contribution to increased editing tempo—”I wonder if we’re raising enough people in a generation who are able to sit and look at a scene play out without getting bored if it doesn’t change every two seconds. We talk an awful lot about cutting; we talk very little about not lousing something up by cutting just to make it move faster. I’m afraid that’s the very thing I helped promulgate. . . . It may come to haunt us, because attention spans are short.”

    Allen is best known for having edited classic films such as Dog Day Afternoon, The Hustler, Reds, and Bonnie and Clyde and for having worked with filmmakers such as Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, Robert Wise, Elia Kazan, and George Roy Hill.(wiki)

    Watch these films here.
    Dog Day Afternoon

    Boonie and Clyde

    5 clips Dede Allen edited.