Iconoclastic Incubator
From Happyfamousartist.com came this sad news.
To Live and Die (But Not Show) in L.A.
Jason Rhoades, 41; Artist Combined Humor, Poignancy –
Los Angeles artist Jason Rhoades, who became more celebrated in Europe than in the United States for elaborate installations that broke down conventional walls between performance and conventional art, died Tuesday. He was 41.
Samples of his works,
Lego Mecca Ka’ba
PeaRoe Ramp (Honda Parts embedded)
Rhada II For Jean Renoir and Rumer Godden (ref. The River)
August 1,1873 First cable streetcar: Andrew Hallidie’s invention has its test run on Clay Street Hill, San Francisco. It went into operation a month later.
August 1,1944 – Anne Frank: The young diarist makes her last entry. Her family was found by the Nazis and taken to concentration camps. Her diary described their previous 756 days of hiding.
Henri Cartier Bresson died on August 3, 2004.
Cartier Bresson’s Decisive Moments on youtube.
How many of them are you able to identify?
Some of these people have been featured here.
Simone Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, Camus, Igor Stravinksy, Carl Jung.
Sidebar menu has Susan Sontag and Matisse under Morocco.
Seeing Huston’s Freud (the misadventure of Sartre’s writing script for John Huston).
Let’s get the gossip out of the way.
Huston’s decision to have Sartre write the script provides me with the most fun. “Sartre was a little barrel of a man,” Huston wrote in his autobiography,1 and said in his Playboy interview: “He was without egotism and was probably the ugliest man I have ever laid eyes on–one eye going in one direction, and the eye itself wasn’t very beautiful, like an omelet. And this pitted face.”2 Huston took Sartre to his castle at St. Clerans in Galway. There, during their story conferences, Huston tried to hypnotize Sartre. (Norman N. Holland)
Happy Birthday to Diane Wakoski.
Diane Wakoski was born August 3, 1937.
Two poems by Diane Wakoski
Red Bandana and the Hitchhikers.
John Huston was born 100 years ago, August 5, 1906.
Celebrating John Huston at slate picture gallery, here.
Self portrait 
Mixed Media
James Scott lives in L.A. Carol Es is inspired by his work and enjoys his friendship, read more about this, here.
William Scott, an innovative and influential British painter was his father and he got mentioned once here at vitro-nasu because both Fung Ching Kelling (my sister) and I love his zen like paintings.
James Scott has inherited his father’s wit and gentleness.
James also made films in his mid- career.
Go and explore more about James at his homepage.
William Scott Org and his 60’s paintings here.
Two numbers from Beyond the Pale.
Calusari Dance (video)
Beyond the Pale live at Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, Canada 2005, Eric Stein, Bret Higgins, Milos Popovic, Martin Van de Ven, Bogdan Djukic, Aleksandar Gajic
Beyond the Pale‘s explosive acoustic sound is inspired by a wide range of crosscultural influences, from European folk styles (Balkan, Klezmer, Gypsy, Romanian) to contemporary and North American music (bluegrass, jazz, reggae, funk, and more). The Toronto-based ensemble are known for their instrumental virtuosity, infectious energy, and unique repertoire of original compositions and inventive arrangements of traditional material.
For orchestrual work try the Viennese Vegetable Orchestra. Click to “listen” for sample music.
(The site has been featured in my sidebar menu under fruits.)
I wanted you. And I was looking for you.
(At the same time by Laurie Anderson)
( A deleted epilogue from “In the Mood for Love”)
Update:
Laurie Anderson speaks to me of Aristophanes
Laurie A with Chirgilchin at youtube, here and here.
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Played by Bill Evans***
“He was a real Giacometti, with a face of great beauty.’
“Between Miles and me there was a great love affair, the kind you’d want everybody to experience. Throughout our lives, we were never lost to each other”Juliet & Miles and their foolish heart Photo here.
There is something about his work, something so delicate and instinctive and mysterious, but also so direct and simple and intense, that talking about it will not help anyone to see his paintings better. From I Hate Painting – Guardian, Colm Toibin’s interview)
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But I work in a country where I think that if I didn’t talk about my work at all people might not even bother to look at it.
Howard Hodgkin
A perfect example of Hodgkin’s sharp personality is the small You Are My Sunshine, which, like a sycophant’s true feelings, contains a snide black core within effusive, almost hyper orange and yellow. (The Color of Turmoil by Ana Finel Honigman)
Colour is, of course, what characterises a Hodgkin painting. Seductive and jewel-like, it is never simply there for its own sake. In this he belongs to a distinctively European tradition, with the French post-impressionists Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard, and with Henri Matisse. As Susan Sontag pointed out, he is mindful of the ancient quarrel between Michelangelo’s preference for disegno over Titian’s for colore. It is as though he wants, she said, “to give colore its most sumptuous exclusive victory”. (Living Color – Sue Hubbard)
How we work: Howard Hodgkin, artist
Hodgkin paints fairly reclusively, on several paintings in parallel, most of which take years to complete. (from Rodcorp)
Bringing together 60 of his evocative and vibrant paintings from the 1950s to the present day, the exhibition provides a rare opportunity to view new work in the context of earlier decades.
June 14 – September 10, 2006 at Tate.
More images from here.
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Do you have a Hodgkin painting? Mine is in the bathroom on top of small stack of Japanese books – two by Kawabata Yasunari. I was not thinking of Hodgkin when I painted this.
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“I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old” ( from the Selfportrait of Erik Satie-wikipedia. )
Eric Satie 
was born on May 17, 1866.
(The famous portrait by Pablo Picasso)
Watch this visual collage video for Eric Satie’s music. (Found Youtube – Looks like Jane Fonda’s film “Sunday in New York” was used for this footage.)
Satie may have been the first composer to write music intended to accompany film (Entr’acte, the surrealist Rene Clair’s film short in the middle of Satie’s Relache). (Ideocentrism – J. Emerson Read more, this portrait of Satie by J. Emerson is hilarious.)
Stones by John Cage
(image source)
satieE
goes in seaRch
of sunlIght he comes across haydn
bill anastasi is looKing at haydn through a lorgnetter
I have also studied wild mushrooms so that I won’t kill myself when I eat what I find. I am always amazed how exiting it is in any season anywhere to see just any mushrooms growing once again. The same is true each time I hear Satie well-played. I fall in love all over again.” (John Cage)
It is possible that Vexations might never have been performed if it had not been for John Cage.
Vexations then is simply the best example of how Cage brought interest to Satie, and likewise changed, or at least broadened, the way people think about him.
Cage’s Place In the Reception of Satie, from here.
New River – watercolor by John Cage
(image source)
Portrait of Eric Satie by Susanne Valadon ( mother of Maurice Utrillo)
Valadon painted Satie’s portrait and gave it to him, but after six months she moved on, leaving Satie broken-hearted. During their relationship Satie had composed the Danses Gothiques as a kind of prayer to restore peace of mind. Apparently, this would remain the only relationship Satie ever had. (Wikipedia)
Line drawing of Satie by Jean Cocteau
You are at Balboa Park, San Diego.
Click this picture.
Sample 1 
There must be a way out of this. Click and see.
Sample 2 
The above installation by Michael Merchant.
From comics, circus clowns, milky coyote, troll, trickster, televangelists to conceptual artists, all mapped out in here, The Clown Family Tree by Jeffrey Vallance.
The Nazi Bozo “When, oh when” by Bill Krohn
When life gets dull, I like to shake things up. (The Fool from Arizona)
Shroud of Blinky 
by Jeffrey Vallance. ( via)
TV Clown by Bruce Nauman
Eternity and Modernity – Yayoi Kusama
Andy Warhol 
glancing sideway.
Hammer 
on Stephen’s head.
Wikipedia has updated Colbert’s profile.
Much of the mainstream media has seemingly ignored his presence atthe function, including the New York Times, which did not mention his presence in their write-up of the evening.
Buried by Truthiness by Amrita Rajan
Ballsalicious – Jon Stewart said of Stephen Colbert after the White house function.
“Colbert now a verb” from Blogcritics – Bloggers still discussing and thanking Colbert.
Star Gazing 
by Hans Haacke
We live in an age where religion, patriotism, success in business, and good manners have become a veil for the unspeakable. Either you remain silent or you violate the decorum. (Happy Tutor on Good Manners as the Veil of Corruption)
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