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“the best music always comes from somewhere else”
Ken Collins’s portrait of Richard Diebenkorn, used to promote the recent L.A. Louver show of his works on paper, is peculiar in its emphasis on the distance between the camera and its subject . . .
A vision of the grotesque, our morbid fascination with violence, and the aestheticization of war…
CRITICISM
Ken Collins’s portrait of Richard Diebenkorn, used to promote the recent L.A. Louver show of his works on paper, is peculiar in its emphasis on the distance between the camera and its subject . . .
“El Desdichado” doesn’t quite work through melancholy but gives form and refuge to it.
“…the triptych painfully reminds us that the form today signifies a broken totality that can only be unified, at best, by an act of artistic creation.”
C. Philip Mills reviews Skinamarink
Genese Grill reviews Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889–1914.
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Ted Berrigan’s Collected Prose.
“I wanted to connect to people who were like-minded but also saw this as a new frontier with a lot of possibilities for art making.”
Bret Schneider and Omair Hussain discuss musical composition and their albums Drunk Walks and What Goes Away.
Victor Cova introduces a 1941 exchange between Claude Lévi-Strauss and André Breton.
Gilberto Perez’s commentary on history as seen through the lens of the filmmaker duo Straub-Huillet.
Personally, I associate Satie’s work with a feeling of the aridity that Nietzsche came to value over Wagnerism — the gentle sea-breeze in the highest mountains that wafts in from some strange land and tickles the senses with possibilities of spiritual freedom.
ART
“the best music always comes from somewhere else”
In memory of Brice Marden (1938-2023)
“She’s trying to paint me into a corner with her question mark army. She’s wanting to light my pants on fire. She seems super mad at me.“
A vision of the grotesque, our morbid fascination with violence, and the aestheticization of war…
Kevin O’Rourke reviews the album Sons Of by Sam Prekop and John McEntire.
Failure of failures. Gluck and Vika’s adventure comes to an end…for now!
Gluck turns a corner and encounters a challenge he’d never anticipated, revealing the true scale of his conflict. Will he give up…or find new strength?
Breaking out of jail is something of a specialty for Gluck. Finding his way around an unfamiliar city isn’t hard either. What does Gluck struggle with? I’m glad you asked!
“Film is, for me, an art of composition.”