tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13051604244611649672012-02-16T12:13:17.473-07:00Pity from the StarsLa Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-28977834606588007852010-03-30T22:37:00.004-07:002010-03-30T22:50:52.793-07:00A Ventriloquist at a Birthday Party, 1947Pietro Roccasalva. The Oval Portrait: A Ventriloquist at a Birthday Party in 1947. 2005.La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-75463239590282117362010-03-29T23:11:00.018-07:002010-09-27T11:10:51.740-07:00TBD (Surrender Dorothy)From my most recent curatorial project: Check the Children:New Work by Corkey SinksNew work by Chicago-based artist Corkey Sinks explores modern incarnations of mythology, folklore, fairy tales, superstition, and urban legend in horror film and teen culture. Through drawing, soft sculpture, installation, video, and GIF animation, Sinks quietly tracks the contemporary chronology of ancient myths La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-21663099045166294952009-12-05T19:46:00.001-07:002009-12-05T19:48:18.951-07:00A.S.La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-29019868298364890522009-10-07T02:42:00.005-07:002011-03-07T04:02:30.392-07:00Camp Marlene: Representation Trumps Reality, or My Favorite Character of AllIn Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film Morocco, a handsome Marlene Dietrich fitted in a men's tux and top hat performs for servicemen and their wives at a dinner club in that far-distant desert locale of the film's name, exoticized by this director just as any movie set feigning a foreign setting would be in early Hollywood. Midway through a number, meandering through a sea of white linen and eveningLa Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-132372611790417102009-05-12T22:17:00.003-07:002009-05-12T23:23:20.284-07:00Rosé: An Homage to Hedwig and What She'd DespiseI was driving back from San Diego, or it may have been Tijuana, or Riverside, or Santa Barbara. I vaguely recall the Wall Street Journal culture columnists being interviewed by Terri Gross say that Spain is experiencing something of a renaissance in decent, hella cheap wines. They may have said full-flavoured, very, and affordable. At any rate, I'd like to think that this bit of witty La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-90859593859868610282009-02-23T23:10:00.002-07:002009-02-23T23:11:19.996-07:00Chet BakerI looked for this because of Dave Hickey's essay. La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-8985512307524092622009-01-25T18:32:00.004-07:002009-01-25T18:36:51.113-07:00The Loneliest Time of DayI despise dusk . . . . whenthe light has almost faded, and you lie alone on a loveseat beneath the last low glow of the sun, a blank television screen reflecting your shadow as you try to decide whether or not to turn on the lamp in the living room. La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-86062957036413917082009-01-14T21:43:00.002-07:002009-01-14T21:46:23.867-07:00Bye for nowPrecious Cargo. Jerome, Arizona. 2008. La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-76777901134784319462008-12-09T22:08:00.000-07:002008-12-09T22:10:49.854-07:00LadykillersIndirect courtesy of Cris Corwin. La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-53664726542677833522008-11-19T20:10:00.005-07:002008-11-19T20:25:54.918-07:00LumiereLeon Busy, Young Woman Applying Makeup - Hanoi, Vietnam, 1914-15. Copyright Musee Albert Kahn. In 1907, the Lumière Brothers unveiled the autochrome, the world's first system for taking true colour photographs. - Telegraph, UKLa Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-90126149967717655992008-11-18T19:38:00.003-07:002008-11-18T19:46:23.473-07:00Mary Gaitskill on LolitaFrom VenusZine, Issue No. 30, Winter 2006:In one sentence, this book is about: You can't say what any great book is about in one sentence. However, if I could take a verbal snapshot, this sentence might be the negative: Lolita is a bridge between ecstatic dream and broken reality; it is an enchanted bridge beset by mirages and trolls; as the narrator crosses, it bursts into flames behind him; in La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-78752045805661546832008-11-02T23:27:00.002-07:002008-11-02T23:33:31.551-07:0025You will search, babe, at any cost, But how long, babe, can you search for what's not lost ? Everybody will help you, Some people are very kind. But if I can save you any time, Come on, give it to me, I'll keep it with mine. I can't help it if you might think I am odd. If I say I'm not loving you for what you are, But for what you're not. Everybody will help you, Discover what you set out to findLa Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-37073394662486420822008-10-27T23:41:00.004-07:002008-11-18T19:47:03.031-07:00DaisiesFrom Daisies, a Czech film directed by Vera Chytilova. On most days, my very favorite movie.Watch some here. Read an interview with Chytilova, "the Margaret Thatcher of Czech cinema," here. Read an essay on gender representations in the film here.La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-27671207476579699212008-10-27T22:15:00.009-07:002008-11-03T10:59:53.537-07:00I'm starting to feel old-fashionedI attended a lecture this evening, "In Praise of Impurity: Universalism vs. Geo-Aesthetics in Contemporary Art," given by David Elliott, a world-renowned curator of contemporary art, former president of the International Committee for Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art, formerly of the Oxford Museum of Modern Art, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and now ArtisticLa Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-84177983398740210792008-10-24T23:32:00.006-07:002008-11-19T20:27:47.696-07:00You Winter, let's get divorced5. Journey, from the series "You Winter, let's get divorced".4. Masmos 1! from the series "Salt".3. Harvest Time from the series "Salt".2. Domestic Marble from the series "Salt".1. Sweating Sweethearts 2 from the series "Salt."All photos copyright artist Scarlett Hooft Graafland and galleries Vous Etes Ici and Michael Hoppen Contemporary La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-65192478698764080332008-10-24T19:23:00.002-07:002008-11-19T20:27:10.338-07:00Bumpersticker Brilliance"Resist Despair"La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-45224828882482361212008-10-05T00:22:00.008-07:002008-10-06T00:06:32.358-07:00NurseI recently framed this work by Kelley Heider as well, which was also included in the Presence and Performance exhibition I curated. Part of a six-piece series representing the archetypal objectified American female, I unfortunately could only afford to buy one. Here, I've placed the ever-doting, care-taking nurse Kelley beside the medicine cabinet in my bathroom. Kelley is an accomplished La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-8217077198553053762008-10-05T00:12:00.011-07:002008-11-03T10:58:56.311-07:00"I Never Said That"My dear, quirky friend Corkey Sinks is a genius. So is her artwork. "I Never Said That" is one in a series of tattered fabric pieces she first created for Presence and Performance: Queer-Feminist Bodies, an exhibit I curated in San Francisco in June of 2007.In this series, Corkey has carefully, meticulously, yet hastily, and literally, crafted and constructed visual text as we manipulatively La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-35057287653674369112008-10-02T17:34:00.008-07:002008-10-06T00:00:40.068-07:00Fantasy WallpaperTerry Castle posted this on her blog, Fevered Brain Productions. I wish it were the wallpaper in my living room. Or bedroom. Or bathroom. Click on the link to her blog for more of this fabulousness. La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-60172325894087574172008-10-01T22:34:00.024-07:002008-10-04T02:04:00.542-07:00Riot on an Empty Street: Claude CahunClaude Cahun (b. Lucy Schwob, 1894, Nantes, France) has long been one of my favorite figures in art and its contentious history. A member of the original Breton-led French Surrealists, Cahun went unrecognized as a groundbreaking artist in her day, as did most of the women associated with Surrealism and other contemporaneous collectives dominated by men. Yet I find her work far more transgressive,La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305160424461164967.post-68910174112447518672008-09-30T22:11:00.002-07:002008-10-01T23:52:24.101-07:00Madame Bovary, I presumeThe title of this blog comes from a passage in Madame Bovary, a classic novel permeating my now-former universe of the anti-canon and alt. history. " . . . human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing-bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars."Language, in the end, leaves us limp, listless, lying. We lie, and we lie down. We are desperate, but there is La Revolution Surrealistehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00379994484855631174noreply@blogger.com1