The ‘lost’ art of William Burroughs’ mind-bending unpublished graphic novel, ‘Ah Pook is Here’
When William S. Burroughs’ novella “Ah Pook Is Here” was published in 1979, it was in a form greatly diminished from the authors’ original intent.…
Art Archives: 09/2013
‘Glamerama’: Pre-Soft Cell Marc Almond in ‘artsy’ student film, 1978
A young, pre-Soft Cell Marc Almond and friends made this amazing and amusing short college film at Leeds Polytechnic in 1978. It’s equal parts Pink…
What? You’re the world’s biggest REM fan but you haven’t visited Michael Stipe’s awesome Tumblr yet?
True, Michael Stipe is no longer in REM, but he’s still artistically active–most publicly on his stimulating Tumblr page. It’s called “Confessions of a Michael…
Salvador Dali tries his hand at ‘Dynamic Painting’ on ‘I’ve Got A Secret’ 1963
Francis Bacon described Jackson Pollock as the “lacemaker,” as he thought Pollock’s Action Paintings looked like the intricacies of fine lacework. The description was flippant,…
‘No Prostitution’: The Simpsons instruct Chinese nightclub patrons on the house rules
While Disney and Looney Tunes probably have him beat on sheer numbers, Bart Simpson has to have been bootlegged more elaborately and creatively than any…
Get some culture, you bourgeois ingrates! (With some revolutionary Chinese communist ballet, 1971)
Efforts to create a new, post-capitalist artistic culture are fraught with peril. First of all, the tendency to dismiss pre-socialist traditions (artistic or otherwise) as…
Yoko Ono is a GENIUS, in case any question remained: A primer for the befuddled
As Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band, reconstituted in 2009 after a 34-year silence, prepares to release Take Me to the Land of Hell, it seems…