The insane ‘happening’ Salvador Dalí wanted to do for Aphrodite’s Child in 1972
Vangelis and Dalí hanging out Aphrodite’s Child was Greece’s most prominent contribution to the prog-rock scene in the late ’60s and early ’70s. They released…
Art Archives: 04/2014
The feminist fireworks of Judy Chicago were loud, bright and very, very vaginal
Chicago’s 2012 fireworks demo, ‘A Butterfly for Pomona.’ Her latest, ‘A Butterfly for Brooklyn,’ was much larger. Judy Chicago is the original feminist artist–in fact…
Tokyo manhole covers remind us that US cities just do not give a damn, comparatively speaking
I love New York, but New York is truly disgusting, and a lot of it is unbelievably ugly. The infrastructure is crumbling (dear god, the…
‘Tokyo Compression’: These images of Japanese commuters are not for the claustrophobic
I’ve never been to Japan. My husband–who’s been there before and loves it–is always trying to convince me we should take a trip there. The…
Down the rabbit-hole with Salvador Dali’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’
It seems like a perfect match, the master of Surrealist painting, Salvador Dali illustrating a classic of nonsense literature, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.…