‘It’s All True’: Experimental opera based on Fugazi’s live tapes?
Photo of Object Collective by Henrik Beck Object Collection, an experimental performance outfit from Brooklyn, has recorded an “opera-in-suspension” based on the Fugazi Live Series.…
Art Archives: 07/2017
‘F for Fake’: Orson Welles asks ‘What is reality?’ in dazzling masterpiece of oddball art cinema
“If my work hangs in a museum long enough, it becomes real.” —Elmyr de Hory If you’ve seen Orson Welles’ late period quasi-documentary F for…
Uncanny worlds and bad dreams: The strange, surreal, and macabre paintings of Jolene Lai
Jolene Lai was working as a designer for an advertising company when a conversation with an artist friend made her realize her true vocation: I…
Bieber cums, Oprah shits & the Cockmuncher gobbles in Joe Becker’s bizarre pop culture paintings
‘Justin Bieber says “I love you so much I fucking cum hearts”.’ Joe Becker is a Canadian artist who paints big bold canvases filled with…
Through a Lens, Darkly: Weegee’s photographs of death and disaster
Murder was easy. The stiff would lie on the sidewalk for an hour or two until the wagon took his body downtown to the morgue.…
That time Mary Hartman and Patti Smith unwittingly formed a fantasy presidential ticket, 1976
Any discussion about the presidency in 2017 has to start with the notion that about 90% of Americans living or dead would be an improvement…
Sex, symbolism and myth in the sensuous art of Gabriel Grun
‘The Fates.’ When Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517, the Pope knew the…