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Renaissance (2006), directed by Christian Volckman.

L’abattoir.
From ‘Visionary Art in France’, The Visionary Review, Fall 2004:
Poumeyrol shares with Margotton a fascination for the interior landscape, where dimly illuminated grottos resonate with the remains of past epochs. And yet, his barren and abandoned spaces are often redolent with signs of the artists’ own lost memories.
In his early works, Jean-Marie Poumeyrol was recognized […]

Photographed by Philippe Halsman in 1947, one of Halsman’s many Dalí portraits.

This prescient out-of-print volume from 1970 is available as a free PDF download here. Also at the essential ubu.com. (Thanks to Jay for the tip!)
From the original back jacket copy:
“Today when one speaks of cinema, one implies a metamorphosis in human perception,” writes the author of this extraordinary book. “Just as the term ‘man’ is […]

Seven Songs by 23 Skidoo, FM 2008, 1982.
Since I made a post earlier about bad album design, it’s only right to redress the balance somewhat. Neville Brody has long been a favourite designer and something of an influence since it was looking at his work during the 1980s that made me think seriously about design […]

Herbert List, photographer, 1903–1975.
Update: Herbert List’s Beautiful Young Men at Slate.

The world is over-stuffed with bad design, from food packaging to tv graphics and awful websites, but it’s fun to be reminded now and then just how bad things can get when all aesthetic considerations are thrown to the winds. The Museum of Bad Album Covers features some of the choicest examples from the music […]

Edward James by René Magritte, La Reproduction Interdite (1937).
Art collector Edward James (1907–1984) was a characteristically English eccentric, a kind of 20th century equivalent of William Beckford or Horace Walpole, who was captivated by Surrealism in the 1930s and became a lifelong devotee of the movement. Much of his inherited wealth was spent supporting artists […]