Jul 31, 2008
I wouldn’t be surprised if these have been linked all over but I hadn’t come across this site before, Czech posters from the Cold War period when promotional material for Hollywood films was home-produced. This makes for some surprising results as with the psychedelic confection for Dumbo shown above. Elsewhere there’s a Piranesian collage for […]
Jul 30, 2008
Windy Day.
More of Zdravkovic’s beautifully-coloured paintings at Miss Magnolia Thunderpussy’s Flickr pages while the Adonis Art Gallery, London, has originals for sale.
Nebojsa Zdravkovic was born in Belgrade in 1959, he trained in the best art schools and graduated with a Masters Degree. He is now a member of the Association of Serbian Fine Artists.
Elsewhere on […]
Jul 29, 2008
Mary Ellen Bute.
Last week I noted the appearance at Ubuweb of Mary Ellen Bute’s little-seen Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. News comes this week of an exhibition of her abstract films at sketch, London.
sketch presents the first gallery survey exhibition of abstract film by Mary Ellen Bute (b. Houston, Texas 1906, d. 1983).
From […]
Jul 28, 2008
New Byrne and Eno imminent
| Everything That Happens Will Happen Today.
Jul 28, 2008
Wordle is a Java-based web toy which generates random arrangements of words from any text input. This is the result after pasting in the opening of the “Sirens” chapter of Joyce’s Ulysses and playing around with the colour and font settings. Fun, but as far as web-based toys go I prefer the abstractions of Bomomo.
While […]
Jul 27, 2008
JG Ballard. Autòpsia del nou mil·lenni is an exhibition at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona which takes the work of everyone’s favourite Shepperton resident as its theme. The exhibition runs to November 2nd, 2008 and the website includes a blog where Spanish readers can explore the “Univers Ballard”. For Anglophones, curator Jordi Costa […]
Jul 26, 2008
The Golden Apples of the Sun, the first release on Arthur Magazine’s Bastet label has been one of my favourite compilations of recent years. Golden Apples was/is one of those landmark music anthologies that appear from time to time and seem to fix a moment perfectly as they capture a sudden flourishing of new music, […]
Jul 25, 2008
Sex, rebellion, wealth… the unseen Hadrian
Jul 25, 2008
left: Hanging (2004); Judging (2004).
San Francisco artist Jason Driskill paints, writes and creates his own digital artwork and video, often with himself as the main model. This multi-disciplined approach is a rare thing among artists predominantly concerned with gay themes, despite the example set by significant forebears such as Jean Cocteau and Derek Jarman. […]
Jul 24, 2008
Amorality Tales
| The NYT gets belatedly hip to Moorcock’s Elric.