The interview: Iain Sinclair | Beating the bounds of Hackney.
The art of Cody Furguson
The Artist’s Chair.
Cody Furguson’s work is a lot more painterly than that of many other gay artists and I like the way some of his recent pictures have backgrounds with a texture of flickering gold and abstract motifs reminiscent of Gustav Klimt. Makes me wonder why no one has tried updating the Klimt style, replacing those ubiquitous females with men. Furguson sells all his work and also accepts commissions at very reasonable rates.
Graffiti Wall Saint.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The gay artists archive
China Monumentis by Athanasius Kircher
From the title pages.
All of Kircher’s illustrations fascinate for their detail and often bizarre or startling images. The high quality scans of his 1667 opus, China Monumentis, at VTS don’t disappoint, especially in the close-ups.
Chinese mythology.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The etching and engraving archive
Danger! High-radiation arthouse!
Danger! High-radiation arthouse! | Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.
Lux Interior, 1946–2009
Lux on stage in Glasgow, 1990.
Lux Interior, co-founder of the Cramps and the group’s singer, lyricist, cultural archaeologist and a superb stage performer. Also one of the few people who could successfully enthuse about the delights of female sexuality while wearing nothing more than a pair of high heels and a black G-string.
That exhilarating manifestation of deviant intent and skull-denting impact remains Lux and Ivy’s exclusive domain. Where punk rock was a barrage of refutation that fomented rabid exultation, the Cramps reclaimed the hillbilly power long since flushed down the Mersey. Through a self-stated “disdain for the myth of musical progress,” they melded their mutant propensities to emerge as a guiding voice in the wilderness, a commanding force that redefined the rock & roll spectrum while outgunning almost everyfuckingbody in the game. Jonny Whiteside, LA Weekly.
• The Cramps’ Lux Interior: A life in pictures
• The Cramps on The Tube, 1987: part 1 | part 2 | part 3