{"id":9459,"date":"2011-05-29T01:53:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T00:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9459"},"modified":"2013-02-03T04:00:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T04:00:14","slug":"weekend-links-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/05\/29\/weekend-links-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fini1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fini1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Jean Genet (1950) by Leonor Fini.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Biblioth\u00e8que Gay looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliotheque-gay.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/la-galere-de-jean-genet-1947.html\" target=\"_blank\">a series of erotic engravings made by Leonor Fini<\/a> for <em>La Gal\u00e8re<\/em> (1947) by Jean Genet. The author reciprocated with <em>Mademoiselle: A Letter to Leonor Fini<\/em>. At the hetero end of the erotic spectrum, Tate Liverpool will be showing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2011\/may\/22\/rene-magritte-erotic-drawings-liverpool\" target=\"_blank\">a series of drawings by Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a> produced for a proposed edition of <em>Madame Eduarda<\/em> by Georges Bataille. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/liverpool\/exhibitions\/renemagritte\/default.shtm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ren\u00e9 Magritte: The Pleasure Principle<\/em><\/a> opens next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/thewire.co.uk\/index.php?page=articles&amp;article=6735\" target=\"_blank\">George Clinton<\/a> will be appearing with Nona Hendryx at the British Library on 18th June, to talk about &#8220;all things galactic&#8221;. In addition there&#8217;s a screening of John Akomfrah&#8217;s <em>The Last Angel of History<\/em>, a documentary about Afrofuturism and black science fiction. See an introduction to that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uE3uqVRGQHY\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Related: the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of African American History and Culture <a href=\"http:\/\/jaywbabcock.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/precious-treasure.html\" target=\"_blank\">has acquired the Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership<\/a> for its collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 RIP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/therecord\/2011\/05\/27\/136731274\/gil-scott-heron-poet-and-musician-has-died\" target=\"_blank\">Gil Scott-Heron<\/a>. &#8220;Why does this colossus remain relatively unknown? Is he too political? Too uncompromising? Too angry? Too satirical? Too painful? Too playful? Too alive? Too black? Too human?&#8221; Jamie Byng in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2010\/apr\/17\/gil-scott-heron-byng\" target=\"_blank\">Gil Scott-Heron: poet, campaigner and America&#8217;s rough healer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fini2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fini2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Le Fils du Ma\u00e7on (1950) by Leonor Fini.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk\/sciencefiction\/2011\/05\/whatif.html\" target=\"_blank\">China Mi\u00e9ville<\/a> examines alternative histories in Brian Aldiss&#8217;s <em>The Malacia Tapestry<\/em>, David Britton&#8217;s <em>Lord Horror<\/em> and Richard Curtis&#8217;s chilling dystopia, <em>Notting Hill<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What happened to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Rolf-Ulrich+Kaiser\" target=\"_blank\">Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser<\/a> and Gille Lettmann when the Kosmische Musik dream collapsed? Find out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurock.com\/Display.aspx?Content=rukaiser.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ghoulnextdoor.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mlle Ghoul<\/a> interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/intheplayingfields.tumblr.com\/post\/5737989795\/will-erricksons-resplendent-horror-fiction-reviews\" target=\"_blank\">Will Errickson<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Too Much Horror Fiction<\/a> about horror paperbacks, good and bad.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Another Surrealist woman: <a href=\"http:\/\/strangeflowers.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/24\/cc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Claude Cahun<\/a> at Strange Flowers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/resobscura.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/key-of-hell-eighteenth-century-sorcery.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Key of Hell<\/a><\/em>: an eighteenth-century sorcery manual.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/23316783\" target=\"_blank\">Partitura 001<\/a>: realtime sound visualisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/scientificillustration.tumblr.com\/archive\" target=\"_blank\">Scientific Illustration<\/a>: a Tumblr.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BxnbVGFK1W0\" target=\"_blank\">Cosmic Slop<\/a><\/em> (1973) by Funkadelic | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=adPnUKKKFns\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cosmic Slop<\/em><\/a> (1991) by Material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Genet (1950) by Leonor Fini. \u2022 Biblioth\u00e8que Gay looks at a series of erotic engravings made by Leonor Fini for La Gal\u00e8re (1947) by Jean Genet. The author reciprocated with Mademoiselle: A Letter to Leonor Fini. At the hetero end of the erotic spectrum, Tate Liverpool will be showing a series of drawings by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/05\/29\/weekend-links-60\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 60&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,29,7,5,22,3,16,20,13,18],"tags":[5644,1993,2588,1032,2594,394,1470,2582,2581,2586,2591,2587,751,2584,7046,692,730,1891,2595,2592,2583,2585,115,2589,2590,2419,2593],"class_list":["post-9459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-music","category-occult","category-science-fiction","category-science","category-surrealism","tag-afrofuturism","tag-bibliotheque-gay","tag-brian-aldiss","tag-china-mieville","tag-claude-cahun","tag-david-britton","tag-funkadelic","tag-george-clinton","tag-georges-bataille","tag-gil-scott-heron","tag-gille-lettmann","tag-jamie-byng","tag-jean-genet","tag-john-akomfrah","tag-kosmische-musik","tag-krautrock","tag-leonor-fini","tag-lord-horror","tag-material-group","tag-mlle-ghoul","tag-nona-hendryx","tag-parliament-group","tag-magritte","tag-richard-curtis","tag-rolf-ulrich-kaiser","tag-strange-flowers","tag-will-errickson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2sz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}