Photo by Lord Jim via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Billboard, no doubht, are a controversial issue in Los Angeles. Lawsuits against the city are piled up in the courts, ordinances are being passed and new digital billboards and supergraphics envelope the city. So it's only appropriate that the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House are taking 23 billboards and 23 artists for...
Taschen's new book charts the history of 'Art Cinema' Cinema's place in art history is a unique one. Films came into this world in the laboratory as a series of photographic experiments, moving very quickly thence to cheap thrills at fairs, nickelodeons and the like, then quickly became a populist entertainment juggernaut through the will of some men with 'horse sense, goddamit! showmanship!' (to...
Consider this post a general statement of dismay at having any story concerning Tiger Woods that does not involve golf eating up all the newsholes like a little Pacman. Trivia is fun! And I'm good at it. But really do any of us need to care about whether a golfer slept around and had a fight with his wife or didn't sleep around and didn't have a fight with his wife? No we sure don't. I hate to play...
Kenneth Anger, Topanga Canyon, California, Composite (1954). This portrait of a dashing Kenneth Anger juxtaposes the filmmaker with an engraving by Gustave Doré for Paradise Lost. Like his contemporary Emil Cadoo, photographer Edmund Teske (1911–1996) often concealed the homoerotic nature of his pictures by rendering them “artistic” through double-exposure. Teske was friends...
My 2 year project is complete. Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus will be available by Sat 5th December. Its initial launch will be in the evening of the next day (Sun 6th)in Labyrinth Books , Glastonbury High Street. Timing and extra details will be posted nearer to the date. The initial launch commemorates the centenary of the magickal peak of Crowley's career, the legendary desert ceremony invoking...
Artist Toban Nichols -- a former San Francisco resident who recently exchanged his Bay Ara lifestyle for LA's expansive and creative community -- has three shows that will take over the Bay Area over the next two months. His work, as he describes it, "favors bright color, along with databending and media manipulation, with an eye focused on both current and nostalgic popular culture moments and...
Jeff Keen was born just a few miles away from where I now live, in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, in 1923. He started making films relatively late, aged 37 – the same age as I am now. Unfortunately, that's where the similarities end, as Keen is now an octogenarian experimental film-maker who this year had a bfi boxed-set released of his forty-odd short films. They're an extraordinary experience: seeing...
Kenneth Anger at the Cinematheque,Paris, 1950 Marianne Faithful as Lilith in Lucifer Rising, 1980 Donald Cammell as Osiris, Lucifer Rising, 1980 Seal of Crowlery's magick order of Argenteum, good for 10% discount. Kenneth Anger, child of Hollywood. Autograph..... Invocation Of My Demon Brother, Mick Jagger at the moog on the soundtrack. Anger on Crowley, April 2009 Scorpio Rising part one.... Anger...
Name:Travis Chamberlain Title: Public Programs Coordinator at the New Museum, member of The Fabulous Entourage, burgeoning video artist and dancemaker URL: http//www.newmuseum.org/events and http://www.fabulousentourage.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Fairmont, NC, about 10 minutes away from the tourist trap known as South of [...]
One Dream Rush is a Beijing-based exhibition of 42-second films from 42 film makers on the subject of dreams. It's an interesting premise, though we were a lot more excited before we learned that the film fest was being sponsored by Bacardi's vodka brand 42 Below. Still, the art films/vodka commercials make for lovely viewing. Below, shorts by locals David Lynch and Kenneth Anger : Found via Dangerous...
If you wanna see a theme show that demonstrates how lame theme shows can be, try the omnium gatherum MOBY-DICK at CCA . By using the hyphen—and italics—at least the curators indicate they are dealing with the book, not the whale itself, who is, as you may remember, unhyphenated (except once). Here's an item by an artist whom I will allow to remain nameless: I won't mention the chandelier...
Here’s a link to the great Meshes Of The Afternoon by Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hamid. This was required watching in Film School and it expresses Hollywood 1943 Art Film like no other except maybe Kenneth Anger’s Fireworks. Underground Film in all it’s glory! Maya At Work Editing One Of Her Films
There is, I believe, always a morality to art, or should be. For the artist - and the curator, the editor, the critic, those other interlocutors - is a maker of choices as well as the work itself. We still refer to certain art as "naive" or "primitive" or "outsider" usually because we see it as coming without the interlocution or that it doesn't come with an intellectual...
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2009/09/29/fever-ray-at-webster-hall-lasers-shrunken-heads-swedes.html “If the psychedelic filmmaker Kenneth Anger somehow commandeered the controls at Walt Disney World’s Haunted Mansion, the result might look like last night’s Fever Ray show at Webster Hall in New York City.”
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