I am not a big fan of music videos but Arcade Fire really ups the anti in this glorious nod to the death of disco (and nice little rebirth of the band). Long live the mirror ball!
Archives For Thomas
Self trained photographer Alex Prager makes stills (and films) based on the film stills of the Golden Years of Hollywood. Nice piece on her talking about her work. She is also having a big Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery in November / 2013.
God Speed Lou Reed…Have not felt like this since Hendrix and Lennon left us. The music in Heaven just got a little better.
“The measure of his influence and importance dwarfs the news item, the obituary, the tribute. He is everywhere”.
via Sasha Frere-Jones remembers Lou Reed : The New Yorker.
Deborah Turbeville, who almost single-handedly turned fashion photography from a clean, well-lighted thing into something dark, brooding and suffused with sensual strangeness, died on Thursday in Manhattan. She was 81…
via NY-Times article
One of my all time favorite living painters; Mark Tansey is a thinking man’s artist. Never too serious (yet very serious at the same time). He’s always adding just the right amount of humor to his work yet somehow manages to comment on the entire history of Philosophy and the language of pictures and representation. He is also one incredible draftsman… Check out Amy Scott’s nice little breakdown of his work for her students here. Great books on his work here.
Picasso & Braque
Robbe–Grillet Cleansing Every Object in Sight
If there were a painting about the theory of painting, or simply about theory, it might look something like Mark Tansey’s work. He takes art history, philosophy, critical theory, and key terms and buzzwords as the subject and content of his art. A pantheon of twentieth-century thinkers and artists appear as actors in the theaters of his paintings….
Via The Walker Art Center