I thought I was going to see Vincent Gallo and Sean Lennon make weird psycho-ambient music together. Instead what I got was a similar ensemble to Gallo’s former band RRIICCEE, followed by Sean Lennon crooning away with his girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl as The Ghost Of A Saber Toothed Tiger. All the same, totally worth [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Failedrockstar now online
August 15, 2009 – 5:35 am
Richard and Robert Phoenix and Andreas Laszlo Konrath, whose portrait of Edmund White will be in Dossier #4, have just launched an online version of their zine failedrockstar. Like the zine, their website features interviews with a wide-range of visual artists, including Mr. Bingo, Richard Ardagh, and Freya Douglas-Morris.
MOM and POPism at Gawker
August 13, 2009 – 9:00 am
After New York’s gallerists and hoteliers, the latest establishment to relegate graffiti to a location other than the city’s streets is none other than Gawker. With MOM and POPism, they’ve elevated the art form to their newly finished rooftop on Elizabeth Street – a pretty privileged place on an August afternoon. Curator Billi Kid, who [...]
Song Dong’s Mom’s Stuff at MoMA
August 12, 2009 – 5:59 pm
A few years ago I had a conversation with my kids about what they would do with my stuff when I die. I joked that if the sheer accumulation of it got too overwhelming, they could always hook one of those big slides up to the window of my apartment and shoot everything down to [...]
Freeman+Lowe: Meth lab in the middle of SoHo
August 11, 2009 – 10:08 am
You’ve probably been to Deitch Projects Gallery in Soho before, but you might not recognize the place this time. Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe combined their creative powers to create Black Acid Co-Op – a meth den, Chinese herbal shop and a Native American conservation site in the gallery space. Actually, there is more. The [...]
Life Lessons – Interview with Thomas Moffett
August 9, 2009 – 7:19 am
I met with Thomas Moffett, the writer of Shrink, to discuss self-medicating, Bob Dylan, and of course, his latest film. Hi Thomas. Jung or Freud? Jung. I’m afraid of Freud. Have you ever seen the movie Bad Timing? It’s from 1980 I think….If you’re afraid of Freud you’ll love this movie! Art Garfunkel plays a young [...]
Bored to Death
August 5, 2009 – 2:36 pm
Here are some things I love: Sunday nights, Brooklyn and Jason Schwartzman. So, it seems the lovely Jonathan Ames(who contributed to Dossier #2 Fall/Winter 2009) likes these same things and was kind enough to combine them into the new HBO show, Bored to Death. Expect cameos from Ted Danson, Kirsten Wiig (from SNL) Parker Posey, [...]
Great God, Behold that Strawberry
August 4, 2009 – 2:29 pm
Salome Oggenfuss and Sandra Isacsson have just put a version of their two channel video installation Behold that Strawberry up on their website. Based loosely on Pasolini’s Salo, which itself is loosely based on the Marquis de Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom, the film features four different dominatrixes in a bar in Queens recounting [...]
Pistol Shrimp and Goby Fish Symbiosis
August 3, 2009 – 1:00 pm
This clip from Weird Nature on the BBC has been floating around the internet. It is extraordinary, but what it doesn’t mention is that some species of pistol shrimp live in symbiotic relationships with goby fish. They often share a burrow, which is built and maintained by the shrimp, but guarded by the fish. The [...]
