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Interesting article. I recently went to the Schiele/Klimt exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.
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The plotless beauty of his writing, and its fearless look at the emptiness of his own life, put ‘the Scottish Beat’ on a par with Kafka and Camus. My scow is tied up in Flushing, NY, alongside the landing stage of the Mac Asphalt and Construction Corporation. It is now just after five in…
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“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all life presents as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.” With echoes of the most rapier-like prose written by Marx and Engels (eg “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles”),…
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Pace Gallery has mounted a world class mini-museum show on the art of the Happening using its vast holdings as well as supplemental gleanings loaned from the Whitney, MOMA and Getty museums. Source: When New York Was Really Happening
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John Cale reflects on the 50th anniversary of ‘The Velvet Underground and Nico’ and the chaos that surrounded it. Source: John Cale on the ‘Chaos’ of Velvet Underground – Rolling Stone By Kory Grow March 10, 2017 The way John Cale tells it, he had a revelation one day in the mid-Sixties. He’d…