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Kiefer's Brain Kept Alive By Russians!

This is a funny print by Albert Oehlen from 2000 that I came across in my surfing.... :lol:
by CAP
Thu May 15, 2014 8:28 am
 
Forum: Random Stuff
Topic: Kiefer's Brain Kept Alive By Russians!
Replies: 0
Views: 5167

Talk Normal

Tough girl trio I haven't researched yet but I like their sonic intensity on Bad Date and In a Strange Land. :twisted:
by CAP
Tue May 13, 2014 12:52 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Talk Normal
Replies: 0
Views: 4584

Girl Band - Lawman

No doubt St. Bob would heartily approve of this little Dublin unit as well > 8-)

GB really step it up a notch here, my favourite single of the year so far! :D
by CAP
Tue May 13, 2014 12:50 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Girl Band - Lawman
Replies: 0
Views: 4229

Seduced and Abandoned

This is not the noted 1964 Italian feature directed by Pietro Germi, about the irresistible little village virgin, Agnese (Stefania Sandrelli) and her impulsive suitor Peppino (Aldo Puglisi) – a delirious Italian comedy, in the guise of late Neo-Realism perhaps, although maybe I’ll do a review of th...
by CAP
Mon May 12, 2014 12:10 pm
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: Seduced and Abandoned
Replies: 0
Views: 4628

Maria Lassnig 1920-2014

A great underrated rebel and nomad of a painter, gone at the tender age of 94. Here's a perfunctory obit on Artforum. Here she is in a cheerful moment . Unfortunately the closest I got to writing about her was her inclusion in the Sie. Selbst. Nackt. show at Bremen last year. This was her contributi...
by CAP
Thu May 08, 2014 11:27 am
 
Forum: Art News
Topic: Maria Lassnig 1920-2014
Replies: 0
Views: 4743

Eastlink - Spring Street

Obscure Melbourne band who may or may not have broken up – but who have one single on In The Red – Spring Street - and promised an album in February that has still to materialise. The single has a pleasant shuffling quality. According to the In The Red blurb ‘Spring Street’ denotes Victoria’s state ...
by CAP
Wed May 07, 2014 12:50 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Eastlink - Spring Street
Replies: 0
Views: 4358

Fenster - Cat Emperor

Or maybe it’s Fenster by Cat Emperor ? – I forget. Anyway this is quiet mellow stuff. I’m in one of my down periods…

:(
by CAP
Wed May 07, 2014 12:44 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Fenster - Cat Emperor
Replies: 0
Views: 4445

Wild Beasts

A band of shifting personnel it seems, here, on Daughter we have just the duo, doing something soulful and intimate. It’s so me, n’est pas? 8-)
by CAP
Wed May 07, 2014 12:42 pm
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Wild Beasts
Replies: 0
Views: 4282

Sam Windett @ The Approach

I submitted this review to Abstract Critical on the 25th of April. Doesn't look like it's going to be published. Since the show ends next Tuesday, I’m publishing it here just to see if it can’t prompt a few more visitors… Sam Windett – This Panel is That Painting at The Approach 11th April-13th May...
by CAP
Wed May 07, 2014 7:18 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Sam Windett @ The Approach
Replies: 0
Views: 13572

Fading Gigolo

The Woody Allen movie you have when you’re not having a Woody Allen movie, basically. This is a modest, carefully crafted effort from 2013, written, directed and starring John Turturro with an A-list supporting cast including Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Liev Schreiber and Vanessa Paradis. It’s quite ...
by CAP
Tue May 06, 2014 2:59 pm
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: Fading Gigolo
Replies: 1
Views: 6876

Joyce Pensato @ Lisson Gallery

Joyceland - 26 March – 10 May 2014 (3,486w) I’m reviewing this for a couple of reasons. I mentioned Pensato a few years back on a thread about George Condo , concerning cartoons given the painterly treatment and since this is her most publicised show in London, I thought I would expand a little on ...
by CAP
Mon May 05, 2014 3:16 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Joyce Pensato @ Lisson Gallery
Replies: 0
Views: 15389

Re: Bernhard Prinz - IF CONDITION THEN INSTRUCTION

Strictly speaking, this belongs under Art Press Releases BK. A bit late to switch it around now, but hopefully you will bear this in mind for your many future posts... :) I’m sort of disappointed Prinz's photography isn’t more digital, given the allusion to programming. I’d have been more impressed ...
by CAP
Sat May 03, 2014 12:30 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Bernhard Prinz - IF CONDITION THEN INSTRUCTION
Replies: 1
Views: 15496

Re: Toasted Hot Cross Buns with Smoked Salmon

I actually enjoyed the unexpected combination of flavours - but it's an improvisational, spur-of-the-moment thing. :D

I'm not that mad on roe or caviar... :| but who can say? :?
by CAP
Wed Apr 30, 2014 1:13 am
 
Forum: Food and general consumption
Topic: Toasted Hot Cross Buns with Smoked Salmon
Replies: 2
Views: 7498

Heavy Hawaii

Know nothing about this band yet – a little more pop than most of the things I’ve posted lately, but I’m sort of intrigued.

Here’s Sue. Here’s Better. Some live, not-very-well recorded stuff.

But they look like they could be fun to see. ;)
by CAP
Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:03 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Heavy Hawaii
Replies: 0
Views: 4118

Michael Yonkers and Blind Shake

A strange meeting here of ancient 60s psychedelic rocker and young thrash/noise trio – all I think from Minneapolis or at least Minnesota. His voice is not great anymore but the guy is definitely still with it. I couldn’t find the track I was pointed to – something with mercy in the title, I think. ...
by CAP
Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:59 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Michael Yonkers and Blind Shake
Replies: 0
Views: 4020

Gonjasufi

I’m slow getting into this stuff - Weird west coast American black dude. His Wiki page . I think there was just too much hype around him for a couple of years. The stuff is definitely original though – so many influences but none foremost. 8-) His 2010 album A Sufi and A Killer is the best stuff I’v...
by CAP
Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:55 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Gonjasufi
Replies: 0
Views: 4112

Stella

The kind of movie I probably wouldn’t see unless for the sake of others, but then I end up quite enjoying. This is a 2008 French production written and directed by Sylvie Verheyde, largely autobiographical and set in 1977, about an eleven year-old starting secondary school in Paris and floundering a...
by CAP
Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:18 am
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: Stella
Replies: 0
Views: 4625

Toasted Hot Cross Buns with Smoked Salmon

On the 15th!

My life spirals to new heights of decadence! :mrgreen:
by CAP
Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:29 am
 
Forum: Food and general consumption
Topic: Toasted Hot Cross Buns with Smoked Salmon
Replies: 2
Views: 7498

Tomory Dodge @ Alison Jacques

Tom gets into squeegees or other ways of scraping back the paint in another series of large gestural abstracts. Take Rain Parade (2013) for instance. He’s been at this sort of structure for a while now, using other tools, last show I think, big on symmetry, if memory serves….What can I say? I prefer...
by CAP
Mon Apr 14, 2014 12:46 pm
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Tomory Dodge @ Alison Jacques
Replies: 0
Views: 13356

The Armstrong Lie

There are a few more background details in here but basically this is Alex Gibney trying to find a way of salvaging footage he shot on Lance Armstrong’s 2009 comeback to The Tour de France after retiring with seven consecutive wins in 2005. Everyone knows the Armstrong myth now – winner of seven con...
by CAP
Sun Apr 13, 2014 3:55 am
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: The Armstrong Lie
Replies: 0
Views: 4588

Re: The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson

Hope you don't mind I just corrected the film title... ;)
by CAP
Tue Apr 08, 2014 11:30 am
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson
Replies: 3
Views: 7239

Stephan Bush @ The Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne

26th March - 6th July 2014 (2,420w) WWR dips into the Southern Hemisphere, for a change. Bush has shown at a number of galleries in America and was included in Phaidon’s Vitamin P2 survey of contemporary painting, so he has some form , although not enough apparently to have been included in the vas...
by CAP
Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:35 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Stephan Bush @ The Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne
Replies: 0
Views: 18692

Engineering World Domination

Ukraine, for instance. :(
by CAP
Mon Mar 31, 2014 10:47 am
 
Forum: Random Stuff
Topic: Engineering World Domination
Replies: 0
Views: 4898

David Altmejd Versus Cathie Pilkington

This article also appears on CAP'S CRITS where it has the advantage of opening links in separate windows (making it easier to toggle between text and illustration rather than linking back and forth). (2,376w) Concurrent shows prompt an unexpected comparison. One was in New York , the other in Londo...
by CAP
Sun Mar 30, 2014 3:56 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: David Altmejd Versus Cathie Pilkington
Replies: 0
Views: 17419

Re: Lowry at Tate Britain

Agreed. :)
by CAP
Sat Mar 29, 2014 4:50 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Lowry at Tate Britain
Replies: 1
Views: 13725

Re: Martin Amis England

It's what comes of competing with your father and coming off second best. :P

He probably wishes his name was Amiss - and that his father had been Dennis Amiss :lol:
by CAP
Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:25 pm
 
Forum: Television
Topic: martin amiss england
Replies: 1
Views: 5352

Re: Veronese at the National Gallery

It's always great when it's not crowded. :)
by CAP
Mon Mar 24, 2014 4:42 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Veronese at the National Gallery
Replies: 1
Views: 14679

Re: Winter's Bone.

A Nerdy 2014 Afterword – I recently watched Winter’s Bone again on DVD and it’s still utterly mesmerizing. I didn’t think it would be. But there were some minor differences I feel like noting – even now. The picture quality actually looked much richer, unlike the slightly washed-out version I’d see...
by CAP
Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:10 pm
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: Winter's Bone.
Replies: 4
Views: 14645

Re: Sydney Biennale 2014 Protest

While in a Biennale-bashing mood, I came across fellow Viking/critic Christian Viveros-Fauné, over on Village Voice , who, with some effort found reasons to be cheerful about the current Whit-Bi. I'm particularly heartened by the appeal against the raging ageism of such events. It's not just me, is ...
by CAP
Thu Mar 20, 2014 2:47 pm
 
Forum: Art News
Topic: Sydney Biennale 2014 Protest
Replies: 1
Views: 5091

Sydney Biennale 2014 Protest

The Sydney Biennale is apparently in turmoil over artists protesting the sponsorship of Transfield Holdings Pty Ltd, whose construction arm is responsible for the Australian government’s refugee detention centres such as that on Manus Island in New Guinea. At most it seems like just another reason ...
by CAP
Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:41 am
 
Forum: Art News
Topic: Sydney Biennale 2014 Protest
Replies: 1
Views: 5091

Re: The Great Beauty

Yes the allure of a foreign tongue often disguises some fairly humdrum content. :cry:
by CAP
Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:24 am
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: The Great Beauty
Replies: 3
Views: 7069

The Weeklings

This is not an art link actually, it's a sort of literary link - a site that publishes short and amusing essays/stories daily (yes daily!) more or less aimed at the 30-40 somethings and covering pop music and lifestyle anecdotes.

:)

Here's a really good one! :twisted:
by CAP
Sun Mar 16, 2014 10:00 pm
 
Forum: Art Links (useful or interesting art sites)
Topic: The Weeklings
Replies: 0
Views: 4505

Re: George Saunders

Deja vu? 8-) Or Deja Lit? :lol:
by CAP
Thu Mar 13, 2014 5:40 am
 
Forum: Books
Topic: George Saunders
Replies: 1
Views: 4989

The Great Beauty

The Cinzano commercial that would be La Dolce Vita . So bad I wouldn’t even rate it. It looks like an ad, sounds like an ad but goes on and on and on… I walked out after an hour of smug world-weariness from an ageing Roman Illuminati, drowned in dance beats and kitsch lighting, your stock-tasteful f...
by CAP
Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:47 am
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: The Great Beauty
Replies: 3
Views: 7069

Re: The Grand Hotel Budapest by wes anderson

It got pretty much slammed in Artforum and had me dropping it down my list.... :?
by CAP
Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:36 am
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson
Replies: 3
Views: 7239

Re: Martin Creed at the Hayward

Why even go? :roll:
by CAP
Wed Mar 12, 2014 12:33 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Martin Creed at the Hayward
Replies: 1
Views: 13580

Censored By Artforum Again

I've raised this matter previously, regarding Artforum's arbitrary censorship on its comments/interactive option. Now hardly anyone comments there - and you wonder how much longer they'll persist with comments at all - or the pretence of encouragement with any online feedback. Basically they just do...
by CAP
Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:37 am
 
Forum: Life (regular updates on somebody's existence)
Topic: Censored By Artforum Again
Replies: 0
Views: 4382

Re: Sympathy for Jean-Luc Godard by Francis Macdonald and Ha

Okay – maybe a bit long at 6 minutes for a single. Some of the drawings worked better than others – the Madison routine from Bande à Part most effective. Too bad you couldn’t have worked a little bit of animation into it (After Effects?). The graphics style maybe a bit punkish or faux naïf for the r...
by CAP
Tue Mar 11, 2014 3:03 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Sympathy for Jean-Luc Godard by Francis Macdonald and Harry
Replies: 3
Views: 10448

I rediscover The Melvins

I used to listen to this band in the late 80s/early 90s. Ah my hardcore years... I hadn’t realized they were still going! Still up there somewhere in the Pacific Northwest... I forget exactly where. Their 1991 live album recorded in Alzey in Germany released as Your Choice Live Series Vol. 12 (catch...
by CAP
Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:54 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: I rediscover The Melvins
Replies: 0
Views: 3375

Mogwai - Rave Tapes

An OK album but there was nothing here that really grabbed me in the way that Travel is Dangerous on Mr. Beast or Secret Pint on Rock Action did. :cry: Repelish is one of those instrumentals that use a found vocal track as accompaniment but this time the nerdish teenage religious nut quickly wears ...
by CAP
Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:13 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Mogwai - Rave Tapes
Replies: 0
Views: 3471

Re: Val Favre Tells It Like It Is - Feb 12 Zurich

Well it probably could have gone under press releases, on reflection. Basically it was a launch for a book on Favre - Val an artist I like.Or here. ;)
by CAP
Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:35 pm
 
Forum: Art News
Topic: Val Favre Tells It Like It Is - Feb 12 Zurich
Replies: 2
Views: 7875

Re: Bob Dylan at National portrait gallery

I suppose for Gridiron fans that might go to the heart of the matter, for the rest of us, Dylan’s decline has been a long and fairly unremarkable one. I feel the same way about Clement Greenberg – started off a socialist and ended up a ranting imperialist lackey – deploring Stalin and excusing the i...
by CAP
Mon Mar 03, 2014 11:29 am
 
Forum: Art Reviews
Topic: Bob Dylan at National Portrait Gallery
Replies: 3
Views: 18438

Nebraska

Good but not great. Alexander Payne returns to the senior’s road movie and familiar territory, out on the prairies, this time directing someone else’s script (Bob Nelson’s, to be precise). There are good things here, but the feel-good ending spoiled the carefully nurtured tragic tone and I can only ...
by CAP
Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:00 am
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: Nebraska
Replies: 0
Views: 3683

Re: Club of Friends at Calvert 22 Gallery: 2 April-25 May 20

I wonder if any Oligarch money funds Calvert 22? :?
by CAP
Fri Feb 21, 2014 11:31 am
 
Forum: Art press releases
Topic: Club of Friends at Calvert 22 Gallery: 2 April-25 May 2014
Replies: 1
Views: 4084

Re: Hyperallergic

:lol: ?
by CAP
Wed Feb 19, 2014 10:45 am
 
Forum: Art Links (useful or interesting art sites)
Topic: Hyperallergic
Replies: 2
Views: 6647

Wall Street International Magazine

I’m a bit embarrassed to be recommending this hymn sheet to rampant capitalist corruption and misinformation , but surprisingly, it has a reasonable arts section. :shock: Who knew? Well obviously it’s a money thing again and part of the grand old hype machine we here at WRR stand in firm opposition ...
by CAP
Wed Feb 19, 2014 10:34 am
 
Forum: Art Links (useful or interesting art sites)
Topic: Wall Street International Magazine
Replies: 0
Views: 4293

Re: WOLF OF WALL STREET by scorcese

Just the trailer put me off. :evil:
by CAP
Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:45 am
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: WOLF OF WALL STREET by scorcese
Replies: 1
Views: 3587

Re: Shame

Actually just got around to watching the DVD of this lemon. It really is embarrassing. It's like a child's fantasy of adult life based on men's aftershave or shampoo ads. It has absolutely zero credibility. The hero - 'Brendan' is it? - is supposed to be some sort of hot-shot broker or marketeer - b...
by CAP
Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:28 pm
 
Forum: Movies
Topic: shame
Replies: 2
Views: 6312

Cloud Control

The cutely named Australian unit seem destined for the charts or at least the stadium/festival circuit. I could only half get interested. Nice guitar, good melodies, but… lacking edge. There’s a chilling (rather than cool) interview along with their studio set for KEXP, Seattle . This band is alread...
by CAP
Sat Feb 15, 2014 6:40 am
 
Forum: Music
Topic: Cloud Control
Replies: 0
Views: 3411
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