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Maurice Sendak 1928-2012
Maurice Sendak Via] “I said anything I wanted because I don’t believe in children, I don’t believe in childhood. I don’t believe that there’s a demarcation. ‘Oh you mustn’t tell them that. You mustn’t...
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RIP Hans Reichel
Composer/inventor/sculptor/designer Hans Reichel, 1949 – 2011. Photo by Marc Eckardt. East Village Radio (via Tiny Mix Tapes, via Rob Schwimmer) reports this sad news: Hans Reichel—the criminally...
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RIP, Ken Russell (1927 – 2011)
Photo via Cinebeats. (Source, anyone?) “Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn’t for most people, but I am not interested. There’s too much of it about.” ~Ken Russell Thanks for keepin’ it...
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World AIDS Day
In 1985, when Coil recorded this cover of the Gloria Jones tune (not long after Soft Cell), frank and open discussion of the HIV/AIDS crisis was still considered taboo. Many media sources were too...
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“Cupid and Centaur” by Joel-Peter Witkin (1992)
(un)Naturally, we can’t have Centaur Week without posting one of Joel-Peter Witkin‘s most famous works, riffing off the classical Greek “Kentauros & Eros” motif… “Cupid and Centaur” by Joel-Peter...
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R.I.P. Eiko Ishioka, July 1939 – January 21, 2012
Eiko Ishioka, Motoko Narsue, Kyoko Inui, poster 1979. Photographed by Kazumi Kurigami. One of the world’s greatest costume designers, Eiko Ishioka, died today at age 73. Ishioka’s work spanned genres...
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“My work is about leaving the door open to the imagination.” -Dorothea...
Sleeping Nude (1954) by Dorothea Tanning. Oil on canvas. And she did. Countless others have walked through that door behind Dorothea Tanning– fellow iconoclasts and creative powerhouses (many women,...
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“That Heartbreaking Invisible Place”
“She makes visible that heartbreaking invisible place between the appearance and the disappearance of things,” wrote Richard Avedon about photographer Lillian Bassman, who died at 94 in her home at...
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Greta Alfaro's "In Ictu Oculi" and Other Works
cipro 250 “In ictu oculi” is a somewhat loaded Latin phrase that translates roughly as “in the blink [or twinkling] of an eye”. It’s also the title of a famously (and beautifully) grotesque Baroque...
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R.I.P. DICK CLARK, VIVA SPARKS.
It’s hard to believe Dick Clark is gone. Is it safe to surmise that secretly, many of us kids who grew up watching him on the boob tube decided long ago that Clark (or, at the very least, legions of...
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