Salvador Dalí Has Left the Building
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Un Chien andalou. 1928. France. 35mm print, black and white, silent, approx. 16 min. Gift of Luis Buñuel Between 1964 and 1966 Andy Warhol commenced an ambitious project in which he would photograph, using 16mm motion picture film, his Factory superstars, art world luminaries, underground celebrities, fashionistas, rock and roll gods, bold-faced Hollywood...
Artist Nadine Byrne
Swedish multifaceted artist, Nadine Byrne, conjures ritualistic images in varied gammas of disciplines. Together, with the Dream Family and her music projects, she binds her personal aesthetic with action. Rituals are everywhere. We sometimes forget that rituals are the decantation of abstract ideas into the symbolic actions that give them a body. They are also...
Interview with Kim Gordon by Richard Kern
Portrait by Richard Kern Dossier Journal Attempting to pin a label on Kim Gordon is like trying to understand the lyrics of Sonic Youth’s songs: it’s beside the point. She has worked for Larry Gagosian, written for Artforum, exhibited paintings and directed music videos, produced Hole’s first album and was briefly a character on The Simpsons. Currently,...
Salvador Dali Interview (1958)
Salvador Dali, the surrealist painter, talks to Wallace about genius, the subconscious, weakness, old age and luxury, death, religion, and dreams. THE MIKE WALLACE INTERVIEW Guest: Salvador Dali 4/19/58 WALLACE: Good evening…Tonight we go after the story of an extraordinary personality. He’s Salvador Dali, the great surrealist painter who sees the world through surrealist eyes....
An excerpt from Conversations with Picasso by Brassaï (1943)
Wednesday 20 October 1943 The table, only yesterday covered with dust, is completely clean. Catalogs, brochures, books, and letters have been carefully dusted and even arranged by size into regular piles. Picasso appears, delighted with my surprise. Picasso: I searched again all night for my flashlight. I hate it when people pilfer my things. Since...
David Strettel, Dashwood Books
Photo by Derek Peck David Strettell is the founder and owner of Dashwood Books, a tiny but enormously influential photography bookstore located on Bond Street in the Bowery section of Manhattan. Since opening in 2005, Dashwood has become New York City’s insider resource and social nexus for the latest in contemporary international photography. With an...
One to One with Claude Cahun
FOLLOWING that common cliche of the ‘one to one’, where a writer enacts an interview with a celebrity or person of merit (whether deceased, imaginary, or otherwise), this article was my attempt to conduct an interview with the infamous writer and photographer, Claude Cahun. Although initially written for Jersey Now, a local magazine distributed in...
Madonna Interview (1983)
Island (October 1983) Her father named her. But that was her mother’s name as well. Madonna. She’s top of the charts now with her hit songs: Holiday, Burning Up, Everybody, Physical Attraction. Pop tunes with a disco/soul feel and many are sruprised to learn she’s not black but a greeneyed white blond fireplug with a...
WARHOL & BASQUIAT INTERVIEW
Here’s an interview with Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, from the UK documentary series, State of the Art.
Seeing WARHOL: 14 Artists Reflect His Vision, and Dozens of Friends Remember him.
Seeing WARHOL 14 ARTISTS REFLECT HIS VISION, AND DOZENS OF FRIENDS REMEMBER HIM. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION OF ANDY? Francesco Clemente: A mirror with eyes. Patti D’arbanville: I thought he was a perv. Dennis Hopper: I thought he was a terrific artist-everybody had been talking about the return to reality of abstract expressionism. And...
Video: ‘THE INNER SCAR’: OBSCURE AND PRETENTIOUS FRENCH ART FILM STARRING NICO (1972)
Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico and French avant-garde film director Philippe Garrel had a ten-year romantic relationship between 1969 and 1979. Garrel, acclaimed in his youth as being a sort of cinematic Rimbaud, was much admired by Jean-Luc Godard, but is almost completely unknown in the English speaking world. Nico appeared in seven of his films...
Video: NOTES TOWARDS A PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS BACON
In the final moments of a documentary on Francis Bacon, made by a French TV channel, the great artist turned to camera and jovially announced, in his best Franglais, that he had lost all his teeth to his lovers. That is what he was like –dramatically revealing intimate scenes from his life at the most...
Tom Hodge: Getting Rich Drawing Guns And Tits
London-based illustrator Tom Hodge was just a regular guy until the internet discovered the poster he had made for Justin Eisener’s new film Hobo with a Shotgun. Before that, Hodge had spent ten years bouncing from one banal graphic design job to another. All of the companies he once worked for have now gone bust, and...
Beat Godfather Meets Glitter Mainman: David Bowie/William Burroughs (1974)
Rolling Stone February 28, 1974 by Craig Copetas Transcribed by Nick aka EuropeanCanon William Seward Burroughs is not a talkative man. Once at a dinner he gazed down into a pair of stereo microphones trained to pick up his every munch and said, “I don’t like talk and I don’t like talkers. Like Ma Barker....
22 Questions for Art Dealer and Curator Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld
Name: Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld Age: 26 Occupation: Art Dealer/Curator City/Neighborhood: New York City What’s the last show that surprised you? Larry Gagosian’s current Picasso show Why? It’s one of the most incredible exhibitions I have ever seen. What’s your favorite place to see art? In a museum What is it that attracts you to the...
A Conversation with Bianca Jagger, Human Rights Advocate
by Kurt Jacobsen Bianca Jagger is a prominent spokeswoman for human rights, social justice and environmental protection in a wide variety of threatened locales. Born in Nicaragua, she studied political science in Paris, married and divorced Mick Jagger, and became deeply involved in upheavals across Latin America. From the late 1970s onward she worked unstintingly...
Vasilis Dimitriou: The Last Man Painting Cinema Signs In Europe
We have no way of checking whether this is true or not, but Vasilis Dimitriou claims to be the last man in Europe to make his living hand-painting cinema posters. He’s 75 now, and every Wednesday for the last 61 years he’s been heading down into the centre of Athens at 11pm to swap the...
