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Category Archives: Art/Photography
Focus on The King. Make that Two Kings.
My cousin Kerry O’Malley is amazing. A gift arrived in the mail yesterday: a piece of artwork commissioned for me by Kerry! The artist is Sari Lennick, whose work is fascinating and thought-provoking in re: collage of words/pictures/art. Lennick takes … Continue reading
Action Shot, 1899
“Horse Training”, Félix Thiollier, 1899.
Screaming Elvis Fan, 1957
Of all the pics of screaming Elvis fans, she is my favorite. This is from a show at the Philadelphia Arena in April, 1957. I love it because although people are screaming behind her, she’s the only one in … … Continue reading
The Ghost on the Sidewalk
Every time I walk by the Warwick Hotel, like I did yesterday, I take a moment to say hello to the ghost on the sidewalk. 2019 1956
The ’90s: When Amazons Walked the Earth
Photo by Peter Lindbergh It’s hard to grok, if you weren’t there, the ’90s supermodel era, when battalions of supermodels – impossibly gorgeous, otherworldly, like alien freaks – stomped across the land – on every magazine cover, on billboards, in … Continue reading
Remembrance of Photos Past and Inherent Vice
When I was a kid, my best friend’s parents had one of those huge Time-Life photo books. I became obsessed with it. It was very disturbing stuff and I was drawn to it with a queasy fascination. I was 9, … Continue reading
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Tagged Inherent Vice, Paul Thomas Anderson, photography
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Review: The gorgeous Ruben Brandt, Collector (2019)
I love this film! It’s an animated art-survey course, as filtered through an international art-heist caper. So much fun. Gorgeous! My review of Ruben Brandt, Collector is now up at Rogerebert.com.
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Tagged animation, art, heist movies, Hungary, reviews
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Review: Never Look Away (2018)
My review of Never Look Away, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (whose The Lives of Others won Best Foreign Film almost 10 years ago), is now up at Ebert. I knew nothing about it going in, and in the … Continue reading
Thank you, Tina
Seen on Twitter. An illustration – by “Tina” – from Sexology Magazine, November, 1949, depicting the “female climax.” This drawing is amazing. And … accurate, is the word I think I’m looking for?
Dynamic Duo #8
Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol. And Elvis.