more on strange women
(Proverbs 2:12-19)
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
(Proverbs 2:3-6)
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
(Proverbs 5:20-29)
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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Remote Control
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Pryings
Kathy Dillon participated in Vito Acconci‘s body art pieces when she was his girlfriend in the early 1970s.
“Remote Control” has Acconci remote controlling Dillon by voice, including having herself tied up, as depicted.
“Pryings” is Dillon trying to keep here eyes closed while Acconci is trying to pry them open.
I’ve finished version 1.0 of my personal note-taking platform Artandpopularculture.com, affectionately known as “Art and Pop”, which I started a year ago. Version 1.0 consisted of adding people and events to each day of the year.
Version 2.0 will be ready in April 2009, it consists of adding the same info (yes, I am seeking this level of self-referentiality) to each year from 1650 until the present day.
There are still some days that need work (in April and May, when I started the wiki), so my apologies for these lacunae. Also, to the individual dates will be added more cultural events such as releases of notable films, first public showings of works of art, releases of musical compositions. Notability criteria are mine, in accordance to the publication biases of the wiki.
The Art and Pop wiki is a continuation of a project I started in 1996: Jahsonic.com, and can be considered as Jahsonic Pro, a who’s who of culture or “culture for smarties”.
According to internet rating service Quantcast, the site reaches approximately 6,816 U.S. monthly unique visitors and is popular among a mostly male, primarily older crowd.
Tom Dissevelt and Dick Raaijmakers
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Some pointers to other Dutch avant-garde.
Via Mixtuur.
All of his films will be shown, click the image to find out more.
The weather is soft. To the right approaches a man, to the left a woman. They will meet within ten to fifteen seconds. His will glance upwards stealthily. She will look straight ahead, knows that she is being looked at. She will only half enjoy this, but she would not want to miss it. It is a gift she refuses, but it has to be offered to her. –Adapted from K. Schippers‘s opening lines on Balthus in Eb.
Collage by Indian artist Rajan c k.
Pop Surrealism: The Rise Of Underground Art (2004)
American Kirsten Anderson, founder of Roq La Rue Gallery, and co-founder of BLVD Gallery, editor of the book Pop Surrealism (depicted above) has been blogging for a while at Right Some Good. She notes that “This blog is mainly to showcase art that I’m currently enamoured with,” which includes posts on Caspar David Friedrich, Gustave Moreau, Richard Dadd and Leon Bakst.
From her blogroll also these interesting blogs:
Tip of the hat to Paul Rumsey.
“You think I’m gorgeous” from Miss Congeniality.
I’ve seen the film twice. The film’s been bugging me (in a good way) for the last couple of weeks, when I started thinking about world peace (remember Bullock’s reluctance at the beginning of the film to wish for it, and than after she’s won, concedes to do so?). World peace brought to mind a passage by Georges Bataille on the impossibility of world peace which I can’t seem to re-find.
Then, when finding the clips (in nice filmed-from-a-TV-set mode) above, I was reminded of how much I had enjoyed the film and its good-natured romanticism. In such is the state of feminism I’ve defended another fluff film for its ability to portray part of the man-woman relationship in the 21st century.
So, will this remain a guilty pleasure, or get a promotion to World Cinema Classic? I’ll have to think about it.
I’ve posted about these two buildings before, but the similarities are to substantial to let it pass over not to post them juxtaposed. Find out more by clicking on the buildings.
