Who Are the People That Get to Make This Thing We Call Art?
Useful analysis of contemporary art scene.
I’ve found Frieze (London) very depressing yet beguiling
Watch in awe: Robert Fripp and his wife, Toyah, on ITV’s All Star Mr & Mrs on May 8, 2013
in the courtship of the crimson king
Bob Dylan — Thief on the cross
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Thief on the Cross - Bob Dylan
According to Dylanchords, this is bob’s ‘last Gospel song’, performed only once in New Orleans on November 10th 1981. The song was allegedly released as the b-side to a cassette single.
It’s a passionate performance from a great gig.
My new book of cartoons “You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack” is out now. Details are here.
The Beatles — Child Of Nature (Demo Version)
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Child of Nature - The Beatles
Inspired by the Beatles’ brief* infatuation with the Maharishi and demoed in 1968, Lennon’s song didn’t make the cut for The Beatles (White Album). Lennon later scrapped the lyrics and reworked the tune as Jealous Guy on the Imagine album
More material from this era can be found here
*George excepted
Boogeymen - part of a series of eerie stereoviews - dated 1923 (Via)
unheimlich
(Source: thehystericalsociety)
Tom Phillips - A Humument (1966-73)
“In 1966 Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by painting, collage and cut-up techniques to create an entirely new version. He found his threepenny novel in a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London. This was an 1892 Victorian obscurity titled A Human Document by W.H Mallock and he titled his altered book A Humument.
The first version of all 367 treated pages was published in 1973 since when there have been four revised editions. A Humument is now one of the best known and loved of all 20th Century artist’s books and is regarded as a seminal classic of postmodern art.”
I’ve always loved seeing pages from A Humument
(via slowartday)
