Isamu Noguchi, Saburo Hasegawa & Yoshiko Yamaguchi
Via Isamu Noguchi and Saburo Hasegawa: A Friendship Nearly Lost to Art History Even decades after Saburo Hasegawa’s death, the artist and designer Isamu Noguchi would describe his friendship with...
View ArticleCamus’ Birthday Celebration with Viggo Mortensen – 2019
Reda Kateb and Viggo Mortensen from Far from Men David Oelhoffen’s latest film, Far From Men, is based on Albert Camus’ short story “The Guest.” Set during the Algerian War and shot in the manner of a...
View ArticleKeith Haring Berlin Wall Mural, 1986
The fall of the Berlin Wall, on 9 November 1989, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain. Keith Haring was there in 1986. (Keith Haring painting his Berlin...
View ArticleRoland Barthes – Notes on Mourning & Neil Young in the Desert
Notes on mourning. By Roland Barthes September 6, 2010 Roland Barthes – A Cruel Country – The New Yorker Roland Barthes as an Actor Mythologies What I hide by my language, my body utters (See a Necktie...
View ArticleBunker Archeology
Nuclear bunker for sale in Arizona US Nuclear Bunkers, Washington, VA. Pennsylvania Paul Virilio Philosopher of Bunker Archeology
View ArticleOn this day Nov 22, Benjamin Britten & Hoagy Carmichael were born
Benjamin Britten (22 November 1913) Life in Picturess Britten and Shostokovich Rebels with a cause: the friendship of Britten and Shostokovich Benjamin Britten & W H Auden ‘Love’s a little boy’...
View ArticleA Most Wanted Man, P.S. Hoffman’s Last Film & John Le Carre
(Philip Seymour Hoffman with German cast) A Most Wanted Man – Peter Bradshaw Philip Seymour Hoffman’s superb swansong (Photo of John Le Carre by Lord Snowdon) John Le Carre on Philip Seymour Hoffman...
View ArticlePhoto of Gerard Philipe by Agnes Varda & Film Stills
(Prince de Hombourg – 1952 Festival du Avignon – Gerard Philipe and Jeanne Moreau) Photo by Agnes Varda He died from liver cancer while working on a film project in Paris, a few days short of his 37th...
View ArticleRIP Jonathan Miller, Revisiting the Polymath on Dick Cavett
(Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller: The Cast of “Beyond the Fringe) BBC obit Jonathan Miller, director and humorist, dies at 85 Jonathan Miller and The Kinds of Genius (Jonathan...
View ArticleKinuyo Tanaka Legendary Actress/Filmmaker & Her Travels
Oharu Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi , Tanaka Kinuyo as Oharu.. she was his muse. (Toshiro Mifune and Kinuyo Tanaka in Wedding Ring) Dragnet Girl Ozu’s silent film. More Photos of Kinuyo Tanaka Kinuyo...
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