!['DADA CALIGULA' COVER [Collage by Norman O. Mustill, 1975] [Lines of dialogue added by Supervert, 2017]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DAD-CALIGULA-COVER-360-200x200.jpg)
A friend of mine, the author of four self-published books — one of which got 22 million YouTube views when a subversive porn star read from it on camera — occasionally prints bulletins in limited editions about whatever grabs his attention. Then he mails them to friends. The most recent, Bulletin #4, arrived at the […]
Archives for August 2017
Reminder: Dahlberg’s Diagnosis
![Edward Dahlberg [Drawing by James Kearns, 1941]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/edward-dahlberg-drawing-by-James-Kearns-220-200x200.jpg)
Since it is the mind that is the vessel of all good and evil in the world, why is it that we so distrust its strength in opposing violence at large today? Thought is always prior to deed, war, history. Baudelaire said: “Every mind is a weapon loaded to the muzzle with will.” […] “Justice,” […]
Reminder: The Statue of Liberty’s Burka*
Words and narration by Heathcote Williams. Montage by Alan Cox. The President is obsessed with deporting Arabs Although, by a superb comic irony, It was an Arab who modeled for the United States’ icon – Namely the Statue of Liberty. The sculptor’s monument was initially designed For the opening of the Suez canal: The original […]
Ridgewood Radio
… from a subterranean region of Queens, New York. Later today, beginning at 3 p.m.ET, David Weinstein’s web-only broadcast on WFMU.org will stream a program called “Spheres of Influence!” featuring David First‘s “Western Enisphere,” which you can also hear (and watch) here, something by Andrea Parkins & Brian Chase, Richard Kostelanetz‘s 1988 radio opera: “Americas’ […]
‘Ghost’ + ‘Smarty’ = Opposite Attractions
Updated with new information. “A short video and electronic music work created in 2008, inspired by Theresa Duncan’s blog. It is a small tribute to her memory.” — William Osborne + Theresa Duncan’s video. Postscript: Aug. 9 — Per William Osborne’s comment, here is her best video. Theresa Duncan's The History of Glamour from M.Duncan […]