![From Cold Turkey Press Exhibition [Walgenbach Books & Art, Rotterdam]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/CT-EXHIBITION-ROTTERDAM-2-640-200x200.jpg)
Cold Turkey Press is een legendarische Rotterdamse underground uitgeverij die van 1970 tot 1976 actief was. Gerard Bellaart, beeldende kunstenaar en initiatiefnemer, hervatte het fonds in 2006 met publicaties van oa Ira Cohen, William S. Burroughs, Heathcote Williams, Samuel Beckett, Sinclair Beiles, Jean Arp, Antonin Artaud, Kurt Schwitters, Ed Sanders, Ezra Pound en Gerard Bellaart […]
Say It Ain’t So . . .
Last Bohemian Turns Out the Lights Clayton Patterson, Rebel and Photographer, Plans to Leave the Lower East Side for Europe
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) in Midtown Manhattan
A marvel known as “Library Walk” runs the length of two city blocks, memorializing the world’s great writers with 96 bronze reliefs set into the sidewalk on granite plaques. This is one of them. And here is Dylan Thomas’s plaque.
In a Light Mood: ‘No Severed Bodies or Bloody Stumps’
!['The Condition,' a new postcard from Cold Turkey Press [2014]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/the-condition-this-one670-200x200.jpg)
The front of this hallucinatory postcard, published by Cold Turkey Press in a limited edition of 36 copies, shows a collage by the late Norman Ogue Mustill. It is “Mustill in a light sorta mood, or so he thought,” I wrote Ben Schot, Cold Turkey’s distributor. “Light for him, anyway: no severed bodies or bloody […]
Charley Plymell Tells and Shows in Strings of Emails
Charley Plymell’s long, seemingly endless strings of emails are fascinating to read. He has known so many Beat writers and artists and has popped up in so many places with them that I can’t help thinking of him — half in wonder and half in disbelief — as the Zelig of the Beat Generation. Unlike […]
‘Burroughs in London’ by Heathcote Williams
Now that the Burroughs centenary has moved into high gear, it suddenly dawned on Heathcote Williams that he’d known the man on and off for more than half a century.
Two New Poster Cards from Cold Turkey Press
!['An Iron Fish Rusts' by Malcolm Ritchie [Cold Turkey Press, 2014]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/IRON-FISH-RUSTS-Ritchie-1x-200x200.jpg)
Just in: ‘An Iron Fish Rusts’ and ‘The Condition’
It’s a Day for Taking Your Valentine’s Pick or Prick . . .
There’s the Valentine Victorian … … and then there’s the Valentine Mustillian.
Clayton Patterson on Jewish History of the Lower East Side
!['Jews: A People's History of the Lower East Side'Edited by Clayton Patterson and Mareleyn Schneider [New York, 2012]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jews-a-peoples-history-of-the-lower-east-side-200x200.jpg)
Nobody I know is better versed in the history of Manhattan’s Lower East Side than Clayton Patterson. And I’d be willing to bet that nobody at all is more devoted to, or more articulate about, the history of the Jews who lived on the Lower East Side. He was interviewed a year ago — Feb. […]
Beautiful Hand-Made Paper Gems from Hanuman Books
![Willem de Kooning's Collected Writings [Hanuman Books, 1988]. This is a 1990 second printing.](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/de-kooning-in-hand240-200x200.jpg)
Describing his appreciation of early Cubism, Willem de Kooning points out that it became a movement. It didn’t set out to be one.
Liam O’Gallagher’s Psilocybin ‘Chinatown Trip’
My staff of thousands came across an old movie that Michael McClure once made of Liam O’Gallagher taking psilocybin, in 1962, on a San Francisco rooftop.
Do Many Women Admire William Burroughs?
My staff of thousands hasn’t taken a survey, but I can count his female fans on one hand. When it comes to the number I actually know, make that one finger. Her name is Hanne Lippard, the Berlin-based poet and performance artist with the killer voice. I’ve blogposted about her before: Prick Up Your Ears […]
Ginsberg Does Indian Mantras on Sloow Tapes
!['London Mantra' Sloow Tapes cassette [2014]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/LONDON-MANTRA-artwork560.jpg)
Speaking of Allen Ginsberg, I’m told a new Sloow Tapes cassette entitled “London Mantra” is about to be released. Bart de Paepe, producer of the indie label, writes, “It’s a recording George Dowden made at his home in July 1973.” The tape features “Ginsberg solo on his harmonium, singing Indian mantras and a few of […]
Portrait of the Painter Who Loved Braque
“Willem de Kooning always maintained that Braque’s early analytical cubist paintings were the last great bout of true painting.” — Gerard Bellaart (who also loves Braque) Now have a look at what de Kooning was talking about.Here are some of the analytical cubist paintings Braque did from 1908 to 1912. Houses at Estaque [1908] Castle […]
‘In Praise of Folly’: Advice for 2014 or Any Year
Excerpt from Erasmus’ ‘In Praise of Folly’ (translated by John Wilson) Spoken by Folly in her own Person Do but observe our grim philosophers that are perpetually beating their brains on knotty subjects, and for the most part you’ll find them grown old before they are scarcely young. And whence is it, but that their […]
Happy New Year to You Too
![For the New Year 2014 [Sea Urchin Editions]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ben-schot-newyear560.jpeg)
Lynne Stewart … Freed at last.
In NYC: Catching Up With Peter Schumann
and the Bread and Puppet Theater
Peter Schumann: The Shatterer is the first solo museum exhibition of Bread and Puppet Theater founder and director Peter Schumann. The exhibition opened in November 2013 as part of the first season in the museum’s newly expanded galleries. It marks the 50th anniversary of the theater company and introduces New York audiences to a largely […]