At the urging of my staff of thousands, examples from Gerard Bellaart’s word-based series of artworks have been a continuing feature of recent blogposts. The others so far have been “Artaud Fragmentations,” “tric trac du ciel,” “Throws Up Words,” and “ROT NOT.” There are more to come. Bellaart is a Dutch artist and writer now […]
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Getting Personal, Too: ‘Being Kept by a Jackdaw’
![Jack Daw and the Poet [Photo: Jacquetta Eliot]](https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/HW-and-Jack-Daw-300.jpg)
My staff of thousands tells me that if I post any more poems by Heathcote Williams, I will be making a mockery of this blog’s stated purpose. I’m a small “d” democrat who rules Straight Up by popular consent, so I had to admit I’ve been banging on about his poems. But — with a […]
‘Throws Up Words’
These two stenciled texts by Gerard Bellaart are from a series of more than 500 created in 2005. Bellaart is a Dutch artist and writer, now living in France. He creates etchings, drawings, paintings and monotypes of figures, landscapes, and still lifes, as well as works strictly from the imagination. He notes that he employs […]
‘tric trac du ciel’
This is a stenciled text by Gerard Bellaart, from a series of more than 500 created in 2005. Bellaart is a Dutch artist and writer, now living in France. He creates etchings, drawings, paintings and monotypes of figures, landscapes, and still lifes, as well as works strictly from the imagination. He notes that he employs […]
A First-Class Letter From the Lost and Found
When I read Heathcote Williams’s description of a bizzare project that for a time obsessed the South African poet Sinclair Beiles, who wanted to plant “the barren Sahara desert” with “industrial quantities of discarded tea-leaves,” I remembered a letter Carl Weissner once wrote. March 30th, 1971 Dear Sinclair: The Sahara is irrigated. Now what? While […]
WHAT’S GOIN’ ON?
There’s much to be said about John Gray’s essay, “Imperial Grunts” and Michael Mandelbaum’s This left us dumbfounded because, as School Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and the author of “Liberalism (Concepts in Social Thought),” “Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals,” “Heresies.”) William Osborne, who summed up his […]
THE SUNNI GENOCIDE
acceptance speech, he has also provided us with cover to post what may be the most incredible item — truly the hardest to believe — we’ve ever put up. It’s not only about genocide, which we’ve written about before, it’s about “the coming genocide of the Sunnis in Iraq,” to quote a friend of ours, […]