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Frank Auerbach, a Celebrated and Tireless Painter, Dies at 93

Known for his unyielding seven-day-a-week work schedule, he returned again and again to the same models and London street scenes.

www.nytimes.com

Great article. I knew of Lucien Freud and Leon Kossoff (the latter through his son and grandson). I'll spend some time looking at Auerbach's work in the next few weeks.

 

[moginie]

Looks like I've already gone down a rabbit hole with Auerbach. Real similarities between his Head Of J.Y.M. and the cover of the live album by Japan, Oil On Canvas.

 

[Pamcake1]

Looks like I've already gone down a rabbit hole with Auerbach. Real similarities between his Head Of J.Y.M. and the cover of the live album by Japan, Oil On Canvas.

The paintings in real life are very different to seeing them on a screen. He was a very influential painters painter, I love the fact that he went into the studio 7 days a week and only took one day off a year.

 

[moginie]

The paintings in real life are very different to seeing them on a screen. He was a very influential painters painter, I love the fact that he went into the studio 7 days a week and only took one day off a year.

Yeah, that's true artistic focus.

Apropos of very little, did you know Robert Hughes?

 

[Pamcake1]

Yeah, that's true artistic focus.

Apropos of very little, did you know Robert Hughes?

Never met him but Robert Hughes was obligatory reading back in Art School.
'Shock Of The New was one of the text books and of course his Art reviews.

 

[moginie]

Never met him but Robert Hughes was obligatory reading back in Art School.
'Shock Of The New was one of the text books and of course his Art reviews.

Yes. Shock Of The New was something that I read portions of in my early 20s. Should read it properly again.

Interestingly with the banned books in the US, the youngest offspring has been quite keen to read them now. I realised how many I had on my shelves and then decided it's time to reread some. So, starting tonight I'm reading Fahrenheit 451.

 

[Pamcake1]

1983 Dead Kennedys in Melbs:

 

[moginie]

Last of the 3 articles shared today.
Interesting from the point of 'selling the influencer'.
To me that the rapid cycling of ev-de-volution is the interesting part.
All just 'selling it' really.

From Teen Star to Entrepreneur

Emma Chamberlain has a coffee company, a podcast and a new eyewear collaboration. One thing she isn’t doing much? Posting to YouTube.

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The never ending cycle of having to feed the beast. The beast resembles Ouroboros.

 

[Pamcake1]

Vale Peter Sinfield 1943-2024

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Kim Deal Is Ready to Go Solo. It Just Took 4 Decades.

The Breeders leader has long been one of the most enchanting and elusive figures in rock. At 63, she’s releasing her first full album under her name, filled with musical and emotional twists.

www.nytimes.com

And also reading material:

Kim Deal Is Still a Punk

The Breeders and the Pixies legend on her music, her mother, and life in Ohio.

www.thecut.com

 

[moginie]

Vale Peter Sinfield 1943-2024

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His lyrics were both everything that's right and wrong with prog-rock. Lizard is my least favourite King Crimson album and the lyrics on that are often hilariously pompous.

But what a career. For a ten or so year period at the forefront of a musical movement and then to a level of obscurity.

We should all be so lucky.

Vale.

 

[3KZ is Football]

‘Things got a bit edgy’: artist Tony Clark on painting with punks, drugs and Nick Cave

The Australian artist taught Rowland S Howard, dodged heroin in Melbourne and painted cover art for the Bad Seeds. He reflects on the past 50 years

www.theguardian.com

In Berlin. Staying in the Mitte District. Getting fit from all the walking.

 

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‘Things got a bit edgy’: artist Tony Clark on painting with punks, drugs and Nick Cave

The Australian artist taught Rowland S Howard, dodged heroin in Melbourne and painted cover art for the Bad Seeds. He reflects on the past 50 years

www.theguardian.com

In Berlin. Staying in the Mitte District. Getting fit from all the walking.

Tony taught me Art History and painting in 1979 at Prahran.
He's the guy that gave me a pass/ fail mid year because my essays were not the formal kind but creative writing.
He was a slack teacher aside from his reliance of formal essay writing.
We watched Les Enfants du Paradise for one class..he set it up and left.

Enjoy Berlin.

 

[Pamcake1]

Born in 1932 which is the same as my Dad, this guy sounds like he has the same emotional makeup too. Ratbag genes.

Bill Moyes, Australian ‘Birdman’ Who Popularized Hang Gliding, Dies at 92

A modern-day Icarus, he set a world record for the longest unassisted flight, was arrested after soaring into the Grand Canyon and nearly killed himself several times.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Pamcake1]

1962


The guitarist vale.

Vic Flick, Guitarist Who Plucked the James Bond Theme, Dies at 87

He also recorded music for the Beatles’ film “A Hard Day’s Night” and contributed to several hit songs as a session musician.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Pamcake1]

Currently sorting through which one isn't plugged in.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Hi from Greece, the Land of Cats. They are everywhere in Athens and Naxos, where we are at the minute. The Naxian cats look healthier and are friendlier because people take care of them. As one local explained to me, they don’t have a problem with rats, so the view is the cats are earning their keep.



Visited Demeter’s Temple yesterday, which was cool and clambered a fair way up Mount Zas to find the cave where Zeus grew up in hiding from Kronos. After a fairly strenuous climb, the path had collapsed just before the cave, so I didn’t make it. No wonder Kronos couldn’t find him.

 

[Pamcake1]

The 10 Best Books of 2024

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Pamcake1]

Hi from Greece, the Land of Cats. They are everywhere in Athens and Naxos, where we are at the minute. The Naxian cats look healthier and are friendlier because people take care of them. As one local explained to me, they don’t have a problem with rats, so the view is the cats are earning their keep.

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Visited Demeter’s Temple yesterday, which was cool and clambered a fair way up Mount Zas to find the cave where Zeus grew up in hiding from Kronos. After a fairly strenuous climb, the path had collapsed just before the cave, so I didn’t make it. No wonder Kronos couldn’t find him.

Ahhh.....Beaucoup des chatons!

 

[3KZ is Football]

The sun was out yesterday, so they were everywhere.





Baddonk.

 

[3KZ is Football]

Better late than never.
Page 85 warrants the 1985 Playlist.

 

[Pamcake1]

Today NYT, kind of interesting in the MOR vein of justifications. A period piece.

‘You Can Never Look Back’: How ’70s Rockers Rebooted for the ’80s

The year 1984 was a watershed in pop music. The stars who’d made it big the previous decade had to embrace new instruments and MTV or risk being left behind.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Pamcake1]

Read this last week. Can recommend.

Berserker! - Pan Macmillan Australia

Berserk: out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied. Berserkers: an elite Norse fighting corp who, apparently off their **** on hallucinogenic drugs, fought with a particular fury and senseless abandon still present in many Scandinavian heavy metal groups. Ade Edmondson smashed...

www.panmacmillan.com.au

 

[moginie]

Read this last week. Can recommend.

Berserker! - Pan Macmillan Australia

Berserk: out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied. Berserkers: an elite Norse fighting corp who, apparently off their **** on hallucinogenic drugs, fought with a particular fury and senseless abandon still present in many Scandinavian heavy metal groups. Ade Edmondson smashed...

www.panmacmillan.com.au

I might give that a go.

Sorry folks, I've been very slack in posting as I've been on hols o/s. I too have seen lots of temples and cats.

 

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