Recently, I saw the movie, Lars and the Real Girl, staring Ryan Gosling, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Mortimer, Kelli Garner and Paul Schneider. Everyone is excellent in the film and I give it 10 thumbs up! The movie focuses on a shy, lonely, socially inept, delusional young man who buys a life-size sex doll over the internet, Bianca, and falls in love with her.

What caught my attention, was that at first, when he introduces Bianca to his brother and sister -n- law, his brother immediately reacts with embarrassment and is completely worried about what people will think.

Lars begins to introduce Bianca as a girlfriend to his co-workers and people living in his town. Due to their acceptance of Bianca, Lars finds himself interacting more with people. Soon, Bianca dies and all the people living in the town attend the funeral.

I guess now I will introduce my "Jerry Springer final thoughts". I cried watching this movie because of people's acceptance of his delusional behavior. Usually, people are not like that, they like to gossip and belittle someone who has a serious problem. Going through major adversity is the worst possible thing, losing a family member, contracting and illness, dealing with depression and I can go on and on. Usually, people "jump ship" because they don't know how to deal with such crazy circumstances. And you see that in other films, like say Edward Scissorhands.  But not here, and that is why I found the film profound and incredibly moving. It's a great film for therapists as well, they can meet on Wednesday nights, like a book club, and discuss the behavior of lars branding him with this and that disorder and give their 5 cents and how to really FIX him!

 
Another night, I fell asleep with my Television on and woke up to a singing River Phoenix! I said to my blonde self, what the heck is this and quickly Tivoed it and went back to La La Land. The next night I watched, The Thing called Love, which is a light,  and nice movie. Not as heavy as Lars! But what makes this movie amazing is watching River sing country music, and he is so HOT and it made me remember how amazing he was as an actor. I put my Sherlock Holmes
Cap on and decided to dig up some information about what movies he was supposed to be in after his death.

-He was supposed to be the interviewer in Interview with the Vampire : The Vampire Chronicles.  Christian Slater took his place, and donated his entire paycheck from the movie to all of River's favorite charities.

-Was set to star in Total Eclipse, another amazing film in 1995, the story of Arthur Rimbaud and his love obsession with his older mentor Paul Verlaine. After River died the part was given to Leonardo Dicaprio.

-He was also set to star in The Basketball Diaries. His role again went to Leonardo Dicaprio.

-He claims he did his best work in The Mosquito Coast, and developed an amazing friendship with Harrison Ford.

-After his death, Gus Van Sant published a novel in 1997 titled "Pink," which is a loosely disguised fantasy homage to River.




 

Yes Yes
Cecily Brown is coming to town.............

Opening Reception
Sept. 20th
Gagosian Gallery
555 West 24th street
New York City, between 10th and 11th
6-8pm
Sept 20-October 25


Time to pull out the outfit, proper shoes, and paint the town multiple colors on Sept. 20th.
Perhaps, some people really go to openings to look at the Art; others like myself, use an opening to score some free wine and kick off a long night of fun, meet interesting people, and dance the night away at the Passerby  till 5am which is now gone! Such a shame. I would try to hang out with Larry myself. According to Phoebe Hoban who wrote,"Basquiat, A Quick Killing in Art", Larry was described as quite the party animal. Perfect guy for me to meet. Right. But I do love Cecily Brown's work and decided to dig up some info for all the other Art fanatics out there.....


-Born in London and studied at the Slade School of Art

-First Solo project was at Deitch in 1997

-Her Lips are in style

-At P.S. 1 you can see a painting she created in the stairway

-Has cool crazy curly hair

-Shown at such prestigious instutions such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden;
Museum of Fine Art in Boston;Kunstnalle Mannheim in Germany; IA and Modern Art Oxford, England;The Macro in Rome; and others

-Loves Karaoke

-She has participated in group exhibitions at the Saatchi Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Ceter Long Island City, NY.


-Loves artisits such as Francisco de Goya, Nicolas Poussin, William de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell

-Can spot her in Vogue or V magazine from time to time

-Her paintings combine figuration and abstraction

-Sir Elton John collects her work

-She's the daughter of Shena Mackay, a novelist, and David Sylvester, one of Britain's leading art critics.

-Likes to party with Tara Subkoff

-Has work
on Artnet

-Her father and pal Francis Bacon took Cecily to exhibitions and art parties as a young girl

-Was a waitress when she first moved to New York

-Her work collected by the Tate and the Guggenheim and is collected by Charles Saatchi

-Is buddies with art stars Rachel Feinstein and John Currin

-Some claim that she became famous for restoring a certain sensuality to painting

-Her first solo show at the Gagosian were erotic and depicted sexual acts

-Can work on 20 paintings at once

-Smokes cigarettes

-Has been photographed by Chuck Close and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders


-Has sipped wine with Bruno Bischofberger

Sympathy for the devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, the ultimate exhibition explores the relationship between serious visual contemporary art and rebellious rock-n-roll music over the past 40 years;continues through Sept 7th Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in closed Mondays 770 NE 125st North Miami.

MoCA  shows the movie by Jean-Luc Godard frequently recording the album Beggers Banquet by the Rolling Stones go on-line www.macanomi.com to check the times.

Sympathy for the devil is a must see exhibition for any rock and art looney tunes case, you can camp out in the museum and still not get enough. If you are depressed and on meds, just sleep here and you will wake up bursting with fruit flavor every morning. They have a mini-bar for coffee. We have all had a poster hanging on our walls at some point of some rock queen or king, I'm too shy to mention my wall. But let's just say Penelope Spheeris documentary Decline of Western Civilization part 1 & 2 or is that 2 &3 had a great influence on my interior design taste. She should make  a film about hipsters, but more about that later. If you are a music video junkie, well you can thank Andy Warhol's involvement with the Velvet Underground for inspiring that genre. And you can see most of the footage and interviews at the exhibition which travels to Canada next.  A rock jeopardy fanatic once told me that the graphic designer who crafted the famous Rolling Stone's iconic mouth/tounge/big lips symbol only got paid like $500.00 dollars. Someone needs to take that guy out dancing. As art critics across the globe are using their fancy SAT vocab words competing with each other, I say JUST GO! It's fun!

It's amazing to see artist's you admire create album and video artwork for musicians. And musicians creating art themselves as well appearing in films, writing poetry, and painting. I found one of the coolest aspects of this exhibition is the relationship between the NYC music scene and the exchange between downtown artists and no-wave musicians in the late 70's and early 80's. The exhibition mentions artists from all over the world, and the London music intersection of these two cultural entities rocked my world as well.

Great Gatsby Glamorous NY figures such as Patti Smith, Television, Richard Hell, The Ramons brought art and literary backgrounds and approached  music that served to define the early music scene in the city. Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe provided album imagery to Patti Smith and Television. Groups such as Blondie, Talking Heads, and Devo all hailed from great art universities, their preformances just exude poetic and a comical quality which would make your unborn baby grow gills. And you can see these preformances and the interviews, I'll keep repeating myself.  it's good for the soul. Jean-Michel Basquait preformed in the group Grey, Richard Prince in Menthol Wars. Another firecracker, is to see Richard Kerns films of the early 80's which include, Lydia Lunch, and his photo series "New York Girls" is also hanging so well on the wall.

Some critics claim Sonic Youth, perhaps more than any other entity in the history of Rock and Roll, successfully bridged the artistic avant-garde and the merry musical mainstream by recording their sonic ooze and using contemporary artists for album imagery including : Richard Kern, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, James Willing, Harmony Korine, and Marnie Weber. Kim Gordon is also a visual artist and critic for Artforum.

Jack Pierson's work often uses titles and lyrics from songs by Roxy Music and Joni Mitchell to set the romanticized tone for his work. Other artists included are Karen Kilimnik and Rita Ackermann, who is a painter and is involved with music projects such as Gang Gang Dance.

Images below provided by : Jim Jarmusch, Matt Mahurin, Harmony Korine, Laurie Leber, Charlie White,  James Welling, Christian Marclay,Rita Arckermann, Marnie Weber, Richard Kern, Richard Prince, and Jack Pierson.

Anyway, the exhibition covers all aspects of artists and musicians from around the globe and if I continue typing this is going to turn out like a long boring college essay. At last, if you get excited about receiving free stuff, you leave with a poster!