Category Archives : Culture Vulture

vignettes of the night XXVIII: arvo pärt, john cage, and the miami frenzy

This entry was posted in Artschmart Culture Vulture Rock My World and tagged Arvo Part Grunewald Jasper Johns John Cage on December 9, 2013 by janeharr.

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vignettes of the nite XXVI: lennie and george

This entry was posted in Beautiful Losers Culture Vulture Karma Row Letters on December 5, 2013 by janeharr.

(In the name love and friendship….) From John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937, on the death of Lennie: The little evening breeze blew over the clearing and the leaves rustled and the wind waves flowed up the green pool. And the shouts of men sounded again, this time much closer than before. George took […]

fashion matters: the mao suit

This entry was posted in Culture Vulture Curious George Fashion Matters Google School Karma Row Let's Mull and tagged French Vogue Mao Stella McCartney on December 1, 2013 by janeharr.

Fashion and Maoism, never the twain shall meet? Sometimes a picture really does speak a thousand words. (Veruschka as Chairman Mao from an issue of French Vogue 1971, photo by Alex Chatelain) Obviously Mao was fashionable in the early 70s ala Warhol (his 1972 shot Mao – above – being my favorite, can’t believe Dennis […]

reinaldo arenas (again) through the eyes of jana boková

This entry was posted in Broad Moments Chatty Cathy Curious George Google School Karma Row Letters Movie Night Psychically-Speaking Whatever Happened To...? and tagged Jana Bokova Reinaldo Arenas Julian Schnabel Before Night Falls on November 29, 2013 by janeharr.

“I’m not a conceptual artist, more like an intuitive anarchist.” – Jana Boková I’m half way through Reinaldo Arenas’ The Palace of The White Skunks, 1982, and totally enraptured. It made me look up his poetry. That led to my discovery of this clip from the documentary Havana, 1990, by the Czech-born director Jana Boková […]

v.i.p. (vagabonds in power): FELA!

This entry was posted in Culture Vulture Just Do It! Karma Row Psychically-Speaking Rock My World and tagged Fela Kuti on November 29, 2013 by janeharr.

Ohmy, just listened to a GREAT Fela Kuti program on KCR (NYC). Just what the doctor ordered. I am thankful, personally, and on behalf of all humans, for PEOPLE LIKE KELA FUTI ! If you want to start a revolution, play Fela Kuti records! (I know the idea of listening to albums in the “concept” […]

please leave a message after the beep: a day in the life of charlotte moorman’s answering machine

This entry was posted in Artschmart Beautiful Losers Chatty Cathy Culture Vulture Going Going Gone Karma Row New York, NY Our Four-Legged Kids and tagged Charlotte Moorman John Lennon on November 25, 2013 by janeharr.

Love this audio tape of answering machine messages left on Fluxus great Charlotte Moorman’s machine in 1971. A perfect Fluxus work in and of itself! Most of the messages relate to a day-old review in the Village Voice (who I started writing for almost 30 years to the day, weirdly enough), and say as much […]