The art: Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe’s Lips, 1962.
The news: “Keepers of the Gay Film Legacy,” by Erik Piepenburg for The New York Times.
The source: Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington.
Note: This was Warhol’s 37th and final semi-elegiac painting of Marilyn Monroe. Her lips were taken from a publicity still taken by Gene Korman to promote the 1953 film “Niagara.”
The art: Saskia Olde Wolbers, still from Trailer, 2005. More stills from Olde Wolbers’s single-channel video projection are available here at her website, as is the film’s script and a video preview.
In 2008 I interviewed Olde Wolbers on Modern Art Notes. She talked about her writing, her use of narrative and she offered up her ‘favorite fiction’ list: Part one, part two.
The news: “The Artists: Notes on a lost style of acting,” by David Denby for The New Yorker.
The source: Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington.
Nota bene: For the love of old films…
The art: Martha Rosler, Semiotics of the Kitchen (still), 1975. You can watch the piece on UbuWeb.
The news: “How the GOP Went Back to the 1950s in Just One Day,” by Evan McMorris-Santoro for Talking Points Memo.
The source: Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, viewable from your PC on UbuWeb.
The art: Pipilotti Rist, film still from Pepperminta, 2009.
The news: “Portugal’s Drug Experiment,” by Michael Specter in The New Yorker. A decade ago Portugal decriminalized drug use. How’s it working? Listen to a New Yorker podcast with him here.
The source: The website for Rist’s art-film. Short videos from the film are available here. I reviewed Pepperminta on Modern Art Notes.
