The headline-grabbing ‘improvements’ to an Anna Leporskaya painting by a security guard are as valid a critique and reconstruction as anything from the mainstream art world.
Tag: avant garde
Noirvember: Branded To Kill
Continuing our crime movie month with a look at Seijun Suzuki’s radical reinterpretation of the Japanese gangster movie.
Classic Albums Revisited: HK119’s Imaginature
A psychedelic, conceptual study of nature and mystery from a unique and vital artist.
This Is Intolerable! 200 Motels Too Far
Frank Zappa’s notoriously self-indulgent film and the long-banned stage show version of it.
Yoko Ono Gets Her Bottom Spanked By The British Censors
The time the BBFC got its knickers in a twist about four minutes of jiggling buttocks.
The Zappa Documentary Is Here
The long-awaited documentary study of the musical maverick gets a US release in November.
It’s Hip to be Square-ish. The Residents Set Fire to Popular Music Over Seven Discs
Probing the wonders and frustrations of The Residents’ Cube-E Box extravaganza.
The Past Lives And Tomorrows Of Sloth Cult
Industrial gloom and bleak noise from the mysterious act known as Sloth Cult.
Classic Albums Revisited: Frank Zappa’s Apostrophe (‘)
Looking back at Frank Zappa’s magnum opus from 1974.
Labyrinth Tales: The Short Films Of Shuji Terayama
The controversial and experimental films of the Japanese provocateur.
Dyin’ Dogs, Metal, Meat And Bone – The Residents Are Not Done Yet
The uber-experimentalists move on from the loss of their leader with a new, angry and aggressive reconstruction of the blues.
The Passion Of Unica Zurn
Writer Unica Zurn’s Impressions of Mental Illness.