Class act.
So here it is everyone, the Steve Martin monologue that was a tribute to Gilda Radner. She had died that afternoon, the same day as the season finale. While Steve is presenting the “Dancing in the Dark” sketch (from the Steve Martin/Blues Brothers episode) he’s trying to hold back tears. This was just an unforgettable SNL moment that crushes your heart when you watch it.
Paul Motian was my hero. He was the greatest drummer of all time, I think. Perhaps not the only one, but certainly the one who left the biggest impression on me. I took this picture of him on one of the many (but few) times I was privileged to see and hear him play in person. We lost him a year ago today. I still can’t believe it.
Hope you enjoy the music.
Paul Motian Trio - K.T
From the album “Time and Time Again” on ECM Records
Paul Motian - Drums
Bill Frisell - Guitar
Joe Lovano - Sax
Porra, esse cara era foda.
Helen Frankenthaler, beauty at work.
For a long time — probably too long — not enough people have thought about the far-reaching accomplishments of Helen Frankenthaler, foremost inventor in the fifties of what is variously called American Color Field painting and post-painterly abstraction. Whatever you call this short-lived movement, Frankenthaler used it to throw up an artistic bridge allowing artists to cross the blood-and-thunder-encumbered cosmos of Abstract Expressionism into a new world of Minimalism. Painter Morris Louis called her “a bridge between Pollock and what was possible.”
http://www.vulture.com/2011/12/jerry-saltz-on-helen-frankenthaler-1928-2011.html
You don’t put some spinach in your eye…
Nicholson Baker,
Rarity, The Size of Thoughts, 1996
Caio Reisewitz, Igreja Nossa Senhora da Paciência, 2012, c-print mounted on Diasec, 61 x 48 inches, courtesy of Luciana Brito Galeria.
Be sure to check out more work in our new editorial project “In the Gallery | Brasil!”
Luciana Brito Galeria quebrando tudo…
The Blind Art Collector and other stories.
This is it for Fran Lebowitz Week, here at the condos. Hope you enjoyed the snippets of wit and wisdom. If you are curious to learn more about her, I truly recommend searching for her books and for the Martin Scorsese movie made about her, a bit of which I have linked to above.
I will leave you with one last quote:
“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is a writer and he’s not too thrilled about it”
- Fran Lebowitz
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
- Fran Lebowitz
