He is eternally young, eternally a memory. Because he cannot defend himself, he becomes eternally an ideological figure, a figure whose connotations have unavoidably trumped his personality. Dead men tell no tales, so men with agendas do so for them.

The Sixties were a bend in the river—-a river that seems to be in danger of going the way of the Rio Grande—dried up. Susan Sherman traces the gathering currents of this river at the confluence between some of its major tributaries. For her it begins in Los Angeles in the Forties and Fifties, which was by then the heart of America’s image-making machine. Her transformation follows the larger social trajectory of a country that rose victorious and prosperous from a world war. First are her frustrated early attempts to keep step with the world of toothpaste smiles, tidy lawns, backyard barbeques, martini cocktail hours, and non-filtered cigarettes. With her move to Berkley at nineteen, and the ensuing, age-specific progression of influences, relationships and their resulting liberations and limitations, she begins her five-decade investigation into political and social change and the power and beauty of language.

Most Hollywood films, take you on exciting thrilling car chasing gun fighting journeys where beautiful people meet and have sex with other beautiful people. And you get to go along for the ride. But afterwards you walk into the street, and back home to your apartment with your sick cat and your fat wife, and all of a sudden what you thought was an alright life seems pathetic and lame in comparison.

Louise Bourgeois' Retrospective, currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, solidifies her status as a master sculptor and showcases her inarguable aesthetic triumph, situating her solidly amongst the greatest artists of the last two centuries.

"...Here we are well into fall and there’s so much catchingup to do so let’s begin where I last left off with a brief list of gigs I witnessed, before getting to the heart of this article. There was the Zorn – Lou Reed duo which culminated with guest appearances by Mike Patton, Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, followed 2 nights later by Zorn, Reed, Ribot and Milford Graves who played impeccably and tastefully throughout the night and who during set two when Reed joined in, actually seemed to enjoy being “the drummer in the band”..."

"Es un experimento que incluye la precisión de la palabra y las estructuras poéticas, y que de alguna forma descubre las vías misteriosas del pensamiento humano—porque como Freud ya había observado en sus apuntes sobre los escritores creativos, fueron los poetas que inventaron el subconsciente."