Artist Jim Shaw’s studio is a dream factory. It’s where images and ideas combine in unnatural and often surreal ways, conjuring visual puns like the smiling visage of Esther Williams superimposed with an image of her lover, actor Jeff Chandler, wearing a gown. A matching piece shows Chandler with a hermaphroditic image of Williams in the pose of Botticelli’s Venus de Milo. Both pieces were inspired by rumors that Williams ended their affair upon learning Chandler was a transvestite.
“I just kind of ended up working with elements of Hollywood,” Shaw says of his new show, Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable, at Gagosian Beverly Hills from Jan. 12 through Feb. 25. “I’ve been interested in sort of the history, along with politics, of LSD and psychedelics. I came across that Esther Williams had taken LSD, and that led me to reading her autobiography. When she finally took LSD,...
“I just kind of ended up working with elements of Hollywood,” Shaw says of his new show, Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable, at Gagosian Beverly Hills from Jan. 12 through Feb. 25. “I’ve been interested in sort of the history, along with politics, of LSD and psychedelics. I came across that Esther Williams had taken LSD, and that led me to reading her autobiography. When she finally took LSD,...
- 1/16/2023
- by Jordan Riefe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Synopsis:
Mac is injured in the line of duty and Roy seeks the help of another detective with a tough case.
Review:
While reading The Fix #2 I think the best way I could describe the characters of Mac and Roy would be the idiot savants of crime! Nick Spencer has found an amazing story here that allows these dumb crooked cops to pull off amazingly well executed plans. The kicker is that it totally works. It doesn’t feel forced or some ridiculous Dues Ex Machina to save the day- Roy’s horrible ideas just somehow turn out to be successes. I genuinely love everything about these two disgusting characters! I’m constantly wondering what terrible idea these two are going to come up with next, knowing I can sit back and enjoy every minute of reading it.
This time around Mac gets his hand shot, a potentially great cop goes down thanks to Roy,...
Mac is injured in the line of duty and Roy seeks the help of another detective with a tough case.
Review:
While reading The Fix #2 I think the best way I could describe the characters of Mac and Roy would be the idiot savants of crime! Nick Spencer has found an amazing story here that allows these dumb crooked cops to pull off amazingly well executed plans. The kicker is that it totally works. It doesn’t feel forced or some ridiculous Dues Ex Machina to save the day- Roy’s horrible ideas just somehow turn out to be successes. I genuinely love everything about these two disgusting characters! I’m constantly wondering what terrible idea these two are going to come up with next, knowing I can sit back and enjoy every minute of reading it.
This time around Mac gets his hand shot, a potentially great cop goes down thanks to Roy,...
- 5/13/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
Magpie-eyed artist Jim Shaw has spent most of his career in the shadows of his good friends and colleagues Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy. He recently told The New Yorker that that he played "Poncho" to the late Kelly’s “Cisco Kid.” Now the New Museum is giving Shaw his time in the sun with an excellent, full-fledged three-floor retrospective, “The End Is Here,” which examines his eccentric activities and includes him functioning simultaneously as collector, curator, and artist. This is not altogether unusual for artists of his generation. Yet Shaw is his own breed of appropriation artist who both does and doesn't fit his generation. His appropriation has a distinct, self-effacing quirky generosity about it — something encyclopedic, delirious, manic that helped perpetuate and detonate lots of subsequent ideas about styles of two-dimensional rendering, including calendar and fashion illustration, pulp fiction and pinup depiction, porn, and other semi-looked-down-on or low...
- 12/8/2015
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
Cinema at London's Serpentine, Jim Shaw's imagination and Kevin Harman's subversive portraiture – all in your weekly art dispatch
Exhibition of the week: Jonas Mekas
The film-maker Jonas Mekas has been a hero of the New York art scene since the 1960s. He is not just an underground film-maker but the organiser and orchestrator of an entire cultural movement of alternative cinema that transformed ways of making art 50 years ago and still resonates today. Mekas helped Andy Warhol to become a film-maker and provided a personal record of Warhol and other avant garde figures, as well as of New York, in his own film diaries. Back then it seemed a strange idea for artists to make deadpan visual records of real life. Today the radical idea of everyday cinema that Mekas pioneered is everywhere in art galleries. Here is an artist who has truly shaped our time.
• Serpentine Gallery, London...
Exhibition of the week: Jonas Mekas
The film-maker Jonas Mekas has been a hero of the New York art scene since the 1960s. He is not just an underground film-maker but the organiser and orchestrator of an entire cultural movement of alternative cinema that transformed ways of making art 50 years ago and still resonates today. Mekas helped Andy Warhol to become a film-maker and provided a personal record of Warhol and other avant garde figures, as well as of New York, in his own film diaries. Back then it seemed a strange idea for artists to make deadpan visual records of real life. Today the radical idea of everyday cinema that Mekas pioneered is everywhere in art galleries. Here is an artist who has truly shaped our time.
• Serpentine Gallery, London...
- 12/7/2012
- by Jonathan Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Artist Mike Kelley, one of the most influential of his generation, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. His provocative multi-media work mixed irony with sincerity, scatology with sentiment, and influenced not only other artists but filmmakers, musicians and writers. A founding member of the band Destroy All Monsters, he attended CalArts and collaborated with other artists like Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw and Sonic Youth.
From Holland Cotter’s New York Times appreciation:
He began creating multimedia installations that synthesized large-scale drawings and paintings, often incorporating his own writing, along with sculptures, videos (one was based on the television show “Captain Kangaroo”), and performances, often scatological and sadomasochistic in nature. Although he stopped performing in 1986 — he later said that he always had to get drunk to do it — the other formal elements remained constants in his art.
A certain tone or attitude remained constant, too. The shorthand term for it is abjection,...
From Holland Cotter’s New York Times appreciation:
He began creating multimedia installations that synthesized large-scale drawings and paintings, often incorporating his own writing, along with sculptures, videos (one was based on the television show “Captain Kangaroo”), and performances, often scatological and sadomasochistic in nature. Although he stopped performing in 1986 — he later said that he always had to get drunk to do it — the other formal elements remained constants in his art.
A certain tone or attitude remained constant, too. The shorthand term for it is abjection,...
- 2/3/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The 3rd annual Migrating Forms is set to run on May 20-29 at the Anthology Film Archives with yet another stunning lineup of current and classic experimental and avant-garde films and videos.
New work includes the U.S. premiere of Melanie Gilligan’s experimental sci-fi feature Popular Unrest for the fest’s Opening Night event. Then, throughout the fest, will be Jacqueline Goss‘ meteorology meditation The Observers, Liu Jiayin’s two-part family drama Oxhide and Oxhide II, Madison Brookshire’s light processing experimentation Color Series, Oliver Laxe’s meta-documentary You Are All Captains for the Closing Night event, and more.
New short works in the group programs include films and videos by Adele Horne, Andrew Lampert, Kevin Jerome Everson, Shana Moulton, Fern Silva, Olga Chernysheva, Dani Leventhal and more.
Classic retrospectives include Brazilian films by Glauber Rocha and French films written by Georges Perec. Electric Arts Intermix presents little-seen personal videos by L.
New work includes the U.S. premiere of Melanie Gilligan’s experimental sci-fi feature Popular Unrest for the fest’s Opening Night event. Then, throughout the fest, will be Jacqueline Goss‘ meteorology meditation The Observers, Liu Jiayin’s two-part family drama Oxhide and Oxhide II, Madison Brookshire’s light processing experimentation Color Series, Oliver Laxe’s meta-documentary You Are All Captains for the Closing Night event, and more.
New short works in the group programs include films and videos by Adele Horne, Andrew Lampert, Kevin Jerome Everson, Shana Moulton, Fern Silva, Olga Chernysheva, Dani Leventhal and more.
Classic retrospectives include Brazilian films by Glauber Rocha and French films written by Georges Perec. Electric Arts Intermix presents little-seen personal videos by L.
- 5/10/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Migrating Forms has just revealed the full program for its third edition, running May 20 through 29 at Anthology Film Archives in New York. And it's pretty impressive, so we're going to go the quickest route here and reproduce the release below the jump.
Special Events
Georges Perec Double Bill
Serie Noire Dir Alain Corneau (1979)
Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. "The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author's deeply personal darkness." - Moving Image Source
Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)
Adapted from Georges Perec's novel of the same name. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
The Art of the...
Special Events
Georges Perec Double Bill
Serie Noire Dir Alain Corneau (1979)
Georges Perec wrote dialogue made up almost entirely of cliches and aphorisms for this adaptation of Jim Thompson's A Hell of a Woman. "The only Thompson adaptation to truly express the author's deeply personal darkness." - Moving Image Source
Un homme qui dort (The Man Who Slept) Dir. Georges Perec and Bernard Queysanne (1974)
Adapted from Georges Perec's novel of the same name. Structured as a filmic sestina, Perec and Queysanne reimagine the framework of the novel while maintaining much of the original narration (read by Shelly Duvall in the English version!).
The Art of the...
- 5/9/2011
- MUBI
Toronto -- The new bogeymen in Canadian TV are Google and Apple TV and other U.S. Internet behemoths apparently barrelling north, Canadian cable giant Shaw Communications warned Tuesday.
"As we see Google and Apple, the world's not falling, but it's changing fast," Brad Shaw, senior vp of operations at Shaw Communications told the Crtc, Canada's TV watchdog, as he sought regulatory approval Monday for an overall $2 billion deal for Shaw to acquire the TV assets of Canwest Global Communications Corp.
Calgary-based Shaw is looking to take Canwest Global's TV business out of creditor protection, but also purchase Goldman Sachs and Co.'s stake in 13 lucrative cable channels for around $700 million.
Shaw last February first proposed to secure a controlling stake in Canwest Global to help recapitalize the media group, but opted for an outright acquisition after it faced a knock-down legal battle with Goldman Sachs.
And Shaw is also...
"As we see Google and Apple, the world's not falling, but it's changing fast," Brad Shaw, senior vp of operations at Shaw Communications told the Crtc, Canada's TV watchdog, as he sought regulatory approval Monday for an overall $2 billion deal for Shaw to acquire the TV assets of Canwest Global Communications Corp.
Calgary-based Shaw is looking to take Canwest Global's TV business out of creditor protection, but also purchase Goldman Sachs and Co.'s stake in 13 lucrative cable channels for around $700 million.
Shaw last February first proposed to secure a controlling stake in Canwest Global to help recapitalize the media group, but opted for an outright acquisition after it faced a knock-down legal battle with Goldman Sachs.
And Shaw is also...
- 9/21/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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