I’m sure his dad would be for Midwestern values; he would be for families; he would be for a firm handshake; he would be for a little awkwards sweet-talking with the waitress at the dinner; he would work at one of those farm owned by a big international corporation that was created from family farms fone defunct. His mom would have once won a beauty context. They would have gotten married after dating a long while. His mom, probably on accound of her beauty crown, would be eager for his dad (and Wolfgang too, beacuse he would have showed up pretty soon) to get some of that American fortune all around her. She would be hopeful. She would be going to get her some.
At the age of 15, Wolfgang would have heard that the guy next door (a used-camera salesman nobody liked) had dead teenagers in the basement.

Above: As it says, the lights of Wolfgang in the Rufino Tamayo Museum in México (May 2008).

Today way a pretty empty, nothing-filled day when I said, “I know what I want to get.”
And then you said something.
I said “I want to define myself.”
You said something else.
I said “I want to get a definition—or definitions of words. I want to be labeled. Annotated.”
You said “I don’t get it.”
And even though (of course) there is something to get, I said “I don’t know what you’re expecting to get.”
You said “I like it.” You kept talking. You offered suggestions like it was your idea.

And now you absolutely need to check out THE BIGGEST SANG BLEU EVER:

OBJECT: Public lecture by Yann Chateigné Tytelman

TIME: tonight at 7.30pm

LOCATION: Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam

CONTENT: Mimetic Powers: Modernity and Its Double in Art, Theater, and Anthropology

SYNOPSIS (extract): This lecture will focus on the notion of the “mask” in order to approach the theatrical dimension of works by different artists based on a look at various forms of popular rituals through specific methodologies. The lecture will be divided in three parts. 1) “Negative Joy: Art and Folk Rituals” will effectively explore the anthropological aspect of works questioning transgression and mimicry in popular culture. 2) “Effigising: A Living Iconology” will study the becoming picture of living bodies in researches activating a speculative mise en scene of history. 3) “Counterworlds: Unmasking through Unstable Identities” will interrogate the political dimension of projects by or with specific communities creating their own universe.
To be evoked, among others: fakes, copies, allegory and caricature, specters, demons, grimaces, chimeras, grotesque, aliens, science fiction, ormanent and décor, entertainment, decadence, degeneration and devolution, trickery, pop, impostures, mirrors and illusion, secessions, communes, imaginary and secret societies, fear, spectacle, joy, sublime, utopias, eccentricities, transvestite, impersonators, animals, fauns, wild men, burlesque, comedy, rock, violence, otherness, alterity, folklore, make up, parties, camp, trance, dance, and hallucination.

Voltaire’s death mask

Curator Robert Little discusses a project drawing for the House of Fascism, designed by Giuseppe Terragni in the early 1930s.

On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death.

The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption:

On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. ‘He is much better off without me … I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody,’ … Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale’s death Wiles got this picture of death’s violence and its composure.

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On Thursday took place the first of a series of shows curated by Sang Bleu and entitled: “Clusters”

Displayed:
Security sporting SB tshirts, Burlesque performers from LA, M’ink, Jeanne-Salomé, Guillaume & Pascal (actually, vice & versa), Sebastien Tellier as necklace (never liked him as much!), Michèle, Rachel, Ed

Not displayed (but should have been!):
Scarlett, Rick, Diane, Laurence, Nicolas, Issa, Théo