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New Yorker stuff is usually behind a subscriber paywall so it's nice that they've made this available. Lovely bit of longform.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
I've just seen how much the first edition of Madonna's Sex book goes for now. Mine still has the original wrapping, opened obv and the Erotic cd which is still sealed and never been opened. Time to cash in I think.
Just watched the rooftop concert for the first time in a while. Never ceases to bring the joy. And all those everyday people in the street with their luncheon vouchers and their positive vibes. "They get around don't they?" And lovely lovely Mo. The star of the show. Fangirl supreme.
One of the most enjoyable things about researching AVIH was when Tom Vague took me on a counter-cultural psychogeographic tour of Notting Hill including pointing out this place, David Hockney's old gaff, very run down when he bought it.
www.houseandgarden.co.uk/article/revi...
Doing a post about hanging out washing in the California sunshine while we're enduring what seems like the 88th successive day of rain in the Calder Valley is irony levels measureless to man. And woman.
Mind you there will be a few critics airbrushing their criticism of his later digital stuff out of their tributes. Some of them just wanted him to remain the pop art Ziggy Stardust when David was always for embracing the possibilities of the new technology. It's a Dave thing.
"I wish they all could be California towels". #doingtherightthing
Btw you can pick up the HB of PAOC for as little as £12 on Amazon these days. I did ask the publishers a while back if they'd consider a 10 yrs on relaunch but I didn't even get the courtesy of a reply which is par for the course these days I know, so frankly I don't care where you buy it.
Here all day for your Edith Sitwell posts.
"Through the kitchen there runs a hare -
Whinnying, whines like grass, the air
It passes ; now is standing there
A lovely lady, see her eyes
Black angels in a heavenly place
Her shady locks and her dangerous grace"
Nice to see the tv obits getting the tone right with the lunchtime Hockney tributes. Not difficult given all that lovely footage but a rare treat given that so many can be crass and reductionist. I'm sure someone will manage it before the day is out but for now let's all celebrate a life well lived>
Following the news that David Hockney has died at the age of 88, we revisit a House & Garden archive feature from 1969, which takes us inside the beloved artist’s ‘just big enough’ apartment in London
From 1979: The world of galleries, museums, critics, and tastemakers was getting him down, Anthony Bailey writes. So Britain’s biggest artist chased a bigger life in New York and California—and painte...
