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Fish & Bird 4

Au Revoir Simone Remixed

One of my favorite lady-bands, Au Revoir Simone, have just released a remix album of their The Bird of Music called Reverse Migration which features remixes from Jean-Benoît Dunckel of Air, Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, The Teenagers, Best Fwends and Ruff and Jam, and a few others. Since their original The Bird of Music album features all electronic beats anyway, it already sounds like an album of "remixes," so I am not too sure this new release is anything short of a marketing ploy, but it still is fun to listen to. Check it out here: http://amiestreet.com/music/au-revoir-simone/reverse-migration/

Fish & Bird 4

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

The Wunderkammer exhibit reminded me of one of my very favorite films, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, that I also had discovered at MoMA at their PopRally screening last Halloween. The imagery is incredibly beautiful and surreal with that wonderfully hazy 70's coloration (think Virgin Suicides, but more gothic/romantic, erotic and dreamlike with vampires!). I am beginning to believe one of MoMA's curators and I should be friends.

Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities

Four Generations- Seb Patane

The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity - Odilon Redon

Locust Tank - Nicholas Lampart

This Sunday, I went to MoMA and saw the Wundekammer: A Century of Curiosities exhibit. It seems to be set up as to show how delightfully strange and beautiful the artist's mind is, using 20th & 21st century artists work and 16th, 17th, and 18th century old collectibles that evoke the spirit of the Wunderkammer, a collection of oddities that emerged in 16th century Europe. The curation of this exhibition hints that there is a collective unconscious of interest in the manipulation of nature clashing with society represented in the similarly stylized collages, drawings and grostesquely assembled sculptures and found objects. Although the context of the original works became to be overshadowed by the fact that a lot of the work simply looked alike, it was still enjoyable to see since I love pretty/creepy things.

Fish & Bird 3

Third Bird & Fish painting.