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Lou Reed and the real-life Candy, Rachel Humphreys

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Yang Yankang. Buddhism in Tibet. 2009

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

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Steven Colbert unleashed.

Until may 2026, Steven Colbert will delight us with his Late Show.

Funnier than ever...

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David Bowie, Dion Fortune and soy milk

During the mid-1970s, a time when David Bowie subsisted on a diet of cow’s milk and cocaine, one of his favorite books was Dion Fortune’s Psychic Self-Defense, an instruction manual by a major-league Golden Dawn magician for diagnosing and guarding against attacks by other sorcerers.

Marc Spitz’s biography points out how one part of Bowie’s coke-and-milk diet violated a basic tenet of Dion Fortune’s program (“keep away from drugs”), but the magician probably would have nixed the other staple, too.

She didn’t invent soy milk but played an essential role in its history as an advocate and experimenter. During World War I, while working in a laboratory for the Food Production Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fortune apparently discovered a means of making soy milk, as well as a method of turning it into soy cheese.

It’s easy to laugh now—Bowie, emaciated and wide-eyed, swigging milk while scanning for psychic assassins—but in the cracked-mirror funhouse of mid-70s Hollywood, this was just another Tuesday.

Source: https://dangerousminds.net/

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In the art world, you're nobody until somebody who's somebody says you’re somebody.

But how do I secure the endorsement that makes my career soar?

The answer? Behave like Donald Trump

Why strive for achievement when you can fake it? Why hope for endorsements from those you admire, when you can invent them? Why work through the system, if you can Trump the system?

Here is a man who fails upwards on a grandiose scale. He builds not with innovation, invention, or hard work, but with guile, hyperbole, and deceit.

He succeeds with lies.

Maybe I've been going about this the wrong way.

I made a list of art world giants. Celebrated artists, photographers and gallerists. People whose whispers create careers.

Then I found people with the same names as these art luminaries.

And I asked them to talk about me.

Link below.

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Abraham Oghobase

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Flirting by the sidewalk. The package was tempting.

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Albert Watson. David Bowie. 1996

I Am Collective Memories   •    Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk

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Pierre Clémenti in 'Wheel of Ashes' dir. Peter Goldman (1968) ♡

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Gary Indiana (1950-2024)

This is just a small clip from the documentary "Station to Station" (2015) directed by Dough Aitken.

The project involves a 24 day, 4000 mile cross-country train ride between New York and San Francisco. Director Aitken's introductory segment provides somewhat of an overview for his vision, and the subsequent one-minute blips blend seamlessly with the feel of the scattered views out the window of our own train car.

Taken as a celebration of art, the film is a work of art (and/or 62 separate pieces of art), that reminds us individual expression comes in various forms. While there is no traditional plot, the segments come so quickly, that we are engaged from the beginning, and in no way prepared for number 62 to derail the ride. 

Some familiar faces pop up on the trip, including Patti Smith, Jackson Browne, Beck, Thurston Moore, Cat Power, and Mavis Staples, and of course, the late Gary Indiana.

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In the Beginning

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

German Artist

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The Creation of God (2017) by Harmonia Rosales

Rosales presents the first human as a Black woman formed from the clay of the earth, the reddish-brown markings of her new body echoing the rusty land around her. The first woman Eve reaches for God’s life-giving touch. In another moment God will imbue her with energy, also known as the life-force, or asé. One cannot help but notice God is depicted as a strong Black woman, her protective pink covering forming a womb around the twelve nude figures. In the artist’s words, “…when you consider that all human life came out of Africa, the Garden of Eden and all, then it only makes sense to paint God as a black woman, sparking life in her own image.”

By subverting Michelangelo’s well-known fresco, Rosales paints Black female empowerment into history, and simultaneously challenges hegemonic systems of belief. Created for her first solo exhibition Black Imaginary To Counter Hegemony in 2017, the painting visualizes Rosales’s underlying challenge throughout her body of work: “Why have we accepted Eurocentric perceptions of beauty and historical narratives for so long?”

Exhibitions

Black Imaginary To Counter Hegemony (B.I.T.C.H.)

Simard Bilodeau Contemporary Los Angeles, CA

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RIP Bob Wilson (1941-2025)

We are heartbroken to announce the passing of Robert M. Wilson, artist, theater and opera director, architect, set and lighting designer, visual artist, and founder of The Watermill Center.

Robert Wilson died peacefully today in Water Mill, New York, at the age of 83, after a brief but acute illness.

The Grand Voyage / The lady from the sea / Endgame

Source: https://robertwilson.com/

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The History of Sound (2025)

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breackdown (1988) dir. Pedro Almodovar

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For me, there's an intertextual correlation linking Pedro Almodovar and the Brazilian author Nelson Rodrigues. I can sense it every time I watch this fantastic movie. The melodrama and theatricality, sexual perversions, religiosity. It's all here folks.

I doubt you’ll ever love me, the way I love you. LAW OF DESIRE (1987), a film by Pedro Almodóvar