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AGNÈS VARDA IN CALIFORNIA AND TORONTO

Agnès Varda’s film LIONS LOVE (… AND LIES)—shot in 1968 in the days preceding and following the shootings of Andy Warhol (who survived) and Bobby Kennedy (who didn’t)—is a story of Eden-under-siege among a trio of Hollywood Hills freedom-seekers, remarkably played by Warhol superstar Viva, and James Rado and Gerome Ragni (the lyricists of Hair).

“[Varda’s] film is more than a time capsule of events and moods—it’s a living aesthetic model for revolutionary times.” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker*

LIONS LOVE (… AND LIES) is part of the Criterion Collection box AGNÈS VARDA IN CALIFORNIA (which also includes BLACK PANTHERS and DOCUMENTEUR), available now.

See Sasha Archibald, “End of the End of the End: Agnès Varda in Los Angeles”:

eastofborneo.org/articles/end-of-the-end-of-the-end-agnes-varda-in-los-angeles/

criterion.com/boxsets/1124-eclipse-series-43-agnes-varda-in-california

* newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/lions-love-and-lies

This week in Toronto, Varda and her new collaborator, the French street artist JR, present their film VISAGES VILLAGES/FACES PLACES, wherein they roam the countryside in JR’s truck, encountering farmers, cheese makers, coal miners—the faces of whom JR memorializes in huge monochromatic portraits. Their journey eventually lands them at the door of Jean-Luc Godard.

VISAGES VILLAGES/FACES PLACES, Monday, September 11; Wednesday, September 13; Friday, September 15; and Sunday, September 17.

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.

tiff.net/tiff/faces-places/

A Film Comment interview with Varda is the cover story in the current issue.

AGNÈS VARDA—THE FILM COMMENT INTERVIEW, September/October 2017 issue.

www.filmcomment.com/

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Agnès Varda and JR. Visages Villages/Faces Places (2016). Image credit: Le Pacte.

Gerome Ragni, Viva, and James Rado in Lions Loves… (and Lies), (1969). Image credit: Criterion.

Film Comment, September/October 2017 issue. Image credit: Film Comment.

The first issue of Interview, with Varda (center) and the cast of Lions Loves… (and Lies).

WARHOL CAPOTE AT AMERICAN REP

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“In the late 1970s, Truman Capote and Andy Warhol decided that they were destined to create a Broadway play together. Over the course of the next several months, they would sit down to record a series of intimate, wide-ranging conversations. The play never came to be, and the hours and hours of tape were lost to the ages. Until now.

“With the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Truman Capote Literary Trust, director Rob Roth adapted WARHOL CAPOTE from never-before-heard conversations between these two icons of American art and literature. This world premiere production is staged by director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening and Hedwig and the Angry Inch).”*

Stephen Spinella will play Warhol, and Capote will be played by Leslie Jordan.

WARHOL CAPOTE, through October 13.

AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER, LOEB DRAMA CENTER, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

* americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/warholcapote

See: nytimes.com/2017/08/30/theater/eavesdropping-on-warhol-and-capote.html

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Rolling Stone, April 12, 1973.

Editor Jann Wenner hired Capote to cover the Rolling Stones‘ 1972 tour for the magazine. Capote followed the tour—often joined by Warhol, Lee Radziwill, Slim Keith, Ahmet Ertegun, etc.—but found the shows too formalized and repetitive to inspire journalistic interest. In lieu of a report, Wenner asked Warhol to interview Capote for a cover story.

Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, 1984. Image credit: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

ABSTRACT FIGURATION

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Earlier this year, former Interview editor and Vanity Fair special correspondent Bob Colacello made his curatorial debut with THE AGE OF AMBIGUITY: ABSTRACT FIGURATION/FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTION at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz.

The catalogue—published by Schnabel, with text by Colacello—is an 82-page hardcover featuring work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Jeff Elrod, Jacqueline Humphries, Rashid Johnson, Adam McEwen, Sterling Ruby, Borna Sammak, Jonas Wood, Vito’s father Julian Schnabel, and Bob’s former employer Andy Warhol.

“As the 21st century grapples its way through its second decade, America seems to have entered what may be called The Age of Ambiguity, a time when everything is fluid and nothing concrete, and confusion overwhelms certainty… It is said that the best artists are the antennae of their society, the prophets of their era. Is it any wonder, then, that many younger American painters and sculptors have long abandoned the bygone absolutisms of Minimalism on one hand and Hyper-Realism on the other and are making works today that hover in a hard to define space that might be called Abstract Figuration or Figurative Abstraction?” — Bob Colacello*

BOB COLACELLO, THE AGE OF AMBIGUITY (Vito Schnabel, 2017). Edition: 1000.

SKYLIGHT BOOKS, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Feliz, Los Angeles.

BOOK SOUP, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood.

ART CATALOGUES, LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

vitoschnabel.com/fr/publications/the-age-of-ambiguity

vitoschnabel.com/fr/projets/group-show7/artworks?view=slider

* artnet.com/galleries/vito-schnabel/the-age-of-ambiguity-curated-by/

Top: Exhibition catalogue. Bottom: The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Landscape with Travelers Resting, 2015. Both images courtesy of the Vito Schnabel Gallery.

WILLIAM E. JONES ON ALEXANDER IOLAS

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“April 21, 1980

Alexander Iolas was coming to lunch [at the Factory] with a couple of clients and we needed a couple of boys to entertain. And I called James Curley and he brought his cousin David Laughlin, who works at the Coe Kerr Gallery. Iolas arrived, and his contact that he never takes out of his eye got lost, and he had me look for it, but I couldn’t see it….

“August 5, 1982

I introduced [Factory assistant] Robyn to Iolas….Robyn’s such a nice kid but he has no ambition, and he does want to be an artist, so I thought that since Ronnie Cutrone left and things worked out so well for him…that maybe it could happen for Robyn, too. So 74-year-old Iolas grabbed Robyn’s hand….Iolas thought he’d get Robyn’s energy. But I was hoping Robyn got his.” — from The Andy Warhol Diaries*

In FALL INTO RUIN, at David Kordansky in its closing week, writer-photographer-filmmaker-curator-provocateur William E. Jones brings together twenty of his interior photographs of the Athens villa of international art dealer Alexander Iolas. Taken in 1982, they are displayed in hand-coated inkjet prints made this year. Included in the exhibition is Fall into Ruin, Jones’ 30-minute documentary about Iolas, featuring Jones’ narration and stills taken during trips Jones made to Greece in 1982 and 2016.

“Iolas can be credited with mounting Warhol’s first and last gallery show in his lifetime, bringing Surrealism to the United States, and introducing the East Coast to Ed Ruscha. Unlike Iolas’s contemporaries—who included Ileana Sonnabend, Leo Castelli and Bruno Bischofberger—Iolas’s legacy has nearly faded into obscurity after he succumbed to AIDS in 1987, at 80.” — Ann Binlot

WILLIAM E. JONES—

FALL INTO RUIN

Through August 26.

David Kordansky Gallery

5130 West Edgewood Place, Los Angeles.

*Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries (New York: Warner Books, 1989), 283, 456.

See “Abandoned Places and Urban Decay, Villa Iolas, Athens.”

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Installation, William E. Jones, from Fall into Ruin, David Kordansky Gallery.

Andy Warhol, Alexander Iolas.

Exhibition poster for show at Alexander Iolas Gallery; Andy Warhol, Alexander Iolas.

Installation, William E. Jones, from Fall into Ruin, David Kordansky Gallery.

Images courtesy William E. Jones and David Kordansky Gallery.

NICO AT THE BROAD

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Christa Päffgen grew up to the sounds of Allied planes dropping bombs on her native Cologne. She was given the name Nico by photographer Herbert Tobias when she was 16 years old and modeling in Berlin.

She worked with Fellini (La Dolce vita), sang the title song for the film Strip-tease (1963), performed at the Blue Angel in Manhattan, met Brian Jones and Dylan, and became the “chanteuse” (Andy Warhol’s term) for The Velvet Underground.

The spirit of Nico will echo throughout the Broad Museum this weekend at WARHOL ICON, the first of this year’s “Summer Happenings.” The event will include musical performances by Jenny Hval, Kembra Pfahler, Rose McDowall, Tiny Vipers and Geneva Jacuzzi, and performance artist Vaginal Davis will interact with a rare screening of La Cicatrice intérieure/The Inner Scar (directed by Philippe Garrel, and starring Nico and Pierre Clementi.)

WARHOL ICON, Saturday, June 24, at 8:30 pm.

THE BROAD, 221 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

Nico, The Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable.

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Tag Archives: Andy Warhol

AGNÈS VARDA IN CALIFORNIA AND TORONTO

WARHOL CAPOTE AT AMERICAN REP

ABSTRACT FIGURATION

WILLIAM E. JONES ON ALEXANDER IOLAS

NICO AT THE BROAD