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yamamanamaKennedy was going to go salsa dancing but I think it was too late for that; I dunno, I made a beeline for Coro Victoria, while I don't know where Georgina and Abby ended up.
Coro Victoria played an excerpt from an Astor Piazolla opera, a lullaby for children killed in the Guatemalan Civil War followed by a response from the dead to the military regime, a popular Mexican song, a Peruvian waltz called Cinnamon Flower, Hallelujah, a Guatemalan song that commemorated a long-gone railroad that sounds about as advanced as the train to Johannesburg because it's the 30s, a song to a poet who committed suicide in La Plata, a song called Caribbean In New York that could be about any immigrant.
Revueltas is not Lithuanian like I thought it was but Spanish for "revolt" and he's from Mexico. Actually, his full name is Silvestre Reveultas Sánchez, so urk I-uhuhuhuh dunno, Morty, that sounds pretty urk Spanish to me. They played a work inspired by mariachi music.
Schulhoff was born in Austro-Hungarian Prague died at Wülzburg concentration camp of tuberculosis (it's entirely possible he died of typhus, or perhaps he was outright murdered), which is totally proof that the Holocaust didn't really happen and Erwin Schulhoff never actually existed. I jest, at their expense, but there are people out there who really believe this. The Boston Pops players played The Suite For Chamber Orchestra, which uses instruments that have never been used before, like slide whistles and car horns. He also wrote a satire of German militarism in 1919, a Sonata Erotica in which a soprano spends several minutes faking an orgasm, has a contrabassoon attempt birdcalls, set the Communist Manifesto to music, a surrealist retelling of Don Juan in which he is condemned to live forever, and that piece that was nothing but a complicated series of rests that I was talking about a few years back.
Appalachian Spring is played with 13 instruments, if you can believe that.
I don't have images for everything.
Catalogue aria from Don Giovanni with comedic Italian lessons about how to say you are a beautiful pussy (sei una bella figa) and penis (cazzo) where she says something about figs, to serious discussions about the state of the world's economy.
Note that there's a village in Slovakia called Figa and I bet Italians see it in the same way that those of us English-speakers see Fucking, Austria.
People who use hoo-haa for vagina should be hunted down and sent to gulags where they are forced to listen to techno versions of Dingbat The Singing Cat in a room full of cats where occasionally a laser pointer will shine on their nether regions, or eyes if they're Mad Geniuses or something.
An anthropomorphized poster with a moustache and a bowler hat. I know autocorrect hates moustache but it's a better word than mustache because it gets the old-fashionedness of it across.
"Get on the fucking block and fuck" is written on the tail in negative space. The other peacock is a mirror image of this one.
An animation set to a conversation with two Italian men.
Carbon copies of Henry Miller novels with enough blank pages for a third copy.
push.
pull after "push"
push after "pull after push"
a woman and a peacock yet again
structure that f(its my opening)
conceited girls
see the burning question.
pretty ugly
welcome and unwelcome
an uncommon rear view
nothing but cock
Enough education to provide manpower but not so much that you prove an embarassment and become overeducated for our demands. There are questions at the end phrased like the SAT. Every source for this I can find is Chinese and I'm not sure if it's a parody or an actual test they give to people.
Chorus girls, dropping phrases from a satirical novel about a writer turned into a teenager by an evil professor and his quest to gain his adultivity back. they are covered in dizzying spiral patterns.
Cat videos.
Art is and will always be and has always been political in nature.
Chang balances a plate on her head, slices through the canteloupe placed underneath her undergarment and she starts eating it and putting the seeds in the plate. The plate is one of those commemorative plates with a photograph transferred but the ink is toxic so you can't eat from it.
a girl watching this couldn't bear to look.
I don't know the context of this one.
Goddess by Bowers with slogans like freedom means choice.
Mpumi Moeti: in apartheid south africa citizens were registered according to "race" which is basically just characteristics like hair color and texture and skin color and facial features and they were required to carry around photographs with documents. This is actually about being lesbian in Africa, what with Martin ϟϟempa ("desa eaten da poo poo" you know what he sounds like, he sounds like a fucking Nazi Jar-Jar Binks) and Scott Lively and Yoweri Mussovini and Vladimir Putin.
silueta series: her body merged with the earth.
I've seen other photographs in this series at the ICA last summer.
now speak: a podium with historical speeches by Szymborska, Horn, Cicero, and Baldwin.
trans liberation: CeCe McDonald, a biracial trans woman imprisoned in a men's facility for stabbing a drunken methed-up coked-up assaulter with a swastika tattoo in self-defense, with angel wings and a hammer hanging from a belt at her waist. This is based on the nearby A Garland For May Day.
truism footstool. On the front, it says "starvation is nature's way"
an American flag brooch and a gothic brooch.
the MacArthur Screens: depicting Tokyo during its postwar transformation from Japanese Fascism to constitutional monarchy done in the style of a feudal-era dividing screen. Reading stories about train conductor apologizing for the large presence of foreigners (Chinese and Koreans mostly) on the train makes me think Japan has a long way to go before it can cut free from the bonds of its past.
she takes a familiar object (maybe) like a cheese grater and turns it into something sinister, a dividing screen.
warhol's red disaster. adding pretty colors to a gruesome scene would change our perceptions. In this case, he used the electric chair used to kill the Rosenbergs and red, the color of communism, of blood, of rubies, of magic.
blanco y verde
espinoza: untitled
document: painted rawhide balancing complex geometry and negative space.
backward c: end paper for hair, bits of text, all things radiate outward.
prisms branco: in society human beings must be an organ or cell. freaks a woman out.
Politics written in sign language alphabet, as, in Cuba, one can not speak freely. Fanya Kaplan knows the answer to this problem.
I think it might say "politica" actually. I don't know. Sesame Street's sign language lessons did not stick with me after a quarter century.
the color scheme of the paintings and of the walls, the subject matter, the beaches and garden scenes and women in ethereal dresses, the not-quite-impressionist haziness.
it's art for green spring and green summer.
Japanese influence
Modern Magdalene is the MFA's.
Folio by Terry Winters
veins
A self-portrait from HOMiE.
I don't know where in the museum this is.
The quote about unfolding all the wrinkles is addressed to a man named Henry so it's not Somewhere In Time, whatever it is. Before, there was someone listening to the aria "Tu che di gel sei cinta" from Turandot, a sex scene, a clip from Good Will Hunting and a clip from One Hour Photo and I'm pretty sure I saw a clip from Amelie.
People there had pastel green hair, sea blue hair with a white rose, orange to red, ordinary hair with muddy blue roots, pink streaks in blonde hair, pale rose hair and a shirt that said "let's make today amazing," indigo hair, blonde to blue and violet and a shirt with XIII on it.
"I'm warning you, it's not going to be pretty." Actually, it came out pretty good although like I said, I have done better. On the Green Line. While standing. Packd like sardines in a crushd tin box. She was a student of theater.
Kai says that if her choice was "die" or "vote for Donald Trump," she'd still choose death. Kai need not worry as the latest Trumpist plan is to repeal the 19th amendment so her opinion won't matter anyway. She's wondering why Zach has to say silly things all the time. Like, of course Braintree's their stop; there aren't any stops after that. You're a freaking genius, ya idiot!
Someone else asked how cold it gets in Texas. -23°F, in a place called Seminole, it's kinda out west just above where the nubby thing sticks out.
burning question: why should you not be able to assemble yourself and write?
Coro Victoria played an excerpt from an Astor Piazolla opera, a lullaby for children killed in the Guatemalan Civil War followed by a response from the dead to the military regime, a popular Mexican song, a Peruvian waltz called Cinnamon Flower, Hallelujah, a Guatemalan song that commemorated a long-gone railroad that sounds about as advanced as the train to Johannesburg because it's the 30s, a song to a poet who committed suicide in La Plata, a song called Caribbean In New York that could be about any immigrant.
Revueltas is not Lithuanian like I thought it was but Spanish for "revolt" and he's from Mexico. Actually, his full name is Silvestre Reveultas Sánchez, so urk I-uhuhuhuh dunno, Morty, that sounds pretty urk Spanish to me. They played a work inspired by mariachi music.
Schulhoff was born in Austro-Hungarian Prague died at Wülzburg concentration camp of tuberculosis (it's entirely possible he died of typhus, or perhaps he was outright murdered), which is totally proof that the Holocaust didn't really happen and Erwin Schulhoff never actually existed. I jest, at their expense, but there are people out there who really believe this. The Boston Pops players played The Suite For Chamber Orchestra, which uses instruments that have never been used before, like slide whistles and car horns. He also wrote a satire of German militarism in 1919, a Sonata Erotica in which a soprano spends several minutes faking an orgasm, has a contrabassoon attempt birdcalls, set the Communist Manifesto to music, a surrealist retelling of Don Juan in which he is condemned to live forever, and that piece that was nothing but a complicated series of rests that I was talking about a few years back.
Appalachian Spring is played with 13 instruments, if you can believe that.
I don't have images for everything.
Catalogue aria from Don Giovanni with comedic Italian lessons about how to say you are a beautiful pussy (sei una bella figa) and penis (cazzo) where she says something about figs, to serious discussions about the state of the world's economy.
Note that there's a village in Slovakia called Figa and I bet Italians see it in the same way that those of us English-speakers see Fucking, Austria.
People who use hoo-haa for vagina should be hunted down and sent to gulags where they are forced to listen to techno versions of Dingbat The Singing Cat in a room full of cats where occasionally a laser pointer will shine on their nether regions, or eyes if they're Mad Geniuses or something.
An anthropomorphized poster with a moustache and a bowler hat. I know autocorrect hates moustache but it's a better word than mustache because it gets the old-fashionedness of it across.
"Get on the fucking block and fuck" is written on the tail in negative space. The other peacock is a mirror image of this one.
An animation set to a conversation with two Italian men.
Carbon copies of Henry Miller novels with enough blank pages for a third copy.
push.
pull after "push"
push after "pull after push"
a woman and a peacock yet again
structure that f(its my opening)
conceited girls
see the burning question.
pretty ugly
welcome and unwelcome
an uncommon rear view
nothing but cock
Enough education to provide manpower but not so much that you prove an embarassment and become overeducated for our demands. There are questions at the end phrased like the SAT. Every source for this I can find is Chinese and I'm not sure if it's a parody or an actual test they give to people.
Chorus girls, dropping phrases from a satirical novel about a writer turned into a teenager by an evil professor and his quest to gain his adultivity back. they are covered in dizzying spiral patterns.
Cat videos.
Art is and will always be and has always been political in nature.
Chang balances a plate on her head, slices through the canteloupe placed underneath her undergarment and she starts eating it and putting the seeds in the plate. The plate is one of those commemorative plates with a photograph transferred but the ink is toxic so you can't eat from it.
a girl watching this couldn't bear to look.
I don't know the context of this one.
Goddess by Bowers with slogans like freedom means choice.
Mpumi Moeti: in apartheid south africa citizens were registered according to "race" which is basically just characteristics like hair color and texture and skin color and facial features and they were required to carry around photographs with documents. This is actually about being lesbian in Africa, what with Martin ϟϟempa ("desa eaten da poo poo" you know what he sounds like, he sounds like a fucking Nazi Jar-Jar Binks) and Scott Lively and Yoweri Mussovini and Vladimir Putin.
silueta series: her body merged with the earth.
I've seen other photographs in this series at the ICA last summer.
now speak: a podium with historical speeches by Szymborska, Horn, Cicero, and Baldwin.
trans liberation: CeCe McDonald, a biracial trans woman imprisoned in a men's facility for stabbing a drunken methed-up coked-up assaulter with a swastika tattoo in self-defense, with angel wings and a hammer hanging from a belt at her waist. This is based on the nearby A Garland For May Day.
truism footstool. On the front, it says "starvation is nature's way"
an American flag brooch and a gothic brooch.
the MacArthur Screens: depicting Tokyo during its postwar transformation from Japanese Fascism to constitutional monarchy done in the style of a feudal-era dividing screen. Reading stories about train conductor apologizing for the large presence of foreigners (Chinese and Koreans mostly) on the train makes me think Japan has a long way to go before it can cut free from the bonds of its past.
she takes a familiar object (maybe) like a cheese grater and turns it into something sinister, a dividing screen.
warhol's red disaster. adding pretty colors to a gruesome scene would change our perceptions. In this case, he used the electric chair used to kill the Rosenbergs and red, the color of communism, of blood, of rubies, of magic.
blanco y verde
espinoza: untitled
document: painted rawhide balancing complex geometry and negative space.
backward c: end paper for hair, bits of text, all things radiate outward.
prisms branco: in society human beings must be an organ or cell. freaks a woman out.
Politics written in sign language alphabet, as, in Cuba, one can not speak freely. Fanya Kaplan knows the answer to this problem.
I think it might say "politica" actually. I don't know. Sesame Street's sign language lessons did not stick with me after a quarter century.
the color scheme of the paintings and of the walls, the subject matter, the beaches and garden scenes and women in ethereal dresses, the not-quite-impressionist haziness.
it's art for green spring and green summer.
Japanese influence
Modern Magdalene is the MFA's.
Folio by Terry Winters
veins
A self-portrait from HOMiE.
I don't know where in the museum this is.
The quote about unfolding all the wrinkles is addressed to a man named Henry so it's not Somewhere In Time, whatever it is. Before, there was someone listening to the aria "Tu che di gel sei cinta" from Turandot, a sex scene, a clip from Good Will Hunting and a clip from One Hour Photo and I'm pretty sure I saw a clip from Amelie.
People there had pastel green hair, sea blue hair with a white rose, orange to red, ordinary hair with muddy blue roots, pink streaks in blonde hair, pale rose hair and a shirt that said "let's make today amazing," indigo hair, blonde to blue and violet and a shirt with XIII on it.
"I'm warning you, it's not going to be pretty." Actually, it came out pretty good although like I said, I have done better. On the Green Line. While standing. Packd like sardines in a crushd tin box. She was a student of theater.
Kai says that if her choice was "die" or "vote for Donald Trump," she'd still choose death. Kai need not worry as the latest Trumpist plan is to repeal the 19th amendment so her opinion won't matter anyway. She's wondering why Zach has to say silly things all the time. Like, of course Braintree's their stop; there aren't any stops after that. You're a freaking genius, ya idiot!
Someone else asked how cold it gets in Texas. -23°F, in a place called Seminole, it's kinda out west just above where the nubby thing sticks out.
burning question: why should you not be able to assemble yourself and write?
