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BOTTOM: HANNAH KOCH : "Cut with the Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany 1919-20. TOP: MAN RAY : LA MARQUISE CASALI 1921 photo

TOP TO BOTTOM: 1) BETTY McGHEEHAN "C" 2007 2) GINA MICCINILLI "Comets and Clefts" c/o Sculptor's Guild at Governor's Island , may 29 to October 4 2009 4) Victoria Munro- ?- from card for show curated by Victoria Munro, June 20 to Aug 1, 2009 at SHOW ! gallery in Staten Island... (ON Staten Island?) 4) Francis Picabia 'the cacodylic eye' 1921 - (( what is wrong with this one? First one to comment wins a prize ))

- by RAHUL MAHAJAN I wrote a (very small) summary of this book for the Wikipedia, primarily because there wasn't anything there. Just a real quickie, but I couldn't figure out how to add the cover picture at wiki-land.

Dead pop stars are not really my thing , but the Seeds were true garage heroes, and I love their stuff. SKY SAXON, their singer and bass player, apparently left this earth, in the physical form, on June 25 2009. He has been known more recently as Sky Sunlight Saxon . among other things. Hopefully SKY is achieving Inner Peace now. watch or watch here I'm not seeing much in the music blogs about the passing of SKY, but The Hound* put something up there right away. * - Of course, he always was cool.

Mark E. Smith and bandmates at Brownies , as  presented  on  WFMU  blog  back  in  2006  or  so... Of course, I nicked some great stuff from that Blog over the years. Still can't figure out this Trackback  thing. http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451c29169e200d83461af6f69e2

M#Y W*A*R * *-borrowed from [nova express] a really excellent blog for  T.G., APHEX TWIN., and more. I saw some J. G. BALLARD book covers on there as well.

the Ongoing Occupation of Iraqi Artists http://www.truthout.org/031509A