Busytinsnips Blog
MIND PALACE
Basquiat Soundtracks - The Philharmonie de Paris. Tuesday, 6 June 2023.
I love this quote - "You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."
- Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
Some of the incredible things seen and heard I have recently stored in my mind, my palace of treasure . . .
ART
Basquiat Soundtracks - The Philharmonie de Paris. This was even more astonishing! I visited this exhibition twice, the second time at the last entry to avoid the crowds. Being old enough to remember punk and the new wave stuff that followed it, this exhibition resonated and fed both eyes and ears. Late seventies and early eighties, what an incredibly fertile period that was.
Ron Mueck - Fondation Cartier, Paris.
Giacometti Institute, Paris.
Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers - Black Artists from the American South ― Royal Academy of Arts, London. I loved this: powerful, inventive, defiant, witty and sophisticated.
Frank Auerbach: Twenty Self-Portraits - Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London.
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum, London.
Gilbert & George Centre, London.
BOOKS
Basquiat x Warhol. Painting Four Hands & Basquiat Soundtracks catalogues
The Pillow Book - Sei Shonagon
Imagine John Yoko - John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Blue - Derek Jarman
MUSIC
Easy Star All Stars - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Easy Star All-Stars - Ziggy Stardub
Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'
Shonen Knife at The trades Club. Hebden Bridge
FILM/TV
Pane e Tulipane - Hilarious and beautiful comedy from 2000 with Bruno Ganz
The Gallows Pole - Interesting BBC period drama
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
The Florida Project - Beautiful all too human film. Loved it.
Deep End - Jane Asher, 1970.
The Lighthouse - Robert Eggers 2019. Strange, gripping, compelling film.
Bruce Almighty - Watched this so many times. So funny and a big syrupy feel good film! Jim Carrey, 2003
Casablanca - My first Bluray film. The detail and tonality was astonishing!
Tár - Cate Blanchett, 2022
LIKES
Paris, all of it! Made my first overseas trip in early June, my first trip abroad since the madness.
Bluray films
Salt's Mill - Saltaire
Educated Vandals, Street Art Installation, York
QUOTATIONS
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."- Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
- Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
Some of the incredible things seen and heard I have recently stored in my mind, my palace of treasure . . .
ART
A Hip Hop Journey: 50 years of Kulture - Leeds City Museum
Educated Vandals, Street Art Exhibition, York
Basquiat x Warhol. Painting Four Hands. - Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris. This was simply astonishing. I spent three and half-hours just with the paintings; they were magical, captivating and dazzled.Basquiat Soundtracks - The Philharmonie de Paris. This was even more astonishing! I visited this exhibition twice, the second time at the last entry to avoid the crowds. Being old enough to remember punk and the new wave stuff that followed it, this exhibition resonated and fed both eyes and ears. Late seventies and early eighties, what an incredibly fertile period that was.
Ron Mueck - Fondation Cartier, Paris.
Giacometti Institute, Paris.
Souls Grown Deep like the Rivers - Black Artists from the American South ― Royal Academy of Arts, London. I loved this: powerful, inventive, defiant, witty and sophisticated.
Frank Auerbach: Twenty Self-Portraits - Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London.
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum, London.
Gilbert & George Centre, London.
BOOKS
Basquiat x Warhol. Painting Four Hands & Basquiat Soundtracks catalogues
The Pillow Book - Sei Shonagon
Imagine John Yoko - John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Blue - Derek Jarman
MUSIC
Easy Star All Stars - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
Ryuichi Sakamoto - 12
SQÜRL - Silver HazeEasy Star All-Stars - Ziggy Stardub
Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'
Shonen Knife at The trades Club. Hebden Bridge
FILM/TV
Pane e Tulipane - Hilarious and beautiful comedy from 2000 with Bruno Ganz
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi - Excellent French-Italian crime film based on a novel by Albert Simonin.
Permanent Vacation - Jim Jarmusch's first film. The Gallows Pole - Interesting BBC period drama
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
The Florida Project - Beautiful all too human film. Loved it.
Deep End - Jane Asher, 1970.
The Lighthouse - Robert Eggers 2019. Strange, gripping, compelling film.
Bruce Almighty - Watched this so many times. So funny and a big syrupy feel good film! Jim Carrey, 2003
Casablanca - My first Bluray film. The detail and tonality was astonishing!
Tár - Cate Blanchett, 2022
LIKES
Paris, all of it! Made my first overseas trip in early June, my first trip abroad since the madness.
Bluray films
Salt's Mill - Saltaire
Educated Vandals, Street Art Installation, York
QUOTATIONS
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."- Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching
"I don't think art should be in the hands of the virtuous." - Nick Cave
