Gentlemen Prefer Bondage

Pierre et Gilles - Nina Hagen, 1993

Musique Du Jour: Venus in Furs, The Velvet Underground

Six Images In Search Of An Exhibition VIII

Not Thinking Of England: Six Centuries Of The Gynecological Gaze

Titian (1485-1576) - Venus of Urbino, 1538

Rembrandt (1606-1669) - Jupiter and Antiope, 1659

François Boucher (1703 – 1770) - Leda and the Swan, c. 1740

Edouard Manet (1832-1883) - Olympia, 1863




Pierre et Gilles (b. 1949 & 1953) - Nina Hagen, 1983




Vanessa Beecroft (b. 1969) - VB45, 2001

'Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.'

Angela Carter

The Week In Review

Films:

Fanny and Alexander, 1982 - d. Ingmar Bergman
1900, 1976 - d. Bernardo Bertolucci
The Leopard, 1963 - d. Luchino Visconti

Television:

Six Feet Under: Season 4

Books:

The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon - David Sylvester
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation - Gilles Deleuze
The Colour of Time: Claude Monet - Virginia Spate
Constable: The Great Landscapes - ed. Anne Lyles
Monet and Japan - David Broomfield, Gary Hickey, Shigemi Inaga Akiko Mabushi and Virginia Spate
Monet by Himself - Richard Kendall
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings - James D. Ganz and Richard Kendall

Articles:

Birth of the Seaside - Andrew Lambirth
Impressions of Normandy - Susannah Woolmer
Nature Transforming Itself - Jeffrey Myers
The Sea, The Sea - Laura Gascoigne
The Unknown Monet - Lindsay Rothwell

Music:

Sonic Investigations Into The Trivial - Essendon Airport
Music To See Through - David Chesworth
OHM+: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music - Various
Possible Musics and Music For Airports - Brian Eno

Verso III

Pierre et Gilles (b. 1949 & 1953) - Legend (Madonna), 1995

Tears Are The Ashes Of Emotion

Pierre et Gilles (b. 1949 & 1953) - La Madone au Coeur Blessé, Lio, 1991


The Weeping Song (1990) - Nick Cave (b. 1957)

Go son, go down to the water
And see the women weeping there.
Then go up into the mountains;
the men, they are weeping too.
Father, why are all the women weeping?
They are all weeping for their men.
Then why are all the men there weeping?
They are weeping back at them.

This is a weeping song,
A song in which to weep
While all the men and women sleep.
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long.

Father, why are all the children weeping?
They are merely crying, son.
O, are they merely crying, father?
Yes, true weeping is yet to come.

This is a weeping song,
A song in which to weep
While all the little children sleep.
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long.

O father, tell me, are you weeping?
Your face seems wet to touch.
O, then I am sorry, father,
I never thought I hurt you so much.

This is a weeping song,
A song in which to weep
While we rock ourselves to sleep.
This is a weeping song
But I won't be weeping long.
No, I won't be weeping long.