Video of my friend Ultra Violet re: New Posthumous Album

"Ultra Violet - Songs & Conversations" An Album Trailer from Refinersfire LLC on Vimeo.

Marty Game!

It's Mardi Gras today and since I'm not in Louisiana, watching drunken guys jump on horses from trees, I thought I'd give you a recipe for NYC party—art style.
1. Get a bunch of art pals and beers together.
2. Try to identify all the artists in this video.



Some hints —if you are not too dizzy to read...

Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael,Raffaello, Titian,Tiziano Vecellio, Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Antonello da Messina, Pietro Perugino, Hans Memling, El Greco, Hans Holbein, Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov , Peter Paul Rubens, Gobert, Caspar Netscher, Pierre Mignard, Jean-Marc Nattier, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov, Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov, Antoine-Jean Gros, Orest Adamovich Kiprensky, Amalie, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Edouard Manet, Flatour, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, William Clark Wontner, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Comerre, Leighton, Blaas, Renoir, Millias, Duveneck, Cassat, Weir, Zorn, Alphonse Mucha, Paul Gaugan, Henri Matisse, Picabia, Gustav Klimt, Hawkins, Magritte, Salvador Dali, Malevich, Merrild, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso.

Stranger than Fiction

This famous clip is from the show, What's My Line, and it's truly surreal.



And in the shameless plug department—and neither strange nor surreal—a few friends of mine are performing for one night only!
Sex Machines and Shameless Hussies
at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City
Monday February 2, 7 pm sharp!

The Avian Music program includes new music by Corey Dargel and Raymond Lustig, Conrad Cummings' notorious song cycle based on 1950’s marriage manuals, Joseph Hallman’s piece based on porn star Jenna Jameson, and other songs by Peter Flint. Additionally, world reknowned burlesque performer, Miss Dirty Martini will be making a return appearance with the ensemble as well, including a reconstruction of Sally Rand’s legendary fan dance set to Debussy’s Clair de Lune.

Not to be missed!

A Landscape for Dead Birds

The current Salvador Dali exhibition at MoMA leaves one in a surreal state of mind. Everything looks slightly askew. Take this image for example; serene, beautiful and slightly strange. A composed unearthly background for a landscape of dead birds. The sign says Natural History but the mind begs to differ.