tonight in Chicago
They’re playing at Constellation.
Bill Orcutt (guitar), Chris Corsano (drums), live, San Francisco, 8/26/22
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Greyed Rainbow (1953), detail
sounds of Boston
Francisco Mela Quartet (FM, drums; Hery Paz and George Garzone, tenor saxophones; John Lockwood, bass), “Mr. PC” (J. Coltrane), live, Boston, 2016
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), detail from Greyed Rainbow (1953)
Suppose that, for the rest of your life, you could listen to only one piece of music. What would you choose? For me it might be this.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987; MCOTD Hall of Fame), Piano and String Quartet (1985); Kronos Quartet with Aki Takahashi (piano), 1993
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Number 17A, 1948 (detail)
like nobody else
Charmaine Lee (voice), live (Quarantine Concert presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago), 4/17/20
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lagniappe
art beat: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 3/6/20
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Number 1A, 1948 (detail)
what’s new
Greentea Peng (aka Aria Wells), “Ghost Town” (A. Wells), 3/4/20
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), One: Number 31, 1950 (detail)
old white men
Rolling Stones, live, England (Glastonbury Festival), 2013
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Number 17A (1948)
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
—Jackson Pollock
sounds of Chicago
Jack DeJohnette (drums) with MCOTD Hall-of-Famer Henry Threadgill (reeds), Roscoe Mitchell (reeds), Muhal Richard Abrams (piano), and Larry Gray (bass), Made in Chicago, 2015
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lagniappe
art beat: more from the other day at the Art Institute of Chicago
This, too, I never tire of.
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Greyed Rainbow, 1953
I’ll fly away . . .
DeAndre Patterson, “I’ll Fly Away,” live, Chicago (homegoing service for Eugene Smith, Christian Tabernacle Church, 47th & Prairie), 5/18/09
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art beat
After a court hearing Friday, I stopped by the Art Institute of Chicago, which is just a couple blocks from the federal courthouse. In the Modern Wing, there’s a wonderful space on the second floor—a small room you enter through a glass door. Once inside, these paintings—each has a wall to itself—surround you.
Jackson Pollock, Greyed Rainbow (1953)
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Joan Mitchell, “City Landscape” (1955)
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Willem de Kooning, Excavation (1950)
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