Peter Ferko Art

In Terry Gross’s interview, Brian May, guitarist of Queen, put on an unexpected (by me) hat, and explained that everything in the universe is made of the dust of supernovae. He noted that Joni Mitchell was therefore accurate when she wrote, “we are stardust…” in Woodstock.

May, it turns out, studied the dust streaming through our [...]

‡ See I Am Love (Io Sono l’Amore) — again.

I occasionally find an artist I hope won’t become too popular. It’s a feeling of jealous possession. I can’t remember ever having this feeling about a film — until now. This amazing film is like a dreamy drug rush that makes it seem possible [...]

Bridgitte Bardot in God Created Woman (1956).

Jean-Luc Godard said that all one needs to make a film is a gun and a girl. Shoot, I put so much extra in my last screenplay!!!

Cute article and one editor’s fatales françaises in Vanity fair

‡ Pop. To be sure, the most important act of the week will be to honor the father (and mother concurrently); luckily the visit is possible this year on Father’s Day.
‡ Cyrus. I am very looking forward to Cyrus with Marissa Tomei, a crush ever since My Cousin Vinny. This movie hits some of the [...]

robin, marion

with cate, russell, ridley

3 favorite talents

1 favorite story

somehow, everything is moving at the pace of … this,
but I will, i will, i….willl get to this film
or maybe when i go on vacation next week….

okay, so i’m the last person not a tourist to catch this installation of the biennial and other landmark museum shows in town. But there were extenuating circumstances.
The biennial was pretty much what I have come to expect (there is a review by Peter Plagens in Art in America that captures my overall feelings while [...]

Christian Viveros-Fauné gives a big nod to Chris Verene’s new Book, Family in today’s Village Voice and throws down this assessment of “most artists” work:

…Substitute the word “art” for “cultural theory,” and you’ve just described a parallel universe for much of the stuff that regularly fills contemporary galleries and museums. While rafts of visual artists [...]

I had the great good fortune to notice that IFC is hosting the premiere of Hal Hartley’s latest films. I made tonight’s big screen showing of classics Surviving Desire, Ambition and Theory of Achievement. His new films are showing tomorrow 4/22. I picked them up on DVD and learned the Hartley is now back [...]

Back during the project now:here:this, which I ran with Artists Unite, several artists took up a technique of using Scotch Tape to grab images from printed matter and create layered collage (here’s an example from Tony Gonzalez). In the subway stop I use these days, some graffiti artists have taken a similar direction with a [...]

Doing some research on wordpress themes, I came across this website that I think is a writer’s book review site devoted to virtually everything cultural: ugly blog. What is everything cultural, you might ask? Well, imagine a syllabus that starts with Indonesian art and end with handbags of the apocalypse and you have the general [...]