Tosh Berman's Blog, page 100
March 13, 2021
Tomorrow March 14th The last Day to See "Who Is Lun*na Menoh?" at the Portland International Film Festival
Tomorrow is the last day to see the documentary film on Lun*na called "Who Is Lun*na Menoh?" It's a classic and iconic film on her work as well as her personality. I'm in it as well. Fun for the entire family (kids seem to like this film). Here you can get the tickets online to see the film online:
Tickets to see "Who Is Lun*na Menoh?"
March 12, 2021
Wallace Berman Postcard Sent to Dennis Hopper
March 7, 2021
"Who Is Lun*na Menoh?" at the Portland International Film Festival
Who Is Lun*na Menoh” follows the life and work of the extraordinary Japanese artist. From her early career in Japan to the underground music scene in Los Angeles, from fashion show runways featuring her sculptural designs to art galleries showing her fantastical work, Lun*na’s edgy, witty and beautiful creations are explored.Director Jeff Mizushima follows Lun*na’s artistic career, showcasing her uniquely individual expressionism and interviewing her family, gallery owners, models, fans, and fellow visual artists & musicians to find out who and what Lun*na Menoh is and why her art, in all of its forms, fits in our world.Directed by Jeff Mizushima81 mins | United States | 2020DocumentaryTickets are available now and you can watch the film online from today, March 5 to March 14. Here: Tickets for "Who Is Lun*na Menoh?"
Tosh Berman Discusses Wallace Berman's "Aleph" Monday, March 8, 2021
Monday, March 8, 2021 at 4 PM PST – 6:45 PM PST
CINE SALON FREEFALL SPRING 2012 ONLINE ZOOMTosh Berman will narrate a walk-through of his father's surreal collage art film ALEPH created 1958-1976 by the Beat artist Wallace Berman.https://news.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=62959...https://www.thehowe.org/eve.../pid/2/sid/55/tid/141/eid/7378Son and author Tosh Berman will approach his father’s art, the "father of assemblage art" Beat Generation icon Wallace Berman, with a deep-dive into the experimental collage film ALEPH (1958-1976), a meditation on life, death, mysticism, politics and pop culture.
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On TOSH (2018) published by City Lights Books: TOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture.
FILMS: Selected film and tv clips, and full length screening of ALEPH (1958-1976) by Wallace Berman 7:43’ and a restored film by one Berman’s art world contemporaries. TRT 120 minutes.
BIO: TOSH BERMAN, writer, poet and once publisher of TamTam Books, penned the acclaimed memoir Tosh: Growing up in Wallace Berman’s World (2019).
LINKS: https://hyperallergic.com/.../tosh-growing-up-in-wallace.../
https://www.publishersweekly.com/.../78786-tosh-berman...
https://www.haaretz.com/.../.premium-this-day-a-famed...
https://www.monsterchildren.com/wallace-berman-artist/
https://bit.ly/2xadFOX
http://tamtambooks-tosh.blogspot.com/
Facebook page: Facebook Page for Event
March 6, 2021
Wallace Berman, "Silent Series: Magic Mushroom" 1965
Wallace Berman, "Silent Series: Magic Mushroom" 1965, verifax collage, 8 1/2 x 7 inches. Framed by Wallace Berman. Kohn Gallery is currently closed to the public. We are receiving deliveries and are available for appointment viewings. Please contact the gallery at 323 461 3311 or email Karys Judd at karys@kohngallery.com. Wearing of face coverings and signing of a waiver will be required for entry.
Gallery Hours
By appointment only
Gallery Information
1227 North Highland Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90038
T 323 461 3311
March 5, 2021
"WHO IS LUN*NA MENOH?" Documentary Screening at Portland International Film Festival March 5 to March 14
Today is the day for the premiere of the film "Who Is Lun*na Menoh? directed by Jeff Mizushima, and starring Lun*na. To quote: Who Is Lun*na Menoh” follows the life and work of the extraordinary Japanese artist. From her early career in Japan to the underground music scene in Los Angeles, from fashion show runways featuring her sculptural designs to art galleries showing her fantastical work, Lun*na’s edgy, witty and beautiful creations are explored.Director Jeff Mizushima follows Lun*na’s artistic career, showcasing her uniquely individual expressionism and interviewing her family, gallery owners, models, fans, and fellow visual artists & musicians to find out who and what Lun*na Menoh is and why her art, in all of its forms, fits in our world.Directed by Jeff Mizushima81 mins | United States | 2020DocumentaryTickets are available now and you can watch the film online from today, March 5 to March 14. Here: Tickets & Info for Lun*na Menoh at Portland International Film Festival
March 4, 2021
March 3, 2021
Wallace Berman "Untitled #127 (Donovan), Verifax Collage
Wallace Berman "Untitled #127 (Donovan), Verifax Collage, 6 x 6 1/2 inches, Framed 12 x 12 1/2 Inches. Kohn Gallery is currently closed to the public. We are receiving deliveries and are available for appointment viewings. Please contact the gallery at 323 461 3311 or email Karys Judd at karys@kohngallery.com. Wearing of face coverings and signing of a waiver will be required for entry.Gallery HoursBy appointment onlyGallery Information1227 North Highland AveLos Angeles, CA 90038T 323 461 3311Parking in rear off of North Citrus Ave
March 2, 2021
Serge Gainsbourg Playlist for Apple Music & Spotify
Here is the playlist Kimley and I put together for Serge Gainsbourg and connected to our Book Musik episode on the great Serge and the book by Jeremy Allen "Relax Baby Be Cool: The Artistry and Audacity of Serge Gainsbourg." We go deep here, so enjoy the music world of Gainsbourg:
Apple Music: Serge Gainsbourg Playlist for Apple Music
GAINSBOURG: The Biography by Gilles Verlant
Gainsbourg: The BiographyBy Gilles Verlant. Translated by Paul Knobloch.When Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991, France went into mourning: François Mitterand himself proclaimed him “our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire.” Gainsbourg redefined French pop, from his beginnings as cynical chansonnier and mambo-influenced jazz artist to the ironic “yé-yé” beat and lush orchestration of his 1960s work to his launching of French reggae in the 1970s to the electric funk and disco of his last albums. But mourned as much as his music was Gainsbourg the man: the self-proclaimed ugly lover of such beauties as Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin, the iconic provocateur whose heavy-breathing “Je t’aime moi non plus” was banned from airwaves throughout Europe and whose reggae version of the “Marseillais” earned him death threats from the right, and the dirty-old-boy wordsmith who could slip double-entendres about oral sex into the lyrics of a teenybopper ditty and make a crude sexual proposition to Whitney Houston on live television. Gilles Verlant’s biography of Gainsbourg is the best and most authoritative in any language. Drawing from numerous interviews and their own friendship, Verlant provides a fascinating look at the inner workings of 1950s–1990s French pop culture and the conflicted and driven songwriter, actor, director and author that emerged from it: the young boy wearing a yellow star during the German Occupation; the young art student trying to woo Tolstoy’s granddaughter; the musical collaborator of Petula Clark, Juliette Greco and Sly and Robbie; the seasoned composer of the Lolita of pop albums, Histoire de Melody Nelson; the cultural icon who transformed scandal and song into a new form of delirium.
Gainsbourg: The Biography
FROM THE BOOK"Now it's impossible to understand what will follow – namely the mad passion that will unite Bardot and Gainsbourg for no more than a few weeks but which will have serious repercussions for the both of them – without taking into consideration the reckless Don Juanism of this woman, who at the age of 33 is at the height of her beauty. Our anonymous contributor continues: 'She dealt with her conquests like a praying mantis: Serge, like me and like all the others, was zombified by Bardot. That woman had a supreme talent for grinding men into rubble. Serge was a totally atypical lover for her. He had the authenticity of a real artist, he hated money, and he led his life with a sort of heedless existentialist ethic. He was the exact opposite of the clean-cut types she had been with. I am convinced that Serge fascinated her much more than her other lovers. He brought her into a world of intelligence and talent, which no one had ever exposed her to before. Little did it matter that he had a face like a gargoyle from Nôtre-Dame. What's more, he brought a whole new world to her, served up on a silver platter, which is just what she needed at the time. Thanks to Serge she was hip again.'"-Excerpted from Gainsbourg: The BiographyYou can purchase the book here: Gainsbourg: The Biography by Gilles Verlant
