March 2012
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February 2012
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Kathy Acker Interviews the Spice Girls for Vogue...
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All Girls Together by Kathy Acker
The Spice Girls are the biggest, brashest girlie group ever to have hit the British mainstream. Kathy Acker is an avant-garde American writer and academic. They met up in New York to swap notes - on boys, girls, politics. And what they really, really want.
Fifty-second street. West Side, New York City. Hell’s Kitchen - one...
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Cara Salimando and I met on a blind date at a coffee shop to talk about writing songs together. And we made these two for her February release.
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7 Song Live EP From LE TIGRE Coming Soon
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New Music from MEN!
On iTunes. On Amazon MP3. Lyrics here.
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I Wore This Tape Out
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A Punk Show
Most of my stuff like this is in the Riot Grrrl Collection at the Fales Library. Janelle Hessig made the flyer.
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Which One Are You? (Found Art)
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Found Art)
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My First Concert
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ALEX BAG
In 1995 I was an art student at SVA, having fled the imploding Northwest Riot Grrrl scene for New York City. Alex Bag’s character in her videotape Untitled Fall ‘95 (1995)—an SVA student who quotes Bikini Kill, suffers through a class taught by Josh Decter, and has shitty jobs—so closely mirrored my circumstances, I felt queasy as I tittered in the gallery. Bag’s work offered...
January 2012
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"Campaign"
My review of “Campaign,” a group show curated by Amy Smith-Stewart at C24 Gallery is up at Artforum.com.
Kathe Burkhart Beaver: From the Liz Taylor Series (publicity shot), 2011 Acrylic, strip poker cards, fake fur, composition leaf on canvas 78 x 58 inches (198.1 x 147.3 cm)
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LE TIGRE Screening in NYC on February 10th
“Who Took the Bomp? LE TIGRE on Tour” will screen as a part of the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College. Friday, February 10th at 9PM. RSVP on facebook and follow us on twitter for updates.
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LE TIGRE Screening in BROOKLYN, January 25th
“Who Took The Bomp? LE TIGRE on Tour” (dir. Kerthy Fix) will screen at Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg on Wednesday, January 25th at 9PM. Q&A with the band will follow. RSVP here. Photo of our costumes by Kathleen.
December 2011
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Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011
Robinson’s Wrap, 1974 70 x 94 inches Acrylic on canvas
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Book Club
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Le Tigre STREAMING
Now from Oscilloscope Labs, stream “Who Took the Bomp? LE TIGRE ON TOUR.”
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TODAY
Today, FRIDAY, Dec 2 we meet at PACE University and march to demand an end to STOP AND FRISK. No RSVP required! Twitter updates @ENDstopandfrisk @StopMassIncNet! See you there.
November 2011
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FREAK OUT!
Nile Rodgers has written an amazing memoir. My review of Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny is in the new issue of Bookforum.
By Cara Salimando & Johanna Fateman
We forgot...
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"I Am the Billy Childish"
My review of the Billy Childish show at Lehmann Maupin is up on Artforum.com.
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LE TIGRE FILM ON NETFLIX
“Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour” directed by Kerthy Fix is available on Netflix.
October 2011
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DEAD FLOWERS
The book won’t be out until November 30, but I thought this would be a pretty Halloween post. I wrote an essay about artist Charles Atlas for Dead Flowers, edited by Lia Gangitano of PARTICIPANT INC. Dead Flowers was also an exhibition.
Above are stills of some of the video work by Atlas that I discuss: Teach (1992-98) with Leigh Bowery, Hail the New Puritan (1985-86), Rainer Variations...
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ARTAUD-MANIA (1997)
David O’Neill writes about my art school screed for the Paris Review blog. The flat copy of Artaud-Mania is with my papers in the Riot Grrrl archive at NYU’s Fales Library.
September 2011
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It'll be a Hot Hot Summer in Hell, Businessman:...
The Punk Singer
It’s so weird no one is pumping capital into feminist art, but whatever. Director Sini Anderson has launched a kickstarter campaign to fund the completion of her feature documentary “The Punk Singer,” a beautifully shot film about Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, Le Tigre) that promises to enrich the narrative of Riot Grrrl and Third Wave feminism...
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A Few More LE TIGRE Film Screenings!
“Who Took The Bomp? LE TIGRE ON TOUR” directed by Kerthy Fix will be screening a few more times in October and November. Above, me with members of Slipknot, 2004.
12 Oct HELSINKI Vinokino RSVP
15 Oct OLYMPIA WA Capitol Theatre RSVP
29 Oct BRIGHTON UK West Hill Hall RSVP
5 November CHARLOTTESVILLE VA Virginia Film Festival RSVP
The film is now available to rent or purchase on...
August 2011
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Pet Portraits
Jacques, 2010, Watercolor on paper, 8.5 x 11” , Collection of Dustin Hollensteiner
In my no-holds-barred fundraising campaign for a new, worker-owner grocery store in a NYC food desert staffed by kids who have aged out of city youth services, I am offering pet portraits to backers of SWEETWORK PROJECT on Kickstarter. From photographs, such as the one below of Jacques, I will paint your...
July 2011
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Super Rare Hot Chip Le Tigre Remix 7" for Super...
A couple of these very rare & collectible (neon vinyl and spray paint stencil sleeves with glitter!) 7”s of Hot Chip’s 2004 remix of my band Le Tigre’s song TKO have been added as prizes for backers of a Kickstarter campaign for an ambitious and radical new enterprise. Sweetwork Project will be a worker-owned organic grocery store and coffee bar in a neighborhood of West...
June 2011
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COUNTY DOWN by LAURA PARNES: New Images from the...
These beautiful images are from the most recent shoot of COUNTY DOWN, an episodic video work-in-progress by Laura Parnes. This scene features Shaun, my friend and partner in SEAGULL SALON. I’m the music director! Watch the trailer.
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My first NYT quote was in 1996, about Kmart:
Johanna Fateman, 22, an artist with an unruly head of dyed black hair and a furry black thrift-shop coat, said: ”What’s interesting is that it’s right across the street from all these other chains, like Starbucks, which portrays itself as classier than Kmart. But, really, it’s just as tacky.”
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"Who Took the Bomp? LE TIGRE on Tour" is out TODAY
You can order it from Oscilloscope Laboratories or a number of online retailers. And here are more upcoming screenings:
7 June NEW YORK CITY Maysles (Q&A w/ Jo of Le Tigre, and dir. Kerthy Fix)
17 June SALT LAKE CITY, UT Damn These Heels Festival
18 June WASHINGTON DC Where the Girls Go
22 June FREIBERG, GERMANY Lesbian FF of Freiburg
26 June NEW YORK CITY Ace Hotel ( w/Kathleen, Jo...
May 2011
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Call for a New Pronoun [1882]
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Old Le Tigre Disks, New Le Tigre Screenings
8 May VANCOUVER, CANADA Doxa FF
27 May TORONTO, CA LGBT FF
29 May AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND Out Takes FF
1 June MEXICO CITY, MEXICO Distrital FF (Q&A w/ dir. Kerthy Fix)
[Cineteca Nacional miércoles 1º de junio a las 20:00 hrs. Viernes 3 en Lumiere Reforma a las 19:45 hrs. Domingo 5 CCU Tlatelolco a las 18:30 hrs. ]
2 June DENVER, Denver Film Society
7 June NEW YORK CITY Maysles...
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Joan Semmel's New Self-Portraits
My review of Joan Semmel’s solo exhibition at Alexander Gray Associates is up on artforum.com. Semmel emerged as a figurative painter associated with the 1970’s women’s art movement. She is best known for her iconic ”looking down” series and (unofficially named) “fuck paintings.” Visit the artist’s site for more images of her work.
April 2011
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