Triple Whammy

Todays birthdays are the triple whammy of:
Philip Glass, Derek Jarman and Johnny Rotten. All I can add is WOW!
Glassworks is my favourite album by PG and it was an early one.
If you get a chance do listen to it. I have been enjoying his music for thirty years now! That is another WOW!
Derek Jarman was an extraordinary creative person, his films, writings, set designs and his garden in Dungeness at Prospect Cottage are all amazing. If it was not an overused term I would say he was a "renaissance man". There will be an exhibition in February at the Serpentine, London of his work and it is curated by Isaac Julien. Do look out for it!
And John Lydon...well nevermind does he need any comment at all? The dogs bollocks to many and more.
(If you read the Guardian, do tell me that "my" birthdays are better!)

This is for Paulo my dear friend

CLAUDE CAHUN
I just saw Paul over the weekend and he talked about an exhibition titled Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring which he had seen at CAC (Camden Arts Center) in London. He was particularly interested in having discovered the work of Claude Cahun and wanted to see more. So here goes!
I have researched her life and work over the years since I came to know her photographs through Surrealist exhibitions like Mirror Images at MIT List Visual Arts Centre several years ago. The catalogue is very informative.
She also worked closely with her partner. This work is still very current in terms of representations of identity and sexuality and I think it is a precursor to the work of Francesca Woodman, although she may not actually have known of it, and Cindy Sherman.