Art Brut news

Hello all -- yep I am still lurknig around and even though it's mid march here is my best fo 2011.. but first: the reissue album of 2011? The Pleasure Seekers: What a Way to Die CD ok my ten faves...pretty much the way I do these lists tends to be my top 1 or 2 and the rest aren't in any order.... the other 8 in alphabetical order, the artist followed by the album title: Art Brut- Brilliant ...

A paragon of Art Brut, Wölfli created all of his unique artworks while incarcerated in an insane asylum in Bern. Diagnosed with schizophrenia and declared dangerous to society, Adolf Wölfli spent most of his adult life in a Swiss psychiatric hospital.

Based on a 2009 exhibition in Montreuil, France, held by the nonprofit organization art brut connaissance & diffusion (abcd), this exhibition features more than 100 works by Luboš Plný and Anna Zemankova, two important Czech art-brut artists. "Art brut" is a term that refers to works created by artists who have not been trained by art institutions and who create art from pure creative impulses ...

All that's missing is the Campbell's Soup. Pixies frontman Frank Black and his wife, Violet Clark, make a whole bunch of direct allusions to Andy Warhol in "Silver Boys," the propulsive, synth-buzzing advance track from their upcoming second album as Grand Duchy, titled Let the People Speak (out April 10). Directed by Art Brut and Los Campesinos! video whiz Alex de Campi for production company ...

Fujiya & Miyagi’s David Best doesn’t really sing, he hisses in rhythm. In LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy would alternate talking with singing. Even talk-singers such as the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and Art Brut’s Eddie Argos follow the bare outlines of melody.

The Seattle artist , known for his drawings that methodically catalog things such as ravens, bugs, buildings and plants, is the subject of a solo exhibition at Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland. "Blackstock" includes 30 of his works from 1991 to the present, plus a documentary film.

3331 Arts Chiyoda Closes Dec. 25 Last year, when artists running the art-event space 3331 Arts Chiyoda were commissioned by the Chiyoda Ward Office to organize a project in support of people with disabilities, they decided to create a new category of art. Instead of pidgeonholing works by disabled people with terms such as Art Brut or outsider art, they invented POCORART, short for Place of ...

Arifa bring acoustic folk to Chandlers, Chesterfield. New Orleans Heat warm The Unwin Club, Sutton. Art Brut and This Many Boyfriends do Sheffield’s Plug.

What happens when a music festival is canceled just a few days prior to its commencement? A ton of angry tweets, people demanding refunds, bands with no venues to play, and an army of Hanson fans screaming shenanigans. As you may have heard Sunset Junction, the little community event that became a giant music festival, [...]

Tapes 'n TapesArt BrutThe Chain Gang of 1974The IndependentTo resort to the old say-nothing dodge that got me through all high-school term-paper writing, Friday night at the Independent was a study

-- The Sunset Junction Street Fair , which was to take place this weekend in Los Angeles, has been canceled after the city denied the festival permits. Artists such as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Art Brut, Peaches, Butthole Surfers, and Tapes 'n Tapes have scheduled last minute shows around L.A. LA Weekly has a full rundown of replacement shows . -- True Blood - Music From the HBO Original Series ...