“The life class is a special place in which to scrutinize the human form.
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Deller, a large-scale “conceptual artist,” has a penchant for organizing “experiential projects,” such as “It Is What it Is,” a series of interviews Deller recorded while driving across the United States in an RV towing a car destroyed by a bomb in Baghdad. Held at the New York Academy of Art on February 21, the class was organized by the Brooklyn Museum and artist Jeremy Deller. The Brooklyn Museum announced Monday it plans to put the artists’ work on display in an exhibition fall. READ MORE about members of the Blank Generation (1944-53).Fun fact: Iggy Pop posed at a life drawing class for a select group of students selected from New York’s fine art programs last week. On his or her birthday, HiLobrow irregularly pays tribute to one of our high-, low-, no-, or hilobrow heroes. Smith | David Byrne | Debbie Harry | Captain Sensible | Mark Mothersbaugh | Kim Gordon | ALSO: The Original Generation X (1954–1963) and the birth of DIY | The Original Stooge | Origin of the Pogo | Shocking Blocking: Rock’n’Roll High School | Punk fanzines from the 1970s | Post-Punk and New Wave on HiLobrow Boon | John Lydon | Henry Rollins | Palmolive | Plastic Bertrand | Kira Roessler | Lisa Carver | Frank Black | Ari Up | Gary Panter | Mike Watt | Ian Curtis | Paul Simonon | Darby Crash | Penelope Houston | Exene Cervenka | Sid Vicious | Andrew Eldritch | Kate Pierson | Richard Hell | Paul Westerberg | Lux Interior | Ian Dury | Stiv Bators | Tom Verlaine | Colin Newman | Johnny Thunders | Poison Ivy | Green Gartside | Lydia Lunch | Mark E. PUNK, POST-PUNK & ALTERNATIVE on HILOBROW: Joey Ramone | Dez Cadena | Jello Biafra | HR | Mike Watt | Vivienne Westwood | Iggy Pop | D. This is the meat of the matter, physicality, the exaltation of cocks, the mystery of our very embodiment alight with anarchic spark. But trust that I am using the word very precisely when I say he is rock incarnate.
He is, after all, the man who wrote the lyrics to “The Passenger” and “Lust for Life,” and a published scholar on Edward Gibbons.
If I focus now on his body, don’t think I don’t value the avante-prole twist of his mind. He’s stepped off the stage and out onto the audience’s hands in Cincinnati, marching across their lifting grip, anointing himself with peanut butter. Did rock and roll ever need Chris Burden when Iggy was willing to bleed for us? Once he infamously took a shit on the stage in the middle of a show. There is that sense of him giving himself to the music, to the audience, wholly. “Sometimes the audience makes you do terrible things,” Iggy once said, referring to the incident where he harrowed his chest with broken glass. We watched as Iggy’s tendons drew taut almost to snapping, yanking his ropey limbs across the stage. It was the day IGGY POP (James Osterberg, born 1947) turned sixty, and Ron Asheton and Scott Asheton and Mike Watt unleashed primal Detroit fury on us. Four years ago on this day I ensured that whatever else I had done as a parent, I did one thing indisputably right I took my son to see The Stooges reunion show for his first concert.
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