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Joseph Beuys, Iphigenia/Titus Andronicus, May 1969
Performance at avant-garde theater festival in Frankfurt, Germany in which Beuys spread margarine on the stage floor and occasionally clashed symbol, while excerpts from Goethe’s Iphigenia and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus were being read.

Joseph Beuys, Iphigenia/Titus Andronicus, May 1969

Performance at avant-garde theater festival in Frankfurt, Germany in which Beuys spread margarine on the stage floor and occasionally clashed symbol, while excerpts from Goethe’s Iphigenia and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus were being read.

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Joseph Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965
One of the artist’s most famous performances, Beuys covered his head first with honey, and then with fifty dollars worth of gold leaf. He cradles a dead hare in his arms, and strapped an iron plate to the bottom of his right shoe. Viewed from behind glass in the gallery, the audience could see Beuys walking from drawing to drawing, quietly whispering in the dead rabbit’s ear. As he walked around the room, the silence was pierced by intermittent sound of his footsteps; the loud crack of the iron on the floor, and the soundless whisper of the sole of shoe. 

Joseph Beuys, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, 1965

One of the artist’s most famous performances, Beuys covered his head first with honey, and then with fifty dollars worth of gold leaf. He cradles a dead hare in his arms, and strapped an iron plate to the bottom of his right shoe. Viewed from behind glass in the gallery, the audience could see Beuys walking from drawing to drawing, quietly whispering in the dead rabbit’s ear. As he walked around the room, the silence was pierced by intermittent sound of his footsteps; the loud crack of the iron on the floor, and the soundless whisper of the sole of shoe. 

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ON THE GRAPEVINE: Be Nice.

A NYC Taxi driver wrote:

I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked.. ‘Just a minute’,…

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Shahram Shabpareh

Prison Song
Persian Funk

“Prison Song” by Shahram Shabpareh
from Persian Funk 

Shah-era riddims.

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1980s, Kurdistan Province, Iran —- Group of Female Kurdish Rebels

1980s, Kurdistan Province, Iran —- Group of Female Kurdish Rebels

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