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MUSIC VIDEO: CANDLELIGHT RED - 'She's Got The Look'
The Daily BLAM
The video was shot in Stanley Kubrick's family warehouse by indie video aficionado Alex de Campi (Art Brut, Los Campesinos!). The video twists the song into a horror story of a lonely teen boy who dreams of finding a girl who ends up finding him, ...


 
Contactmusic.com
The Wind-Up Birds, The Land Album Review
Contactmusic.com
This is not to say that Ackroyd has no peers; a cursory listen to his sung-spoken stories will bring to mind a bundle of reference points, chief amongst them Turner, Mark E Smith and Art Brut's Eddie Argos. Those are the names which have cropped up in ...


 
Ra Ra Riot Shake Things Up On New Album
SPIN
An early CMJ performance and a particularly impressive opening gig for Art Brut prompted SPIN to tout them as "one of the best young bands we've heard in a really long time." Two months later, they were mourning the death of their 22-year-old drummer, ...


 
Don't Ask! Just Buy It! - May 9, 2012: Inimitable, Incredible, Indefatigable
ComicsAlliance
This graphic novel involves a struggle with Satan, lots of misspellings, some sexual desperation, wordplay based on Beatles lyrics, and a lot of art-brut sloppiness; it ties in with some new music from him, and the "Editor," "Publisher" and ...


 
ClashMusic.com
Fifty Outsiders : 11 - 20
ClashMusic.com
French artist Jean Dubuffet's 1948 definition of 'art brut' (raw art) was translated into 'outsider art' by critic Roger Cardinal in 1972, referring to extreme work created outside traditional constraints with no connection to mainstream institutions ...


 
Guggenheim Presents Exhibition of Mid-20th-Century Art from the Permanent ...
Broadway World
For artists in Spain, abstract art signified political liberation. Dissenting Italian artists correspondingly turned to abstraction against the renewed popularity of politicized realism. French artist Jean Dubuffet's spontaneous approach, Art Brut (Raw ...


 
Miami New Times (blog)
Crazy Art: NAEMI Group Exhibit Shows Work by Mentally Ill Artists
Miami New Times (blog)
National Art Exhibitions by the Mentally Ill is dedicated to the exhibition of art created by talented individuals recovering from mental illness; the art of the outsider in the contemporary world. The art brut approach by patients is "the last bastion ...

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