Russell’s work is stranded between lands real and imagined: the street and the cornfield; the soft bohemian New York and the hard Studio 54 New York; the cheery bold strokes of pop and the liberating possibilities of abstract art. Arthur Russell didn’t dissolve these borders so much as wander past them, humming his own song.
Let’s Go Swimming: The New Yorker
SFJ profile on Arthur Russell - I stumbled upon some of his tracks over @ Fairtilizer today and his work has become today’s soundtrack - esp the Audika Release “Calling Out of Context”. (“Historical” sidenote: one of my first tumblr posts was a video that uses “This is How We Walk on the Moon” with imagery from the Kennedy Era)
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