This week has been great in many ways, and I have added some interesting material to the AN ART APART site: First, an essay comparing Coralie Fargeat’s excellent film ”The Substance” (2024) with John Frankenheimer’s ”Seconds” (1966). I talked about ”Seconds” at the University of Copenhagen last fall and then realized it’s basically more or less the same film as Fargeat’s contemporary body horror film (and vice versa, of course), and so I lectured about these similarities at the Freud Museum in London late February. Check it out: ”The quintessentially Faustian deals these people are offered do not come from the archetype of a mocking yet essentially humanity-loving Mephistopheles, but from pure corporate greed hiding behind old parlor tricks and supposedly new formulas to squeeze out the last hysteric pennies of women of all ages while at the same time offering technological gizmo structures for the obsessives in their emasculated self-pity.” Then there is a deep-diving interview with...

I just posted this amazing and previously unpublished Joe Coleman interview: ”That’s what I do: I find something that speaks to me, and then I go with it and let it tell me its story, but filtered through me with whatever codings there are in my personal history, my family history, my experience with my contemporary understanding of what it’s like to live in this era as compared to that era. All these things then form a portrait, so it’s a different kind of portrait painting; a kind of portrait painting that speaks to religious art.” #joecoleman #doorwaytojoe #fantagraphics #anartapart #painting #occulture #americana #americanhistory #outsiderart #tomwaits #whitneyward #vanessasinclair #carlabrahamsson