the versatile harry everett smith (the two of rabbits)

 - that harry (everett) smith

- yes?

- he has an art show.

- oh wow! where?

- fragments of a faith forgotten: the art of harry smith will be on view october 4 (today!) through january 28, 2024 at the whitney museum of american art, new york. it  the travels to the carpenter center for the visual arts at harvard university, cambridge, MA, for november 2024. there's a sasha frere-jones article in the current edition of artforum. 

delving back into their archive there's an appreciation of the anthology, and an excerpt from the visionary film-makers on him. there's a john f. szwed book as well.

one of the difficulties with harry (and he was a difficult man)  is that he worked in a  wide range of fields and consistently refused the label of artist. if he's done the anthology alone that would be enough, if he'd done the films alone that would be enough, if he'd done the early anthropological field recordings alone that would be enough. 

(even if he'd only made his collection of paper airplanes).

horsemouth hopes some institution over here will pick it up (hint hint).  

we are moving into the anniversaries for horsemouth's bout of film-making (with suke and enza). yesterday three years ago  they did the actual filming (in the teeth of the pandemic), horsemouth stepped back from the editing (other people had strong ideas).

the great british public have been complaining about shit in the rivers and shit in the seas - their water bills are about to double to teach them not to care about anything ecological. horsemouth has his coffee what does he care.

yesterday horsemouth mostly read (torygraph) and snoozed. he was not feeling tip-top. hopefully the heating oil business will work ok (hopefully he has ordered a visit from an oil tanker and it will arrive). there's supposed to be a minor heatwave and then horsemouth guesses that will be it and we will be in to autumn proper. last night he slept with a sweat shirt on, today he is wearing a jumper also. 

horsemouth can see two rabbits from where he is. mind you he has also seen a number of myxie rabbits over the summer. he does hope that a population can re-establish itself. he views it as an auspicious beast. it is currently the chinese year of the rabbit. next year is the year of the dragon (beginning 10th february 2024). 

today the sunak speech at tory party conference (the condemned man gave a hearty speech).