Art, Beauty, Photography As An Art Form, Cinema, Painting, Feminism, Meditation, The Art of Drawing, Music, Artists Who Are Auteurs, Contemporary Dance: Modern, Post-Modern, Ballet; Avant-garde Theater, Glam Rock (the intellectual wing), Performance art: from the ascetic to the lurid.ARTISTS: Manet, Courbet, Jenny Saville, Balthus, Guy Bourdin, Watteau, Iris Chacon, Vivienne Westwood, Richard Pryor, Jean Cocteau, Boucher, Pina Bausch, Leigh Bowery,Josephine Baker, Julie Taymor, Vermeer, Richard Serra, Betony Vernon, John Singer Sargent, Yvonne Rainer, Rubens, John Kelly, Eartha Kitt, Cy Twombly, Meret Oppenheim, Romaine Brooks, Bettie Page, Ingres, Matisse, Richard Foreman, Brice Marden, Chardin, DeKooning, Louise Bourgeois, Titian, Joseph Cornell, Robert Wilson, Clifford Still, Rei Kawakubo, Warhol, Greer Lankton, Bonnard, David Hammons, Merce Cunningham, Hans Bellmer, Karen Finley, Rothko, Roy DeCarava, Max Ernst, Erin Cressida Wilson, Velazquez, Anthony Caro, Jessica Stockholder, Degas, David Salle, Poussin, Klimt, Utamaro, Monet, Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jasper Johns, Lucian Freud, Coco Chanel, Dali, Beckmann, Annette Messager, Giacometti, Jules Olitski, Marcel Duchamp, Caravaggio, Butterfly McQueen, Pierre Klossowski, Anselm Keifer, Robert Crumb, Gerhard Richter, Egon Schiele, Lisa Yuskavage, Roberto Baldazzini, Nicole Tran Ba Vang.PHOTOGRAPHERS: Diane Arbus, Walter Pfeiffer, Guy Bourdin, Nobuyoshi Araki, Emmet Gowin, Helmut Newton, Hellen van Meene, Seiichi Furuya, Julia Kennedy, John Baldessari, Lady Hawarden, James Van Der Zee, Carlo Mollino, Thomas Ruff, Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm, Julia Margaret Cameron, Hans Bellmer, Tina Barney, Pierre Molinier, Claude Cahun, Roger Ballen, Seydou Keita, Jean Paul Goude, Sam Haskins, Russ Meyer, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Serge Jacques (Paris-Hollywood magazine), Ralph Gibson, Bettina Rheims, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Man Ray, Larry Sultan, Germaine Krull, Steven Meisel, Andrea Modica, John Willie, Roni Horn, Billy Name, Dana Lixenberg, Mario Sorrenti, Irving Klaw, Sarah Wong, Sally Mann, Katja Rahlwes, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rinko Kawauchi, Jan Saudek, Weegee, Nicholas Nixon, Nikki S. Lee, Taryn Simon, Dorothea Lange, Vanessa Beecroft, Jeff Wall, Glen Luchford, Donigan Cumming, Justine Kurland, William Eggleston, Peter Hujar. ART DIRECTORS: Carine Roitfeld, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Diana Vreeland, Richard Foreman, Alexander Lieberman, Douglas Sirk, Matthew Barney, Fabian Baron, Girls Like Us, Genevieve Field, Scott Walker, Marian Goodman, David Zwirner.
Art lovers, friends, artists, subjects for photography.
Roxy Music, Billie Holiday, Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, David Bowie, Lhasa, The Band, Diamanda Galas, Betty Davis, Tom Waits, Prince, Karen Dalton, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Muddy Waters, Ghost, Teresa Stratas, Frank Sinatra, Joan As Police Woman, Suicide, Love, Sade, Fela, Tindersticks, Massive Attack, Fennesz, Sly and The Family Stone, Eric Dolphy, Smog, The Four Tops, Blossom Dearie, David Sylvian, George Clinton (Parliament, Funkadelic, solo), Nina Simone, The Notorious BIG, The Supremes, Nico, Bettina Koster, James Brown, Kate Bush, Joanna Newsom, Bob Marley And The Wailers, Ennio Morricone, Talking Heads, Julie London, Lou Reed, Everything But The Girl, Danger Mouse, Cristina, Schoenberg, John Lee Hooker, Carla Bley, Webern, Richard Butler, Hoez With Attitude, Peaches, Francoiz Breut, Alban Berg, Luther Vandross, Led Zeppelin, Kurt Weill, Claudia Brucken, Iggy Pop (especially with Bowie as Producer), Aphex Twin, Jane Birkin, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Michael, John McLaughlin, Come, Expose, Portishead, Duke Ellington, Moloko, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Astor Piazzolla, Van Morrison, k.d. Lang, Arto Lindsay, Mark Cunningham, Lucy Hamilton, Can, My Bloody Valentine, Edith Piaf, Einsturzende Neubauten, Kahimi Karie, Vanessa Daou, Mahler, Susanna & The Magical Orchestra, George Jones, Mary Margaret O'Hara, The Beatles, Cher, Gershwin, Kool Keith, Bjork, Elvis Presley, Ice Cube, The Doors, Radiohead (Kid A, Amnesiac, The Eraser), Goblin, The Righteous Brothers, Morrissey/The Smiths, Frank Zappa, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Public Enemy, Lydia Lunch, Brian Eno, The Moldy Peaches, Howlin' Wolf, DAF, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Stereolab, Stephen Sondheim, Calexico, Maria Callas, The Groundhogs, Cat Power, The Temptations, Antony and The Johnsons, Richard Strauss, PJ Harvey, The Magnetic Fields, Bach, Al Green, Neil Young, Annette Peacock, Angelo Badalamenti, Wu Tang Clan, Joni Mitchell, Robert Fripp, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Velvet Underground, Steely Dan, Juana Molina, The Rolling Stones, Kraftwerk, Johnny Cash, Serge Gainsbourg, Cassandra Wilson, The Associates/Billy MacKenzie, The Carpenters, Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band, Jimi Hendrix, Donna Summer, Gorecki, The Byrds, Television, Mad Professor, Marianne Faithfull, Hugo Largo, Goldfrapp, Jefferson Airplane, Marvin Gaye, Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, Alice In Chains, Ravi Shankar, Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, Destroyer, Gram Parsons, David Crosby ("If I Could Only Remember My Name"), Jacques Brel, Dr. Dre, Bob Dylan, Hole.
DIRECTORS: Jacques Rivette, Lucrecia Martel, David Lynch, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Luis Bunuel, Catherine Breillat, Jose Mojica Marins, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Luc Godard, Satoshi Kon, Antonioni, Dario Argento, Douglas Sirk, Jean Cocteau, Pedro Almodovar, Brian De Palma, Andy Warhol, Nicolas Roeg, Billy Wilder, Clint Eastwood, Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Coen Brothers, David Mamet, Guillermo del Toro, Wong Kar Wai, Philip Kaufmann, Jane Campion, Carl Dreyer, Alain Resnais, Takashi Miike, Richard Linklater, Disney, Fellini, Mario Bava, Orson Welles, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michael Haneke, Ulricke Ottinger, Maria Beatty, Ridley Scott, Ingmar Bergman, Todd Haynes, Roman Polanski, Robert Bresson, Andrzej Zulawski, David Cronenberg, Lynne Ramsey, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Sam Rami, Atom Egoyan, Radley Metzger, Francis Ford Coppola, Russ Meyer, Stanley Kubrick, Doris Wishman, Richard Kern, Yvonne Rainer, Maya Deren, Paul Verhoven, Kathryn Bigelow, Justin Slayer, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Robert Altman, Jean-Claude Brisseau. .. ACTORS: Cindy Sherman, Shannyn Sossamon, Juliette Binoche, Ellen Page, America Ferrera, Barbara Steele, Isabel Sarli, Tabea Blumenschein, Jeanne Balibar, Vanessa Redgrave, Dr. Girlfriend, Falconetti, Beatrice Dalle, Bette Davis, Lucinda Childs, Tilda Swinton, Pam Grier, Isabelle Huppert, Kim Novak, Catherine Deneuve, Candy Darling, Javier Bardem, Deborah Kara Unger, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Caroline Pierce, Diane Keaton, Clive Owen, Sigourney Weaver in the "Alien" series, Hanna Schygulla, Anna Karina, Greta Garbo, Denzel Washington, April Flores, Mary Louise Parker, James Spader, Helen Mirren, Famke Janssen, Anna Magnani, Louise Brooks, Charlotte Rampling, Irm Hermann, Emmanuelle Beart, Johnny Depp, Bettie Page, Cynda Williams, Dominique Sanda, Jeff Bridges, Marlon Brando, Patricia Arquette, Liv Ullmann, Montgomery Clift, Ingrid Bergman, Veruschka, Al Pacino, Monica Vitti, Maggie Cheung, Sandrine Bonnaire, Vanessa Del Rio, Asia Argento, Naomi Watts, Lana Sands, Margit Carstensen, Jane Birkin, Diana Ladd, Laura Dern, Glenn Close. .. FILMS: Fear Eats The Soul, Renaissance, I'm Not There, The Letter (Bette Davis opus), The Marriage of Maria Braun, Calvaire, Trapped In The Closet (R.Kelly), The Last Mistress, Paprika, 8 & 1/2, Inland Empire, Femme Fatale, Tsotsi, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Last Tango In Paris, Santa Sangre, Chelsea Girls, Voodoo Island, Blue, Fargo, Pan's Labyrinth, Intimate Confessions Of A Chinese Courtesan, Persona, Freeway, L'Avventura, The Conversation, Team America: World Police, Two Or Three Things I Know About Her, Les Enfants Terrible, The Dancer Upstairs, Show Me Love, Weekend, Princesa, The Five Obstructions, Belle de Jour, Demonlover, A Married Woman, Roxy Music Live At The Apollo, The Decalogue, Identification Of A Woman, Betty Blue, Mulholland Drive, Beauty And The Beast (Cocteau), Rider On The Rain, Looking For Mr. Goodbar, The Woman Next Door, Point Blank, In The Mood For Love, Spider, The Long Goodbye, A Woman's Revenge, The Holy Girl, Touch of Evil, Ticket Of No Return, Cache, The Licorice Quartet, 29 Palms, The Flowers Of Shanghai, M, Kika, Trouble Every Day, Exterminating Angels, No Direction Home, Naked Lunch, Dark City, In My Skin, Gozu, Dead Ringers, Ma Vie En Rose, Coffey, A Woman Is A Woman, Exotica, This Is Spinal Tap, Salo, Foxy Brown, Nosferatu (Herzog version), Fuego, Anatomy Of Hell, Deathdream, The Punishment of Anne (aka "The Image"), Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession, See The Sea, Village Of The Damned, Existenz, The Piano Teacher, Morvern Callar, Miller's Crossing, The Black Glove, West Side Story, La Fidelite, The Fury, La Belle Noiseuse, Happiness, The Man Who Fell To Earth (uncut), Ed Wood, Matador, Lost Highway, Apocalypse Now, Secret Defense, Showgirls (uncut), Celine And Julie Go Boating, Sleeping Beauty (Disney version), The Story Of O, Notorious, In A Year Of Thirteen Moons, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence; Mala Noche, Orlando, Dead Zone, The Last Waltz, Amores Perros, Vertigo, Play Misty For Me, Chinatown, Pola X, Repulsion, Get Carter, Playing For Time, Second Serve, The Soft Skin, Les Biches, Possession, Nashville, Crash (Cronenberg mix), Same Time Next Year, Hour Of The Wolf, Nouvelle Vague, Storytelling, Oh Woe Is Me, A.I., Szamanka (aka Chamanka), Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia, The Bridges Of Madison County, Blue Velvet, Last Year At Marienbad, The Big Lebowski, Shame, Once Upon Time In The West, Suspiria, The Stendahl Syndrome, Tenebrae, The Conversation, One False Move, One From The Heart, Inferno (Argento version), La Luna (aka Luna), Fellini's Casanova, That Obscure Object Of Desire, Vixen, Pandora's Box, Imitation Of Life, Liquid Sky, The Nightporter, Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, Hollywood Shuffle, The Ghost In the Shell 2: Innocence, Bitter Moon, Strange Days, Funny Games, Audition, Cure, Scarface, Eden and After, Toby Dammit, Fingered, The Story of Marie and Julien, 24 Hour Party People, Marnie, At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, Spartan, The Legend of Leigh Bowery.
Charlie Rose, Damages, Futurama, Creature Comforts, The Venture Brothers, X-Files, Animal Planet, CNN, Prime Suspect: the BBC Series, South Park, Logo Channel.
Teresa DeLauretis, Simone Weil, Flaubert, Virginia Woolf, Wallace Stevens, Kathy Acker, Georges Bataille, Helene Cixous, Catherine M., John Ashbery, Jane Bowles, Patricia Highsmith, Marcel Proust, Erica Wagner, Shelley, Paul Valery, Wordsworth, Holderlin, Milan Kundera, E. M. Cioran, Wittgenstein, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, Raymond Roussel, Balzac, Marguerite Duras, Peter Handke, Pierre Klossowski, Plato, Dominique Aury (aka Pauline Reage), Djuna Barnes, Octavio Paz, Dave Hickey, Monique Wittig, Simone De Beauvoir, Rosalind E. Krauss, Guy Davenport, Terence Sellers. Magazines: New Yorker, Girls Like Us, Paris Vogue, New York Times Magazine, BlueBlood, Purple, Artforum, Propaganda, S, Modern Painters, Spread, W, Vogue Italia, New York, Photoworks, Secret, Next Level, Pop, Film Comment, Clam, www.Alecsoth.com/blog/.
Susan Sontag, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Goodall, Miles Davis, Simone Weil, Malcolm X, Bryan Ferry, Hans Bellmer, Gandhi, Samuel Beckett, Nelson Mandela, Alfred Hitchcock, Diamanda Galas.