Alan Vega left a robust vault. The excavation begins with a new album.
This file photo taken on March 5, 2004 shows US singer Alan Vega performing in the western French city of Nantes as part of the I.D.E.A.L. Festival. FRANK PERRY / AFP.
by Rob Tannenbaum
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- In 1978, the adversarial New York duo Suicide played a show in Boston, opening for the Cars, local heroes whod crossed over into pop success. Suicide performed a set of assaultive and static electronic music, and the unhappy audience demonstrated its distaste by throwing ashtrays, some of which hit singer Alan Vega. But Vega and his bandmate, Martin Rev, had recently finished European tours opening for the Clash and Elvis Costello during which they caused a literal riot in Belgium. (It was later documented on a live recording, 23 Minutes Over Brussels, named for the length of Suicides set before the gendarmes were summoned.)
Alan Vega Left a Robust Vault The Excavation Begins With a New Album
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The British artist Leonora Carrington in her house in Mexico City in 2000
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When art curator Tere Arcq went to see a painting by British Surrealist Leonora Carrington that she hoped to include in a retrospective exhibition, she was astonished at what else its owner, a Mexican collector, had to show her: 22 previously unknown paintings by Carrington based on the characters from tarot cards. “It was incredible,” says Arcq, “I had no idea that she produced a tarot deck.”
The designs – which are published as a book this week by Fulgur Press – are unique among tarot sets, with their square format, unusual symbolic colours, and the use of gold leaf that recalls ancient Egyptian art.