In other Antony news, he’s collaborated with the avant-garde composer William Basinski to write songs for a new opera called “The Life and Death of Marina Abramović”, a biography of sorts of the Serbian-born performance artist. The piece is a collaboration between Abramović and director Robert Wilson, and it also stars Willem Dafoe. Antony will perform his songs when the opera debuts next July at the Lowry in Manchester, England, as part of the Manchester International Festival. (Via Pitchfork)
Music for Yom Kippur Weekend: Bjork & Antony, Parenthetical Girls, Gayngs
Posted by Jason Diamond I’m not going to be doing anything fun for the 24 hours after sundown. Just sitting around, fasting, and feeling shitty about everything I’ve done in the last year. At least I’ll have music. I won’t have “Flétta,” the stunning duet between Antony and Bjork that was up on Stereogum yesterday, because the song wasn’t officially supposed to go up; and what isn’t supposed to go up, must come down. This was my first encounter with […]
Antony’s Art Book
We should have figured after Antony Hegarty did the artwork for Zoetrope, more was on the way. P4K reports: “new album Swanlights is out October 5 in Europe on Rough Trade and a day later in the U.S. via Secretly Canadian. Art book publisher Abrams will release a special edition of the album accompanied by a 144-page tome featuring paintings, collages, photography, and writing by Antony.”
The Green Fairy Wants You to Read This Summer’s Zoetrope
This issue’s artwork is done by the ultimately talented musician/artist Antony of Antony and the Johnsons. (In a conversation he has surely forgotten, Antony once told me of the time Cat Power pecked him on the lips at a show. He followed his story with something along the lines of “I’m gay as they come, but I asked her to marry me anyway.”) This spring, Antony curated a group show in Beaubourg, Paris called Six Eyes at the Galerie du […]