Brigid Berlin is an American legend. Deranged and beautiful, her life is a head on collision between high society decadence, urine soaked carpet fibers and methamphetamine filled veins, forming a beautiful bouquet of rebelliousness. On view now at Invisible Exports, an exhibition explores the life and ephemera of this strange specimen, from her polaroid’s of Andy Warhol’s factory and the New York avant garde to her obsessive audio recordings to her wonderful tit paintings that make for fine framed prints on any discernable gentleman or gentlewoman’s desk. Just who is Brigid Berlin? – She is a rebel in the purest form. She is an artist and a documentarian. She was once a part of Andy Warhol’s circle and entourage. Today, Berlin is alive and well and, no doubt, as weird as ever. Click here to read ten things you need to know about Brigid Berlin.
Joe Dallesandro Superstar
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Joe Dallesandro und Jane Forth Joe Dallesandro, the Little Joe "who never once gave it away" in Lou Reed's Take a Walk on the Wild Side and superstar of Andy Warhol's factory, is the subject of a photo exhibition at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg: Aktuelle Kunst Haus der Photographie gallery beginning April 1 and running through May 22. Curated by Ingo Taubhorn, Joe Dallesandro Superstar will feature Joe's varied roles in masculine portraiture by such photographers as Duncan, Skrebneski, Avedon, Scavullo, Michals, Childers, and Bokelberg. Vintage film posters and stills from Joe's work in the 1960s and 1970s will also be featured. For more on the Joe show, part of a larger exhibition devoted to Traummaenner (dream men), in which fifty famous contemporary photographers display their "vision of the ideal."www.deichtorhallen.de