ANTEBELLUM BLOG

OPENING NIGHT~ FUCK LOVE

2012-02-14T23:00:00.000-08:00

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

2012-02-14T07:17:00.000-08:00

VALENTINE'S DAY~ 2012

2012-02-14T07:06:00.001-08:00

NO DATES? NO LOVERS? NO EXCUSES~ FUCK LOVE @ ANTEBELLUM~

blonde wood penis~ hand carved by billy pacak

ANTEBELLUM
PRESENTS

FUCK LOVE
mixed media group art exhibition depicting~
LOVE-SEX-ROMANCE- LUST
april flores

FEATURING

GEORGE QUAINTANCE
DANIEL NICOLETTA
LON OF NEW YORK
DENNIS HOPPER
JOHNNY HELLION
EMMA ESCAMILLA
JOHN BLACKBURN
BRYAN BARNES
LOUIS JACINTO
BARRY MORSE
CARLOS BATTS
RICK CASTRO
JAN KLESSE
APRIL FLORES
KELLY SMITH
PETER BERLIN
TONY WARD
BILLY PACAK
BUGHOUSE
$EX ARTISTE
MATT PIPES
DAVE NAZ

AND MORE!

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY

BASIAN DAMASCUS
JACQUE MAHONEY
also in person!~ NANCY SHIELDS!!
(brooke shields's older sister and professional aerobics pro)

NO-HOST BAR

FEBRUARY 14TH
7PM TIL 9PM

$5 DONATION

ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
323 856-0667
antebellum@earthlink.net
antebellumgallery.blogspot.com

FACEBOOK EVITE~

matt pipes

COLE PORTER'S LOVE LETTERS

2012-02-14T02:34:00.000-08:00

In a preview from Pittsburgh, Hour 1, appraiser Kathleen Guzman looks at a collection of letters written between legendary composer Cole Porter and Broadway actor Monty Woolley. Porter and Woolley met at Yale and had a very long, unique, and complicated relationship, a glimpse of which is revealed in the intimate correspondence. ANTIQUES ROADSHOW.

ANTEBELLUM PRESENTS~ FULL MOON!

2012-02-13T17:24:00.000-08:00

photo courtesy~ entventint

FUCK LOVE HITS ANTEBELLUM IN HOLLYWOOD!

2012-02-13T09:17:00.000-08:00

OK, DOOMSDAY-ER'S..... you hate everyone and everything so this exhibition is for you~

FUCK LOVE

ANTEBELLUM
PRESENTS

FUCK LOVE
mixed media group art exhibition depicting~
LOVE-SEX-ROMANCE- LUST

matt pipes

FEATURING

GEORGE QUAINTANCE
DANIEL NICOLETTA
LON OF NEW YORK
DENNIS HOPPER
JOHNNY HELLION
EMMA ESCAMILLA
JOHN BLACKBURN
BRYAN BARNES
LOUIS JACINTO
BARRY MORSE
CARLOS BATTS
RICK CASTRO
JAN KLESSE
APRIL FLORES
KELLY SMITH
PETER BERLIN
TONY WARD
BILLY PACAK
$EX ARTISTE
MATT PIPES
DAVE NAZ

AND MORE!

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY

BASIAN DAMASCUS
JACQUE MAHONEY

NO-HOST BAR

OPENING NIGHT~
FEBRUARY 14TH
7PM TIL 9PM

$5 DONATION
FACEBOOK EVITE

ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
323 856-0667
antebellum@earthlink.net
antebellumgallery.blogspot.com

george quaintance~ 1952

john blackburn, johnny hellion & matt pipes

tony ward by kelly smith

carlos batts

matt pipes

daniel nicoletta

THE GARDEN OF EDEN

2012-02-13T09:07:00.000-08:00

photo courtesy~ jesus silverlake~ silverlake/antebellum correspondent

DON'T! STOP IT!!

2012-02-13T08:54:00.001-08:00

MACHO FERVENT FUCK

2012-02-13T03:36:00.000-08:00

Macho Fervent Fuck With Ebony Partner

SUCK MY DICK

2012-02-12T08:13:00.000-08:00

rick castro~ suck my dick~ 8x10~sepia toned matte print, 1995

DARTH VADAR FETISH CONTINUES ON...

2012-02-12T08:06:00.000-08:00

HE DESIRES MORE

2012-02-12T08:05:00.000-08:00

photos courtesy~ carlos leather~ st. petersburg/antebellum correspondent

TRUE LOVE?

2012-02-12T08:01:00.000-08:00

photos~ courtesy~ luizo vega~ soldier to rick castro @ madrid/antebellum correspondent

FUCK LOVE IS INSTALLED!

2012-02-12T07:43:00.000-08:00

and ready for VALENTINE'S DAY~ 2012!

here's the progress~

check out opening night~ FUCK LOVE

february 14th~ 7pm till 9pm

live performances by~

BASTIAN DAMASCUS
JACQUE MAHONEY

$5 DONATION
FACEBOOK EVITE~

PIN UP

2012-02-10T19:55:00.000-08:00

model & photos courtesy~ gio black peter

FUCK LOVE~ HITS ANTEBELLUM

2012-02-10T19:21:00.000-08:00

COMING ON FEBRUARY 14TH~

PRESENTS

FUCK LOVE

george quaintance~ Preludio~ 16x20 vintage print~ circa 1952

mixed media group art exhibition depicting~

LOVE-SEX-ROMANCE- LUST

FEATURING

GEORGE QUAINTANCE
DANIEL NICOLETTA
LON OF NEW YORK
DENNIS HOPPER
JOHNNY HELLION
EMMA ESCAMILLA
JOHN BLACKBURN
BRYAN BARNES
LOUIS JACINTO
BARRY MORSE
CARLOS BATTS
RICK CASTRO
JAN KLESSE
APRIL FLORES
KELLY SMITH
PETER BERLIN
TONY WARD
BILLY PACAK
$EX ARTISTE
MATT PIPES
DAVE NAZ

AND MORE!

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY

BASIAN DAMASCUS
JACQUE MAHONEY

NO-HOST BAR

FEBRUARY 14TH
7PM TIL 9PM

$5 DONATION

ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
323 856-0667
antebellum@earthlink.net
antebellumgallery.blogspot.com

johnny hellion~ the black dahlia~ plaster mask~ 2012

FUCK LOVE ON VDAY

2012-02-10T10:32:00.000-08:00

FUCK LOVE HITS ANTEBELLUM ON FEBRUARY 14TH!~

(hand~carved~ blonde wooden penis by billy pacak

ANTEBELLUM
PRESENTS

FUCK LOVE
mixed media group art exhibition depicting~

LOVE-SEX-ROMANCE- LUST

artwork~ matt pipes

FEATURING

GEORGE QUAINTANCE
DANIEL NICOLETTA
LON OF NEW YORK
DENNIS HOPPER
JOHNNY HELLION
EMMA ESCAMILLA
JOHN BLACKBURN
BRYAN BARNES
LOUIS JACINTO
BARRY MORSE
CARLOS BATTS
RICK CASTRO
JAN KLESSE
APRIL FLORES
KELLY SMITH
PETER BERLIN
TONY WARD
BILLY PACAK
$EX ARTISTE
MATT PIPES
DAVE NAZ

AND MORE!

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY

BASIAN DAMASCUS
JACQUE MAHONEY

NO-HOST BAR

FEBRUARY 14TH
7PM TIL 9PM

$5 DONATION

ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
323 856-0667
antebellum@earthlink.net
antebellumgallery.blogspot.com

hand~carved wooden high heel with saw blade by~ billy pacak

photo by daniel nicoletta

WILL WORK FOR WEED

2012-02-10T10:17:00.000-08:00

photo courtesy~ $ex artiste!~ hollywood/antebellum correspondent

MARCO IS AN ANTI~ ANTI~GAY BIGOT

2012-02-10T10:12:00.000-08:00

BOOTED BRUTHA

2012-02-10T06:14:00.000-08:00

photos courtesy~ booted brutha

HUG A TREE

2012-02-10T06:09:00.000-08:00

photo courtesy~ larry berger

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
- Hermann Hesse, Wandering

THE ENEMY OF LOVE

2012-02-10T05:53:00.000-08:00

proudly presents

linus raudsepp AKA bastian damascus

EROS NEMICO

the enemy of love

an erotic black mass

manifesting the other side of romance,

the other side of tenderness.

the other side of intimacy.

how far would you go

to follow your wildest desires?

sacrifice meets sacredness on

tuesday february 14th approx 8 pm.

opening nite~

FUCK LOVE EXHBIT

$5 cover

how deep is YOUR love?

SINISTER

2012-02-10T05:46:00.000-08:00

photo & model~ luizo vega~ madrid/antebellum correspondent

LEAVE ME ALONE

2012-02-10T05:44:00.000-08:00

I'M MAD AT YOU!

PIN UP

2012-02-10T05:43:00.000-08:00

photo courtesy~ badbehaviourpublishing.com

MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO

2012-02-09T08:39:00.000-08:00

circa 1991~ directed by GUS VAN SAINT
complete classic

UDO KIER~ DER ADLER

2012-02-09T08:30:00.000-08:00

original music video to 'Der Adler' by Udo Kier. circa~ 1984

This the original version of the song he sings (and lamp dances to) in 'My Own Private Idaho'.

HERVEY MEDELLIN

2012-02-09T07:03:00.000-08:00

Hervey Medellin by johhny hellion- plaster mask, 2012
the be-headeded man found near the hollywood sign

available @ antebellum gallery

GENTLEMEN ASSUME YOUR POSITIONS

2012-02-09T06:16:00.000-08:00

FUCK LOVE

2012-02-08T21:33:00.000-08:00

daniel nicoletta~ tattoo mike~ 11x14, silver gelatin print, 1976

opening night~ feb 14th @ antebellum

facebook evite-

COLDER THAN A WITCHE'S TIT

2012-02-08T17:25:00.000-08:00

photos courtesy~ paul maler~ barmstedt/antebellum correspondent

HAPPY 81ST BIRTHDAY~ JAMES DEAN

2012-02-08T15:36:00.000-08:00

FUCK LOVE~ OPENS VALENTINE'S DAY

2012-02-08T06:33:00.000-08:00

emma escamila- kasmira- pencil on paper- 28x35- 2012

PRESENTS

FUCK LOVE
mixed media group art exhibition depicting~

LOVE-SEX-ROMANCE- LUST

FEATURING

GEORGE QUAINTANCE
DANIEL NICOLETTA
LON OF NEW YORK
DENNIS HOPPER
JOHNNY HELLION
EMMA ESCAMILLA
BRYAN BARNES
LOUIS JACINTO
BARRY MORSE
CARLOS BATTS
RICK CASTRO
JAN KLESSE
APRIL FLORES
KELLY SMITH
PETER BERLIN
BILLY PACAK
$EX ARTISTE
MATT PIPES
DAVE NAZ

AND MORE!

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY

BASIAN DAMASCUS
JACQUE MAHONEY

NO-HOST BAR

FEBRUARY 14TH
7PM TIL 9PM

$5 DONATION

ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028

antebellum@earthlink.net

antebellumgallery.blogspot.co

barry morse~ "my baby brother's older lover"~ color pencil & ink on paper, 24x40, 20123
23 856-0667
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MOSCOW

2012-02-07T21:18:00.000-08:00

photo courtesy~ matias viegener

THE ENEMY OF LOVE

2012-02-07T18:11:00.000-08:00

proudly presents

linus raudsepp AKA bastian damascus

EROS NEMICO

the enemy of love

an erotic black mass

manifesting the other side of romance,

the other side of tenderness.

the other side of intimacy.

how far would you go

to follow your wildest desires?

sacrifice meets sacredness on

tuesday february 14th at 8 pm.
opening night- FUCK LOVE exhibition
$5 cover
7pm till 9pm

how deep is YOUR love?

TOE DANCE

2012-02-07T18:02:00.000-08:00

photo courtesy~ Peter Hujar - Daniel Schock, 1981

WINTER SWANS

2012-02-07T17:50:00.001-08:00

VINTAGE MODEL

2012-02-07T17:49:00.000-08:00

AMG- circa 1957

BANANA

2012-02-07T17:47:00.000-08:00

21ST CENTURY LOVERS

2012-02-07T13:30:00.000-08:00

PROP 8 IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

2012-02-07T10:08:00.000-08:00

california finally stepped up to the plate and announced the passage of PROP 8 as unconstitutional.

this is a landmark/groundbreaking moment in history for gay, lesbian's and all people that believe in civil rights~

A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California's ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage as early as next year.

The 2-1 decision by a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that limited marriage to one man and one woman, violated the U.S. Constitution. The architects of Prop. 8 have vowed to appeal.

The ruling was narrow and likely to be limited to California.

FULL COVERAGE: Prop. 8

Nearly one and a half years since Federal District Court Judge Vaughn Walker declared Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional in the landmark Perry v. Brown case, the 9th US District Circuit Court of Appeals finally announced this morning that they will be upholding Judge Walker's decision: PROPOSITION H8 IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

“Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California,” the court said.

The ruling upheld a decision by retired Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who struck down the ballot measure in 2010 after holding an unprecedented trial on the nature of sexual orientation and the history of marriage.

In a separate decision, the appeals court refused to invalidate Walker’s ruling on the grounds that he should have disclosed he was in a long term same-sex relationship. Walker, a Republican appointee who is openly gay, said after his ruling that he had been in a relationship with another man for 10 years. He has never said whether he and partner wished to marry.
READ MORE-

* on a personal note, i don't even believe in marriage as an institution. the concept is somewhat dated, but i believe in full equal/civil rights and that is what more people will now have.
this is truly a historic day!

JOEY ARIAS TRIBUTE TO KLAUS NOMI

2012-02-06T23:30:00.000-08:00

History in the making. Joey Arias for the first time ever sings Klaus Nomi's famous song,
" The Nomi Song", at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 28 October 2011.

FUCK LOVE

2012-02-06T23:04:00.000-08:00

PRESENTS

FUCK LOVE
mixed media group art exhibition depicting~

LOVE-SEX-ROMANCE- LUST

matt pipes~ Cupid vs. Cupid, Litho ink painting on resin on panel 20 x 10", 2012

FEATURING

GEORGE QUAINTANCE
DANIEL NICOLETTA
LON OF NEW YORK
DENNIS HOPPER
JOHNNY HELLION
EMMA ESCAMILLA
BRYAN BARNES
LOUIS JACINTO
BARRY MORSE
CARLOS BATTS
RICK CASTRO
JAN KLESSE
KELLY SMITH
PETER BERLIN
BILLY PACAK
$EX ARTISTE
MATT PIPES
DAVE NAZ

AND MORE!

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY

BASIAN DAMASCUS
TALEA

NO-HOST BAR

FEBRUARY 14TH
7PM TIL 9PM

$5 DONATION

ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
323 856-0667
antebellum@earthlink.net
antebellumgallery.blogspot.com

FACEBOOK EVITE-

bryan barnes- art to choke hearts- photography, 16x20

ILLUMINATI- SUPER BOWL HALF TIME

2012-02-06T16:31:00.000-08:00

PATTI LABELLE- MOWTOWN 25

2012-02-06T15:08:00.000-08:00

absolute soul classic~
PATTI LABELLE sings You'll never Walk Alone at motown 25th anniversary returns to the apollo,

circa~ 1986... i remember like it was yesterday

PHOTO BOOTH

2012-02-05T08:32:00.000-08:00

LOVERS AWWWW

2012-02-05T08:31:00.000-08:00

PIN UP

2012-02-05T08:27:00.000-08:00

model & photos courtesy- carlos leather

st. petersburg/antebellum corespondent

RUBBERIEST

2012-02-04T14:41:00.000-08:00

photo courtesy~ jeff gent

WOODEN DICK

2012-02-02T06:50:00.000-08:00

blonde wood penis mounted on black leather, chrome frame.
approx- 6x8x9", hand carved- unique- 2010, $800
artist~ billy pacak

available @ antebellum's valentine's day exhibition entitled~

FUCK LOVE

opens february 14th~ 7pm

YOUNG DADDY

2012-02-01T21:06:00.001-08:00

MIKE KELLY- RIP

2012-02-01T16:39:00.000-08:00

Mike Kelley, one of the most critically acclaimed artists of his generation,

has died at the age of 57, at his home in South Pasadena, Calif.

According to several sources close to the artist that Gallerist has spoken with,

the cause of death was suicide.

The artist had recently been selected for the 2012 Whitney Biennial,
an exhibition that he has participated in seven times in the past.
He has had major one-person exhibitions at the Whitney Museum,
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Louvre, MUMOK,
Vienna, and numerous other museums.

A sergeant in the South Pasadena police department told Gallerist

that officers responded to the apparent suicide following a 911 call

made at 7:47 p.m. by a friend who had stopped by Kelley’s house

to check up on him.

The friend hadn’t heard from Kelley since Sunday and,

unable to gain entry to the home,

called the police. Kelley was pronounced dead on the scene.

Though police records show no mention of a note, officers said

the friend who called 911 mentioned that Kelley had been

depressed following a September break-up.

Kelley’s work spanned numerous mediums and source materials,
encompassing unorthodox objects from sculptures made of
knitted stuffed animals (which provided the cover art for
Sonic Youth’s 1992 Dirty album)
to banners emblazoned with abrasive self-proclamations
(“PANTS SHITTER & PROUD PS JERK-OFF TOO,” memorably)
to large-scale installations inspired by the bottle city of Kandor,
an object housed in Superman’s Fortress
of Solitude in the comic books.

Kelley was born in 1954 in Detroit (he described himself as a
“blue-collar anarchist”),
and his childhood there provided material for many of his works.
In 2010, he produced a sculpture modeled on his childhood home
and carted it around the city on the back of a flatbed truck,
for a special project with the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

In 1974, he founded the band Destroy All Monsters

with Cary Loren,

Niagara (Loren’s then-girlfriend) and Jim Shaw. They made noisy,

feedback-drenched music that was influenced by the other

local bands at the time,

The Stooges and the MC5. Destroy All Monsters was recently

the subject of two retrospectives, at the Prism Gallery in

Los Angeles and at the Boston University Art Gallery.

Kelley left the band in 1976, to attend graduate school at CalArts.

It was shortly after Kelley graduated from that institution that Helene Winer,

who had recently co-founded New York gallery Metro Pictures,

discovered his work. She was organizing an exhibition at

CalArts and visited Kelley’s studio.

She had never met him, but, she told Gallerist,

“He’s not someone you wouldn’t immediately know

was a really interesting artist.”

Kelley showed at Metro Pictures for two decades,

from the early 1980s until the early 2000s,

when he began showing with Gagosian.

His first show there–

also his first solo show in New York–was called

Monkey Island and Confusion.

The walls were covered with ink drawings on paper and the room

was packed with props from performances

he’d been doing in Los Angeles and New York.

“I think the reception,” Ms. Winer said, “was sort of…unprepared.
Partly because of the other artists we
were showing at the time were more orderly,
but really because it was a quite interesting aesthetic.
I’m quite sure we didn’t sell…
maybe anything.”

His friends remember him as smart and kind,
but also somewhat of an outsider.
He liked being around his peers, but he didn’t prescribe to the
art world as a social scene.

“He had a brilliant wisdom and a total disregard for anything
vaguely institutional or established,
” said RoseLee Goldberg, who met Kelley in 1987.
She commissioned a performance work by him for
the 2009 Performa Biennial.
“I think he is truly one of those figures that was just always
irritated by anything smacking of convention.
We worked with him for a year and he was constantly taking risks.
His entire life was about taking risks.”

In plumbing high and low culture for material,
Kelley sometimes courted controversy, as in his
1988 installation piece Pay for Your Pleasure,
which combined large-scale
images of artists and writers with quotations
that condoned amoral
behavior and artwork by a serial killer whose
identity varied based
on the location of the exhibition. Speaking of his 1990
show at Metro Pictures,
which included old stuffed animals arranged on dirty blankets,
Ms. Winer told Gallerist,“It’s strange later to imagine
how surprising and interesting something is
when it’s first seen–
because it gets immediately taken up and consumed
by a larger culture.”

In 1991 he had a show at the Whitney Museum entitled

“Catholic Tastes,”curated by Elisabeth Sussman,

who also curated this year’s Whitney Biennial,

which will feature Kelley.

“It was one of the great highlights of my career,
working with him,
” Ms. Sussman said. “He was so versatile,
he went through
this great performance phase,
made all these great artworks,
and he’s a fantastic writer.”

Kelley’s career exploded in the following decade,
with a show at
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), as well as at a
host of museums and galleries throughout the world:
Portikus in Frankfurt,
Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva and the
Kunstverein in Hamburg. In 1997,
he participated in the prestigious Documenta 10
exhibition in Kassel,
Germany, with his friend, the artist Tony Oursler,
making work involving a band they had together,
called The Poetics.

Michael Briggs, director of Patrick Painter gallery,
in Santa Monica, Calif., where the artist showed for
many years, told Gallerist,
“Mike was really instrumental in helping Patrick start the gallery.
He was really important.”

Kelley had his first show at Gagosian Gallery in 2005.
The gallery began representing him and he was the subject
of several solo shows there.

“The greatest thing to do with Mike was to sort

of just turn him loose,”

said Sam Orlofsky, a director at Gagosian’s West 24th Street

space and the New York point person for Kelley.

“It was fun to shepherd his energy along in a conversation.

If you brought something up, he had an opinion, and then he

knew the history of the thing you brought up and then he knew

the history of the thing that the thing was referring to.

Comic books, movies or music or history.

He was like an index. A super computer.

” Mr. Orlofsky mentioned that Kelley kept extensive files and

indexes about his work or about potential subject matter.

“He was a taxonomist,” he added.

“But he was a taxonomist of everyday American culture.”

Beyond his art and music activities, Kelley was also a trenchant
and curious writer, and his artist statements, criticism
and other writings about art have been collected in
various anthologies,
including Foul Perfection (2002) and Minor Histories (2004).
His work is included in the collections of seemingly every
major modern and contemporary art museum,
and he was the recipient of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize,
the Skowhegan Medal and awards from the
Guggenheim Foundation
and the National Endowment for the Arts.

One of his earliest installations, The Little Girl’s Room (1980),

is up now in the “Under the Big Black Sun” exhibition of

California art at The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

(LA MoCA),

organized by Paul Schimmel, the museum’s chief curator.

The piece is based on a performance script centered around a

child’s dream-within-a-dream in which the child imagines

“the face of a pimp-like man whose smile reveals an infinity of sharp teeth.”

“I could go to Mike about a subject dealing with American art
at the beginning of the century or whenever and he would know
so much you would wonder if there was anything he doesn’t know,
” Mr. Schimmel, who met Kelley in 1981, told Gallerist.
“I think Mike is arguably the key individual who changed
the world’s perception of Los Angeles art.”

Kelley’s studio released a statement this afternoon saying,
“Mike was an irresistible force in contemporary art….
We cannot believe he is gone. But we know his legacy
will continue to touch and challenge anyone who crosses its path.
We will miss him. We will keep him with us.”

DON CORNELIUS- RIP

2012-02-01T10:36:00.000-08:00

DON CORNELIUS, (September 27, 1936 – February 1, 2012)
was an American television show host and producer who is best known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance/music franchise Soul Train, which he hosted from 1971 to 1993.

Originally a journalist inspired by the civil rights movement, Cornelius recognized that in the late 1960s there was no television venue in the United States for soul music, and introduced many African-American musicians to a larger audience as a result of their appearances on Soul Train, a program that was both influential among African-Americans and popular with a wider audience.

As writer, producer, and host of Soul Train, Cornelius was instrumental in offering wider exposure to black musicians like James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and Michael Jackson, as well as creating opportunities for talented dancers that would presage subsequent television dance programs.

Cornelius said "We had a show that kids gravitated to," and Spike Lee described the program as an
"urban music time capsule.

Don Cornelius, the producer and television host who created the dance show “Soul Train,” was found shot dead in his Los Angeles home early Wednesday morning in what appears to be a suicide, the Los Angeles Police Department and the county coroner’s office said. He was 75 years old.

A person called the police from Mr. Cornelius’s house on Mulholland Drive in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood just before 4 a.m. and reported shots had been fired, a police spokesman, Chris No, said. When officers arrived, they were let into the house and found Mr. Cornelius lying lifeless on the floor with a gunshot wound to the head that appeared to be self-inflicted, said the Los Angeles County assistant chief coroner, Ed Winter.

Mr. Cornelius was taken to Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 4:56 a.m., Mr. Winter said. “It was reported as a suicide, a self-inflicted wound,” he said. “I have investigators at the hospital.”

i have a personal memory with mr cornelius from back in 1987.

i was the wardrobe stylist for my long time friends- iris parker, valerie mackintosh and

alisa randolph from the girl group- MADAME X.

the girls wanted to do a costume change and the production said there was no time. iris wouldn't take no for an answer so during the short commerical break they changed their costumes on stage.

i saw don cornelius looking incredulously at the girls dressing on stage. then very keenly checking me out. he walked up to me.

i said to him, "i'm sorry mr. cornelius but they insisted." he responded looking directly at me up and down, "you just do what you need to do young man. do what you need to do."

here is that classic clip- MADAME X ON SOUL TRAIN costumes by me- RICK CASTRO.

Madame X - Just That Type Of Girl TIB-FUNK by TIB-FUNK

Madame X backstage on Soul Train hosted by the legendary Don Cornelius 1987. Styled by the iconic fetish photographer, then stylist, Rick Castro. Left to right: Iris Parker (myself), Alisa Randolph, Valerie Victoria.

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mr. cornelius- you were one-of-a-kind and a trailblazer. you've help so many people's careers including mine. RIP- SIR- RIP.

SKATEBOARDER GETS HIS WAY

2012-02-01T09:56:00.000-08:00

Perfect skateboarder uses a dildo brought to you by ExtremeTube.com

!CHOLITA!

2012-02-01T02:08:00.000-08:00

Violence Girl

"I want to wring as much fun, laughter and love out of life as I can, for as long as I can." - Alice Bag. Alice in character as Sad Girl, with Vaginal Davis as Graciela and Fertile Latoya Jackson as Lupita. Cholita, the Female Menudo,
shot by Rick Castro- circa- 1988

CLOWNIE

2012-01-31T19:38:00.000-08:00

NUDE BICYCLIST

2012-01-31T19:37:00.000-08:00

TODAY'S BONDAGE

2012-01-31T19:36:00.000-08:00

SPREAD EAGLE

2012-01-31T08:26:00.000-08:00

photo by rickcastro.com- circa 1997- mirage lake, ca.

A VIEW FROM THE BOTTOM

2012-01-31T08:18:00.000-08:00

RIDE ME

2012-01-29T18:45:00.000-08:00

GHOST OF 2012

2012-01-29T18:44:00.000-08:00

FAST FOOD IS EVIL

2012-01-29T18:42:00.000-08:00

COLETTE

2012-01-28T05:29:00.000-08:00

COLETTE was the surname of the French novelist and performer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
(28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954)

It's the birthday of novelist Colette, born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette in a village in France (1873).
She's the author of more than 50 novels, including Gigi (1944), which was made into a movie.
She died in 1954 at 81 years old, the first woman in the history of France to be given a state funeral —
6,000 people filed by her casket and covered it in flowers. She said, "Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer.
But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

reposting courtesy~ fayette hauser

MARIO'S BASKET & BUM

2012-01-27T07:35:00.000-08:00

CUNTFACE

2012-01-27T07:33:00.001-08:00

ROMANTIC

2012-01-27T07:31:00.001-08:00

NYC SUBWAY RIDE

2012-01-26T10:02:00.000-08:00

hands free!

KLAUS NOMI TEA PARTY

2012-01-25T13:20:00.000-08:00

my doll of friend- AMY BASTIDA & I celebrated KLAUS NOMI'S 35TH BIRTHDAY with our annual tea party. this year we didn't get a chance to do up a grand event so it was just her & i.
we had our klaus nomi tea salon @ antebellum's tea garden. the weather was spectacular.
we chatted about all things klaus and promise to have a full event next year.

the tea menu~

junchiyabari j4~ himalayan orange tea from le palais des thes~ (courtesy michele lamy)

served with

lahmajoon's- Armenian meat pies, chicken & potato
klaus nomi tuxedo chocolate dipped strawberries
cream filled canopies
fruit tartlets
cream puffs

here are some images~

amy loves to dress her son up as klaus nomi.

she does a great job!

klaus nomi

max bastida as klaus nomi

PORTFOLIO

2012-01-25T09:38:00.000-08:00

all photos courtesy~ darren ankenbauer~ san francisco/antebellum correspondent

THE FAIROAKS PROJECT

2012-01-25T08:26:00.000-08:00

soon to be a book.

The Fairoaks Project almost wasn’t. Frank Melleno’s collection of photographs documenting life at San Francisco’s short-lived Fairoaks Hotel was consigned to a shoe box for almost three decades and would have remained there to this day had Melleno not shown them to his friend Gary Freeman. Freeman, a photo restorer and gallery owner, was immediately struck by their beauty and historical significance. Out of that meeting in 2007 grew the Fairoaks Project, the aim of which was the restoration, digitization, production and exhibition of Melleno’s work. The Fairoaks Project includes the selection of fifty-one restored images that were exhibited under the same name in June of 2010 at the drkrm/gallery in downtown Los Angeles. To a casual viewer, this slim volume of candid, provocative, often sexually explicit images might come across as some sort of soft core fluff. It is not. To crack the spine, leaf through its pages, and examine its images is to open a portal onto a secret place lost long ago.

photo courtesy~ frank melleno

TODAY IS KLAUS NOMI'S BIRTHDAY!

2012-01-24T17:56:00.000-08:00

KLAUS NOMI (January 24, 1944 – August 6, 1983), was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona.

today is his birthday.. he would be 68 years old.

Nomi was known for his bizarrely visionary theatrical live performances, heavy make-up, unusual costumes,

and a highly stylized signature hairdo which flaunted a receding hairline. His songs were equally unusual, ranging from synthesizer-laden interpretations of classical music opera to covers of 1960s pop standards like Chubby Checker's "The Twist" and Lou Christie's "Lightnin' Strikes".

He is remembered in the US as one of David Bowie's backup singers for a 1979 performance on Saturday Night Live.

David Bowie & Klaus Nomi - The Man Who Sold The World from André Goldvasser on Vimeo.

Nomi died in 1983 at the age of 39 as a result of complications from AIDS.

ANTEBELLUM GALLERY and AMY BASTIDA are obsessed with klaus nomi and host a tea party annually in rememberance of klaus.

(i will post pics soon) here is amy's masterpiece, her son max dressed as klaus nomi!

photo courtesy- amy bastida- tjunga/antebellum correspondent

HEADLESS IN HOLLYWOOD

2012-01-24T17:44:00.000-08:00

NOW INTO DAY 7 OF THE SEVERED HEAD CASE OF HOLLYWOOD,

let's look @ the facts that mainstream media is not fully reporting or not reporting at all.....

According to friends and family, Hervey Medellin’s boyfriend told them Medellin left their third-floor apartment on DeLongpre Avenue Dec. 26 but that he continued to hear from him until Jan. 4th.

The boyfriend told family friends that when Medellin did not return he became concerned and reported him missing Jan. 9th.

Los Angeles police and coroner’s officials identified the remains Friday as those of Medellin, a retired Mexicana Airlines employee known for his love of art and hiking and who sometimes walked his dog in the hills.

where is the dog??
hervey was said to be an avid art collector. what kind of art did he collect and who owns the art now??

The sources stressed that detectives were not fully clear on the motive in the killing of Medellin.

But investigators are looking into whether he was killed by someone he knew.

Detectives have not made any arrests, so far.

Friends have said Medellin hiked in Griffith Park, near the area where his body parts were found last week.

Medellin also once owned a Los Feliz condominium with another person, according to a resident who now owns the property.

Andrew Hill, who lives on the second floor of the DeLongpre building where Medellin lived,

said he heard a lot of commotion on the floor above him at about 3 a.m. three weeks ago.

He said he heard furniture being moved as well as screaming and yelling.
He said he spoke to detectives Thursday and they asked him when the garbage was taken out.

On Thursday evening, police served a search warrant in the complex on de longpre ave. They towed a silver Honda from the building about 7 p.m.

Police have noted that Medellin was childless and lived with a roommate, but newer reports have found that his roommate was in fact his boyfriend. Christina Serenyo, Medellin's niece, told KTLA that the family didn't know that he was in a gay relationship until the investigation into his murder.

She says that relatives are "grief-stricken," but that they haven't been able to connect emotionally to Medellin's boyfriend.

"He was just very short, that's all I could say," she said of a phone call with Medellin's boyfriend. "I don't know if he was agitated... I can't even guess. I don't know what happened."

The boyfriend is speaking out, saying he's afraid for his life.

Through his screen door, the boyfriend of the victim, 66-year-old Hervey Medellin, expressed his fear to KTLA.

"I'm afraid for my life," said the boyfriend, who identified himself only as 'Gabriel.'

"You know this area -- I'm afraid they'll come back and do something to me."

Gabriel wouldn't elaborate and wouldn't allow a KTLA camera into his apartment, which he had shared with Medellin for the past year.

Police have questioned the boyfriend several times, but he is reportedly not a suspect, or even a person of interest in the homicide.

The coroner's office said the body parts belonged to 66-year-old Hervey Coronado Medellin.

The ID came as police revealed they had interviewed the bodyguard for actor Brad Pitt
as part of the investigation.

Commander Andrew Smith said the man was not considered a suspect. It is understood that he was interviewed because he lives nearby.

why did they interview brad pitt's bodyguard??

it turns out that at one time brad pitt wanted to purchase THE SPOTLIGHT bar on
cahuenga ave.

the victim was a regular @ the spotlight and various former patrons of the spotlight have been questioned. the spotlight once the oldest gay bar in hollywood, ( since 1962) was a local watering hole for trendies, alcoholics, trannies, hustlers, street people and myself for many years. the spotlight closed it's doors for good last september 3rd.

brad pitt reportedly made aggressive offers to purchase the bar.

i would also like my readers to take note..

although dramatic, true beheadings in real life are very rare- marie Antoinette,

glenda vittimberga are exceptions.

jayne mansfield was in fact not a true beheading since she was severed just under her nose.

another minor tidbit- filmmaker david lynch is said to be OBSESSED with this unfolding story.

photo- steve diet godde

here's a bizarre ongoing video blogger who keeps posting updates

TWO FACES OF RON ATHEY

2012-01-24T14:43:00.000-08:00

CIRCA 1986~ 89

photos courtesy~ ron athey~ london/antebellum correspondent

FLAUNT- JUSTIN

2012-01-23T21:34:00.000-08:00

HEADS UP

2012-01-23T14:59:00.000-08:00

COPS ARE INVESTIGATING SPOTLIGHT BAR PATRONS REGARDING

“HEAD IN A BAG” MURDER

We heard a little info about the “head in a bag” found in the Hollywood Hills.

Since the murder victim was identified as Hervey Medellin, 66, a retired airline employee, investigators are looking for people who used to frequent the Spotlight dive bar in Hollywood, which closed last September 5th. This sleazy but popular and well-known bar was almost half a century old – Keifer Sutherland drank there and Brad Pitt tried to buy the place at one time.

Police are following a tip that the murdered man met someone there awhile back and he may be a suspect. .

i find it interesting the brad pitt once tried to buy the place, and he was also one of the neighbors questioned about the murder!

reposting courtesy~ alex gildzen & mamie van doren

JAMES FRANCO~ ALL ABOUT ME

2012-01-23T06:52:00.000-08:00

wow... what nerve.. leave it to mainstream hollywood to take credit for everybody and everything.
check out this long diatribe from JAMES FRANCO talking about himself non-stop and taking all the credit for HIS new film- SAL.
based on the book by MICHAEL GREGG MICHAUD.
not only does the star of the film- VAL LAUREN get to say nothing, go to 5:15 when james can't even remember how to pronounce or who wrote the book!
franco's demeanor is becoming very madonna.

VARIOUS STAGES OF KINK

2012-01-23T04:40:00.000-08:00

repost courtesy~ denny leather slave~ turin/antebellum correspondent

TEATIME ON BLACKBURN AVE

2012-01-23T04:24:00.000-08:00

artists & collectors~ KENE J. & LOUIS J.
had me over to their estate on blackburn the other day.. what a treasure! they have an amazing personal collection of art and "objets d'art."
we then sat down for my favorite part of the day~ TEA TIME.

various pastries of prune, apricot and apple served with a fine chinese black tea.
as a kicker, kene served me a side cup of PRINCE OF WALES in a nice cock tea cup.... yum!

photos courtesy~ kene j. ~ miracle mile/antebellum correspondent

THE WITCHES HOUSE

2012-01-22T18:36:00.000-08:00

the famous witches house in beverly hills, california.
now fully renovated.

The Spadena House, also known as THE WITCHES HOUSE,

is a storybook house in Beverly Hills, California. Located on the corner of Walden Drive and Carmelita, it is known for its fanciful design that intentionally cause it to look dilapidated and old, and is a landmark included on tours of the area.

The house was designed by Hollywood art director Harry Oliver, who went on to play a major role in Storybook architecture. It was originally built in 1921 to serve as the offices and dressing rooms for Irvin Willat's film studio in Culver City, and was moved to its present location in 1934. The converted private home, with its pointy, lopsided roof, tiny windows and stucco with a distressed paint job were then surrounded by an intentionally overgrown English-style garden and a moat-like pond.^[

The first residents of the home, the Spadena family, lent the house their name. A second family moved in and renovated the interior in the 1960s, making some exterior alterations including a skylight visible from certain angles. The moat began leaking under the second family's ownership and they filled it with dirt, and planted a garden. By the time the house came on the market again in 1997, it had fallen into disrepair.

Because of the value of its prime location, it was unable to immediately find a buyer uninterested in a teardown of the property. Consequently the real estate agent, who did not want to see the home torn down, purchased it and began a gradual renovation. After tall, black fencing was initially placed around the lot, the owner received hate mail from people who thought he was going to tear it down.

The home has been called a precursor to Walt Disney's concept of Imagineering, whereby stage sets become fully realized environments. And, architect Charles Willard Moore once described the building as the "quintessential Hansel and Gretel house."

The residence still appears to this day in movies, including 1995's Clueless.

BOOTED BRUTHA

2012-01-22T18:34:00.001-08:00

BACKSTAGE

2012-01-22T18:33:00.001-08:00

SIGN OF THE TIMES

2012-01-22T18:32:00.000-08:00

LEATHER LOVE

2012-01-21T09:16:00.000-08:00

RICK OWENS- MENSWEAR- FALL/WINTER- 2012/2013

2012-01-20T22:46:00.001-08:00

FIND ME THE BODY OF HERVEY MEDELLIN

2012-01-20T22:13:00.000-08:00

Coroner's officials on Friday identified a man whose dismembered head, hands and feet were found in a Hollywood park as a 66-year-old from Los Angeles, and police continued to hunt for his killer.

The victim's name is Hervey Medellin, coroner's Lt. David Smith said. Public directories show Medellin lived in a Hollywood apartment near the rugged, hillside park where his remains were found.

Investigators served a search warrant Thursday night on a Hollywood apartment in the area, but it wasn't immediately clear if it was Medellin's apartment.

"They did serve a search warrant last night. They are following clues, and the case is progressing. Guys are working around the clock to find out who did it and find the rest of the body," police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said Friday.

the head is not connected to the body found in tucson, az on jan 6th....

ROMAN BALLS & NEEDLES

2012-01-20T13:16:00.000-08:00

antebellum presents~

ROMAN BALLS & NEEDLES:

the war chariot.

live fetish performance by
BASTIAN DAMASCUS

feb 4th~ 7PM

no host bar

$10 cover

antebellum

1643 n las palmas ave

hollywood, ca 90028

323 856-0667

antebellum@earthlink.net

CHIN UP

2012-01-20T12:45:00.000-08:00