Looking forward to the opening tonight of Nick Abrahams’ new work Lions And Tigers And Bears.
Abrahams is releasing a companion single which includes a recording of a snail eating a lettuce.
snail, eating – from ‘Lions and Tigers and Bears’ from nicholas abrahams on Vimeo.
Lions And Tigers And Bears runs at the Horse Hospital until July 19.
There’s an interview with Abrahams at The Quietus here.
Following yesterday’s post about the exhibition of Michael Hochong’s incredible clothes, the Horse Hospital’s Roger Burton has given an account of how he came by the collection and his personal connection to this “very beautiful man”.
Continue reading Roger Burton on the Michael Hochong collection
Every Beautiful Thing… is the title of the forthcoming exhibition of extraordinary garments from the wardrobe of the late Michael Hochong, the French/Hawaiian/Chinese exquisite who, in the 70s, ran the Knightsbridge restaurant Michael’s (opposite the more famous establishment run by another Michael, Mr Chow).
Hochong also lived in some style in Tangier with John Koon (said to have been the instigator of the Chinese takeaway in the west). It seems the house they shared was an exact replica of Tara, Scarlet O’ Hara’s spiritual home in Gone With The Wind.
Continue reading Michael Hochong’s life of flamboyant excess