Ottessa Moshfegh, Charli XCX, Nan Goldin and... A Rabbit's Foot merch is here!
Cultural happenings to have on your radar this week
A Rabbit’s Foot merch has landed!
With specially designed tote bags and T-shirts in an array of colours, A Rabbit’s Foot merch is now available to order. We have also joined forces with the team at Posteritati, to bring you a selection of vintage movie posters and prints—from Blue Velvet and The Long Goodbye to A Clockwork Orange.
Down and Out with Ottessa Moshfegh
For Issue 8 of A Rabbit’s Foot, Kitty Grady caught up with author Ottessa Moshfegh in the Paris. They discuss My Year of Rest and Relaxation’s Parisian origins (“I threw my back out lugging a suitcase up to the eighth floor of this building. I barely left the apartment. I was very lonely and depressed,”) Yorgos Lanthimos rumours and her forays into the film business (“Making a movie is an ordeal,”) her unlikely obsession with Gordon Ramsay (“I want to write his autobiography”) and why she is moving away from her fascination with disgust (“I don’t feel as vulnerable to everyone’s shit.”)
Sisters, Saints, Sibyls: Nan Goldin in London
The tortured, tragic, too-short life of Nan Goldin’s sister Barbara was a central reference in All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras’s portrait the artist’s activism for opiod crisis victims. With Sisters, Saints, Sibyls, Nan Goldin zooms in closely on her sister’s life, creating a three-channel installation that mixes family photography and religious iconography with her own video and imagery. Curated by Gagosian (on display until June 23rd), the venue is fittingly devotional: a deconsecrated Welsh chapel on Charring Cross Road. A selection of Goldin’s photographs of friends—members of Boston’s transgender community—are also currently on display at Burlington Arcade in Mayfair.
Charli XCX ‘brat’ film season in New York
Hot off the release of her sixth studio album, brat, Charli XCX has teamed up with Roxy Cinema in New York, to programme a season of films which have influenced the new album, a portrait of celebrity, ego and hedonism. Among the titles to be shown are Gus Van Sant’s To Die For, Party Monster, Project X and Věra Chytilová’s Daisies. The musician discusses her favourite filmmakers on the cinema’s blog: “I love Gregg Araki, Michael Haneke, Abel Ferrara, Sebastian Silva, Kristoffer Borgli, Hamaguchi and of course Gaspar [Noé] is king.”
