I'm mesmerized...

“The Immortal investigates human dependence on electronics, the desire to make machines replicate organisms and our perception of anatomy as reflected by biomedical engineering.
A web of tubes and electric cords are interwoven in closed circuits through a Heart-Lung Machine, Dialysis Machine, an Infant Incubator, a Mechanical Ventilator and an Intraoperative Cell Salvage Machine. The organ replacement machines operate in orchestrated loops, keeping each other alive through circulation of electrical impulses, oxygen and artificial blood.”

Moved up again as a final reminder: Send us your summer arts event info—the deadline is tomorrow!

A&P: It stands for Art & Performance, it's Seattle's Only Arts Magazine™, and the next issue comes out on June 5.

If you didn't save a copy of the spring A&P, they're still out in special boxes on the street and in galleries and places like Vito's. And look: A&P is all here online, including calendars of what you should NOT be missing in Seattle arts RIGHT NOW. If you want to page through a PDF of the whole issue as it appears in print, you can do that too.

And if you're an artist or performer or arts organization or bookstore or whatever that would like your summer event(s) listed in the next A&P, info for events from June 5 through September 10 is due to us by end of day tomorrow, May 1, at calendar@seattleaandp.com. Send it on over!

Jen Graves' article, Charles Krafft Is a White Nationalist Who Believes the Holocaust Is a Deliberately Exaggerated Myth, has crossed the Atlantic...

La journaliste Jen Graves a retrouvé un podcast de juillet 2012 sur un site appelé The White Network – baseline : « Des Blancs parlent aux Blancs des intérêts blancs. » Krafft y est interviewé....

Maybe you remember some of these photographs from the pages, and the covers, of past issues of The Stranger, taken by yours truly? They are framed and hanging (and for sale) at the Elliott Bay Cafe through the weekend. Forgive the shameless self promotion, but do check 'em out, if you're at Elliott Bay, browsing for that new book this weekend...

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• Ezra Dickinson and a dinosaur head.

(Dickinson is also a special guest at the silent-reading party TONIGHT at the Sorrento. If you don't know what that is, click here.)

Tell me about the dinosaur head.
It's an allosaurus. I copied the face out of a National Geographic. I like the idea of masks. And I like using cardboard a lot—it's a really plentiful material. It's everywhere. And it's light. Papier-mâché is a lot heavier and a lot messier. This is no mess. For me, the dinosaur is childhood—playing with dinosaurs when you're a kid.

And you've been dancing since you were a kid?
My mother is a dance teacher. She put me in dance when I was 4. I started at Pacific Northwest Ballet when I was 8, and I danced there for 12 years on full scholarship. I left PNB when I was 20, and I went to Cornish and got a degree in dance with an emphasis in choreography. Even before graduating, I was supporting myself as an artist.

You're working on an outdoor dance piece about your mom, who's been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was homeless for a time. Is that right?
Yes. She called me and tried to act like nothing weird was going on. She was like, "Oh, I'm living on the street right now," but she wanted to move on and ask me about what I was doing. And it set my imagination going—both "Oh my god, my mother is living on the street," but also "This is heavy, crazy imagery that's popping into my head now." When your parents are weird and sporadic artists, it lends itself to making art about them. And it's not like I'm making fun of them or want anyone to think less of them, but I'm really inspired by their craziness.

It's called Mother for You I Made This and starts outside the Greyhound station downtown.
Right now the performance is scheduled to begin May 6 at 7 p.m., and I'll perform every single day until May 19. Fourteen shows. Or 21 shows, if the 14 go well. I imagine this as maximum 20 people as an audience. But one day, it could be just for two people. I love the idea of having a super-intense solo performance just for two people, potentially.

What if it rains?
Great. I'm going to be providing the audience with umbrellas. And myself, I'm going to be dancing through it.

Dickinson talks about his work in progress on April 14 at Velocity Dance Center, 2 pm, free, and performs Mother for You I Made This, May 6–19, velocitydancecenter.org.

To read more interviews with performers, artists, and writers who've got stuff going on this spring, CLICK ON THESE LETTERS RIGHT HERE >>

Sad trombone:

A New York City landlord who plastered over a Banksy mural is likely regretting that decision amid reports that a U.S. gallery is planning to auction off a work by the street artist that was recently cut from the wall of a London building.

The Miami gallery is estimating that the 2012 Banksy mural, now called “Slave Labor (Bunting Boy),” will fetch between $500,000-700,000 at auction this Saturday. The work was removed last week from the side of a department store, apparently with the approval of the building owner.

It's an equal bummer that people are cutting Banksy's work out of the sides of buildings now, just to make a buck. Good public art should be preserved for the enjoyment of the public, given how little of it out there is actually enjoyable.

Um... yeah.

• IMAGE COURTESY OF FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO
• CHARLES KRAFFT’S HITLER TEAPOT "Hitler Idaho" was purchased by a Jewish collector, now dead, who later gave it to a museum in San Francisco. The curator there speculates that if the collector were still alive and knew Krafft’s current views on the Holocaust, he would smash it.

What will happen to one of the Northwest's preeminent artists—whose Nazi imagery has always been considered ironic—now that his views are not a secret?

An art collector is claiming he/she has the head for this famous painting by Courbet...

Apparently, according to the collector, whose name has not been disclosed, the portrait of the woman which formed the top half of the complete painting lay unrecognised for many years in an antique shop.

In 2010, the portrait was discovered and since then has been subjected to a series of tests to authenticate it.

Jean-Jacques Fernier, a top expert in Courbet’s work, has confirmed that the portrait belongs to the famous painter.

The Origin of the World is after the jump for all you NSFW pussies...

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Out of all the posters, this one is my favorite.

Two staffers discussing “art projects” that involve naked people with fruit on them.

“I love avocado and naked men, I don’t know what you guys are talking about.”

“We all know how fast avocado oxygenates.”

Noted.