My Own Private Fopo

12/18/2025

12/06/2025

KATE BUSH by Daria Hlazatova

12/06/2025

12/06/2025

"The feelings that hurt most… are the ones that cannot be expressed." Louise Bourgeois carried a lifetime of unhealed pain. The deepest wound that shaped her life was her childhood trauma: her father’s betrayal of her mother, growing up surrounded by fear, anger, and shock she never fully overcame. She grew up feeling “unsafe”, and the home that was supposed to give her comfort was the very place that broke her. These memories haunted her throughout her life, surfacing in her sculptures, drawings, and works — all filled with anxiety, tension, and wounded motherhood. Louise Bourgeois was one of the most influential sculptors and installation artists of the 20th century, globally recognized for her powerful, expressive works that merge personal pain with artistic innovation.

11/30/2025

❛ I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

We're sorry to hear of the passing of Tom Stoppard.

11/30/2025

George Harrison & Tom Petty, 90′s
Photographer: Neal Preston

From Runnin’ Down a Dream Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Chronicle Books, 2007.

11/30/2025

P***y Riot is about to be officially labeled an extremist organization in Russia.

When we were in that church basement in Moscow dreaming up P***y Riot, K. and I imagined P***y Riot growing into a movement. Fourteen years later, the Prosecutor General’s Office is demanding that we be declared an extremist organization.

If on December 15 the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow grants the Prosecutor General’s request, we’ll be officially placed in the same category as the Azov, LGBT, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People and Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.

I’m laughing in disbelief.

But at the same time I want to remind everyone that someone has to be the voice of common sense. And in this distorted world this voice now has to come from punks, artists, tricksters, holy fools.

Singing in the streets is not extremism. Doing street actions is not extremism.
Extremism is invading other countries and committing war crimes. Being anti-fascist and wearing a Pikachu costume… is not extremism.

P***y Riot have always stood - and will continue to stand - with Saint Nikolai, who wasn’t afraid to throw a piece of raw meat at the feet of Ivan the Terrible himself, calling him out: “You eat human flesh and blood.”

And if telling the truth is “extreme,” then hold my Red Bull.

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11/29/2025