# rene (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover rene. Page: Feed: --- ## [Never built: 22 Las Vegas Strip hotels \*](https://denniscooperblog.com/never-built-22-las-vegas-strip-hotels/) _2026-08-21 · DC · DC's_ \* (restored) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ‘The Titanic resort, 885 feet long, 11 stories high, weighing over 46,000 tons, and containing 1,200 rooms, would have been one of the most heavily themed fantasy resorts in Las Vegas. Our guests could have enjoyed the experience of staying aboard one of the ship’s 800 state-rooms or at the adjoined Iceberg \[…\] ## [5 books I read recently & loved: Oscar Nearly Fragile July, Sotère Torregian Fragmentae, Bruce Hainley Correctomundo. Selected Writings 2001-2026, Joyce Mansour Satisfied Sarcophagi: Collected Short Stories, Adem Berbic Two Stories](https://denniscooperblog.com/5-books-i-read-recently-loved-oscar-nearly-fragile-july-sotere-torregian-fragmentae-bruce-hainley-correctomundo-selected-writings-2001-2026-joyce-mansour-satisfied-sarcophagi-collected-short-s/) _2026-08-20 · DC · DC's_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ‘Oscar Nearly’s Fragile July is a photo album in words, recalled mental snapshots of a seemingly endless summer when, aged ten or eleven, they haunted their own suburban house on the edge of an unnamed town, in orbit around their parents, sometimes accompanied by their friend Marcus. ‘Originally written for performance as part of \[…\] ## [Ishirô Honda’s Day](https://denniscooperblog.com/ishiro-hondas-day/) _2026-08-19 · DC · DC's_ ‘From an early age, Honda was fascinated by the power of cinema. The son of a Buddhist monk, Honda was born on May 7, 1911, in Asahi, a small agricultural village in Yamagata Prefecture, high in the mountains of Tohoku. But it wasn’t until his family moved to Tokyo, while Honda was still in \[…\] ## [Kill](https://denniscooperblog.com/kill-2/) _2026-08-18 · DC · DC's_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Alias Kill All Artists, 2019 ‘Every piece will be delivered with one pair of protective gloves made out of cotton and a certificate of authenticity singed by the artist and gallery owner. The certificate ensures originality and limitation of the series. Artworks will be unframed.’ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Sturtevant Kill (wallpaper), 2003 ‘Sturtevant’s repetitions of \[…\] ## [Colette ‘Laure’ Peignot’s Scattery Day](https://denniscooperblog.com/colette-laure-peignots-scattery-day/) _2026-08-17 · DC · DC's_ ‘No one has ever struck me as so intractable and pure, nor more definitely sovereign.’ — Georges Bataille ‘One of the most vehement existences \[that\] ever lived, one of the most conflicted. Eager for affection and for disaster, oscillating between extreme audacity and the most dreadful anguish, as inconceivable on a scale of real \[…\] ## [“You’re not going to believe me but in person he’s not sexy AT ALL.”](https://denniscooperblog.com/youre-not-going-to-believe-me-but-in-person-hes-not-sexy-at-all/) _2026-08-15 · DC · DC's_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Freshly, 18 Cardiff No weird kinks. Don t be a creep. Do not ask me personal questions. Guestbook of Freshly sleepless Aug 13, 2026 now is the time this is the place for you to be calm for you to relax you want to be calm you want to \[ \] ## [Michael Haneke Day \*](https://denniscooperblog.com/michael-haneke-day-2/) _2026-08-14 · DC · DC's_ \* (restored) My films are intended as polemical statements against the American ‘barrel down’ cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption and \[ \] ## [Fucks](https://denniscooperblog.com/fucks-2/) _2026-08-13 · DC · DC's_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Jenny Holzer Someone Wants To Cut A Hole In You And Fuck You Through It, Buddy, 2012 \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Sarah Bahbah Untitled, 2019 Sarah Bahbah, the Palestinian, Australian-raised artist crystallises the universal but rarely captured experience of oversaturated, intense feelings and imperfect relationships. Her protagonists give voice to the vast spectrum of emotion, spanning \[ \] ## [The fastidious Rene Ricard’s reckless past \*](https://denniscooperblog.com/the-fastidious-rene-ricards-reckless-past-2/) _2026-08-12 · DC · DC's_ \* (restored) “I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.” – Rene Ricard \_\_\_ Life Rene Ricard was born in 1946 and grew \[ \] ## [Galerie Denis Cooper presents … David Altmejd](https://denniscooperblog.com/galerie-denis-cooper-presents-david-altmejd/) _2026-08-11 · DC · DC's_ David Altmejd’s work is a unique and heady mix of science and magic, science fiction and gothic romanticism: a post-apocalyptic vision which is at the same time essentially optimistic, containing as it always does the potential for regeneration, evolution and invention. ‘A perfect object for me’, the artist has said, ‘is something that is \[ \] ## [Play Both Sides Of The Lie (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/jIjO7UbDgvAU) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Two operatives, one manufactured war — uncover the Complete Truth after both campaigns. ## [Spotlight on … Christine Schutt Prosperous Friends (2012)](https://denniscooperblog.com/spotlight-on-christine-schutt-prosperous-friends-2012/) _2026-08-10 · DC · DC's_ I do not want an impenetrable style but prize compression and music. I abhor quotidian easy speak, psychobabble, brands, news and slogans—a “writer’s prose” as Gordon Lish once described it. Mine calls for close, hard readers of fiction. This year in reviews of Prosperous Friends, I was bumped up from being a writer’s writer \[ \] ## [Jörg Buttgereit Day \*](https://denniscooperblog.com/jorg-buttgereit-day-2/) _2026-08-08 · DC · DC's_ \* (restored) Infamous primarily on the strength of his shocking 1987 debut feature Nekromantik, German director Jörg Buttgereit was born to make horror films. His grandmother bought him horror trading cards while he was a kindergartner in Berlin, and for his first communion gift, he received a Super-8 camera. At age 14, he made \[ \] ## [Dark Rides Day](https://denniscooperblog.com/dark-rides-day-3/) _2026-08-07 · DC · DC's_ \* interview taken from Collectors Weekly How did dark rides get started? George LaCross: The forerunner to a single-rail dark ride was an “old mill,” a boat ride that went through a tunnel. When the old mills started cropping up around 1900, they were the first type of ride where you’d sit in a \[ \] ## [Explodes](https://denniscooperblog.com/explodes/) _2026-08-06 · DC · DC's_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Sarah Pickering Explosions (2007) The simulation pyrotechnic industry has rapidly expanded over the last few years: atrocious acts have happened in conflict throughout history, yet training in recent times has had to become more and more realistic to psychologically prepare our forces for the worst. Police and soldiers who have grown up playing computer \[ \] ## [No Wonder: Russian Children’s Playgrounds \*](https://denniscooperblog.com/no-wonder-russian-childrens-playgrounds-2/) _2026-08-05 · DC · DC's_ \* (restored) - - \* p.s. Hey. \*\* James Bennett, Hi. Well, I guess I meant that s where the central dialogue takes place? Writing once written is you but not you and is only focused on understanding you? I don t know. What you said, basically. It s all about finding your limits, no? By continually \[ \]