~HAPPY HALLOWEEN: NO I AIN’T LYIN’ !!

FILE UNDER: MONSTER-IN-YOUR-FACE. NOAH LYON !! – – aka – – (no joke !!) RETARD RIOT !!
SURFACES BIG TIME IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS . . . IN THE HOTTEST CITY in THE WORLD – STOCKHOLM – JUST IN TIME TO MAKE HALLOWEEN & SCARE THE LIVIN’ DAYLIGHTS OUT OF ALL THOSE NEW YORK CITY GALLERY DEALERS – WHO PASSED HIM OVER. HA.
SO, BOO ! . . . MAYBE EVEN, BOO-HOO. DON’T BE CRYIN’ – LOSERS.
LOOKS TO BE SITTING PRETTY, NOAH LYON – NO, AH AIN’T LYIN’.

FILE UNDER: ‘MONSTER’ REVENGE – OR WHAT ?


see: ‘GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO’ OFFICIAL WEBSITE !!

‘GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO’ SWEDEN: SO DARK. AND SO COOL !! (AGAIN.)
AND BAD-ASS SCARY !! WHAT’S UP – WITH – THOSE CHILLY EVIL BALTIC WATERS ? POETIC SNOWY ROADS & HARD COBBLESTONE CITY STREETS.
SWEDEN: THE NEW – MEXICO, OR WHAT ? SWEEPING UP IN THE CULTURE WARS – AND MOPPING THE U.S. FILM INDUSTRY – WITH THEIR FIRST RATE – STEIG LARSSON MOVIES. AFTER SEEING MICHAEL NYQVIST & THE FAB FAB NOOMI RAPACE – (AND ESPECIALLY DIRECTOR NIELS ARDEN for ‘DRAGON’) ALL ANYBODY SAYS LEAVING THE THEATER – IS WHAT A JOKE – THOSE HOLLYWOOD GOONS ARE GONNA LOOK LIKE. WITH THEIR RE-MAKE.
and LIKE, HOW MANY YEARS – AFTER THE FACT ?

(ok. ok. me and Kate saw ‘THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST’ LAST – last nite, and LOL – Theo was watching ‘THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO’ on NETFLIX – when I got home – a STEIG LARSSON HOME RUN, IF I EVER DID SEE ONE . . . )

anyways, back to art . . . !!
and yes, art can kick butt just as bad-ass – as the movies. if you are in the right city !!

and I guess the place to be for art – this very HALLOWEEN 2010 – would be in downtown STOCKHOLM – where you could catch the very last day of the dark and fantastic show – ‘SOME KIND OF MONSTERS’ – featuring the work of FILIPPA BARKMAN and TOVE KJELLMARK – at STENE PROJECTS – in their way scary gothic installation straight out of – FRANKENSTEIN – & – which also seems to be offering up – the work of NYC homeboy – NOAH LYON – in their back gallery/offices. STENE PROJECTS looks to be a completely cool and dark side of the universe kinda place – carved out of a fab former horse stable from 1772 !! no less.

FILIPPA BARKMAN & TOVE KJELLMARK – ‘SOME KIND OF MONSTERS’
OCT 8 – OCT 30, 2010
STENE PROJECTS – BRUNNSGATAN 21B – DOWNTOWN STOCKHOLM


‘SOME KIND OF MONSTERS’ installation shot. IMAGE/COURTESY: STENE PROJECTS


TOVE KJELLMARK, ‘Anomaly’ , 2010. 50 x 40 cm. watercolor on paper.
IMAGE/COURTESY: STENE PROJECTS


FILIPPA BARKMAN, ‘From now and ever’, 2008. 70 x 50 cm. crayon on paper.
IMAGE/COURTESY: STENE PROJECTS
wow – can I relate to that, OR WHAT !!

. . . also on view in the gallery, works by: OLAFUR ELIASSON (Denmark/Iceland), JOHN E. FRANZEV (Sweden), FREDRIK HOFWANDER (Sweden), JONE KVIE (Norway), EVEMARIE LINDAHL (Sweden), RAYMOND PETTIBON (USA) – and our homeboy – NOAH LYON (USA) !!


NOAH LYON, ’32 UNHAPPY MEALS’ (STOCKHOLM EDITION), 2010. 173 x 267 cm. offset prints.
(aka The Great Dictator – Ronald McHitler).
IMAGE/COURTESY: STENE PROJECTS


NOAH LYON, ‘Bart Marley’, 2006. 32 x 32 cm. edition of 100.
IMAGE/COURTESY: STENE PROJECTS


NOAH LYON, ‘Everyone is on sale’, 2006. 32 x 32 cm. edition of 100.
IMAGE/COURTESY: STENE PROJECTS


NOAH LYON, ‘God Bless this mess’, 2006. 32 x 26 cm. edition of 100.
IMAGE/COURTESY: STENE PROJECTS


NOAH LYON, ‘Buttons vs Painting round 1’, 2005. 30 x 22 cm./buttons on canvas.
IMAGE/COURTESY: STENE PROJECTS


NOAH LYON, ‘Ronald McHitler’, 2001. 120 x 90 cm. acrylic on panel.
IMAGE/COURTEY: STENE PROJECTS

see: more images, here !!

in more exciting RETARD RIOT – NEWS ??!!

the OCTOBER 31st issue of RETARD RIOT featuring scary Halloween skulls & skeletons from Noah, Mat Brinkman, Martha Colburn, Food Fortunata, Edie Fake, Joe Grillo, Marder III, Billy Miller, Mudboy and Winston Smith – is out !!
just in time.
see: RETARD RIOT ZINES !!

coming soon: RETARD RIOT unleashes 100 brand new buttons !!

(note: CRACK IS BACK !!)

and, for the 5th straight year in a row – RETARD RIOT will be setting up a table – at PRINTED MATTER’S – NY ART BOOK FAIR / P.S. 1/MOMA in Long Island City, NYC. NOV 5 – 7, 2010.

and, of course he will show up – at this year’s 2nd annual – BROOKLYN COMICS & GRAPHICS FESTIVAL – the DEC 4th, 2010 weekend – hosted by DESERT ISLAND and PICTUREBOX. in Brooklyn, duh.
yes, YOU WANT – MORE INFO !! – get it at: DESERT ISLAND !!

and, not to forget all you music lovers, out there.
RETARD RIOT also serves up: “new musical atrocities, oops I mean ‘sound art’ from the likes of Lead Paint Zeppelin, Cheap Little Tart, Thomas Edison Muffin, Doctor Ninja vs The Shuffler and god knows what else” !!
see: RETARD RIOT RADIO !!

ok. ok. – so, what does this madman, look like ?
let me see what I can dig up out of the vault !!


how’s this ?
NOAH LYON, ‘eyeballs’ – the World Trade Center towers ?


what ? you can’t really see his face ? trust me – you got the dude’s inner being !!
but, ok – here he is, with his secret weapon – beautiful wife, and BFF – the lovely MARIA !!

both pix from the NY ART BOOK FAIR, NOV 2008, back when it was in Chelsea, at PHILLIPS de PURY, on 14th St.
BOTH PHOTOS COPYRIGHT: NANCY SMITH


we’ll give NOAH – the last word: THE ART of RETARD RIOT !!
that’s all for now – folks – HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!