A new exhibition of 15 of Don Van Vliet's paintings opens today and runs until 6 July at the Anton Kern Gallery in New York. There is a catalogue of the exhibition and it includes a preface by Polly Harvey.

More information, a press release and nine paintings from the exhibition can be viewed at the Anton Kern Gallery website.

How I would love to attend - if you make it to the exhibition please do let us all know by posting a report to this blog.

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Anton Corbijn's short documentary, Some YoYo Stuff: An observation of the observations of Don Van Vliet, was made in 1993 and is the most recent film of Don available.

Some YoYo Stuff has now been included in a magnificent collection of film and video which you can watch at UbuWeb, one of the internets most fascinating resources. As well as their so-called "YouTube of the Avant-Garde" UbuWeb hosts a large quantity of otherwise hard-to-find contemporary and historical texts and sound files. All of this material can be accessed without charge.

Thanks to everyone who has pointed this out to me and also to those who have mentioned that the film can be found at YouTube rival DailyMotion.

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Several home-made versions of Captain Beefheart numbers have been posted at nearby websites in the past few days.

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