A travesty in my book. Unreal. The walls on railroad lines, they were built so beautifully. They say that style follows function—every detail of how they put one thing together with another: the electric wires, the stonework, the plaster work, the metal of the windows, the railroad signs—all of this stuff is like beautiful sculpture. And as it gets older it just gets richer and more beautiful. They’re sacred things, and you should never deface them.

David Lynch Hates Mural Arts’ Latest | News | Philadelphia Magazine.

David Lynch in conversation with Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Senior Curator Robert Cozzolino at the Free Library of Philadelphia on September 11, 2014.

David Lynch: Free Library of Philadelphia – an album on Flickr.

Welcome to Twin Peaks was invited over to PAFA for an exclusive preview tour of the monumental exhibition by curator Bob Cozzolino, but instead of sharing photos of some of the individual pieces, I wanted to somehow share the experience of being completely surrounded by David Lynch’s art, especially with those who cannot make their way to Philadelphia before it ends on January 11, 2015.

Click Here to see the Exclusive Virtual Visit To PAFA’s David Lynch: The Unified Field.

Public Exhibition Preview:
David Lynch: The Unified Field

Friday, September 12, 8 – 10 p.m.

International film director, artist and PAFA alumnus David Lynch comes to PAFA this fall with his first major U.S. museum exhibition, featuring over 80 rarely-seen paintings and drawings spanning Lynch’s entire career, including his formative years as a PAFA student in the 1960s.

$15 for in advance; $20 at the door

Public David Lynch Preview – Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

PA Academy Fine Arts on Twitter: “In advance of “David Lynch: The Unified Field” opening Sept, check out this interview w @DAVID_LYNCH http://t.co/gSEZn2oMKc #PAFADavidLynch”.

…we’re pretty sure whoever he’s meeting with are not actually the folks who did such a thing — or at least, they were not the first to do so. That honor is the subject of a spat that’s been running for years now here on Philebrity. In one corner, we have commenter Timo, aka Tim McCloskey, who swears he was the guy who first came up with “Eraserhood,” and provides historical context for his argument; in the other corner, we’ve got Shawn Kilroy, filmmaker and lead singer in the band Weird Hot, whose short film above is, as far as we can tell, the first document aligning forever the neighborhood around 13th and Callowhill with Lynch’s landmark and iconic film Eraserhead.

Philebrity.com » Blog Archive » David Lynch Said To Meet People Who Coined The Term “Eraserhood” But So Far, Neither Of Those Philebrity Readers Has Heard From Him.

…sugary fried rings have popped up throughout the filmmaker’s cabalistic canon. And so, Michael Solomonov, the chef and co-owner of Philadelphia’s Federal Donuts, jumped at the invite to make confections in honor of the first major retrospective of Lynch’s work, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (where Lynch studied painting in the late ’60s)

David Lynch’s Doughnut Obsession.

David Lynch: The Unified Field | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Museum and School | 1805.

“I loved my time at the academy,” Mr. Lynch said, drinking coffee and smoking at his desk, his genial small-town manner a vivid counterpoint to the eerie tenor of his films. “The building was almost black. All of Philadelphia had a kind of coal-dust patina and a mood that was just spectacular. There was violence and fear and corruption, insanity, despair, sadness, just in the atmosphere in that city. I loved the people there. All these things, whatever way it was, was my biggest influence.”

David Lynch, Who Began as a Visual Artist, Gets a Museum Show – NYTimes.com.