October 2008
“If a man writes well only when he’s drunk, then I’ll tell him: Get drunk. And if...”
– Fernando Pessoa, quoted by The Bronze Medal. (via mills)
(via ekstasis) (via scout)
On the beat with the art world's part-time police →
hydeordie:
London. Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques Unit is supplementing its resources by using part-time volunteer officers. ArtBeat special constables, from museums and other organisations, have been recruited to fight organised crime in London, particularly art theft, forgery and fraud. Currently ArtBeat constables are working on two separate cases involving the large-scale faking of...
“0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987…”
– Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (via peterstichbury)
coffeehousejunkie via the Guardian:
UbuWeb, the magnificent - and enormous - archive of the avant garde has, in one of its many curious corners, an online project glorying in the name Publishing the Unpublishable.
Link
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different...”
– Hermann Hesse (via zehnuhr) (via sunaoh) (via kirstenbecken) That’s how I feel about a lot of the little comments I add to the posts/ pictures I find. But I think it’s interesting to add them nonetheless.
Art review: Frieze week, Various venues, London |... →
standardgrey:
The great thing about the imminent possible crash in the art market is that there are no victims. By which I mean, there are no victims other than enormously rich people. Even better, some of the enormously rich people who may lose their shirts are bankers.
The great thing about art is it cannot “crash”; there will still be this object, or idea, when the monetary value...
Adrian Searle picks his highlights of this year's... →
jillsies:
standardgrey:
This process - carried out by committee - has this year been undermined by artist Cory Arcangel, who sent out bars of chocolate to all the galleries who had made unsuccessful applications to exhibit. One bar contained a golden ticket, offering a free stand at the fair. The winner, Studio di Giovanna Simonetta, from Milan, shows a ribald selection of wares, including a...
“The trouble with being poor is that it takes up so much of your time”
– DeKooning, via NewYorkWriter, art critic, and curator commenting on this.
“As for artists, too many have been getting away with murder, making questionable...”
– And: The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists—especially emerging ones—won’t have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They’ll be able to experiment as much as they want. Signs of Financial Trouble at London’s Frieze Art Fair —...
Signs of Financial Trouble at London's Frieze Art... →
“If the art economy is as bad as it looks—if worse comes to worst—40 to 50 New York galleries will close. Around the same number of European galleries will, too. An art magazine will cease publishing. A major fair will call it quits—possibly the Armory Show, because so many dealers hate the conditions on the piers, or maybe Art Basel Miami Beach, because although it’s...
“I awoke to the consciousness that I was trapped in a dark room, in a hastily...”
– Timothy Leary (via desafinado) (via bebelestrange) I used to feel I could understand these accounts of sudden feelings of displacement, that for example led to Gauguin leaving his stable life to go paint. But the older I get the more ubelievable these accounts become, and the more frightening.
Artists in drag…
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