May 2008
“yo,” she says gruffly,
and offers the young mother
a place to sit down.”
– the SEPTA haiku
“Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (Diary) (via luxuriousvulgarity) True and getting truer (and more relevant/ artistic) all the time.
“The controversial portrait painter Jonathan Yeo’s design for a deck chair for...”
– pornographic’s OK, but just not so pornographic
the distinction’s one the Stumblng Tumblr doesn’t find it easy to grasp
from here via this
—— (via stumblng)
The design in question: quite lovely actually (at this resolution?)
'Biggest drawing in world' revealed as hoax -... →
A spokeswoman said they had allowed him to film in their Stockholm warehouse as part of a college project, on the understanding that the work went no further than his art school. The GPS package was never sent around the world. Sounds like performance/ concept art to me! I do feel foolish not to see the telltale signs myself though; need to pay better attention to the things I post! Such a thing...
“[I]t’s like what I always argued about Pop art, how people who saw its upsurge...”
– Robert Irwin in VQR (via yourmonkeycalled)
Lost and Found.
ohcarlos:
Inspired by my near-pathological daily browsing of sites like FFFFOUND! and Flickr, I have endeavored to launch a new blog, dedicated to suff I find in the lost and found bins at Kinko’s, which I then scan and put on the internet [ed note — everything is safely returned to the lost and found once it’s scanned]. I’m not sure of the legality or ethics of any of it, but I think it’s a...
galerie du jour - agnès b. →
“Every addiction, she said, was just a way to treat this same problem. Drugs or...”
– Chuck / Choke. (via topherchris)
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it....”
– Franz Kafka (via theministryoftruth)
“I can think of three reasons to do [cocaine] and if you do it for any other...”
– Damien Hirst (via bullshit)
5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art
zehnuhr:
I don’t exactly know why I can’t understand those art. There are a lot of great artists, artworks and so much inspiration in this city, but everything I saw this morning at the KW institute for contemporary art looks very strange and a bit childish (without any charme). Like drawings from blind stupid kids. As if David Lynch had made a weird movie about art in my head. WTF?
I would...
Christie's Auction Results →
In the end, the auction totaled $348 million, the second-highest total ever, with 95 percent of lots sold. Only three works, including Roy Lichtenstein’s Ball of Twine, 1963, failed to sell. Moreover, eight world records were set. (via hydeordie)
“As I pour my 2nd glass of wine I notice the neighbors have rented a bulldozer....”
– Another Micro-Novel from phillygirl (via yourmonkeycalled) This is a great idea; come on, novellists of the world; jump that 6-word bandwagon and get on twitter. Also; you’d think that publishers would get a twitter account and twitter the first lines of all novels they publish, right? Or...
Contemporary Art Evening Auction at Sotheby's, New... →
This list of auction price-results, complete with pictures, is amazing. How can a Bruce Nauman head be so much less than, for example, a Richard Prince nurse. Seeing all these prices; it adds up. I cannot help but think “can’t they choose something better to spend their money on?” But of course they cannot. Best not to think of it as money.
“Collectors have realised that you can still buy the best of their work, whereas...”
– Friends Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud on top of world art market - Times Online
Bacon Triptych Auctioned for Record $86 Million -... →
A 1976 triptych by Francis Bacon brought $86.3 million on Wednesday night at Sotheby’s, becoming the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction and a retort to doomsayers who had predicted that the art market would falter seriously this season because of broad economic anxieties.
“Boredom and understanding are the same thing”
– Matt from 37 signals in an excellent post about Rauschenberg. What he said was “I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand — I use those words interchangeably — another appetite has formed. ”. Gotta love that...