September 2008
“Art that appeals to sensuality isn’t necessarily devoid of intellectual merit,...”
– Click opera - The Yokohama Triennale and art’s new quietness (via standardgrey)
“There is everything you can imagine,” he writes, “sites like YouTube, or just on...”
– Oliver Laric (VVORK) in: Recycle It by Ed Halter - Moving Image Source
A look at found-footage cinema, from the silent era to Web 2.0 (via standardgrey)
“When somebody sees my work, the only thing that they see is the Sacred Heart of...”
– Jeff Koons, as quoted on Automat
Banksy refuses to back art sale | BBC News →
shadowfirebird:
‘A spokesman for the auctioneers said: “Banksy hasn’t said they are fake. I don’t know why he’s not authenticated them… He’s saying that street art should stay on the streets.” ‘
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature,...”
– Aristotle (via zehnuhr)
How to Write →
yourmonkeycalled:
Nice series from the Guardian. Opening line from Catherine Tate’s piece: “‘Writing’ always means ‘not writing’ to me, because I will do anything to put it off.” Amen.
(via The Millions)
“But you have to be impressed by the fact that the king of kitsch, the one who’s...”
– Nicholas Trembly on the Koons show (via hydeordie)
“You see, I think drugs have done some good things for us. I really do. And if...”
– Bill Hicks (via thesaurus)
“We do art and ourselves a disservice if we think that art can only be art if it...”
– A.C. Grayling (via hydeordie)
“It is true that the arts keep us sane, but a larger bias for this perception is...”
– Guy Davenport (via coffeehousejunkie)
Cadavers as art? →
kellykorova:
I think it’s an interesting concept, I’d love to see the look on someone’s face when they found out the ‘fish food’ pellets they were feeding goldfish were soilent green. There was a big controversy over the bodyworlds exhibition (the legitimate one not the BODIES or bodyworks competitors who were doing it unethically), but personally I found it amazing. When I saw it I was studying...
“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”
– ohcarlos: Oscar Wilde, on Dan Colen and Dash Snow.
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828 - 1910 (via qotd)
Cadavers as art? →
hydeordie:
I’m not going to give my opinion on this, but I do encourage you to read it. Where does one draw the line? Should there even be a line?
(Re)drawing the line is what art does; That’s not to say you have to like it, to approve it, or to consider it art; sometimes it goes too far and it is not art any more. I don’t think this necessarily goes too far; it’s in...
“Here’s my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart....”
– The Little Prince (via alphabetpony) (via unicornology) (via ilouvreyou) (via missbrightside)
“There is an attitude that you’re not a real artist if you make money, if you’re...”
– Hmm. Damien Hirst, here. (via rach)\
Hmm is right. (thesaurus) Aha, that’s why the diamond skull is so sparkly then… And everything is solid gold.
“In the future everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes”
– Banksy (via zehnuhr)
