April 2009
“Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He...”
– George Saunders, “Mr. Vonnegut in Sumatra” (via savingoldlitter)
“I am perhaps happier now than I have ever been and yet I cannot but recognise...”
– Stephen Fry’s letter to his 16-year-old self - The Guardian
appliedculture: “Please read it. Doesn’t matter if you are gay, straight, or both. It’s such a moving piece, please, read it for yourself and those you love.”
(via signa)
“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas...”
– Neil Gaiman (via simko) And then you act upon them, I might add, otherwise you’re just a dayddreamer (or I would be a writer).
“Think of forgery and plagiarism. In forgery, a scoundrel pretends his work is...”
– Nice post: fuck Art. something to think about. When I have time. And then I’m sure I won’t completely agree
“…if public libraries did not exist, would it be possible to establish a library...”
– Terminally Incoherent (via azspot) (via slantback)
33 and Under, Please - ‘The Generational’ at the... →
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Rather than trotting the globe visiting artists, the curators relied on their Internet savvy, reaching out to 150 writers, teachers, artists, critics, curators and bloggers worldwide, for recommendations. From around 600 suggested names, the curators whittled the group down to the final 50.
How it should be.
I still want to curate a show of contemporary Asian photography via...
Saatchi Gallery Launches Ad Campaign Offering Free... →
hydeordie:
LONDON, ENGLAND.- The Saatchi Gallery and Clear Channel Outdoor are launching a national outdoor poster campaign across the UK to help artists and people interested in buying art during the financial recession. Saatchi Online provides a free global platform for artists to show their work to an international audience and to sell it to collectors without the usual 50% commission taken...
Unsold Art Piles Up as Rich Take a Break from... →
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“In the first quarter, only three pieces of contemporary art sold for over $1 million each, a drop of 92% from the year-ago period, according to Artprice, a provider of art-market information and which has tracked price and confidence data since to 1998. The number of unsold contemporary works at auctions hit a high of 40% in the first quarter.”
“In creating, the only hard thing is to begin; a grass blade’s no easier to make...”
– James Russell Lowell (via iheartmyart)
“He soon felt that the realization of his longing gave him only one grain of the...”
– Anna Karenina (via slaughtered)
LittleBigArthouse: Matthew Barney's Cremaster... →
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Hey, here’s a sentence I never thought I’d be typing: PlayStation Network (and YouTube) user fluxlasers has set out to re-interpret the entirety of Matthew Barney’s cinema arthouse series Cremaster as a set of LittleBigPlanet levels.
…What?
This should be interesting.
“It is upon desire and desire alone that we must rely, for it is desire that...”
– André Breton (via nymphlight)
“A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some...”
– J.G. Ballard — (via savingoldlitter)
“I can be sympathetic to [the idea that people who are fans of a certain artist...”
– Will Oldham (via optimistclub)
