December 2010
steve-kim:
When you agree to be drawn, you should know what you are getting into. I love to draw you. You are real, You are specific. You teach me many things, usually to my surprise. But I often feel a twinge in my conscience when I do so. There are things I know that you do not. There is, fundamentally, an imbalance of attention, not unlike stalking. I guess this is a warning. There also those...
You Looking at Johnny Depp Looking at a Picasso →
The pop culture chain in effect (via hydeordie)
Flavin ruled as "Not Art" →
hydeordie:
ANGRY!
BIZARRE!
WARHOL FOUNDATION DEMANDS REINSTATEMENT OF... →
tk5:
BOOOOM!!!
“You have always been a very responsible guy—an immensely productive artist,...”
– David Salle asks John Baldessari a bunch of questions. There are no answers. I really like this.
Paris Review – Questions Without Answers for John Baldessari, David Salle (via porcupineschool)
historians discover tiny numbers and letters in... →
dihard:
A member of Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage found a musty old book in an antique shop which describes how the Mona Lisa’s eyes are full of various signs and symbols. This prompted the committee to examine high res images of the painting. Sure enough - they found symbols and letters in the eyes! There’s an LV in the left eye, and in the right eye are symbols.. or the...
Countdown
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Countdown is a video performance by Alexander Thieme where he cuts a large sheet of paper in 2 pieces. One half he then cuts in 2 again and so on till he can’t cut the last piece anymore.
Dirty
pasithee:
I get catalogs from art shops in the mail as Christmas comes closer. Like a pervert relishing her dearest fetish I pore over the pages, nearly panting. Words like ‘beechwood’ and ‘studio’ wink out at me. They flirt. Winsor & Newton (My heart). Sennelier (Oh). I imagine holding parcels filled with tubes of pigment and sable brushes. I fantasise about rolls of paper. I daydream about...
“The cross is a symbol of the CRUCIFIXION, among the cruelest tortures in the...”
– Diamanda Galás, the composer and performer of the This is the Law of the Plague (1986), which is the soundtrack to part of Wojnarowicz’s Fire in My Belly responded to its removal from the Hide/Seek exhibition by the Smithsonian. (via vs the pomegranate)
“In Wojnarowicz’s hands, by contrast, art was never less than a matter of life...”
– Dan Cameron in an amazing piece on the importance of artist David Wojnarowicz.*
*Reminder: Cameron curated a retrospective on Wojnarowicz and this is all relevant because it is said artist’s piece that was removed from the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition Hide/Seek. (via hydeordie)
Worth...
Ruscha vs Kerouac
swisscheeseandbullets:
One to add to the unfeasible wishlist methinks: the Ed Ruscha-illustrated edition of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, published and exhibited by the Gagosian Gallery last year.
Yours for a mere £6,250.
“It’s an enduring conceit peculiar to the conceptual art of the last 40 years...”
– Where Is Art Now? Leaving the art world to decide what art is doesn’t resolve the issue of quality…: Observatory: Design Observer (via datdatdat)
“In my experience, being an artist consists mainly of two things:
Grinding out...”
– South 12th: It’s complicated.
