January 2011
On Nick van Woert:
colinoscopy:
In the course of reading about the Etruscans and Romans, he came upon the haruspex, a diviner of ancient Italy. The Etruscans, Van Woert explains, “would find a site they were interested in for a new camp or city or whatever, and the haruspex would go there, find some animals from the area, cut them up, dissect them, and analyze their guts. He would see a direct relationship...
The Art World, Online: 2010 – Paper Monument →
tk5:
A United Front: If ever there were a year where the international arts community came together online to demand that it conduct itself according to accepted protocols, this was it. Censorship will not be tolerated. Signed, The Management.
Insider Baseball Blogging: Online blogging platforms wherein editorial content is made accessible, free of charge and without log in requirements, to...
“There have been a growing number of reports of looters/thugs conducting smash...”
– EGYPT: Looting as Counter-Insurgency - Global Guerrillas (via anfischer)
Art is…
Time for a single purpose site;
Art Is…?
“Art is the proper task of life.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via artnotartnot)
How artists must dress →
bobulate:
Roger White celebrates a third printing of an etiquette book with some key pointers:
The relationship between an artist’s work and attire should not take the form of a direct visual analogy. A stripe painter may not wear stripes. …. The artist’s sartorial choices are subject to the same hermeneutic operations as are his work. When dressing, an artist should imagine a five-paragraph...
“After minimalism, conceptual and performance art, the idea of the artist as...”
– Fuse Magazine – Rhetorical Maneuvers in Contemporary Art, Part 1 (via tk5)
sex, art, and politics: Lee Rosenbaum | Clough’s... →
sexartandpolitics:
Lee Rosenbaum | Clough’s LA Flip-Flop on the Removal of “Hide/Seek” Video Here’s our exchange on that point, verbatim. The three dots mark a place where his own words changed direction without his completing the sentence’s initial thought. No words have been excised from these remarks:
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Clough doesn't think David Wojnarovicz removed... →
hydeordie:
I can’t tell if Clough has a big enough shovel to keep digging, the hole is too deep I can’t see him anymore.
“If you win this auction I will mail you a piece of paper revealing the true...”
– The Identity of “Banksy” - eBay (item 260720844294 end time Jan-19-11 07:22:22 PST) Updated; the other one was pulled by e-bay? Suprisingly the bids is up to over $10.000.
Who cares
“Today I would like to tell you just two more things:
Irony: Don’t let yourself...”
– I am seriously crying from the tenderness of Rilkes letters to a young poet.
“Art is defined as alien to “authentic” culture, since it does not explicitly...”
– Paul Chen and Sven Lutticken in Idiot Wind: On the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in the US and Europe, and What It Means for Contemporary Art.
The whole thing is really worth a read. It’s easy to get lost in the role local and national politics play in our own lives and to become distracted and...
Download Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet →
via juliusseizure
In 1903, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke responded by letter to a young man seeking his advice. Rilke had refused to critique the young man’s verses but eventually wrote ten letters now collectively known and much published as Letters to a Young Poet. They are heartfelt advice from a successful……………
Sorry, I skipped to the download now…
“Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be...”
– Milton Glaser: first graphic designer to win the National Medal of Arts. Glaser continues:
How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In a simplistic way, when you go past a forest and you look at it and you say, “that looks just like Cézanne.” And you realize Cézanne...
“Studded with more than 8,600 diamonds, including a £4.2 million pink diamond set...”
– Damien Hirst courts controversy with diamond-studded baby’s skull - Telegraph
