Aug 27, 2010
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How do you turn catastrophe into art? Nowadays the process is automatic. A nuclear plant explodes? We’ll have a play on the London stage within a year. A President is assassinated? You can have the book or the film or the filmed book or booked film. War? Send in the novelists. A series of gruesome murders? Listen for the tramp of the poets. We have to understand it, of course, this catastrophe; to understand it, we have to imagine it, so we need the imaginative arts. But we also need to justify it and forgive it, this catastrophe, however minimally. Why did it happen, this mad act of Nature, this crazed human moment? Well, at least it produced art. Perhaps, in the end, that’s what catastrophe is for.
Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
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Aug 27, 2010
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it’s bad, it’s really simple.Damien Hirst (via artnotartnot) this is exactly why i started smoking, when I was 21 and why I stopped, at 25.
Aug 27, 2010
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Tips for Artists Who Want To Sell (New and Unimproved), Silkscreen on paper, 2010, courtesy of the artist and the Lower East Side Printshop. Edition of 30. Buy it. Apologies to John Baldessari
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Aug 27, 2010
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Aug 26, 2010
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If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn’t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.Stephen King (via whileyouwereout)
Aug 26, 2010
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Your Own Reality Show by Lawrence Swan
We are living in our own reality shows. Those of us who are spending more and more time on social media, or on blogs, regularly updating our “friends” about our daily activities know the feeling. And, since these new media companies are owned and controlled by corporations, these reality shows of ours are ultimately as problematic as any on the Bravo TV network….READ MORE.
Aug 24, 2010
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Chad Wys, Artist
Title: Constable III and IV
Media: spray paint on found canvases and frames
Dimensions: both panels 17” x 19” x 1.25”
Aug 23, 2010
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how to explain it to my parents - harm van den dorpel
Aug 23, 2010
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how to explain it to my parents - martijn hendriks
Aug 23, 2010
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how to explain it to my parents - arno coenen
a documentary serie in which 9 abstract artists explain to their parents what their work is all about.
These are …poignant. Maybe more so because the artists are Dutch and I can hear understand every word. Watch it.
Aug 23, 2010
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The view from Jackson Pollock’s first studio in Springs, East Hampton, NY.
This was an upstairs room that looked out across Accabonac Harbor. He later moved the barn — you can see remnants of its foundation in the foreground — to the north side of the property and converted it into his studio.
The whole 20x200 team paid a visit to Pollock Krasner House this past Friday; it’s a moving and haunting place.
Aug 22, 2010
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Rachel Whiterad, Untitled, 2005; postcard with punched holes; 4 x 6 inches; courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery, London; Photo by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.; © Rachel Whiteread
Aug 21, 2010
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Aug 21, 2010
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Elmgreen & Dragset Powerless Structures, Fig 101 2010
The presentation of the proposals for the plinth* was yesterday and I took a gander at them and feel very good about my original prediction for Elmgreen & Dragset to win. You can see the rest of the ideas here.
*Alliteration :)
Those 6 ideas are so random. This is by far the most elegant, beautiful and emotive. Good call Hyde. Hope your right.
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