May 2012
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I try and try to apply myself, to focus on the...
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I am finding it hard to be patient these days....
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Yohji Yamamoto My Dear Bomb
A lovely, poetic, insightful read.
Many quotable areas, but here I’m sharing something quite unforgettable and attune to my personal philosophy:
“A musician may claim: ‘Music is a matter of sensibilities.’ However, in order to be widely recognized, he must spend years, perhaps decades, as an unknown while he polishes his craft. It is the same for a fashion designer, who...
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“SHERRY” IS A TOOL that I made when I was pregnant. I thought, “How am I going to...”
– Ann Liv Young on ArtForum’s 500 words
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Phillip Starck in DAMn Magazine May 2012
Normally I am not quite a fan of Phillip Starck’s designs, but in the most recent issue of DAMn magazine his ideas really grabbed me. Here is an excerpt for your reading pleasure: “The intelligent part of human production always focuses on reducing materiality. the main lines tend towards dematerialisation, which in itself implies lightness and invisibility. The future is not the...
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Hilarious!
http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/get-em-whilst-theyre-hot-theyre-lovely/
As the savage frosts of recession threaten the gilded lilies of art, frieze speaks to a new wave of young, dynamic gallerists about their hopes and dreams …
Carmen Egg-Ruffle 29, Co-Director, Projekt Halle Space Site Room, Berlin F: Tell us a bit about your gallery. CE-R: It’s not a gallery. It’s a project space....
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Pre-Summer Vacation Rambling
Hello all, since I’m leaving for Florence on Tuesday I’ve been watching “A Room with a View” and whilst watching, I took it upon myself to write a list of words I adore. Here they are, for your enjoyment:
- Honeysuckle
- Alabaster
- Ancient
- Pseudo
- Milk
- Honey
- Tone
- Dear
- Dreary
- Delightful
- Splendid
- Lavish
- Indulgent
- Noon
- Tea
-...
April 2012
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NY magazine's How to Make it in the Art World →
Quite informative! Thanks to everyone who laid it all out there. Why did I go to school again? Oh yes. Branding. Branding branding branding. You wouldn’t catch me wearing Gap, after all.
“Know these 100 People”: (are you on the list? ARE YOU ON THE LIST???)
The Institutionalists: 1. Glenn Lowry (MoMA) 2. Kathy Halbreich (MoMA) 3. Ann Temkin (MoMA) 4. Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA...
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Obrist
““The most important day of my life was when I was 17, and I met [artist Alighiero] Boetti,” Obrist says. “He explained to me how unbelievably limited the art world is: ‘There are the gallery shows and museum shows, the biennales and the one-percent public commissions. But there are thousands of other things an artist would like to do.’ He said, ‘That could be your job. To do all of...
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Mr and Mrs. Frieze
Mr. & Mrs. Frieze I saw the three of them eating lunch at the Wolseley and there was a palpable sense of tension: two proprietors of an art fair seemed to be facing off against an elder gallery owner like a police station interrogation. Almost an anomaly today, the dealer is a transparent, honorable, steady-as-a-rock character, decades on the scene, who had shown his support for the fair by...
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““Art made in a riotous spirit of bad taste not only undermines academic...”
– http://www.artnews.com/2012/04/12/when-bad-is-good/
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WatchCai Guo Qiang’s Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for MOCA Los Angeles
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March 2012
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“Um…..Is God like, the greatest artist of all time, or what???”
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Inventive Personality Type
“On that hot, fateful afternoon on the trip to the city, Daisy tells Gatsby that he always looks cool, that he resembles an advertisement. And he does. In him the inward confidence expresses itself in outer surfaces. He does not wear a mask, he becomes one. The inner self is expressed in the creation of an ideal role, and there is no distance between facade and self. When his dream world is...
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http://www.moca.org/party/camlab/ →
“n response to an economy gone to the birds, this third installment in CamLab’s Engagement Party residency will “instrumentalize” money and intention in a large-scale hands-on group gathering. Longtime “economicalists,” the members of CamLab invite you into their efficiently excessive installation for a material meditation on the distribution of resources. While occupying a cipher of fabric...
February 2012
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Shepherd Fairey pleads guilty to criminal contempt... →
“Fairey attempted to destroy evidence linking his Obama poster to the AP owned image of Obama, he created false documentation pointing to another source image — and even went as far as to arrange for a witness to support his false claims. He did all of this while presenting himself legitimately among peers and supporters. In a sense, one could suggest that Fairey has become the type of...
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“The opposite of humour isn’t seriousness. The opposite of humour is incompetence”
– David Shrigley (via mountstnobody)
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Why are Men so Violent? →
From Psychology Today: “A historical explanation of male violence does not eschew biological factors, but it minimizes them and assumes that men and woman are psychologically similar. Consider the biological fact that men have more upper-body strength than women, and assume that both men and women want to obtain as many desirable resources as they can. In hunter-gatherer societies, this...
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R.I.P. Mike Kelley
January 2012
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