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killthecurator: Rosalie Gascoigne

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:58:25 +1000

Rosalie Gascoigne

"Our bones end hollow, sky blue; the flute comes untuned."

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:35:02 +1000

“Our bones
end hollow, sky blue; the flute comes untuned.”

- Erin Belieu, from “All Distance” (via the-final-sentence)

mrkiki: Angela Brennan Mountain. 2009 oil on canvas 170.5 x...

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:21:13 +1000

mrkiki:

Angela Brennan

Mountain. 2009

oil on canvas

170.5 x 180.5 cm

VIA

"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences...."

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:20:45 +1000

““Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. (Roy Ascott’s phrase.) That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andrew Serranos’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … [W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.””

- Brian Eno (via cavetocanvas)

membrane: The boy and the distorting mirror / 1960 / via :...

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:15:33 +1000

membrane:

The boy and the distorting mirror / 1960 / via : ratak-monodosico

theparisreview: This is Allen Ginsberg’s reading list for his...

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:52:59 +1000

theparisreview:

This is Allen Ginsberg’s reading list for his class, “Literary History of the Beats.” (Yes, he is on it.)

For more of this morning’s roundup, click here.

theparisreview: Dawn Clements doesn’t necessarily intend her...

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:49:33 +1000

theparisreview:

Dawn Clements doesn’t necessarily intend her drawings to become panoramic in scale. She begins with small pieces of paper and draws in ballpoint pen, or paints in black ink, a slice of what she sees; in particular, her own domestic environment, or interiors and characters from film and melodrama. But sometimes these small works don’t seem complete, so she glues another section of paper to the drawing and continues. This can go on for weeks, months, or years, resulting in drawings ranging in size from eleven feet in diameter to seventy-two feet in length.

…

Clements drew, over the course of one year, those two rooms of her Brooklyn railroad apartment, from wall to wall, floor to ceiling. As the drawing grew in scale she continued folding it into a manageable size, the process of folding and unfolding adding wear and tear. To get every angle she found herself in awkward positions, such as sitting in the tub or crouched in a corner. The finished twenty-six-foot drawing is a flattened-out version of her kitchen and bathroom as seen from multiple viewpoints that result in odd distortions of perspective. —Susan J. Swenson

Featured drawing from Dawn Clements’s portfolio “Kitchen and Bathroom.”

utnereader: Why Is Tumblr Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo? This business model would grind to a halt...

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:35:04 +1000

utnereader:

Why Is Tumblr Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo?

This business model would grind to a halt if a form of opt-in, as the European Union is now considering, is required before data supplied to one outlet, say Tumblr, is shared with other prying eyes, be they of corporate or government entities. As it is, sites such as Tumblr and Instagram became popular because they appeared to bestow a measure of privacy by not offering advertising. An aggressive ad program of the kind Yahoo needs to recoup its investment could fatally alienate Tumblr’s core constituency.

But shredding privacy is the essence of Tumblr’s appeal to Yahoo, and even though it has said it will retain the social networking site’s founders in key positions, one way or another that very personal data will be mined and inevitably fall into what users will discover to be the wrong hands. That is truly scary, for private space is the necessary incubator of personal freedom.

"My role—and that is too emphatic a word—is to show people that they are much freer than they feel,..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:05:00 +1000

“My role—and that is too emphatic a word—is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.”

- Michel Foucault (via evocativesynthesis)

justanothermasterpiece: Antoni Tàpies.

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:52:44 +1000

justanothermasterpiece:

Antoni Tàpies.

gapingartifice: my hand

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:07:00 +1000

gapingartifice:

my hand

zachcollinsart: 3x3 inch w/ 1x1 inch cut and paste collage in...

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:22:20 +1000

zachcollinsart:

3x3 inch w/ 1x1 inch cut and paste collage in middle on the way to Bad Jones Rising!

cavetocanvas: Howard Hodgkin, A Storm, 1977

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:21:36 +1000

cavetocanvas:

Howard Hodgkin, A Storm, 1977

blue-voids: Yves Klein - The Void (Empty Room), 1961

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:36:36 +1000

blue-voids:

Yves Klein - The Void (Empty Room), 1961

guernicamag: In the children’s books there are inanimate...

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:17:14 +1000

guernicamag:

In the children’s books there are inanimate objects that come to life, speaking statues, rings and words of power, talismans and amulets, but most of all there are doors

via The Faraway Nearby - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

weissewiese: COMMENT BY INES SEIDEL “He will never see Time...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:59:00 +1000

weissewiese:

COMMENT BY INES SEIDEL

“He will never see Time Square” — [This line is] from a poem that Allen Ginsberg wrote after his father died. I like the bag he wears in the picture, so I added some similar bags. They are trying to hold pieces of a picture from a current New York Times. Ginsberg will never see that picture. I will never see what was in his bag. Somehow we meet.

"You are skybound and sprinting…"

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:39:26 +1000

“You are skybound and sprinting…”

- Miles Walser, from “Perfectly Human” (via weissewiese)

"eyewitness, n. So much of my history resides in you now; so much of your history resides in me."

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:38:51 +1000

“eyewitness, n.
So much of my history resides in you now; so much of your history resides in me.”

- David Levithan (via weissewiese)

“It’s very much about making an object and treating it like an...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:36:00 +1000

“It’s very much about making an object and treating it like an object. It’s not just about making a picture. It’s about creating something, it’s about making from the ground up […] the whole sort of meditative thing of making something […] You sort of have to once treat it with reverence in a way, because you built it from nothing, but also not give a fuck about it because you have to take this risk.” - Ben Quilty
text - epiphanymt
images - florimoore and kafka-on-the-shore

theparisreview: “I spent my entire youth writing slowly with...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:40:44 +1000

theparisreview:

“I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.” —Jack Kerouac, The Art of Fiction No. 41