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“It is impossible to spend the coming day in faith if we do not think of it as the last day of our life.” ~ St John Climacus I. A small blob of light in the distance bounces delicately back and forth. It comes slowly into focus, as though you’re just coming to after having... »
commodity fetishism gone right \/\/ banzai!!!!! | brooklyn
These days, Brooklyn is the destination where art comes to be born and to die. After all, this is still New York City, the global center for commercial art distribution. But beyond that, Brooklyn is home to the overwhelming majority of studios, ateliers, and actual artists in New York City. Soho and Chelsea obviously... »
commodity fetishism gone right \/\/ buckaroo’s mercantile, boston
Cohesion, external or not, is a pretty attractive idea when it comes to art, especially because of the fact that art itself lacks any hard or fast definition. The navel-gazing that we know today as art history originated during the Renaissance with Italian painter and artist biographer Giorgio Vasari, who collectively grouped the three... »
kandinskian evolution and the avant garde \/\/ chaos, perspective, order
So, since this week’s organizing theme is “External lack of cohesion is internal harmony,” (a quote from the painter, Kandinsky) I suppose this is a good descriptor for the avant garde in general. Not so much a coalition as a group of artists and thinkers with similar aesthetic and philosophical values, which address something like... »
andre breton is a douchebag\/\/visualizing beauty
Honestly, have you read Nadja by Andre Breton? Cause I have and the book is everything that’s wrong with being French. It’s one long convoluted name dropping turdboiler. OHHH, FANTASTIC you’re friends with Max Ernst and Picasso!? Fuck off. The premise is offensive to anyone but Breton’s magna-douche sized ego. Its all about a torrid... »
andre breton slapping the face of art, demanding a duel \/\/ surrealism’s demand for better beauty
Hello again, readers, First, a quote from the venerable wiki: “Under Breton’s direction, Surrealism became a European movement that influenced all domains of art, and called into question the origin of human understanding and human perceptions of things and events.” – Wikipedia (‘Andre Breton’) “human perceptions of things and events”, of course, included our perception of beauty…and... »
not the matter \/\/ talking about the matter
It’s odd how talking reasonably about the absurd can only proceed by dissections that render the absurd utterly banal. The wonderful, hilarious and frustrating to the overly-serious, the fantastic absurd! The absurd exists, some say (code for, ‘I cannot find the quote’), in a tripartite logical arrangement with the true and the false. Like this: The... »
art basel \/\/ part two \/\/ in which the garbage gets better
“Every Art Basel I learn a new nickname for cocaine.” -overheard in a gallery at Art Basel, Miami 2009 I am completely exhausted. Basel is effectively a five day citywide party. Stimulus is everywhere. Art, music, people. Lots of people doing drugs. Over-stimulus. Everyone involved in the fairs, or people who spend every moment soaking it... »
panty doodles \/\/ an interview with lucy white
Lucy White grew up in a house with a lawn and a mother who took care of the house and father who took care of the lawn. These might be the perfect conditions for producing a laid back landscapist, but they didn’t. Lucy White’s politically centered pop art has zero to do with capturing... »
art basel \/\/ part one \/\/ in which chicken flava doesn’t cross the road
“I’m really sorry guys, I thought that was going to be so different. It’s my fault, I wanted to go.“ -overheard walking out of an event at Art Basel, Miami 2009 Ahh Art Basel. Its that time of year again in Miami, Florida. My fine city. The Magic City, or as the ubiquitous New Yorkers this... »
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