December 2009
73 posts
“By allowing other people to ridicule any wine you like or criticize the way you...”
– Will Wine Snobs Turn to Gary Vaynerchuk? — Grub Street New York
Swap in “art” where it says “wine” and you get something close to how I think someone should approach art collecting.
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people...”
– Personism » Blog Archive » When Wrong Is Right
A quote from Philip Roth’s American Pastoral, which I originally posted over on Personism almost exactly 4 years ago.
“Police say Ivana Trump has been escorted off a plane in Florida after she became...”
– Police - Ivana Trump Becomes Angry, Taken Off Plane - NYTimes.com
Seems more like Page Six material, or maybe The Onion? And yet: NYT, via The AP, in the arts section no less!
“Seeing two cups of bourbon provides the simultaneous frisson of being a teenager...”
– Half Baked, with Nic Musolino: Eggnog | The Awl
firmuhment:
“I learned that sitting in the chair and forcing yourself to write long past the...”
– Janice Erlbaum: Nanowhatnow?
"Cuteness has been an ever-increasing problem...
choire:
Oh hai, I made you a 20x200 gift guide.
Featured Auction Lot: Todd Hido
blindspotmag:
Todd Hido’s enigmatic landscapes explore Northern California, Oregon, Ohio and elsewhere. From his car, he makes carefully crafted with a pallette and sensibility that is unmistakeably his own. This work is from his recent show: A Road Divided, held at both Stephen Wirtz gallery in San Francisco and Bruce Silverstein in New York. For more work: www.toddhido.com BID NOW ...
Featured Auction Lot: Walead Beshty
blindspotmag:
Recently featured in the Whitney Biennial and New Photography at the MoMA, Beshty’s work utilizes the now-waning analog processes to create playful photography that pushes the boundries of what constitutes photography.
For more work: Wallspace BID NOW Walead Beshty American/British, b. 1976
4 Sided Picture (YRGB), January 11th, 2007, Valencia, CA, Fujicolor Crystal...
“When you start working everybody is in your studio—the past, your friends,...”
– John Cage, cited by Philip Guston, ‘The Philadelpia Panel’
(via the-space-in-between)
