1982.
Did I mention everything on this blog that I claim as my own is copyrighted? That means it belongs to me and it was "published" published whenever your idiot-box says it was published. Thanks for the understanding.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Lucian Freud
Two plants, 1977/80
Man in a chair, 1983/85
(The sitter is the late Hans Henrik Ágost Gábor Tasso Freiherr Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva, industrial magnate by birth and collector of German expressionism by destiny.)
Large Interior W.11 (after Watteau), 1981/83
Of this selection only Two plants, which can be viewed at the Tate, is not part of a private collection, a variable that makes his work that much more desirable.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
Egon Schiele studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna until the vexingly straitlaced conservatism of the staff served as the impetus to pack his bags and check out. The fact that one of his most steadfast advocates upon deciding to leave the Academy was Gustav Klimt might be worth mentioning.
He went on to form the Neukunstgruppe, or New Art Group, for similarly vexed students. His work, among other things, combines startlingly disfigured human forms, unfettered sexuality, and the relentless contemplation of death. He died, well before his time, at 28, just months after Klimt.
His work can be found in New York at the Neue Galerie and (the bulk of it) in Vienna, at the Leopold Museum.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
David Goldblatt
For the General Manager after he had been underground: 'dirty' bath and 'clean' bath attached to the General Manager's office, New Kleinfontein Gold Mine, Benoni. May 1967
Michael Stevenson Gallery
Mexico City
"No excuses ever, for anyone; that's my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing. Everything is simply totted up, and then: 'It comes to so much. You are an evildoer, a satyr, a congenital liar, a homosexual, an artist, etc.' Just like that. Just as flatly. In philosophy as in politics, I am for any theory that refuses to grant man innocence and for any practice that treats him as guilty. You see in me, tres cher, an enlightened advocate of slavery."
From Albert Camus's The Fall.
From Albert Camus's The Fall.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)
Stills from Swiss installation artist Pipilotti Rist's show at the Museum of Modern Art. The Miró exhibit was too crowded to get a picture, but don't worry, it didn't bring me to tears or anything like that.
Christopher Wool, Untitled
The text is a reference to the 1957 film Sweet Smell of Success, written by Ernest Lehman and Clifford Odets, directed by Alexander Mackendrick. In the dialogue a character uses this phrase as a cipher meaning some sort of reprehensible or otherwise transgressive act had transpired.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
der osten im norden des westens
Romanian-born, Cöln-residing twin brothers Gert and Uwe Tobias's "The East In The North Of The West", previously at Team Gallery, New York.
Terence McKenna, Food Of The Gods
Remotely nestled in the Sahara Desert of southern Algeria lies the Tassili-n-Ajjer Plateau, once the home of a partnership-based, Goddess-worshipping people. In Food Of The Gods (1992, Bantam), McKenna asserts this civilization to be parallel to that of Biblical Eden, the fruit of the tree of knowledge no less than psilocybin mushrooms.
McKenna cites Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, a Harvard fellow whose research (and radical viewpoints) concern Neolithic and Bronze Age civilizations, who wrote:
The term Old Europe is applied to a pre-Indo-European culture of Europe, a culture matrifocal and probably matrilinear, agricultural and sedentary, egalitarian and peaceful. It contrasted sharply with the ensuing proto-Indo-European culture which was patriarchal, stratified, pastoral, mobile, and war-oriented, superimposed on all Europe.
25 July 1956
The SS Andrea Doria, an Italian luxury liner, after having been struck by the Swedish MS Stockholm en route to New York City.
Amadou, Mamadou
It's been nearly a decade since four of New York City's finest unloaded forty-one rounds into Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea. This cab driver almost shares his name.
Friday, January 9, 2009
this concerns all of us
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl author Daniel Pinchbeck will be speaking this coming Tuesday at McNally Jackson Books (52 Prince Street) concerning Toward 2012: Perspectives On The Next Age, a collection of essays now convenienly available from Tarcher/Penguin.
Telling your friends you'll try to make it won't suffice on this one either; this is not an opportunity to be squandered. Do yourself a favor and pick up his book before attending.
McNally Jackson
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