(to Frank Lloyd Wright who advised Boston’s “city fathers” to have a dozen good funerals as urban renewal) “. . . we might, if, like the things outside us we let the great storm over-ride us, grow … READ ON
A POLARITY IS PRESENTLY developing between the finite, unique work of high art, i.e., painting or sculpture and conceptions which can loosely be termed “unobjects,” these either environments or … READ ON
“Common to the art in question is that it searches for a definite sort of system that is part of the work. Insofar as the system is revealed it is revealed as information rather than esthetics.” Art … READ ON
Art has never been a question of life and death… – Barbara Rose Art is the only thing worth dying for. – Abbie Hoffman WE TOOK THIS REALLY NICE HOUSE IN BERKELEY that some friends were vacating for … READ ON
A Report on the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art reveals the underpinnings and negotiations for an exhibition (Summer, 1971), more completely than we have ever gleaned … READ ON
The first exhibition of a newly made work of art is in the studio. This first audience of the artist’s friends views the art in the work place in which it was created, in the artist’s presence and … READ ON
Memories. Every scenario and every mise-en-scène have always been constructed by or on memories. One must chance that—start from affection and new sounds.–– Jean-Luc Godard I am thinking of the … READ ON
There are, in the contemporary renewal of performance modes, two basic and diverging impulses which shape and animate its major innovations. The first, grounded in the idealist extensions of a Christian … READ ON
Obscenity, were there such, would be such that no one, not even at the very core of the self, could escape it. The secret, were there such, would be such that no one, not even its safekeeper, could … READ ON
IN DECEMBER, 1948, Barnett (Baruch) Newman wrote an essay entitled “The Sublime is Now.” In 1950-51, he painted a canvas that he called Vir Heroicus Sublimus; in the early and mid ‘60s, he cast three … READ ON
SUNRISE Late in 1978, a record by four post-Sex Pistols bands from Manchester, England, arrived in the mail; inside the sleeve was a perforated sheet of four stickers. One, titled “The Return of the … READ ON
FOR SOME OF US, THERE IS NO MORE MOVING moment in cinema than when, in Tokyo Story (1953), which many consider the quintessential film by Yasujiro Ozu (1903–63), Kyoko remarks, “Isn’t life … READ ON
Isa Genzken: I can give you a little tour of my studio. This is a piece for which I finally found a title today. It’s called Kinder filmen [Children Who Film]. I find it’s a beautiful title. Wolfgang … READ ON
Whether making work with moldy bread, melting wax, or Froot Loops screenprinted on massive mirrored boxes, Urs Fischer probes the inner workings of embodied experience and cultural production—reframing … READ ON
PROPELLED BY AN ENGAGEMENT WITH the work of Sigmund Freud at the close of the 1950s, Claes Oldenburg developed a new species of art object. Transcending the existing models of the readymade and the … READ ON
YOU ARE YOUR NETWORK. This aphorism, freely adapted from theater director René Pollesch’s 2012 play Kill Your Darlings, trenchantly captures the new worth of connections and friendships in contemporary … READ ON
