January 2012
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As for the lives of the gods, as for whatever
I say about anything, no one...”
– Xenophanes
October 2011
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“So then you’re left with a choice. Do you trust your English teacher, or do you...”
– Helen DeWitt from last night’s celebration of New Directions’ seventy-fifth anniversary.
(thank you, towirr)
Hers was one of my favorites. Did you get any books?
August 2011
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“[The people running Britain] thought that after thirty years of soaring...”
– Good essay on the London Riots: http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html?spref=fb
WatchFlaming Lips/Edward Sharpe Perform “Do You Realize??” In Hollywood Cemetery
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January 2011
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“Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what...”
– Dean Spade. For Lovers and Fighters. http://www.makezine.enoughenough.org/newpoly2.html (via avry)
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“—Do you remember the first day I went to your house after my...”
– Ulysses, James Joyce
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“Paintings, like poetry or music, are essential nutrients that help people...”
– Roberta Smith, “Landscape and Still Lifes of New Territories,” New York Times December 30, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/arts/design/31smith.html?ref=design
December 2010
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“Dear Friends and readers, The New Freewoman has no cause. The nearest approach...”
– Dora Marsden, 1913 in The New Freewoman magazine (1.2:25)
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“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our...”
– Marcel Proust (via monpersonnelsamizdat)
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“One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the...”
– Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man”
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“When, before leaving the church, as I stood up, a bittersweet scent of almonds...”
– Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way.
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“I am not the first author of the narrative titled “The Library of...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, in the Prologue to The Garden of Forking Paths.
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“First, the notion of the work. It is said (and it is still a very familiar...”
– Michel Foucault “What is an Author?”
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“Recognizes no taboos.”
– 1914 manifesto of the English little magazine The Egoist, Edited by Harriet Shaw Weaver.
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Questions Without Answers for John Baldessari (by...
I have always felt a deeply humanistic undertone in your work, despite its use of irony and obliqueness. But I am hard pressed to account for why I feel it and sometimes think it’s because I have known you for a long time. Where do you think it resides?
Is a Conceptual artist different from any other kind of artist?
A lot of ink has been spilled about art as the new religion, with the...
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“I was saddened by the loss of my strip of pink sky, when I caught sight of it...”
– Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (via charlottecollection)
October 2010
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“Read for pleasure. Read junk. Read every kind of book. But read for pleasure....”
– W.S. Merwin (via thebronzemedal)
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“To be within The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is to be...”
– John Hejduk.
Thanks, Casey Gollan!
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“Maybe it is time for a new, less militant metaphor. One possibility is a...”
– Roberta Smith “With a Jury of Their Peers.” On the new show, ‘Abstract Expressionist New York’ at MoMa. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/arts/design/01abex.html?_r=1&ref=design
September 2010
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“Don’t ask me how many of them I’ve read or will read or will even ever crack...”
– Scott David Herman on amassing a collection of books in excess of a thousand. (via caseyagollan)
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gifparty:
Marina Abramović GIF by Georgia Dodson
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“…since by books we do not now mean the materials of which they are made.”
– Richard de Bury Philobiblon (1345)
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“But in truth we wanted manuscripts not moneyscripts; we loved codices more than...”
– Richard de Bury Philobiblon (1345)
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“The art at issue here [so-called ‘archival’ art] does not project a...”
– Hal Foster “An Archival Impulse” October Autumn 2004 (Relational Aesthetics issue)
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“To connect what cannot be connected, this is exactly what my work as an artist...”
– Thomas Hischhorn in interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews. (I think)
August 2010
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“And it was as though, all around the defunct headgear and this shaft that was...”
– Émile Zola Germinal.
Beautiful, sad.
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“Since, of the charm, the grace, the forms of nature, the public knows only what...”
– Marcel Proust Swann’s Way in In Search of Lost Time (Penguin’s Lydia Davis translation.)
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“Swann had always had this peculiar penchant for amusing himself by rediscovering...”
– Marcel Proust from Swann’s Way in In Search of Lost Time
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“I cannot combine certain letters as dhcmrlchtdj, which the divine Library has...”
– Jorge Luis Borges in “The Library of Babel.”
relevant: http://jennyeagleton.tumblr.com/post/943572918/by-this-art-you-may-contemplate-the-variation-of
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“As meat is to the body, such is reading to the soul.”
– Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) from the 8th ed. (1676) on books and reading.
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“By this art you may contemplate the variation of the twenty three letters, which...”
– Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) from the 8th ed. (1676) on the art of memory.
Curiously similar to Borges’ “Library of Babel.” http://jennyeagleton.tumblr.com/post/944460856/i-cannot-combine-certain-letters-as-dhcmrlchtdj
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“For as mastication is to meat, so is meditation on that which we read.”
– from an 8th ed. (1671) of Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). Burton is quoting Saint Heirom.