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Nina Leen:  Abstract Expressionists in NYC (1950) 

 Back row, left to right: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne. Center row: Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin. Front, seated row: Theodoros Stamos, Jimmy Ernst, Barnett Newman, James C. Brooks, Mark Rothko.

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

Tomioka Hachimangu, Tokyo, October 2023

On Andy Warhol: Peter Schjeldahl, Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light: 100 Art Writings (2019)

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Paul Cupido · Hommage to Shoji

Paul Cupido ~ Hommage to Shoji no. 7, 2023. Archival pigments on unwashed Kozo paper | src Bildhalle – Paris Photo 2023 view more on wordPress

Paul Cupido ~ Hommage to Shoji no. 6, 2023. Archival pigments on unwashed Kozo paper | src Bildhalle – Paris Photo 2023

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Random “Not Exactly Spooky But Weird As Hell” Movies to Watch On a Friday Night

-The City of Lost Children :  A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

-Watership Down :  Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.

-The Secret of Nimh :  To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she ever suspected.

-The Cell :  An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.

-Dog Soldiers :  A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scotland wilderness

-Sorry To Bother You :  In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.

-Paprika :  When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients’ dreams is stolen, all Hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.

-Bubba Ho-Tep :  Elvis Presley and a black “JFK” stay in a nursing home where nothing happens - until a wayward Egyptian mummy comes and sucks out the old people’s souls thru their a-holes. The two decide to fight back.

-Being John Malkovich : A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.

-Fantastic Planet :  On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.

tweeted excerpts from A Field Guide to Getting Lost, via Rebecca Solnit's twitter

“We’re riddled with pointless talk, insane quantities of words and images. Stupidity’s never blind or mute. So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations, 1972-1990

Dóra Maurer, Seven Twists, 1979

Seven Twists I–VI 1979/2011 is a self-portrait of the artist comprising six framed black and white photographs on paper, laid out in a single row. The first photograph shows Maurer holding up a square sheet of blank paper that mostly covers her face, with only her right eye and hairline visible. Each subsequent photograph presents the artist holding up the previous photograph in the same manner but rotated by forty-five degrees anti-clockwise. In each photograph her actual face is angled alternately more or less towards the camera, with a little more of her face being revealed each time.

Jasper Johns

Scent 1973

Dancers on a Plane 1979

Barriers Made of Concrete and Oyster Shells Mitigate Erosion and Offer Alluring New Habitats on Australia’s Coastline

Alex Dimitrov

A woman using her husband's shadow to protect and shelter herself from the sun in Masijd al- Harām.

Back Up Your Hard Drive. What do I mean by that? Although your life may be cruising along smoothly, I recommend that every once in a while you stop and envision a sudden shipwreck occurring. Then think, re-think and remember what you would really want to hold on to if disaster should strike.

Larry Bock (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

Julian’s essay on Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, 1973–76, is up now, part of Holt/Smithson Foundation’s Tuesday Texts series.

“The ceramics teacher announced that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pounds of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot — albeit a perfect one — to get an “A”. Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes — the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”

— David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong

Hyperrealistic Braided Hair Paintings by So Yoon Lym

https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/social-media-is-not-self-expression/

“Diffraction patterns for natural and synthetic fibers.” Encyclopedia of X-rays and gamma rays. 1963.

Internet Archive

RIP bell hooks. The impact of this book on generations of artists, writers and readers is immeasurable. It’s been a rough few weeks.

Issey Miyake Pleats Please Travel Through Kenya By Yuriko Takagi

Photography by Liu Heung Shing (1989). A young couple waiting under a bridge pass tanks

Sean Mundy - Dark Winters

Black Girl (La Noire de...), dir. Ousmane Sembène (1966)