Monthly Archives: November 2012

Weekly Wrap-Up for November 30th, 2012

(Doug Aitken) taxonomy x unreal memories x body without a head x vis a vis

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Democratizing Art

(Place of the Upside Down, Roger Ballen, prints available on 20×200) “I am most interested in democratizing all of the things that I’m interested in because I feel like way too many people are shut out from them. It sounds … Continue reading

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Monday Macabre: PoW Bone Art

A few months ago I saw this piece featured in Skinner’s American Furniture & Decorative Arts auction and was immediately intrigued. What was it? It reminded me of one of those old coin banks where you insert a quarter into a dog’s mouth … Continue reading

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Weekly Wrap-Up for November 23rd, 2012

creation x clear history x the man at the wheel x stalking a unicorn 

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Show Up And Get to Work

(Sten Lex) “The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If … Continue reading

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Weekly Wrap-Up for November 16th, 2012

insider x seeing & being seen x welcome to control x shift in time x outsider

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The Promptings of Longing or Love

(Tos Kostermans from the ‘Bold and Beautiful’ series) “We have, as a culture, reached the point at which nearly anything—geography, ambitions, expensive tastes, an abusive childhood, poverty—seems a more probable motivation for making art than the promptings of longing or love.”  … Continue reading

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Weekly Wrap-Up for November 9th, 2012

landscape remade x speculative models x too many truths x fear no art  

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They Do What They Do And I Do What I Do

“When I was in graduate school I had done some public things, but they were unsuccessful. They didn’t mean anything, they were abstract. I started writing on my paintings, but that didn’t work either. So when I came to New … Continue reading

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The Realms of the Unreal

Prior to watching The Realms of the Unreal, Henry Darger was an artist I was loosely familiar with from Art History classes of yore, where he was deemed a prominent Outsider Artist. As we barreled through the syllabus, I believe my … Continue reading

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