roared by. Jim, she never intuited the gentle and cunning economy behind this man’s quote harsh sloppy unstudied approach to objects. The way he’d oh so clearly practiced a chair’s back-leg tilt over and over. The way he’d studied objects with a welder’s eye for those strongest centered seams which when pressured by the swinishest [...]
It might not sound like the crime of the century. But the theft of a box of pencils has reignited a bitter feud in the art world. The pencils in question are actually worth £500,000 and form part of a £10million Damien Hirst art installation. They were taken as a prank by a 17-year-old graffiti [...]
Sally Bennett Jones, 1944–1988. Center medallion of triangles, surrounded by multiple borders, 1966, cotton, 86 x 77″ Linda Pettway, born 1929. “Logcabin” — single-block variation, tied with yarn, ca. 1975, corduroy, 88 x 78″ Mary Elizabeth Kennedy, 1911–1991. “Housetop” — “Logcabin” variation, ca. 1935, cotton, rayon, 84 x 79″ Quilts of Gee’s Bend Catalog
Matisse Yucca, 2010 DeLorean DMC-12 reflecting a Gerhard Richter, 2010 Brand New Paint Job
WINTER B.S. 1960 — TUCSON AZ Jim not that way Jim. That’s no way to treat a garage door, bending stiffly down at the waist and yanking at the handle so the door jerks up and out jerky and hard and you crack your shins and my ruined knees, son. Let’s see you bend at [...]
Teri Lyn Hughes Homeless Basically, in the practical sense, you need water to survive and a backpack to carry other survival – or even sentimental items – to survive on the road and on the street. I’m so careful to keep water with me. I was on the way back to Beaumont where I have [...]
In the meantime, bicycle-powered irrigation systems have become the latest subterfuge for ambitious grad students who want to be written up in Artforum. Doug Harvey, There Go the Zeros
Sandy Paws Grooming Shop Creative Grooming Awards. Link via Marcos.
As the two, maybe three people who visit this blog might have noticed, maintaining a timely Fall Video of the Month series sometimes proves too tall an order for one Chris Svensson. As such, I have reached out and asked dear friend and fellow Fall enthusiast Frances Stark to guest curate. If any of the [...]