January 2011
43 posts
man on the L train on wednesday night says...
do not drink the milk it has male hormones you drink the rice dream rice dream and the soy dream soy dream you will be more healthier beware of all the cows. they do not eat the grass. they eat do not eat rabbit food. next will be bedford avenue. bedford avenue is my favorite neighborhood you’ll meet a nice woman put you in a waterbed …? you’ll be rocking back and forth...
Martin Creed talks with Pablo Helguera at MoMA →
Martin Creed interview in Kilimanjaro magazine
I just try and get through the day really in the best way I can. You were saying about fear - I think I am very scared. I’m scared of just looking like a prat. Probably most people are scared of that. Fear is involved a lot, but primarily I work because I want to make my life better, I want pleasure and excitement. That’s what motivates me to get out of bed, if I’m excited about...
TO BE WITH ART IS ALL WE ASK
“Art’s Birthday” is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou.
He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Modest beginnings, but look at us now.
Filliou proposed a public...
Harry Smith interviewed by P. Adams Sitney at the... →
Frances Stark - A Craft too Small (on Bas Jan...
“Recently my mother lent me another Ouspensky book, The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution, a series of lectures. In the introduction he states he was motivated to give lectures because people would always ask him what he was working on and he found it too difficult to consolidate the information; only a lengthy series of lectures could begin to do the job of explaining his work. I like the...
