April 2010
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Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there was
A time when it was not.
It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.
-Emily Dickinson
Paraphrase Dickinson is speaking about two aspects of pain, its timelessness and its irresistible dominance. The poem is structured by references to time...
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A letter from Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse
“I have much confidence in you and even though you are tormenting yourself, the work you do is very good. Try to do some BAD work – the worst you can think of and see what happens but mainly relax and let everything go to hell – you are not responsible for the world – you are only responsible for your work – so DO IT. And don’t think that your work has...
“It gnaws at her, I’m sure of it, but slowly, patiently: she take the upper hand, she is able neither to console herself nor abandon herself to her suffering. She thinks about it a little bit, a very little bit, now and again she passes it on. Especially when she is with peple, because they console her and also because it comforts her a little to talk about it with poise, with an...
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WatchMike and Doug Starn Big Bambú: You Can’t, You Don’t, and You Won’t Stop
Opens April 27th on the MET rooftop.
Care to Climb?
All visitors will be allowed on the main level of the roof, but walking the elevated pathways of “Big Bambú” is more complicated. For that you will need to know about:
TIMED TICKETS One per person, available only first come first served, with museum admission, in the...
Rilo Kiley - Spectacular Views
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I am listening to the Execution of All Things on my headphones and thinking of the time when you had really discovered that album were so incredibly in love with Spectacular Views. I had been listening to the album for years, and I think it was one of those things you laughed at me for at. Although you had your guilty pleasures, your affinity for No Doubt (both early and at this point, Gwen...
Shelly Spector, reads aloud her anecdote on pricing, haggling, and what your work is worth on ArtJaw- you can read or, for a more This American Life experience- listen here.
An excerpt:
“A dozen or so years ago I decided to experiment with the cost of my work based on how long it took me to make it. I wasn’t going to consider materials or thinking time, just the hours I physically worked....
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9 CREDITS TO BFA!
Summer session:
Religion, Art and Apocalypse / Tues & Thurs 12:30-4pm
Fall 2010:
Collage: Constructed Image / Mon 8:30am-4pm
Advanced Digital Photography Workshop / Wed 4-10pm
Maybe throwing in some paper making, advanced non silver, or another round of image and performance.
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“The idea of women empowering themselves by becoming sexual objects is backward....”
– Kim Gordon (via tulletulle)
We were talking about this idea briefly in my Gender Images in Media class today- mostly about strip clubs being portrayed [in movies] as a scene of howling men and the male gaze. Paglia basically broke it down to “the male gaze is bullshit. Those women rule over...
