November 2010
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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...
October 2010
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Sharon Lockhart at MoMA November 11-17 2010
Double Tide. 2009. USA. Directed by Sharon Lockhart
MoMA presents the New York premiere of Sharon Lockhart’s Double Tide (2009), a luminous and meditative portrait of a woman digging clams in the mudflats of the Atlantic Ocean. Filmed in Seal Cove, Maine, a historic site for commercial clamming, during a rare natural phenomenon—when low tide occurs twice during daylight hours, once at dawn...
Artist Statement: Josephine Meckseper
Josephine Meckseper
(an example of a ‘parallel’ text)
On a bluish spring day two men are dragging a large mirror along Fifth Avenue like a piece of sky. That morning a woman on the subway platform had on a tight silver polyester top that made her chest look like a metal sculpture. She wasn’t very pretty. Opaque pantyhose. Nude heel. Seamless stretch. An electrified albino played the...
Artist Statement: Dana Schutz
Dana Schutz
“Recently, I have been working on a group of paintings loosely hinged on the act of painting a fictional man from observation, and representing the objects that surround us. The paintings are premised on the imaginary situation that the man and I are the last people on earth. The man is the last subject and the last audience and, because the man isn’t making any paintings, I...
September 2010
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Revolutionary Letter #1 by Diane DiPrima
I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life my spirit measured out, in bits, spread over the roulette table, I recoup what I can nothing else to shove under the nose of the maitre de jeu nothing to thrust out the window, no white flag this flesh all I have to offer, to make the...
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