February 2012
4 posts
January 2012
6 posts
“Likewise, I had been querying Colin about his advertising strategy, mailing list, public relations, etc., and asked him why the gallery did not produce press releases, and he explained that there was a very small window of time in which the visual work of art is experienced before this perception is inevitably shaped by language, and this window should be kept open as long as possible: that...
December 2011
9 posts
Creatures of Comfort: Triple Threat →
creaturesofcomfort:
Tori: “It’s funny for women because journalists pit women against each other. If you think about Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton they were all much more similar to each other than we are. We have tits. We have three holes. That’s what we have in common. We don’t even play the same…
November 2011
6 posts
Frank O'Hara reads "Having A Coke With You"
creaturesofcomfort:
Gordon Matta Clark's Food
creaturesofcomfort:
“Artists were also invited weekly to serve as guest chefs, and the whole dinner was considered a performance art piece. One of the most fabled, costing $4, was Matta-Clark’s “bone dinner,” which featured oxtail soup, roasted marrow bones and frogs’ legs, among other bony entrees. After the plates were cleared, the bones were scrubbed and strung together so that diners could...
October 2011
10 posts
Cynthia MacAdams
creaturesofcomfort:
Jennifer Gruskoff, Soccer Player, 1976 / Sari Dienes, Painter, 1976
Lily Tomlin, Actor, 1977 / Ann Waldman, Poet, 1976
Majoie Canton, Film Maker, 1975 / Alice Neel, Painter, 1976
More from Cynthia MacAdams’ hugely inspiring Feminist Portrait Series here
c+j.c.
“They flew in separate planes: in case one crashed, the other could continue their work.”
September 2011
11 posts
3 tags
algoodman:
“It made me feel like I was standing on Houston Street in late November, when the temperature has just changed; I don’t have a scarf, and a friend has cancelled a dinner appointment with me. I have nowhere to go. I feel the air go through me. I have a sense of my own twilight.”
-Julian Schnabel responding to a van Gogh drawing
August 2011
6 posts
“I see myself as rather boring, a rather straight-arrow kind of person who wanted...”
– Helen Mirren, age 66 (via pandiculation)
