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Francis Alÿs
The Nightwatch
Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National Portrait Gallery at night.
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Scientology
the best old school jam
It’s an aspect of photography I appreciate, conceptually: the idea that images can be reproduced and seen anytime, anywhere, by anyone.
— Cindy Sherman (via welovecindysherman)
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Will the stories brought to us by new representational technologies ‘mean anything’ in the same way that Shakespeare’s plays mean something, or will they be ‘told by an idiot’?
— Aldous Huxley
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Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles the reader’s historical, cultural, psychological assumptions, the consistency of his tastes, values, memories, brings to a crisis his relation with language.
— Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller (via visualandcritical)
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Are Artists the Best Curators?
“ While intuition and hunches play a part in scholarly research, throwing open a gallery’s doors to the unknown is a far cry from responsible curatorial practice.”
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best chorus ever