Required Reading
A look inside Donald Judd’s home studio in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood. It will be open for tours…
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Opalka shot 50 self portraits over the course of 40 years, each one immediately upon the completion of one of his numerical Infinity paintings. He died in 2011.
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I do not mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing, but I am suspicious regarding the image of reality which our senses convey to us, and which is incomplete and limited. Our eyes have developed such as to survive. It is merely coincidence that we can see stars with them as well.
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(Source: andrewharlow)
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I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
— Aldous Huxley (via theparisreview)
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American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al
Huey Lewis has an important question for Weird Al.
(via: funnyordie)
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Who Is the Master, and Who Is the Slave?
“The Master,” film still (image via film-grab.com)
I’ve seen it twice, and it still makes my brain feel like it’s been violated in some sublime way. Visually,The Master is an incredibly beautiful piece of work: the effect of filming a reported 80 percent in glorious 65mm. The movie is saturated with color and tone courtesy of cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr., with editing by Leslie Jones and Peter McNulty, who paced the visuals against Jonny Greenwood’s (of Radiohead) odd, whacked-out, jazzed-up staccato soundtrack.
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The Lonely Books That No One Borrows
Meriç Algün Ringborg, “The Library of Unborrowed Books” (2013)
What is the fate of a library book that never gets checked out?
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“Somehow the image begins to have a sort of memory in it, even if you can’t see it. It can build up a dense feeling toward the end, and then it makes me happier.”
—Vija CelminsVija Celmins, our current 100 Artists featured artist, is shown here at work in her Manhattan studio in 2003. This scene is featured in the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 2 episode, Time (2003).
WATCH Vija Celmins in “Time”: Preview | Full segment [available in the U.S. only]
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Artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop music and his uncanny sign-making skills towards a brand new project: “Rap Quotes.” For this ongoing project, Shells created official-looking street signs quoting famous rap lyrics that shout out specific street corners and locations.
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Crashing Waves Aerials 35mm 1 - Ocean Waves
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