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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“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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“I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.” — Aldous Huxley (via theparisreview)
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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.
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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