Born Too Late

"The Perfect Love Letter is I write 'I Love You' backwards in the air."

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Paul Klee, "Eros," 1923, watercolor, gouache, pencil, paper

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Dan Flavin "icon V (Coran’s Broadway Flesh)" 1962 Oil on cold gesso on Masonite, porcelain receptacles, pull chains, and clear incandescent “candle” bulbs. 31 5/8 x 31 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches (80.5 x 80.5 x 25.1 cm) including fixtures and lamps Photo by Bill Jacobson, New York © 2009 Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; courtesy of David Zwirner, New York/London.

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Sigmar Polke, "Apparatus Whereby One Potato Can Orbit Another," 1969

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Ideal Halloween costume

Kate Bush, 1981

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A fascinating read: "Simon Hantaï's Discontent," on Hyperallergic 

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André Breton, Jack the Ripper (Jack l'éventreur), from VVV Portfolio, 1942

Offset lithograph postcard, ink, metallic paint, thread, and sequins on paper

Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950; 1950-134-972

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"Destroy the Brutalism, Leave the Picasso: A Debate Over What's Worth Saving in Oslo," from Hyperallergic

Another Brutalist building in peril, with added intrigue.

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Sir Roland Penrose (1900-1984)  Seeing is Believing (L'Ile Invisible), 1937  oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.3 cm.) 

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Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Composition of Circles and Overlapping Angles, 1930 (Museum of Modern Art, New York)

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Talking Heads at CBGB, December 1975

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Wall of Voodoo, “Back in Flesh," from “Urgh! A Music War" (1981).

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(via Lichtbau: Archive)

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Pae White. Chandelier. Berlin.

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Wellesley Tumblr Roll Call

Can we do a roll call for all the Wellesley peeps on Tumblr? Just reblog this if you go to/went to Wellesley. If you are inclined, you can add your name and year but it’s fine if you don’t.

<3 Wellesley Underground

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2005, year of excellence!

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Nam June Paik, Magnet TV, 1965  

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Orange Juice, "Rip it Up" (1983)

The song is 2000x better than the lip-synching.

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Vilhelm Hammershøi, Woman in an Interior, c. 1905

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John Latham (British, b. Zambia, 1921-2006). Art and Culture, 1966–69. Leather case containing book, letters, photostats, and labeled vials filled with powders and liquids: case, 3 x 11 x 10 in. (7.9 x 28.2 x 25.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund. 

Saw this in the fabulous Materializing Six Years: Lucy B. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art last December. The vials contain chewed and fermented pages from Clement Greenberg's Art and Culture.