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Cy Twombly, 14 Papers, 1983

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Cy Twombly's Lexington is deeply fascinating to me, if also problematic—it's the capital of the cult of the Lost Cause, for one, two, and three things. So I had to dig into what Twombly was doing in Lexington in 1982 or 1985, when he made 14 Papers, a series of drawings at Silverwood, an antebellum mansion that was not his or his family's house.

Cy Twombly, Started at Silverwood [greg.org] 📷: Cy Twombly, Untitled (14 Papers from Silverwood), 1985, from teh collection of Emily Fisher Landau, Sotheby's 2024

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[thesituation]

i don’t feel like debating that topic much farther bc truthfully if it comes down to “women will lose to men in every sport bc they don’t have as much testosterone!!!!!” my elite feminist response is honest to god “ok we will lose with honor as equals instead of having our own special Easy Mode Female category so we can win amongst ourselves” like i’m sorry i just can’t be persuaded. i’m a brick wall. i want co-ed sports

[thesituation]

i bring a sort of “women can lose at some sports against men if it means being regarded as equals” vibe to the debate that “testosterone objectively increases performance” people don’t really like

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rather than wait another moment to design a Junta Watanabe revolutionary fashion collection, I realized it was already here, starting with the Givova Visa Triacetato 4S tracksuits Italy dresses the migrants they send off to an Albanian detention camp in.

Junta Watanabe Ships To Albania [greg.org]

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TIL Muji launched a limited edition car, the Muji Car 1000, in 2001. It was a stripped down, debadged Nissan March, and was sold only online, in an edition of 1,000. Except the seller of this example, in Kanagawa, says Muji actually only sold 170. Rare? Fail? Or both?

Muji Car 1000 or Muji Car 170? [greg.org]

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Love it actually! My favorite car for a long time was the Nissan Micra from around this time. Which I thought of at the time as a Japanese Mini...

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Illustrator John Rooney has teamed up with the Middle East Children’s Alliance to produce and sell this Birds of Palestine print. (All profits go to helping families & children in Palestine.)

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TIL Muji launched a limited edition car, the Muji Car 1000, in 2001. It was a stripped down, debadged Nissan March, and was sold only online, in an edition of 1,000. Except the seller of this example, in Kanagawa, says Muji actually only sold 170. Rare? Fail? Or both?

Muji Car 1000 or Muji Car 170? [greg.org]

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On a recent trip to Hiroshima, I got fascinated by Alice Garden, a weird, eccentric and remarkably intact Post-Modernist public plaza and event space that has somehow survived more than 30 years. AFAIK, it was originally created when PARCO built their new department store in 1994. A major modernist sculpture by artist/musician Suzuki Takashi sits on an artist-designed plinth that's also used as an event stage.

Curiouser and Curiouser: Alice Garden in Hiroshima [greg.org] 📷: 2026 photo from the bleachers at Alice Garden, Hiroshima; 2022 Streetview screenshot of the Alice Garden bike parking entrance structure; Suzuki Takashi, Linear Cycle, 1994 as originally installed at Alice Garden, image courtesy the artist

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Cindy Sherman, Untitled #115, 1982

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Happy 37th, Jeremy O. Harris.

Photo by Micaiah Carter.

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Robert Rauschenberg, Dirt Painting (for John Cage) ca. 1953. Dirt and mold in wood box, 15 5/8 x 15 7/8 x 2 ½ inches.

[jkottke]

I’ve probably featured this before but always worth a re-up: “A Books Unbanned library card gives teens across the United States free digital access to ebooks and digital resources, including banned and challenged books — no matter where they live.”

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How long until this blog unwittingly publishes Nobu Fukui fakes? Only time will tell. Keep an eye out for Orange, but this Red date is verified by the incredible Duncan McLaren On Kawara website.

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Gerhard Richter: 4900 Colours, Edited by Serpentine Gallery, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2008 [Studio Bruno Tonini, Gussago (BS). Art: © Gerhard Richter]

Foreword: Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist Texts: Birgit Pelzer, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Peter Gidal

Exhibition: Curated by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Rebecca Morril, Serpentine Gallery, London, September 25 – November 15, 2008

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the way these panels were illustrated in this book by cg with artificial drop shadows broke my snowbound brain in 2010

On Drop Shadows and Diagrammatic Abstraction

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Die Ausstellung Gerhard Richter, (invitation folded leaflet), Galerie René Block, Berlin, 1966 [Studio Bruno Tonini, Gussago (BS). Art: © Gerhard Richter]

Exhibition: December 10, 1966 – January 21, 1967

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a portrait by Augustus Vincent Tack with an abstract painting by Augustus Vincent Tack in the corner

A Slice of Augustus Vincent Tack [greg.org] 📷: Untitled Oval (Golden Morning), 1930, the Phillips Coll.; Portrait of Lotte Lehmann, nd, just sold at Copake's

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