Misplaced Modernist

a generation late & a couple grand short

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Today at the Wall Street Journal offices...

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James Sowerby. A New Elucidation of Colours, Original, Prismatic, and Material. 1809.  

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“The train was now creeping out onto the bridge. An older woman stood by herself blinking and blurting out fearful remarks in German. A small Hispanic woman cried into her boyfriend’s arms. I was shaking. I felt sick.”

Last Sunday, the Metropolitan section of the New York Times published Lydia Davis’s story “Traveling From Brooklyn” that appears in the new anthology Tales of Two Cities. Read the excerpt here.

Photo: Philip Montgomery for The New York Times.

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My city. 

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Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

Is it even possible to think of somebody in the past? As long as we were in love with each other we didn’t allow the tiniest of our moments, the smallest of our sorrows to be detached from us and left behind. Sounds, smells, degrees of light, even the thoughts we had not told each other ― we took all this with us and it all remained alive: we never stopped enjoying it and suffering from it in the present.

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Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Philip Larkin (via likeafieldmouse)

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Uta Barth - More from series …And to Draw a Bright White Line with Light (2011)

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Today André Benjamin, aka André 3000, joins us to talk about portraying legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix in the new biopic, Jimi: All Is By My Side. 

What was it like learning how to play like Hendrix?

"I had to learn everything from playing behind my back to playing with my teeth to rolling around on the ground playing. I watched all the footage and I mimicked everything to a T, just to have it in the arsenal, just in case we needed it.

One of the hardest parts [was] I’m a right-hand guitar player. I’m a horrible right-hand guitar player. I wouldn’t even call myself a guitar player; I just pick it up and fiddle with it every now and then. And I think any guitar player would agree with me, Jimi is the most comfortable-looking guitar player in the world. I’ve seen a lot of great guitarists that are probably much better skilled than Jimi Hendrix, but some players look like they’re doing a task or … putting in a lot of work, giving a lot of effort. One thing about Jimi, he never looked like it was uncomfortable to him. …

When it came time to do the left-hand thing, I almost had to [do] finger choreography, learning where the chords are, learning the actual chords of the song with my left hand, learning where the notes are, learning how my fingers should lay. But it was really, really difficult, because it’s almost like walking backwards and making walking backwards look normal.”

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The Acceptance Pie - The Hairpin

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All of it.  Meeting Ann Friedman tonight and getting to talk about LadyJournoLife was just everything.

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Reblogged from art21: In a new episode from the Exclusive series, artist Kiki Smith discusses the challenges and pleasures of printmaking. This episode features previously unreleased footage filmed in 2002 at the printmaking workshop, Harlan & Weaver, in New York City. Watch the full episode here: Kiki Smith: Printmaking.

Production stills from the Art21 Exclusive episode, Kiki Smith: Printmaking. Copyright Art21, Inc. 2013.

Check out Kiki Smith: Wonder, on view at Pace Gallery’s 510 West 25th Street location through March 29, 2014.

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I died. 

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Jessica Sanders - Accumulations (2011) - Beeswax on stretched canvas

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Marina Abramovic and Ulay shared a great love story in the 70s. Together they performed art out of the van they lived in, forming a collective called “the other”.

When their relationship had come to an end, they went to the Great Wall of China to walk it together. Both started walking from the opposite end until they met in the middle for one last big hug before disappearing from each other’s lives.

For her 2010 MoMa retrospective, Marina performed ‘The Artist is Present’, the biggest exhibition of performance art in MoMA’s history.

During the performance, Marina shared a minute of silence staring into the eyes of a complete stranger who was seated in front of her. This is when Ulay arrived, without her prior knowledge. Watch the video below to see what happens.

Source: http://enpundit.com/former-love-surprises-artist-at-her-moma-retrospective-after-decades-apart/

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Tomokazu Hayakawa Architects - Sude (2008)

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Mizenscen

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The Taco Bell Drawing Club.

you were made for each other

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i'm going to self-publish a cookbook called "make fucking impressive elaborate meals for one" and plant it in barnes & noble next to "lean in"

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This.