the protagonist

"Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way." - Bret Easton Ellis

He says if you’re critical, you’re already out of the game,” David Zwirner explains in the New York mag article, articulating Koons’s philosophy. This strikes me as a particularly One Percent kind of sentiment, a token of a world grown so unequal that a certain class of people is almost completely out of touch with the values of real humans. For most of us, after all, critical thought is important, because for most of us life is a struggle.

theonlymagicleftisart: Enrico Varrasso here’s one of the first pieces i created after picking up the (non-virtual) brushes again. this one’s called “waiting for the barbarians”…enjoying this.

theonlymagicleftisart:

Enrico Varrasso

here’s one of the first pieces i created after picking up the (non-virtual) brushes again. this one’s called “waiting for the barbarians”…enjoying this.

nycartscene:

Tuesday, May 21, 7-10p:

“2013 White Box Spring Benefit”
 whiteboxnyc.org

venue: ROX, 86 Delancey St., NYC
Tickets: eventbrite

In light of its 15th Anniversary, the White Box 2013 Spring Benefit will honor the work and career of pioneering feminist artist, Martha Wilson, with the 2nd annual Richard J. Massey Foundation - White Box Arts and Humanities Award. This year’s event will include a Live Auction (artists include Christo, Alfredo Jaar, Joseph Kosuth, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Kiki Smith, G.T. Pellizzi, Shirin Neshat & William Wegman) along with a Silent Auction and special curated section of “Women’s Voices”, featuring an array of exceptional women artists.

Online Auction: paddle8




WHITE BOX - Spring Benefit - 2013 from White Box on Vimeo.

thesmithian: …for a previous generation of television viewers—not so long ago—the most terrifying thing they had ever seen (and for many it induced enduring fears) was the shower scene in “Psycho.” That’s so much “Captain Kangaroo” compared to what we can watch today, and if there were ever any question that what one sees on a screen has before-and-after consequences, consider these videos from the world’s killing grounds. If you want to see what someone looks like as he is stabbed, as he is told he is about to die, as he is beaten to death, or cut into pieces, it is all just a click away. more.

thesmithian:

…for a previous generation of television viewers—not so long ago—the most terrifying thing they had ever seen (and for many it induced enduring fears) was the shower scene in “Psycho.” That’s so much “Captain Kangaroo” compared to what we can watch today, and if there were ever any question that what one sees on a screen has before-and-after consequences, consider these videos from the world’s killing grounds. If you want to see what someone looks like as he is stabbed, as he is told he is about to die, as he is beaten to death, or cut into pieces, it is all just a click away.

more.

fastcompany: It’s no secret that the world’s ocean trash problem is getting bad; looking at a handful of images from the Texas-sized Pacific garbage patch should be enough to convince anyone. As for all of our litter that doesn’t end up in the middle of the ocean? It often stays close to shore, where volunteers for Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup pick some of it up, cataloging all the items they find.  The 10 types of trash that are littering our beaches

fastcompany:

It’s no secret that the world’s ocean trash problem is getting bad; looking at a handful of images from the Texas-sized Pacific garbage patch should be enough to convince anyone. As for all of our litter that doesn’t end up in the middle of the ocean? It often stays close to shore, where volunteers for Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup pick some of it up, cataloging all the items they find. 

The 10 types of trash that are littering our beaches

(via npr)

inothernews: WHEN IT RAINS…   President Obama is seen at a press conference on Thursday calling for Congress to help bolster security at U.S. Embassies.  Republican seagulls were seen in the skies above, trying to poop on him.  (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times)

inothernews:

WHEN IT RAINS…   President Obama is seen at a press conference on Thursday calling for Congress to help bolster security at U.S. Embassies.  Republican seagulls were seen in the skies above, trying to poop on him.  (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times)

austinkleon:

ArtWork: Seeing Inside the Creative Process

Art Work reveals the artistic notetaking habits of an astonishing range of artists, filmmakers, writers, designers, and other creators by granting rare access to the journal pages and other visual materials they use to capture and foster their work.

From Sasha Frere-Jones’ forward:

As artists, we often prefer the note to the final product; it is an object that is ours alone, free of explanatory fuss and ornament. A mundane list next to three pages of earnestly revised text—shouldn’t we have published it just like that?

From Ivan Vartanian’s introduction, the distinction between journal and notebook:

Where the journal is meant to serve as a daily (or intermittent) record of observations and reflections on a life and its experiences, the notebook is meant as a place of work—for solving problems, jotting an idea, figuring a sequence, determining a position, shaping a phrase. Where the journal documents the life of its owner, the notebook documents the life of an artwork or artistic process.

Here’s Tony Kushner, talking about writing by hand:

Most of my best ideas have not been things that I knew I had in my head. I’ve been surprised by them…and it’s always the case that if you just start moving words around on a piece of paper…if you start limbering up your fingers and get going, you will find your way in.

And Richard Hell:

Notebooks, it seems to me sometimes, are the ultimate art form… Notebooks might be as good as art gets in our time.

(images via grain edit)