January 2012
27 posts
diane arbus: an aperture monograph
undrcovr:
There’ve been a couple of times that I’ve had an experience that’s absolutely like a photograph to me even though it’s totally non-visual. I don’t know if I can describe it. There was one that was sensational. I had gone to a dance for handicapped people. I didn’t have my camera. At first I’d come in and I was incredibly bored. I was sort of holding myself very in and really dreading...
Into the Heart of Lightness →
mkngyn:
THE artist Doug Wheeler tells two stories, both having to do with light, that go a long way toward explaining why he is so revered by many fellow artists — as a visionary and a relentlessly stubborn perfectionist — and also why his work has been seen by so few American artgoers over the last few decades, particularly those in New York.
The first story takes place at the Guggenheim...
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morning passages by philip glass
December 2011
32 posts
What is it like to have an understanding of very... →
itwonlast:
You can answer many seemingly difficult questions quickly. But you are not very impressed by what can look like magic, because you know the trick. The trick is that your brain can quickly decide if question is answerable by one of a few powerful general purpose “machines” (e.g., continuity arguments, the correspondences between geometric and algebraic objects, linear...
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fado dos barcos by pierre aderne and mu carvalho
