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Category Archives: thoughts on art and making

A Practice Without Center: the Work of Sophie Calle

Monday, May 5, 2008

The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away. His need for fresh air and open space is stronger than any hatred. The destructive character is young and cheerful…it cheers because everything cleared away means to the destroyer a complete reduction, indeed eradication, of his own condition.
…The destructive [...]

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Art on the (not-so) Cheap: on friendship, wishful thinking and AIPAD

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

i have a friend that works for a prestigious photography gallery in manhattan. whenever we get together, i am regaled with tales of the unchecked purchasing power of the bourgeoisie, the wheelings-and-dealings of the owner (who for the purposes of anonymity i’ll just refer to here as “mr. burns,” but in reality we have [...]

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that which moves and shakes

Monday, May 22, 2006

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influences and confluences

Monday, November 14, 2005

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the thing of the thing

Sunday, October 30, 2005

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perfect images, written photographs and the absolute

Wednesday, February 2, 2005

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correspondences

Monday, December 6, 2004

Filed in academies and institutions, harry callahan, japanese photography, masahisa fukase, nobuyoshi araki, thoughts on art and making | Comments (2)

good things in threes

Sunday, November 28, 2004

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the art of losing love, pt.2: seiichi furuya and christine gössler

Thursday, October 28, 2004

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the art of losing love, pt.1 : words on masahisa fukase

Monday, September 27, 2004

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