Quote

“I think I became an artist because I realized I needed a field in which the construction of fictional authorities and imagined quotes would be a cause for celebration rather than […] disgrace” (14)

– Wm. Kentridge

Six Drawing Lessons

After Walter Benjamin, by way of Marjorie Perloff

Class prep

...thought I would show a video of Marshall McLuhan to my Visual Studies class today (after all, the medium is the...well, you know the rest...)

This one didn't make the cut, but it sure is good...

Found

"There is a book (or at least a glossy catalogue) yet to be written, not on the art of the '80s but on the ramifications of the art of the '80s on all of us who were too young to actually participate but old enough to be schooled in it. My sense is that much of the work produced by this group today is the visual equivalent of the poor soul who was really smart in school but never fit in socially -- you know, the one you would always get drunk at parties just to see him do something stupid and completely out of character. Hovering precariously between a critical knowledge that has resonated so loudly and for so long that it is impossible to forget and a new world that says a big whatever, we go through our art life like a conflicted Fred Flintstone, angel and devil Freds popping up out of the blue to whisper conflicting truths in our ears."
~Charles Kissick, Border Crossings, August, 2009