October 2011
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2011 POWER 100 - year's best artists
According to Art Review 100, this is how 2011 looks in terms of most popular & influential art figures, with Ai Weiwei as top of the list.
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A Crazed Girl - W.B. Yeats
That crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her...
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Artist Statement | The work folds for the Lindenau Museum (Altenburg, Germany) may be understood as a rapprochement with the history of the museum’s collection of plaster casts. I was particularly interested in the ancient, fragmented bodies – how through the loss of limbs they became almost abstract, fragmentary sculptures and yet still disclosed a nearly uncanny vitality. Also noteworthy...
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Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via lavandula)
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On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful...
According to Murakami, this short story is the seed of his last novel, 1Q84.
One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl.
Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She doesn’t stand out in any way. Her clothes are nothing special. The back of her hair is still bent out of shape...
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Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.If you cannot...
– Haruki Murakami
Very interesting article on H. Murakami here.
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The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things...
– Albert Camus
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Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I...
– Haruki Murakami, interviewed in The Guardian. (via thebronzemedal)
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Strip away meaning and language and the heavenly kingdom begins to reveal...
– Chris Arkenberg
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...
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In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating....
– Carpenters of our own lives, we should build with great passion and care, knowing that each moment and every choice matter, defining who we are. RIP
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September 2011
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