He was also starting to worry about the mortality of his materials, and so, of his legacy.
— Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
The world will, however, go on without me being there to see it, it just won't be "my" world then. That is what interests me most about the situation that I am in now. I am making things in the world that won't go away when I do. If this "success" had not happened, then maybe the world would not know these things after I go away. But now ! know, as I am making these things, that they are "real" things, maybe more "real" than me, because they will stay here when I go.
— Keith Haring, 24th birthday journal entry via Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
These things make this small room seem like a very big room." He wrote in one of his typed statements. "This room stretches all over the world and spans several years. These things that I have, the things that I keep with me, what I choose to keep around me, what I like to look at, who I think about, what I think I am."
— Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
He tried to do his spoken word poetry things and people still talk about how horrible it was. Because it wasn't fun, it was repetitive word play. But unless you were studying them, you didn't care.
— Drew Straub via Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
It came into my head because it's a natural human instinct to combine those two things.
— Lily on calling someone a "goose spider"
“I said, ‘Well, you did get to experience the artwork, because the exclusion of men is the artwork,’” Ms. Kaechele said.
— Natasha Frost, "A Museum’s Feminist Artwork Excluded Men. So One Man Took It to Court.," The New York Times
There used to be this meme page Dank Lloyd Wright that would post 50 posts a day about ants
sure grandma let's get you to bed
— @dank.lloyd.wright post captioned "Who remember"
Ladybug Years To Human Years
— Ladybug Age Calculator via @graayd
He later found "completely hysterical" his parents' decision to name all their children using the first letters of their alma mater, Kutztown Area High.
— Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
AND IN DEMONSTRATING A CONTINUITY OF LIFE
— Portion of epitaph on grave of Mrs. Catharine Drinkhouse Smith, Laurel Hill Cemetery
I'll give you bonus points if you find the Smurf.
— Philadelphia Museum of Art guard on Simon Sparrow's, “Assemblage with Faces”
A Rothko on the side of a racecar.
— Mr. Luce
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer plans to build an exact replica of the Titanic, aiming to set sail in 2027.
— @starworldlab
The mirrored bowl-shaped exterior of the Boijmans Depot in Rotterdam houses an M.C. Escher style interior that allows viewers to see all sides of the collection in clear vitrines and behind-the-scenes access to restoration and conservation projects!
— @tntechart
they didn’t know how old it was until it was opened! you can’t date a mollusk without opening it
the media made it seem like they chose to kill it after finding out,
but in actuality, it’s very likely restaurants have served older mollusks and scientists just weren’t around to date them
— @dannycoleee reply on @starworldlab, "In 2006, during a study, a group of scientists killed the world’s oldest known living animal. The animal, nicknamed Ming, was a mollusk and was 507 years old at the time of discovery."
So when the diners see it, they know someone spent a lot of time on their dish.
— Chef Terry, "Every Second Counts," The Bear
What that tells you is that through sensory input, we see a lot more information than we do through language, and that despite our intuition, most of what we learn and most of our knowledge is through our observation and interaction with the real world, not through language. Everything that we learn in the first few years of life, and certainly everything that animals learn has nothing to do with language.
— Yann Lecun, "Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416"
I could look at these all day.
— Kid on "Life in the Soil" section of the "Hall of New York State Environment" exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
Jonas Mekas' 2010 film WTC Haikus compiles found footage from Mekas' personal inventory in which the World Trade Center just happened to appear.
— Justin Beal, Sandfuture
But I'm still baffled that they never acknowledge that it's just regular money and it has a face value.
— Matt on shopgoodwill.com selling items like "Lot of U.S. Coins"*