Sunday, March 31, 2024
To Farley, creativity has always been a volume business.
— Brett Martin, "Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me on Spotify?," The New York Times Magazine
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Even two decades later, the noted film critic Jonas Mekas was still arguing for the idea that “there is no art, that everything is craft.”
— Blake Gopnik, Warhol
Friday, March 29, 2024
But, you know, for a woman. She has the baby. And then she has that connection, right? For a guy it's so abstract.
— Dougie, "Green Queen," The Curse
Thursday, March 28, 2024
If you really want to separate your work from everyone else's, every time you come to a Y in the road, don't think about which way to go; automatically take the toughest route.
— Richard Serra via @irwinadam
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
It has been moving so quickly that the only record is airplane tickets and articles in magazines from the various trips and exhibitions, someday I suppose these will constitute my biography. Now I regret that I didn't continue to write constantly.
— Keith Haring, June 7, 1986 journal entry via Brad Gooch, Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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
Monday, March 25, 2024
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
Sunday, March 24, 2024
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
Saturday, March 23, 2024
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
Friday, March 22, 2024
It came into my head because it's a natural human instinct to combine those two things.
— Lily on calling someone a "goose spider"
Thursday, March 21, 2024
“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
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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
sure grandma let's get you to bed
— @dank.lloyd.wright post captioned "Who remember"
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Ladybug Years To Human Years
— Ladybug Age Calculator via @graayd
Monday, March 18, 2024
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
Sunday, March 17, 2024
AND IN DEMONSTRATING A CONTINUITY OF LIFE
— Portion of epitaph on grave of Mrs. Catharine Drinkhouse Smith, Laurel Hill Cemetery
Saturday, March 16, 2024
I'll give you bonus points if you find the Smurf.
— Philadelphia Museum of Art guard on Simon Sparrow's, “Assemblage with Faces”
Friday, March 15, 2024
A Rothko on the side of a racecar.
— Mr. Luce
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer plans to build an exact replica of the Titanic, aiming to set sail in 2027.
— @starworldlab
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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
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."