Tuesday, September 30, 2014
I often prefer not to use any terms, just describe what’s happening.
— Chika Okeke-Agulu
Monday, September 29, 2014
You don’t want to be unsurprising for 35 years.
— Michael Gordin
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Barf.
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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Charles was on the board of the Ringling Brothers College and often referred to the circus as an example of what design and art should be: not self-expression but precise discipline.
— Beatriz Colomina, “Enclosed by Images: The Eameses’ Multimedia Architecture”
Friday, September 26, 2014
Now that’s an esophagus!
— Aogaeru, Spirited Away
Thursday, September 25, 2014
The only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it.
— David Foster Wallace, “This is Water”
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Audience?
— Martha Friedman
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
You’re as close to one being as you will ever be in your life.
— Lucia Allais
Monday, September 22, 2014
Assuming that would be a big help as opposed to pretending to be scientific.
— Mario Gandelsonas
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Yet year after year, it’s the same routine.
— Jack Skellington, “Jack’s Lament”
Saturday, September 20, 2014
But our chances really was a million to one.
— Bob Dylan, “Bob Dylan’s Dream”
Friday, September 19, 2014
What’s your major?
— Man using urinal
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Isn’t lavender just a smell?
— Bernardo
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
There’s no problem to solve, no problem to invent.
— Martha Friedman
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
It’s one of those swindles with the international date line, you cross an imaginary boundary and you’re in another day.
— Chika Okeke-Agulu
Monday, September 15, 2014
Science is really expensive.
— Michael Gordin
Sunday, September 14, 2014
The way you want it to be.
— Tim’s Dad, About Time
Saturday, September 13, 2014
In using the term “art” as a conceptual category, it seems to me, in many cases we run the risk of displacing local criteria for categorizing and evaluating cultural artifacts.
— Peter Mark, “Is There Such a Thing as African Art?”
Friday, September 12, 2014
Hell sounds like fun.
— Mario Gandelsonas
Thursday, September 11, 2014
What all of these shows grasp at, in one way or another, is that nobody knows how to be a grown-up anymore. Adulthood as we have known it has become conceptually untenable. It isn’t only that patriarchy in the strict, old-school Don Draper sense has fallen apart. It’s that it may never really have existed in the first place, at least in the way its avatars imagined.
— A. O. Scott, “The Death of Adulthood in American Culture,” The New York Times