Congratulations on avoiding BIG food.

At around the same time, at the end of the 1970s, a small clutch of enterprising New York dealers, with European ties, determined to take back the art world. They put a shot across artists’ bows by exhibiting imported Italian and German neo-neo-Expressionist paintings, work that not only seemed to shriek FASCIST at a largely dumbstruck community of artists, but also it was huge and expensive… and composed of unique, hand-made objects, the very characteristics artists had determined to leave behind.

Stella 2015

For SDB, a Victor Hugo octopus:

blue cheese grits

Craig Kauffman (bubble boy)

A 1948 flood washed away the WWII housing project Vanport—but its history still informs Portland's diversity.

live long and prosper.

in the studio

two hours later i had a spoon!

the final nail in nbcs must see thursday comedy lineup gets pounded into the coffin tonight when parks and recreation ends its run. that it is being aired on tuesday at ten after a two hour episode of the biggest loser should tell you all you need to know. which is probably nothing.

Rauschenberg at Betty Parsons gallery 1951

light boxes

Far be it from me to raise my hands in any moral horror over the ways and tastes of individuals […] But it is not all right with the art which they affect and cultivate.  It is not all right when […] precious fairies get into positions of power and judge, buy, and exhibit American pictures on a base of nervous whim and under the sway of those overdelicate refinements of taste characteristic of their kind.

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Poons

drink like a colonial

Carl Andre and film

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Looking for documentation of the fabled cedar tavern arguments of the day. So far found Jed Perl's book and ordered it. Not for JP but the subject. Anything else regarding the individuals and their arguments. Perhaps something by Motherwell?

Gordon Onslow Ford

Looking pretty cold in NYC

Geometry can be found underlying all, or nearly all, the forms in nature. One learns this from D'Arcy Thompson's book "On Growth and Form," a favorite of Tony's, and from Jay Hambidge's "Elements of Dynamic Symmetry," another favorite of his. Of course one can learn this just from observation, if one looks intently enough. No form in nature is a perfect example of the geometry it is a case of, but when you average the many examples of one form - many examples of the skeletal structure of a bird's wing, or the arrangements of leaves on a stem, or cellular or atomic forms - you get the perfection we normally ascribe to man-made geometry. Of course, all man-made geometry is natural, because we are nature.

radical art '29-'40

snowy owls in NYC

Of catfish, the road to Glory and the here after.

Kath & Kim (Australia)

ok, watching the original Australian show (YouTube and Acorn.) Pretty nutty fare, but it's a comedy right? Set in the dial up connection 90's. Can't imagine the US version with it's 2.5 star status! Another TV show built around an oddball comedy act. Trending???