Saturday, July 18, 2015
Theodor Adorno, "Bibliographical Musings"
"Altogether, we are forced to acknowledge that books are ashamed of still being books and not cartoons or neon-lighted display windows, that they want to erase the traces of craftsmanship in their production in the hope of not looking anachronistic, of keeping up with an age which they secretly fear no longer has time for them."
Shirley Jaffe
The Door (2002)
Untitled (1985)
Untitled
Untitled (1993)
Untitled #17
Horizontal Black (2015)
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Everyone is polite, but I'm always suspicious.
A confession: for years I avoided and even derided Keith Haring's work because of, I don't know, a Swatch collaboration? Because of a photo of him hanging out with Andy Warhol? It was foolish, to say the least, but what are young people if not foolish? Anyway, the Keith Haring Foundation has scanned all of his journals from 1971-1989 and have been steadily making them public. I have a soft spot for journals - Susan Sontag's and Leonard Michaels' are among some of my favorites. As someone who has had a journal since the age of six and is at times embarrassed by this, I have always felt comforted learning that someone else has kept one.
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Where am I going? What am I doing?
"Take French lessons, go swimming a lot, buy Langston Hughes books, get high, hire a girl once a week to take care of your clothes (sew, clean, organize closets) find a psychiatrist, a Spanish baby sitter, take dancing, find shoemaker, write Hazel Scott, find yellow pills, buy books [a photographer friend] told me about—stop abusing Andrew (think of surprises for him)."
The above quote is taken from her diaries.
Scooping and ladling
Richard Neutra's first commission in the United States - the Jardinette Apartments at 5128 Marathon Street in Los Angeles, built in 1928. Photo source.
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