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Repository 124: Bon Mots | Joan Mitchell | Less Think, More Feel
“As soon as you start with all the blah blah blah you ruin a painting”. – Joan Mitchell, from the film ‘Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter”. Her abstraction reigns supreme in my imagination and myth of painting. Her painting methods were used as explorations as well as a form of burying. Respecting her allergic reaction to any serious dissection of her paintings, I will make this post short to simply say how very grateful I am for Joan…
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Repository 80: John Waters as Role Model
This Summer during my trip to Provincetown, MA I was reintroduced to the cult of personality/perversity that is John Waters. On the tail of the Provincetown Film Festival, in a movie screening the famed director was featured in an advertisement to support the Provincetown Film Society. He said neatly, “please support the Provincetown Film Association or I’ll kill you.” The end. Later during the trip I happened upon a fantastic boutique, with only the best clothes for hip men, that…
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Repository 32: Consumption Junction: Artist Garage Sales, Store Windows, and Popups
On the eve of Martha Rosler’s Garage Sale at New York’s MOMA, I can’t help a brief question mark about the exhibit as garage sale, or exhibit as sale period. With respect to Ms. Rosler who has been having these out of context garage sales since 1973 at many locations including the Generali Foundation, Vienna (1999); the Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona (1999); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2004); and The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2005), I question the impact of this…
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