John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art (1971)
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In 1961, this submission letter — written by an aspiring 14-year-old author named Stephen King — arrived at the offices of Spacemen Magazine accompanied by a copy of “The Killer,” the short story in question. Unfortunately for Stephen the magazine’s editor, Forrest Ackerman, didn’t deem the tale worthy of inclusion at that point.
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Horace Pippin, ‘Amish Letter Writer’ (1940)
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Alice Tomaselli, ‘Bouquet of 54 natural flowers and one artificial’ (2012)
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Also tagged Alice Tomaselli, artificial, bouquet, collection, colors, colours, design, die, DIY, dry, duration, flowers, found, fuckem, fun, green, installation, italy, life grow, live, mirror, natural, nature, plants, sculpture, trash, unknown, USA, vase
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Sherrie Levine, ‘African Masks after Walker Evans’ (2015)
In 1979, Sherrie Levine received widespread acclaim for her series ‘After Walker Evans’, in which she re-photographed 24 of Walker Evans’s photographs out of an exhibition catalogue, depicting the impoverished rural population in Alabama at the end of the 1920s. 35 years later, in a further series after Walker Evans, Levine addresses similar issues with new layers of relevance.
For the series ‘African Masks after Walker Evans’, the artist chose her motifs from an extensive collection of over 400 photographs of African artworks that Walker Evans was commissioned to produce in 1935 by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Evans photographed numerous objects from “African Negro Art,” a major exhibition shown in 1935 at the Museum of Modern Art and other American museums. These photographs were not used for the exhibition catalogue, but were compiled into a portfolio of more than 400 original prints, provided to museums and specialized libraries for educational purposes. This comprehensive project made a significant contribution to the reception of African art in the western aesthetic canon.
Selecting only masks for her series, Sherrie Levine hones in on the question of the identity of the artwork creator. Walker Evans’s photographs already indicate the aesthetic primacy of the works he depicted: through the act of being photographed, they are transformed in status from foreign ritual artifacts into modern sculptures.
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The Consortium for Slower Internet, ‘Nodes’
Discarded consumer wifi routers.
The principles for Slower Internet:
– Duration
– Defamiliarization
– Autonomy
– Divergence
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Evan Robarts, ‘Recess’ (2013)
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Also tagged assemblage, balls, chainlink, chaos, collage, color, DIY, Evan Robarts, fence, found, fuckem, grid, holes, installation, sculpture, structure, stuck, the wild, trash, USA
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Bruce Nauman, ‘Dream Passage’ (1983)
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Also tagged action, architecture, body, bruce nauman, corridor, DIY, door, dream, green, hallway, installation, light, narrow, opening, passage, physical, pink, romance, surreal, transition, unknown, USA, wall
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Barbara Bloom, ‘Goethe’s Corridor’ (1988)
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Also tagged alone, architecture, Barbara Bloom, character, collage, corridor, doorways, found, goethe, literature, openings, perspective, photograph, romance, solo, unknown, USA, view, wall
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John Hejduk‘s design for a ‘Labyrinth for soloists’ (1986)
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Also tagged action, alone, architecture, corridor, design, DIY, drawing, floorplan, fuckem, John Hejduk, labyrinth, lose, organization, performance, postmodernism, rooms, solo, unknown, USA, wall, way
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