“You are in the stream of life whether you like it or not. And if you’re going to be in the stream of life, then you have to accept the responsibilities…”
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A note to artists from Lawrence Weiner.
And more about responsibilities from Gina Trapani.
July 2011
12 posts
“I picked up the phone and knew immediately it was an unexpected call from you… The speed with which we identify a familiar voice coming out of the blue is comforting, but also somewhat mysterious. Because the measures, the units we use in calculating the clear distinction that exists between one voice and another, are unformulated and nameless…”
—From Fellow Prisoners by John Berger in Guernica, July 2011
“It’s kind of about letting go of that feeling of my 20s, that feeling that I will do absolutely everything, I will have sex with everyone, I will go to every country… In your 30s, it’s obvious that a finite amount of things will happen.”
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(I won’t blame you though if you don’t wanna click through.)
Oh no, nuh-uh.
(I won’t blame you though if you don’t wanna click through.)
From the 20x200 Newsletter:
…finally the stars aligned and J. Otto Seibold and I were in the same place in time and space, meeting at his home in Oakland. After admiring his art collection (I spied two personal photo favorites from across the room—a Sugimoto and a Robert Adams—hung among works of his own and his daughter’s), we set to talking about, well, pretty much everything…
