May 2012
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danse macabre
Down among strict roots and rocks, eclipsed beneath blind lid of land goes the grass-embroidered box. Arranged in sheets of ice, the fond skeleton still craves to have fever from the world behind. Hands reach back to relics of nippled moons, extinct and cold, frozen in designs of love. At twelve, each skull is aureoled with recollection’s ticking thorns winding up the raveled mold....
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common
John Baldessari // Millennium Piece, 2009
April 2012
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fable
Helen Warner, Belfast-based and self-taught.
Amateur wisdom.
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petrichor
AQUARIUS [January 20–February 18] When rain falls on dry land, it activates certain compounds in the soil that release a distinctive aroma. “Petrichor” is the word for that smell. If you ever catch a whiff of it when there’s no rain, it’s because a downpour has begun somewhere nearby, and the wind is bringing you news of it. I suspect that you will soon be awash in a...
March 2012
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persona
Yelena Yemchuk // Vogue Nippon // “The Nordic Light”
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the look
Strephon kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all.
Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day.
- Sara Teasdale (1917)
Joy Hester, Love III (1950)
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drape
Gerhard Richter, “Vohang” (1964-65)
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Chris & Cosey // Walking Through Heaven //...
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epoch
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“Months of the Year,” Anonymous (c. 1870)
via Victoria & Albert Museum
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the cook, the thief, his wife & her lover
Peter Greenaway / Michael Nyman / Jean Paul Gaultier = A true masterpiece
You need to know…
February 2012
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insight
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David Balliano
January 2012
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phantom
Once more into my arid days like dew, Like wind from an oasis, or the sound Of cold sweet water bubbling underground, A treacherous messenger, the thought of you Comes to destroy me; once more I renew Firm faith in your abundance, whom I found Long since to be but just one other mound Of sand, whereon no green thing ever grew. And once again, and wiser in no wise, I chase your colored phantom on...
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raw
Nudes by Thomas Ruff
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WhereNext? // AUDIO QUARTERLY #1
Black Time - A Boring Day For The Boredom Boys
Cabaret Voltaire - Protection
The Satyrs - Yesterday’s Hero
Eric Random - Fade In
Front - Polaroid
Powell - The Ongoing Significance Of Steel And Flesh
Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange - Falling
Stephen Mallinder - Cool Down
Sandra Electronics - Clean Air
Snowy Red - Sinkin’ Down
Karl O’...
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WatchThis is what 2012 looks like.
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Video instillation: Jennifer Juniper Stratford // SOUND//VISION 2011
Music: John Maus // Streetlight
December 2011
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bygone
Florence Anson, 1866
The Whisper of the Muse, 1865
The Angel at the Sepulchre, 1869
The Parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, 18733
A Vestal, 1864-65
Payers and Praise, 1865
Self Portrait, 1870’s
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“The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”
Julia Margaret Cameron
November 2011
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destiny
AQUARIUS [January 20–February 18] The Beauvais Cathedral in northern France has been called “the most daring achievement of Gothic architecture.” Its soaring facades, carved wooden doors, stained-glass windows, and astronomical clock demonstrate high artistry. There’s a problem with the place, however: It hasn’t been completed. Work began in the year 1225, and experts...
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digs
John Divola Zuma series on view in Under the Big Black Sun at MOCA.
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biotic
Ashes
Dusk
Dawn
Fangs
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San Francisco-based collage artist Alexis Anne Mackenzie.
August 2011
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correspondences
Nature is a temple, where, from living pillars, a flux of confused words is, sometimes, allowed to fall: Man travels it, through forests of symbols, that all observe him, with familiar looks. Like far echoes that distantly congregate, in a shadowy and profound unity, vast as the night air, in its clarity, perfumes, colours, sounds reverberate. There are fresh perfumes, like the flesh of...
July 2011
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sleep
Sleep series by Gottfried Helwein, 2009
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pandrogyne
“My project is not about gender. Some feel like a man trapped in a woman’s body, others like a woman trapped in a man’s body. The pandrogyne says, I just feel trapped in a body. The body is simply the suitcase that carries us around. Pandrogyny is all about the mind, consciousness.”
– Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
A screening of “The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye” will be followed...
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April 2011
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mislay
All images by 17-year-old, Susannah Benjamin.
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sitting pretty
Portrait of Fürstin Lieven
Marie-Caroline, duchess de Berry
Maria Lady Callcott
Rosamund Hester Elizabeth Pennell Croker, later Lady Barrow (1826)
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All portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence, best known for his classic, “Pinky.”
February 2011
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January 2011
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tears in the typing pool
RIP Trish Keenan
♡
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Pendulum // BROADCAST, Haha Sound
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happy new year
Hello, 2011 — here’s to dancing every day and writing things down.
Images by Sofia Ajram
December 2010
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demons
Suvi & Tyler (2010) // Chadwick Tyler
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森ガール
Mori means forest in Japanese, and the disciples look like fairytale forest wanderers. They’re partial to antique lace and hiking boots. If you want to know Mori, immerse yourself in the Mori Girl culture.
Images from the Mori Girl Spoon magazine issue
For Cori x
rouse
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heteroclite
All images by Luke Gilford
November 2010
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100
The powers that be deemed the following the 100 most beautiful words in the English language, based on sound, definition or both:
Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. Brood To think alone. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting. Bungalow A small, cozy cottage. Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. Comely Attractive. Conflate To blend together....