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"I want to hear a gangsta rap song about buying a Cy Twombly painting or dating a museum curator. I want to hear about that kind of rich. Of course, the worst is having a convertible if you’re over 20 years old. If you’re 50, please, buy a painting."
— John Waters, bitch. This whole stream-of-consciousness one-sided interview thing is platinum.
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How Cindy Sherman Lived Where Francesca Woodman Did Not, and Other Stories, for the Globe & Mail »
This one of those stories that actually like bled when I had to cut it. It’s very… I mean, of course I would write this, but I hope you read it still.
Never have I wanted to reach into a photograph and touch someone (not even photographs of Michael Pitt naked circa The Dreamers) as badly as I did at the Guggenheim the other day when finally we all went to see Francesca Woodman. I feel so fiercely protective about her. I know it’s wrong. Lots of people knew her work before I found it (accidentally, which is so rare in this time; we’re all like algorithms) and I should be glad that many many more people will know it now. But I don’t know… I don’t know why she can’t be mine.
Here’s that thing I wrote on the 30-year anniversary of her death, over a year ago. I can’t read it now. The hardest to write about what you really love, much easier I think to write about what you hate.
Yesterday I saw Terry Richardson
It was at the Cindy Sherman exhibit, to which I went with my mother, and my immediate reaction was to grab her and leave the room as if he were Charles Manson or something.
Sometimes I wonder how Tyler Coates feels about green-card marriages?
Reblogged from Tyler Coates.
FASHION Magazine: A Profile on Asymptote, the Architects »
You actually have to buy the April issue to read it proper. I also wrote that “diary of a dress” re: Peter Pilotto SS12 Look 1, if you’re interested. Bizzzzzzy.
The Many Marinas of Marina Abramovic »
I read a study claiming that women feel more pain than men. Probably (I thought) they admit to more pain than do men. When I related this to Ms. Abramovic, she said, where did you hear this? Men are much more fragile. They are so afraid. Then she tossed her mane and waited for me to say something better.
This is Marina Abramovic signing my Phaidon monograph of hers, after our interview, today. !!!
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"I was so tired of seeing work where I’d fail to see the actual work; I didn’t understand how it was made. So how do you produce or make a sculpture that’s transparent, or what I call anti-illusionistic?"
— Artist and Canadian expat and lovely lovely woman Julia Dault talking to me at the New Museum. If you live in New York, GO GO GO see the Ungovernables exhibit.
Painting by Alison Watt via but does it float.
