December 2011
30 posts
WatchWilliam H. Whyte. (thanks K.F.)
PLEASE JOIN THE DUMB WAITER TO CELEBRATE UNCLE...
April 7th. Details to Follow.
In the abandoned palazzo, weeds and old blankets filled the rooms. The palazzo was in bad shape. We cleaned the abandoned palazzo for ten years. We scoured the stones. The splendid architecture was furbished and painted. The doors and windows were dealt with. Then we were ready for the show.
The noble and empty spaces were ready for our purposes. The first...
WatchSue Tompkins from Life without Buildings. Be My Wife
Rae Armantrout. Thing
We love our cat
for her self
regard is assiduous
and bland,
for she sits in the small
patch of sun on our rug
and licks her claws
from all angles
and it is far
superior
to "balanced reporting"
though, of course,
it is also
the very same thing.
Donald Justice
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There is a gold light in certain old paintings That represents a diffusion of sunlight. It is like happiness, when we are happy. It comes from everywhere and nowhere at once, this light, And the poor soldiers sprawled at the foot of the cross Share in its charity equally with the cross.
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Orpheus hesitated beside the black river. With so much to look forward to he looked back. We think he...
Thomas Hardy's The Recalcitrants
Let us off and search, and find a place Where yours and mine can be natural lives, Where no one comes who dissects and dives And proclaims that ours is a curious case, That its touch of romance can scarcely grace.
You would think it strange at first, but then Everything has been strange in its time. When some one said on a day of the prime He would bow to no brazen god again He doubtless dazed...
Best of 2011 for Frieze
1. Michael Baxandall.
Because he received new messages, in picture writing. Because he dilated what art-historians bring under their tiny microscopes. Because his ‘version of Art history goes beyond aesthetic judgment (“this picture is pretty”) and, when done right, it also goes beyond mere interpretation (“this is what this picture means”). It reaches for a kind of sympathy with the...
James Wood
Courteous len to |ˈlentō|adverb & adjective Music(esp. as a direction) slow or slowly.
Anthony (Nodzzz) and Michael (the Mantles)
