Hal Foster · Zip it: Barnett Newman’s Anarchism
For Barnett Newman, what was required was a new kind of painting produced ‘as if painting never existed before’, a...
Zip it www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I found this article really interesting and said things I believe in
‘the function of the artist is to make actual the spiritual.’
Anarchism meant that ‘anybody is able to make anything, particularly a work of art, spontaneously or directly – a primo.’
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"Doctorow’s detailed anatomy of enshittification, his comprehensive account of the sheer inventiveness of Facebook and the others, which makes 19th- or 20th-century robber barons seem tame by comparison."
lareviewofbooks.org/article/gian...
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Clowntural appropriation. No.
01.11.2025 18:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Going to see Mastermind tonight. What tipped me into it was @FT review which mentions that he tries to steal four Arthur Dove paintings. First American abstract painter, I always liked him.
01.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I first heard about it when I read 1973 ornithologist Tinbergen’s Nobel lecture. A large portion of his Nobel lecture was on it. He was a student of the technique and credited it with helping his family, stating it was a method with "immense potential" for improving physical and mental health.!!!
21.10.2025 02:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
More and more people I know seem to have trouble understanding even slight subtleties in text, text messages, articles, emails.
21.10.2025 00:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I once tried doing it with someone's guidance. Very difficult.
20.10.2025 02:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
A Glimpse Into the Extravagant Lives of New York City Teens
Ms. Leddy said she was focused on continuing in the world of social media influencers.
“It’s my passion,” she said. “I actually do love being on camera, and I love talking to people, and I love sharing my life.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/s...
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Claudia Cardinale, Actress Who Was ‘Italy’s Girlfriend,’ Is Dead at 87
Claudia Cardinale, Actress Who Was ‘Italy’s Girlfriend,’ Is Dead at 87
"You can learn beauty. Visconti taught me how to be beautiful. He taught me to cultivate mystery, without which, he said, there cannot be real beauty.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/m...
24.09.2025 13:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
And as a Chinese person
16.09.2025 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks for reading it and for telling me.
07.09.2025 12:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian
Amazon.com: Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian: 9781068649103: Derman, Emanuel: Books
If price was restraining you from enjoying my new reminiscence of youth, loves, & mores in immigrant Cape Town, adorned with 100 color photos, it’s now $17.50 on Amazon.
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J M Coetzee, Nobel Laureate, says: “The chapter on the lonely Mrs Gold is a triumph.”
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It’s true, but I suspect Bolton knew what he was getting into when he started working for Trump. As did most of them.
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Terence Stamp, face of 60s British cinema and star of The Limey and Superman, dies at 87
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Aldi’s Passionate, Cultlike Following Fuels Its Rapid Expansion Plans
“Now, instead of 100 bottles of olive oil, you have maybe four choices, including one that’s organic and one that’s imported from Italy” ✔️✔️✔️
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...
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Tough one.
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At MOMA, Jack Whitten’s exhibition. Here are his notes to himself in 1972 about what to avoid in making his abstract art.
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It made me go back and listen to “Dixie flyer“ in “land of dreams“ from 1988, which I really liked. Not sarcastic, just very touching.
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I recall that. It’s fantastic
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I like that line you quoted, it struck me too
What about Kempton?
05.07.2025 19:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
He died in 2007
05.07.2025 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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