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“ - leaving his colleagues to indulge in empty verbiage, he pressed forward his investigations in other directions, for he was bold enough to aim at storming God in His most secret strongholds.” Andre Gide; ‘The Vatican Cellars’ (1914) “We think every single ...

Exhibition Text from G...

Artist : Gilbert and George

uploaded : Mar 15, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

The first monograph published in English on the work of the celebrated and influential French graphic artist Robert Massin (b.1925), one of the key exponents of the development of graphic design since WWII. Massin is a book sculptor, graphic designer and writer, w...

Robert Massin

Artist : Robert Massin

uploaded : Mar 15, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

THE dawn of the nineteenth century was illumined by the last flickers of the red torch of the French Revolution; and its earlier years were filled with the reverberating cannonade of the Napoleonic sonquests. It was not until after Waterloo that the battle-field of E...

19th Century Drama

uploaded : Mar 11, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

If a photograph is the image of an exact moment experienced endlessly, Olafur Eliasson’s installations are the experience of endless image moments. Unlike the camera, which produces a mystery by hiding its role in the production of an image, Eliasson reveals and ...

Imagining Experience:...

Artist : Olafur Eliasson Sanaz Yamin

uploaded : Mar 06, 2009

by : Sanaz Yamin

Publication excerpt In Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of The Museum of Modern Art by Steven Higgins, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006, p. 130 A leading member of the French cinema's avant-garde movement and the director of the Impressionist ...

Publication Excerpt on...

Artist : Jean Epstein

uploaded : Mar 05, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

"People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that you're still alive and the world still exists as it did before. That's the real reason we have horror films - they act as shock absorber...

Fragment from Ryu Mura...

Artist : Ryu Murakami

uploaded : Mar 03, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

On Designers Republic's 15th Anniversary They’re not called “The Designers Republic Ltd, Sheffield, Soyo, North of Nowhere” for nothing. Staying up north is a statement for The Designers Republic: a symbol, geographically (and mentally) of an unshakeable desire to...

Interview with Ian And...

Artist : Designers Republic

uploaded : Mar 03, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

t’s likely that the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s other tenants—mostly construction, office supply and metal fabrication companies—know nothing of the nocturnal activities of their neighbor, sculptor Gedi Sibony, though some may have noticed that their discarded supplies tend...

Gedi Sibony

Artist : Gedi Sibony

uploaded : Mar 03, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

It's Borges, the other one, that things happen to. I walk through Buenos Aires and I pause--mechanically now, perhaps--to gaze at the arch of an entryway and its inner door; news of Borges reaches me by mail, or I see his name on a list of academics or in some biogra...

BORGES & I

Artist : Jorge Luis Borges

uploaded : Mar 01, 2009

by : Ryland Walker Knight

A fire burns brightly. History will remember the military academies of the United States as serious, tough as tempered steel and proud. This was especially true during the years of recovery following war. The schools trained their young men toward the purpose of s...

Armed with Integrity

uploaded : Feb 27, 2009

by : Arty

In the high-octane 1960s Pop Art scene, Ray Johnson cast a small shadow amongst colleagues such as Andy Warhol. However, his collage work (which he dubbed "moticos"), and the way he decided to distribute it (through the postal service) influenced the futur...

Ray Johnson on Ovation TV

Artist : Ray Johnson

uploaded : Feb 26, 2009

by : Chris Vroom

WE were very tired, we were very merry— We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable— But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table, We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon; And ...

Recuerdo

Artist : Edna St. Vincent Millay

uploaded : Feb 26, 2009

by : Chris Vroom