As I write, my husband and daughter are threatening to cremate my books and preserve them in an urn for me for eternity. This is not going to happen (and they know this). A surefire way to irritate me beyond reasonable measure is to not understand my (perhaps unreasonable) attachment to books. I love their weight and feel and their sense of occupancy, their reason for being—to attempt to communicate something beyond time and distance. I particularly love my art books.
Category Archives: Outspoken
Thought Made Visible
December 30, 2009 – 4:14 pm
In Words: Ruby Sky Stiler
May 25, 2009 – 11:42 pm
Ruby Stiler has been photographed on the street, has a boyfriend who speaks of her, and works for a pretty cool boss.
John Waters: Celebrity is Ridiculous
May 11, 2009 – 10:15 pm
A few weeks ago I spoke to John Waters, who is currently showing Rear Projection at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles (through May 23), for an article about the value of celebrity photographs. For his exhibition, which was shown at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York last month, Waters snapped film imagery of celebrities and [...]
Con Artist: Madoff Collects Mark Kostabi Paintings
May 6, 2009 – 5:42 pm
It’s funny what you can discover by googling the search engine terms that lead people to your website.
Making Sense of a Coy Art World
May 1, 2009 – 6:53 pm
When I first started writing about the art world more than ten years ago, its coyness used to frustrate me to no end.
David Byrne Spectacular: Homemade, not too slick, precise but not cold
March 3, 2009 – 6:46 pm
If you missed it, David Byrne was brilliant on The Colbert Report last night. You can watch Colbert’s “deep” interview with him here and his artfully intimate performance here. It was an awesome way to drift off into white-angeled sleep.
I’d Rather Watch Artists Paint Cars
February 19, 2009 – 10:41 pm
So people seem to have been pretty fascinated with the opening of GREED, A New Fragrance by Francesco Vezzoli, an exhibition at Gagosian’s gallery in Rome. This is the entire Roman Polanski-directed commercial, starring Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams, and it comes across to me as a very short idea that is dead on arrival. [...]
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