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fer1972:‘Hot With The Chance Of A Late Storm’ by James Dive

fer1972:

‘Hot With The Chance Of A Late Storm’ by James Dive

likeafieldmouse:Glenn Ligon1. If I Can’t Have Love I’ll Take...

likeafieldmouse:

Glenn Ligon

1. If I Can’t Have Love I’ll Take Sunshine (2006)

2. The Moon Belongs to the People!!! (2012)

Bottom installation shot by Scott Lynch

slowartday:Lydia Shirreff

slowartday:

Lydia Shirreff

samuraifuckingfrog:Al Hartley

samuraifuckingfrog:

Al Hartley

"I mean, I can remember — when you’re a smart kid, or you’re just a very sensitive kid, and you have..."

“I mean, I can remember — when you’re a smart kid, or you’re just a very sensitive kid, and you have a lot that you need to say that’s very important to you, people don’t really take you seriously — I can remember being so frustrated, just constantly to the point of tears. I think the thing that I said most in my life for the first ten years was ‘Just listen to me. Listen.’ And even when I say that now, I always have a little flashback from those years, because I had so much trouble being taken seriously. I can remember people saying, ‘You’re twelve, Fiona,’ and just disregarding everything I had to say. All of my very deep, intense, serious worries and fears and wonders were just kind of disregarded because I was a kid and I was crazy and I was weird.”

- Fiona Apple (via fionahaswings)

likeafieldmouse:Derick Melander - Silence (2010)Artist’s...

likeafieldmouse:

Derick Melander - Silence (2010)

Artist’s statement: 

"In a former nun’s quarters, I filled a doorway with second-hand clothing, walling off an interior space.

More than any other work I have created, this piece reminds me of a geological cross-section.

I named this piece Silence to address my mixed feelings about religion. On the one hand, I am regularly discriminated against by various religious leaders and individuals for being gay. On the other hand, I was raised a Christian. I’ve been the benefactor of Christian generosity (the space granted for this show for example). In the context of this heavily symbolic space, silence refers to self-oppression, to a spiritual vow of silence and also to the fact that these works absorb sound."

"Few countries that debuted in the 1700s have been as controversial or long running (it’s into its..."

“Few countries that debuted in the 1700s have been as controversial or long running (it’s into its 237th season now) as America. It may not have the staying power of perennial favorites such as China or the credibility of indie darlings such as Finland, but America has proven that it can at least make some cultural impact. It’s not the best, but hey, they can’t all be Louie.”

- Megan Amram reviews America. (via millionsmillions)

likeafieldmouse:Nina Lindgren - Cardboard Heaven (2010)

likeafieldmouse:

Nina Lindgren - Cardboard Heaven (2010)

"And we would leave the golden candlelight of the dining room for the starlight outside and sit on..."

“

And we would leave the golden candlelight of the dining room for the starlight outside and sit on the edge of the fountain, cooling our hands in the water and listening drunkenly to its splash and gurgle over the rocks.

"Ought we be drunk every night?" Sebastian asked one morning.

"Yes I think so."

"I think so too."

”

- Very happy to be visiting (finally) Evelyn Waugh’s classic take on Oxford playboys and spineless nobility, Brideshead Revisited. Seems to me a perfect summer book.

powells:“Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves,...

powells:

“Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.”

― Truman Capote, Summer Crossing: http://powells.us/153KMwI