Born in the year 1900, Alice Neel was an assiduous chronicler of the twentieth century at the same time that she was one of its standard-bearers, resolutely painting people even as other art historical movements fell in and out of favor. A sprawling, dozen-gallery show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “People Come First” contains… Continue reading Alice Neel, “People Come First” @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Mar 22nd 2021 — Aug 1st 2021)
Category: Journal
a fictionalized, madlibian journal i imagine to be kept by somebody like and unlike myself. a writing exercise.
“cybernetic serendipity”
(the way a too-full archive bends back into banality)
“The drama of the notebook—and the immediacy of certain marks, erasures, rewrites—cannot be overemphasized, as though the notebook were a kind of feedback device working in tandem with the performance works themselves.”
8-13-20
12:33pm: power house a work horse an icon
8-12-20
Wednesday August 12th 2020 6:31 PM 6:36 PM: Tired. Spilled a bunch of water on the sofa today. Didn’t do any work til 1 then finished Urban Omnibus. Then two meetings. Sad to go :’( but it’s right.
8-9-20
Sunday August 9th 2020 3:10:pm: bloodlet kakistocratic (sometime bw then and 4:49) 6:11 PM August 9th. Wonder if I’ll have a crisis on the 31st — another summer gone! Summer only begins in June. I think it actually ends in September. But it works differently in the mind. Headphones in? Finished Trick Mirror! Um. Strange… Continue reading 8-9-20
8-8-20
8-8-20 12:33am: “I don’t know what to prefer the beauty of inflections or the beauty of innuendos. The blackbird whistling or just after …” — Wallace Stevens
8-7-20
Friday August 7th 2020 2:57 PM Does the beginning (ish) of each month creep in much the same way? What have I missed? Slow start to the morning (not bad); up in the 10s. headache which quickly dissipated. [] and [] came over last night. Nice to see them. Have a plant out of it.… Continue reading 8-7-20
7-28-20 – 8-1-20
7-28-20 – 8-1-20 [11/23/20: On the 27th went on the hike with []s and his parents oh also []. Ummm. Beautiful. On the 29th went thrifting. I think [] left? On 31st we went to some stores on the strip. On August first went to big antique thing. [] and I successfully made pork. So… Continue reading 7-28-20 – 8-1-20
7-27-20
Monday July 27th 2020 3:47 PM Ughhhh. I don’t know why I feel like this — strange, not well — right now. Um. God. How long has it been since the last entry. Why am I doing this. Why am I why haven’t I. I think it’s like the Artists Space internship with like the… Continue reading 7-27-20
7-25-20
Saturday July 25th 2020 10:59 AM I seem to not usually write entries during these things. But here’s a good half hour to write ye, hm? I don’t know. Sitting in the nook. On the right side when you look at it. Just put on Folklore. Supposed to listen to it at midnight with []… Continue reading 7-25-20
7-24-20
7-24-20 [11/23/20: Beach? cats? Lots of Noguchi work.]