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Jenny Holzer. (1950)
“When I was in graduate school I had done some public things, but they were unsuccessful. They didn’t mean anything, they were abstract. I started writing on my paintings, but that didn’t work either. So when I came to New York the painting fell away and the writing became dominant. I then figured out how to take this writing public - I thought posters would be appropriate. It made sense as a public project.”
“I came to language because I wanted to be explicit about things, but didn’t want to be a social realist painter. I had been an abstract painter and that was the painting that I loved, and that I could do. It’s not that I thought that one was better than the other, but for some reason I couldn’t become a figurative painter. I wanted to be explicit about things, and it became clear that the only other way for me to do it was to use language. People can understand you when you say or write something.”
“I sometimes am criticized for not being a great writer, which I think is legitimate. My writing can use improvement, and if the criticism is sincere, it’s helpful to me. But what is not useful is when there’s some silly competitiveness from people who write for a living and find it inappropriate or unseemly that I write. They do what they do and I do what I do.”
Kanye West will debut a short film titled “Cruel Summer” at the Cannes Film Festival.
The rapper announced Friday that he’ll present the film on Wednesday at the French festival. West and his creative collective DONDA will screen the “short art film” out of competition in Cannes.
West’s press release promises “a fusion of short film and art installation” and an “immersive seven-screen experience.” It will remain open to the public for two days following its premiere.
Every really good creative person…whom I have ever known has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject under the sun in which he could not easily get interested-from, say, Egyptian burial customs to modern art. Every facet of life had fascination for him. Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the [creative] man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.
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| — | James Webb Young, writing in his 1939 guide to producing ideas, articulates a timeless truth about the relationship between curiosity and creativity. (via explore-blog) |
Your Morning Shot: The Rolling Stones
“It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.” - Keith Richards
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Jenny Holzer FROM THE LIVING SERIES: IT TAKES AWHILE 1981-1982 enamel on metal 21” x 23” [installation view
