January 2012
Our taverns and our metropolitan streets, our offices and furnished rooms, our...
– Walter Benjamin, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Not a just image, just an image.
– Jean Luc Godard
I dream about her, I do not dream her. And confronted with the photograph, as in...
– Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
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Write then, now that you are young, nonsense by the ream. Be silly, be...
– Virginia Woolf, 1931
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December 2011
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an...
– Henry Miller
We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are...
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Rei Kawakubo invented looking like you got ripped off in a thrift shop. She’s an...
– John Waters on Comme des Garçons
What is art? Form becoming style; but the style is the man; therefore art is the...
– Jean-Luc Godard’s 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
November 2011