twitterschüttler

Je pourrais aussi faire le compte des moments victorieux de mon esprit, et les imaginer unis et soudés, composant une vie heureuse... Mais je crois m’être toujours bien jugé. Je me suis rarement perdu de vue ; je me suis détesté, je me suis adoré ; — puis, nous avons vieilli ensemble.

Valéry > Monsieur Teste [pdf]

… staring in rapt contemplation of the naked posers, the classical art references, the inexorability of death, and the fact that we were stuck out in LIC and there were no refreshments (except for Poland Spring water). It was basically stand there or leave: not unusual for an art-viewing situation, but after trekking all the way out to Queens, a bit of passive-aggressive hospitality

Artforum Diary, 10.3.2009 > Rhonda Lieberman: Dead or Alive über VB64 von Vanessa Beecroft.

“It really hurt me the other day,” he added. “My son came home and asked, ‘Are we homeless’? I didn’t know what to say.”

NYT, 11.3.2009 > Erick Eckholm: Motel Rooms Become Home for Some, bedrückende Geschichte über Kalifornier, die ihre Häuser in der Krise verloren haben.

The exhibition, Voids, a Retrospective, fills, or fails to fill, five rooms in the French national museum of modern art on the fourth floor of the Pompidou building. All the rooms are entirely empty. The walls are white. The floors are bare. The lighting has been arranged just as carefully as for any other temporary exhibition. The gardiens (guards) watch suspiciously to make sure that the visitors do not touch anything, or in this case that they do not touch nothing.

The Independent, 27.2.2009 > John Lichfield: The art of nothing: Pompidou Centre celebrates half a century of minimalism über die Ausstellung Vides in Paris

Hôtel Marriott, Pékin. 3ème congrès annuel de Salsa. Concours en vue de la sélection du couple représentant la Chine aux Championnats internationaux de Miami.

Le Monde / Un oeil sur la Chine > Salsa in Peking