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Brian Eno’s 1995 Opening Speech for the Turner...
The Turner Prize is justly celebrated for raising all sorts of questions in the public mind about art and its place in our lives. Unfortunately, however, the intellectual climate surrounding the fine arts is so vaporous and self-satisfied that few of these questions are ever actually addressed, let alone answered. Why is it that all of us here – presumably members of the arts community – probably...
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February 2012
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A Thug Talks and Talks, and Scribbles
In a nondescript motel room somewhere along the border between Mexico and the United States, a former hit man — a “sicario” — for the Mexican drug cartels speaks. Unquestioned and uninterrupted, this black-garbed thug regales us with 20 years’ worth of kidnapping, torture and cold-blooded murder, all the while scribbling compulsively in a large notebook. Are we supposed to feel shock? Revulsion?...
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Universe of Desire
Type. Swipe. Search. Upload. Download. Post. Stream. These are the new verbs of desire. Our most intimate thoughts, fantasies, and urges are now transmitted via electronic devices to rapt audiences all over the world. These transmissions—from sexts to webcam masturbation feeds—are anonymous yet personal, individual yet collective, everywhere and nowhere, and they are contributing to the largest...
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Todd Hido: “Fragmented Narratives”
By Ian Epstein I once heard someone remark that the desire to have a perfect lawn was not unlike the desire to have a piece of perfect sculpture for a body – the lengths to which a person goes to achieve such perfection reveal a great deal. And so the coiffed and manicured American lawn that is a hallmark of the suburbs with perfect green grass came to resemble America’s plastic bodies,...
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