Monday, November 11, 2024
Perhaps one day he will read this book and understand. As Gloria wrote in her journal in 1971, reflecting on the deaths of the people she knew and loved, "So many and then there's no one left but one's self. Then one knows it's only the long walk of the blood, one's children, that endure."
— Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Sunday, November 10, 2024
For 27 years, photographer Deanna Dikeman photographed her parents waving goodbye in their driveway.
— @welcome.jpeg
Saturday, November 9, 2024
"I'm a writer" Truman Capote said, "and I use everything."
— Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Friday, November 8, 2024
Isamu Noguchi, Lobby Ceiling for Magic Chef Building (now a U-Haul store), 1946-1948.
— @craighlee
Thursday, November 7, 2024
l've been wary of what and how much to share these past few months. Our two selves (my own as a new mother and my daughter's) are taking shape. We are malleable and soft. Full of aw and curiosity as well as some anxieties. How much do I want to let unfold online? What's mine to share?
— @ereedlee
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
They only have meaning when they are seen by other people, when they are shown, when they are an economic vehicle.
— Elliott Earls, "I Almost Died! Show Me a Designer in Their 40's! My Response | Episode 142 | Elliott Earls"
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Dixville Notch was created for the sole purpose of turning the Balsams resort into a voting location. Neil Tillotson, the hotel’s owner, won free advertising for the resort, and journalists took advantage of the in-house telephone company to deliver the town’s real, albeit statistically insignificant, vote tally 12 hours before exit polls from elsewhere in the country began to trickle in.
— Christopher Maag, "First U.S. Election Result Is In, and It’s a Trump-Harris Tie," The New York Times
Monday, November 4, 2024
... in the world ...
— Jessy Lu, part of an eloquent sentence I tried to write down but now can't read
Sunday, November 3, 2024
You're the whole banana split. Hold the peanuts.
— Lily to Wally
Saturday, November 2, 2024
The baby stuff does take over doesn't it.
— David
Friday, November 1, 2024
The danger of social media with me is not to me that I live in my own echo chamber and just have views reinforced. The danger is that I'm only exposed to the crazy people on the other side, right. Who make me, make it easier for me to adopt my own worldview.
— JD Vance, "#2221 - JD Vance, The Joe Rogan Experience"
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Who had owned this collection of photographic material (somewhere between art and instruction, we need not choose), and why did she discard it, en masse? The only reasonable answer was death. There was no other logical explanation. Who would do away with books like these, which would have taught her so much about how to be alive?
— Carmen Winant, Instructional Photography
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
The story of Scott Burton is a story about how fragile, mutable and, to some degree, arbitrary art history is. It illustrates how an artist’s legacy can be transformed by one decision. In Burton’s case, that choice was to leave his estate — including his art, belongings and copyright, as well as the ability to profit from the sale of his work and the responsibility to promote it — to MoMA.
— Julia Halperin, "A Dying Artist Left His Legacy to MoMA. Today He’s Almost Forgotten.," The New York Times
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
In 1933, Carl Grossberg began work on paintings he called the “Industrial Plan”, depicting Germany’s most important industries, but it was never completed.
— @jerrysaltz
Monday, October 28, 2024
I always say the Democrat. You know, Chuck doesn't like that. He likes Democratic. And it sounds much more beautiful. The Democratic Party. I always say the Democrat Party, because it sounds worse. It's true.
— Donald Trump, Remarks at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City
Sunday, October 27, 2024
It's meant to be locked.
— MoMA guard after saying I could open the door on a Thomas Schütte piece that's a closed room which sounds like a dog is barking in it.
Saturday, October 26, 2024
CNN in their, all their brilliance, by highlighting your wild shit, made you much more popular and they boosted you in the polls because people were tired of someone talking in this bullshit pre-prepared politician lingo. And even if they didn't agree with you, they at least knew whoever that guy is, that's him.
— Joe Rogan, "#2219 - Donald Trump, The Joe Rogan Experience"
Friday, October 25, 2024
As part of its Message in a Bottle initiative, it managed to collect 2.6 million signatures to accompany the poem into space.
— Elisabeth Egan, "A Poem Hitches a Ride on a Rocket, to Infinity and Beyond," The New York Times
Thursday, October 24, 2024
But roaming Versailles's Hall of Mirrors in sneakers, taking pictures with abandon, is a revolutionary act—after all, the French palace, once a center of government and divine-right power, was seized by the people and never given back.
— Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Ultimately, the biggest obstacle was attention, or the lack of it. Why would your descendants care about your pictures? Lots of people have old photos showing long-dead relatives they can't identify. The bottom line seemed to be that, if you weren't a great artist, or didn't photograph moments of historical importance, then your photos would die with you.
— Joshua Rothman, "What Can You Learn from Photographing Your Life?," The New Yorker
