Pentagram's Abbott Miller goes shopping

In Thursday's NYTimes House and Home section....

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/garden/08shop.html

(interestingly, a collaboration story, sort of, I worked with a textile designer, who worked with the textile company Maharam, who worked with Maira Kalman, to produce the fabric 'The Story of My Life,' that Miller includes in his slideshow)


Brooks

assignment 1 crit photos

Heres some photos I took before my battery also died.
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Courtney Salazar and Lisa Chang
Providence Sculpture
ADColab Collaboration #1, 2009
















Lisa Chang
Providence Sculpture, 2009















Courtney Salazar
Providence Bangle, 2009

Creative Time Program, NYC, 23-24 October 2009

Here's a program you may find interesting.
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http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2009/summit/

Photos from 2 October 2009

Here are some pretty crummy photos from 2 October, before I ran out of battery and the class ran out of time.

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A useful text to read if you have the time

Thinking about what Paul Chan meant when he said 'by being what it is, art cannot be what it wants to be' I have found the following text pretty helpful:

Thierry De Duve, 'Kant after Duchamp', chapter 1 'Art was a Proper Name'.

Its pretty hefty reading but contains a really interesting logic and route through the 'what is art?' problem.

Adorno - some reading/easy listening

For those of you interested in reading up on Adorno post our Paul Chan visit, a surprising - and humorous - way in might be to start here. These are punk tracks by Brian Joseph Davis, a Canadian artist, who has used phrases from Adorno's Minima Moralia as inspiration for his music.

Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben (Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life) is a seminal text in Critical Theory. Adorno wrote it during World War II, while he lived as an exile in America.

For those of you who understand German, there are some great clips of Adorno online here and here (this one is especially relevant as it is Adorno on Beckett, which dovetails nicely with P. Chan). Click here to hear P. Chan reading Adorno's Post Festum.

Also, click here to read a great interview in the Brooklyn Rail with Robert Hullot-Kentor, an Adorno translator and friend of P. Chan's on Adorno's idea of Verblendungszusammenhang -- the "web of unknowing" -- among other concepts.