My mom just celebrated (but not really celebrated) her 65th birthday. I feel like no one really tells you about or prepares you for that devastating moment when you look at your parents and realize how old they are.

Since living on my own, my relationship with her has advanced to this refreshing new stratum where we actually communicate as equals. I’m totally and completely against that whole ‘my-mom/dad-is-my-best-friend’ level of openness, but something about the way she speaks to me now seems so much less didactic than it did before. And when I don’t feel like I’m being preached at by her, I gradually let down the fail-safe barriers I erected as a child, and am as chatty and divulgy as ever.

For as long as I can remember I’ve made a conscious effort to be nothing like her — but if I’m being honest, I have to admit that every bit of strength I have comes from her, and her steadfast refusal to allow anyone to deny me the right to be me.

The fact that she isn’t going to live forever is endlessly heartbreaking.

“ Things change. People change. Relevancies change. Who you are this moment isn’t who you will be ten moments from now, if not two. It feels like the bottom because it is in the the essence of the moment. But only you are able to change that. And if it’s not okay, then you need to change hoodies and go on. Because you have to live with yourself for a lifetime. You only have to live with [this] for a moment.

— Amanda Finelli

britticisms:

“A poster the recipient completes by revealing spot-varnished type with hands made dirty by handling the poster. This is the first of a series of posters.”

Dirt Po(or)ster by Roland Tiangco. If viewing through your dashboard, click on the image to view the process.

I saw this in the basement of the Whitney in May. The entire series is incredibly clever, and Mr. Nauman was ridiculously cute in his day.

sympathyfortheartgallery:

One of my most favorite photos ever;
Bruce Nauman, Self Portrait as a Fountain
(Eleven Color Photographs)
(via » Go See – New York: “Photoconceptualism 1966-1973″ featuring works by Bruce Nauman, Dan Graham, Robert Smithson, Mel Bochner, Gordon Matta-Clark, Edward Ruscha Whitney Museum of American Art, through September 20, 2009 - AO Art Observed™)

If Purple Diary posts one more photo of Dash Snow, not only will I unfollow them, but I will personally break Olivier Zahm's camera over Chloe Sevigny's head.

claytoncubitt:

Self-portrait, Brooklyn, phonecam

I never ask a model to show more than I’m willing to show.

Dash Snow served as the inspiration for my holiday cards last year. I can’t say I’ll miss his art, but a tragedy nonetheless.

sympathyfortheartgallery:

otto-obrien:

»Untitled«, 1991 by by Michael Jackson and Macaulay C. Culkin. (via VVORK)

We met Ryan McGinley at Main Man.

hydeordie:

Jenny Holzer’s PROTECT PROTECT

via maybeitsallok

I’m so glad there is a proper video of this show. After seeing it in New York last month I can absolutely tell you that a photo cannot do it justice.

whileyouwereout:

iheartmyart:

Michaël Borremans

sexartandpolitics:

Norman Lewis - Twilight Sounds, 1947
23 1/2 x 28 in.
Saint Louis Art Museum

sexartandpolitics:

Wifredo Lam - The Jungle, 1942-44
240x228 cm
Museum of Modern Art, NY

» World's Worst Artist, Jesus Team Up For Scam

An appeals court has awarded $2.1 million to two gallery owners who say they were duped into selling Thomas Kinkade’s schlock, then double-crossed by the Godly master himself in a scheme designed to let Kinkade buy out his own company at a low price.

hydeordie:

Choi Jeong-Hwa Welcome 2009
Someone has dosed my coffee with LSD or something. I have searched and scoured and employed LACMA google alerts and no one, save me, has written anything about the fact that the entire Ahmanson Building is covered in ribbons.

It’s not on LACMA’s webs ite, they barely mentioned it (no picture) on their blog in a very short interview with the artist that they just posted today, and the only reason it was on their twitter is because I asked them what this was.

The LA Times even has an article about a separate piece by the same artist for the upcoming exhibition and completely left this out. I know I’m not the only one who has seen it, but why am I the only one talking about it? Remember when Christo did the gates in New York? You couldn’t get away from the publicity. It was in magazines, newspapers, blogs, and TV. Am I the only one who thinks this is newsworthy? I feel like I’m begging, but I don’t think it’s too much to ask for someone to start a dialogue about this? I know the show doesn’t open until the 28^th, but this is outside, easy to photograph (surrounded by Irwin Palm Trees and Burden’s Light? Come on!) and it COVERS THE BUILDING YOU CAN’T MISS IT!

I feel like I am talking to walls.

Maybe because it’s not that interesting or noteworthy? Ditto Christo and Jean-Claude.