December 2008
76 posts
My blog is One-year-old today.
MoMA’s sex change. →
What Richard Serra is to hard and dry, Rist is to soft and moist. Rather than only privileging the eye, she wants to turn the museum into an ecstasy machine.
Plight of the bourgeoisie.
Finelli: Shit. I just got my keffiyeh caught in my Tiffany's.
Animal Collective — Brothersport
Their...
Eartha Kitt — Santa Baby.
She waited until...
“The will to blog is a complicated thing, somewhere between inspiration and...”
– Emily Gould. Also, I’m losing it.
The one thing in life I actually have talent in is making pastries. To the point that I have even contemplated opening up a pie shop. I even have a name picked out. Last night I made an amazing rum-glaze frosting for spiced cookies. For as much as I am fascinated by them, I have never even TRIED a Macaron. I am wondering if they are similar to the weird Maine “delicacy” called a whoopie pie which...
The obliteration of fourth wave feminism.
Mir: How many calories are in ibuprofen?
“I am alive… I am beautiful… what else is there?”
– From the recently published journals of Susan Sontag, at age 19.
Erwin Reidl...
Light installationist extraordinaire Erwin Reidl lives in my hometown. All throughout the year, he and his assistants pile into a van at nightfall, drive to various parking lots of mega-churches and outlet stores and set up airborne light art, propelled through the sky by kites or weather balloons. I have tried and failed many times to capture these on film, but I must tell you, there are so few...
“I really did feel I had to give a lot to MoMA, even though many of the trustees...”
– Agnes Gund, Sanka coffee heiress and one of the biggest art collectors in the world, trashing fellow members of the MoMA board of trustees, who, apparently, are cheapskates.
Matthew Barney Facebook-divorces Björk. →
Of course this has to be fake. In keeping with his artwork, Barney would surely choose a more elitist and inaccessible medium than Facebook for such an announcement.
Unbelievable that Hirst can even do this; how does someone like Richard Prince make art with other people’s images, unaltered? You CAN do stuff like these collages surely? And it is not as if Hirst does not ‘borrow’ ideas, styles and images… This makes me want to start making and selling fake spot paintings, just to annoy Hirst.
AND, now I want one of these holiday...
Damien Hirst cites 16-year-old artist for... →
I have officially lost my patience with Mr. Hirst. And if Dash Snow comes after me for the holiday collage cards I sent out this week, there’ll be hell to pay.
“He’d better have the fucking plaque, and he’d better be wearing...”
– Finelli, on the driver she’s paying £35 to deliver her to the airport, even though she could easily take a bus.
Living in England is only fun for so long...
Finelli: I am tired of always being the 'out there' one because everyone is so fucking stuck up
Finelli: We played never-have-I-ever and I said, "never have I ever masturbated in a public place" and everyone looked at me like I shot jesus.
This week's Nerve horoscope.
Gemini (May 21-Jun. 21) You are Jimmy, a deceased dockman. Your ethereal witchy fingers are in every pudding now, your ears are fathoms wide. You hear the ticking of all the clocks in China; you see the opium dens, the eagles’ nests, the lonely gold-paved hulls of treasure ships. It’s fantastic. You hover above the forest and laugh, then fly to the mid-Atlantic to swim with some...
