5. Andy Warhol
It's easy to find the soup cans at MoMA, just look for the swarm of students crammed up taking selfies in a cloud of ironic postmodernism
I have always hated Andy Warhol. So pretentious, his visage cemented across cultures as the personification of elite sophistication
For what? Reproducing advertising & celebrities with different colors, in a damn "Factory"??
Eff this effing guy. Was he taking the piss?
Then I saw the Oxidation Paintings, & got the joke.
“ According to research into the molecular changes associated with aging, humans experience two drastic lurches forward, one at the average age of 44 and the other at the average age of 60.
"We're not just changing gradually over time; there are some really dramatic changes," geneticist Michael Snyder of Stanford University said in August when the study was published.
"It turns out the mid-40s is a time of dramatic change, as is the early 60s.”
https://www.sciencealert.com/study-finds-humans-age-faster-at-2-sharp-peaks-heres-when-they-hit
Today was a major fiasco! Headed into the city to meet a friend at the Met. Too late, I realized I'd forgotten my phone. Well, I figured, I'll meet my friend where we always meet 🤞 I get there, & the damn Met is closed on Wednesday ( how did we not know that? Friend is a member) So, home again. Waste of time, money & friendship. Arghh!!
10 truths I know
1. It's the grid, stupid.
2. Immigration lifts all boats.
3. Prohibitions don't work, regulation does.
4. The US federal government cannot run out of money, just as a baseball team cannot run out of points.
5. Continuous economic growth is a cancer.
6. 16 inches of topsoil is all that stands between you and extinction.
7. There ain't NO away, to throw stuff.
8. Cars bad, trains good, bikes better, walking best.
9. Plastic is a crime.
10. Love is not a noun, it's a verb.
Oarfish keep washing ashore in California. Folklore suggests that could be a bad omen
*Earthquake?
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/nx-s1-5196630/oarfish-california-japan-folklore
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Day 13
Diane Arbus, a favorite, was one of the most distinctive photographers of the 20th century, known for her eerie portraits & off-beat subjects
https://www.biography.com/artists/diane-arbus
Starting as her husband's assistant, soon eclipsing him. Not interested in photographic technology, interested in getting to know her subjects & photographing their reality
A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street/ Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park
#20Artists20days.
Your favorites, those that move you etc. Any reason. Post with art example if you like.
Day 12: André Kertész
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