"In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first."
"Experience as a ground person is not acceptable towards meeting this requirement."
Video profile of the Earth Room and it's caretaker, Bill.
Nice collection of book covers. Especially like Everymans Guide to Polystyrene Plastics and The Motor Car(s).
A little light lunchtime reading.
Official Presidential portrait of Barack Obama. First presidential portrait taken with a digital camera.
"The Writing on the Wall project (1991-1993) took place in Berlin’s former Jewish quarter, the Scheunenviertel neighborhood. There Attie projected slides made from pre-Holocaust photographs of the neighborhood’s Jewish residents and shops in the same (or sometimes nearby) locations where the original images were taken."
I don't respond as much to the more theoretical works on paper, but his art dramatizing boundaries and spaces – painting the green line between Israel, Egypt, Syria and Jordan; pushing a block of ice through Mexico City – are direct, absurdist, and through provoking.
"Not long ago, Paul Begala, the political strategist, was speaking at a fund-raiser for a gay-rights group and said, 'When I told my father, back in Texas, that I was speaking to an L.G.B.T. group, he said that sounded like a sandwich.' From the audience, Frank called out, 'Sometimes it is!'"
Big Picture style collection of photos of Muslim pilgrims performing the hajj.
