Posted by Jason Diamond If you’re bored and have a day off, I’d suggest heading to MoMA, sit for an hour or more, and watch people look at the microphone placed in the middle of the same room that Marina Abramović sat in a few months back. Some will approach it (with a mix of trepidation and curiosity), some will pose for photos, others will scream, some will rap, but no matter what, 60 (or more) minutes of people watching […]
Dear Yoko Ono, Take me Book Shopping With You
This Yoko Ono interview over at Book Patrol is making my day. BP: In 1964, you produced Grapefruit, one of the seminal artists books to emerge from the second half of the 20th century, a volume that influential art critic, David Bourdon, considered “one of the monuments of conceptual art…” It was an “event score,” providing instructions for a journey by the artist and reader, in the spirit of Cage’s “chance music” – a score suggesting action-performance possibilities rather than […]
Bites: Reading Yoko, Burroughs’s Stuff, Jami Attenberg, and More
Yoko Ono is putting out one of the few celebrity memoirs that I’ll bother reading. All you need to say is “William Burroughs’s Stuff“, and I’m sold. Best of luck trying to deny Céline was an anti-Semite. HTMLGiant live on the net. This Jami Attenberg kid is gonna be HUGE! Woody Allen writes something funny in The New Yorker. A New York publication comments on a British publication talking about a New York writer or: L magazine on the Guardian […]