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Conversations
Chris Clary
https://www.youtube.com/embed/YV3eHLnBTI4
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Sarah Palmer
Slippage: On Practice and Waiting
In the recent weeks of endless springtime rain, I turned inward. I have been thinking about the process of how work gets made, and about the practice of making itself (these are two different things, though with many shared veins and intersections - conjoined twins that cannot be separated without killing one). With an active
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Sarah Palmer
A home for fleas, a hive for bees, a nest for birds
Thank you to Baxter St. for inviting me to come in as guest blogger for the next three months. I look forward to sharing some thoughts, musings, and artworks. I was always a writer. That is, before I would ever have called myself an artist, I thought of myself as a writer. Writing came naturally
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Conversations
Matthew Lange Performance
https://www.youtube.com/embed/E-T89VZSzQM
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Daniel Johnson
saying what you can’t say
My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions. Glenn Ligon This is my final post :( It's a conversation with myself and two artists: Dalia Amara, a friend, and Randy West, my first crit prof at SVA. What really stuck with me about their work is that there
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Daniel Johnson
art talks and feels
A few weeks ago, I posted about an event featuring Juan Betancurth and Benjamin Frederickson in conversation with Allen Frame. This ended up being a really profound experience for me (it's going near the top of my list of great art stories next to the one where, during a Clifford Owens talk—he was riffing on
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Daniel Johnson
#alityism
There are a lot of art students in NY. And a lot of MFA grads too. One of the issues that’s come up quite a lot, is how to prepare art students for the real world. "Real World." What’s the value of an art education? I think these are great questions to ask, but they're
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Conversations
Reading with Robert Marshall, Matthew Sharpe, and Wendy Walters
https://www.youtube.com/embed/DwsLST-S0AI
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Daniel Johnson
today’s job with yesterday’s tools
In the field of photography, I hear image makers complaining about the loss of the individuality in their work to the new simulation technology, that their (romanticized) role is demeaned. Battles over copyright laws, resale of work, alterations of originals, model releases, and authenticity are growing in frequency and may possibly even impede the application
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Daniel Johnson
of prince & the ecstasy of doing what you shouldn’t do
I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn’t give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings. Which suspends meaning while perpetually dispatching you toward interpretation, urging you beyond dogmatism, beyond doctrine, beyond ideology, beyond authority. –Sherrie Levine One of the previous assignments was met with