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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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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
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Daniel Johnson
event saturday at 3pm
if you're in nyc, check out what will undoubtably be an amazing conversation with some really interesting work from the artists Juan Betancurth and Benjamin Fredrickson. they'll be in conversation with Allen Frame at Daniel Cooney Fine Art at 3pm. Hope to see some of you there! thanks for all the selfies. new post coming
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Daniel Johnson
don’t worry. you’re safe. i’m here now.
images. photographs. art. grumble. lyke, why don yoooz guys do some r3al AART thuur. N stahp postin pics on the GRam. BACK in my DAyss. We hAD wut uuuuu callllllll standARDS. BECAUSE there were HRAD CRITIQUES and REAAL ART && fotografs and fiiilm and shit. Technology has emerged and changed everything that is anything
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Tim Carpenter
Recommended reading: Wright Morris
I once had the opportunity to attend a walk-through of an exhibition of Patti Smith’s photographs at the Wadsworth Atheneum, with the artist herself in the lead. She talked about a lot of things outside of the pictures, at one point mentioning Whitman’s lists. As the smallish group moved from one gallery to another, I
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Tim Carpenter
The moon was the first photograph
There’s a Lucinda Williams song that she often opens shows with called “Pineola,” concerning the immediate aftermath of the suicide of the poet Frank Stanford in 1978. He was most well known for the massive, unhinged epic poem The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. At his funeral, his Pentecostal family was shocked