Research Quotes VII

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W.H. Auden

My encounter with VeVe

During this last month in Marrakech I have to say that the most interesting person I met was a 3 year old (almost 4 according to her) named Vega Violet.
She is without doubt the most inteligent, fast and clever 3 year old (almost 4) I've ever met. We had great conversations throughout the two days we passed in each other's company. Here is a taste of it:

L.: Veve, I love your scarf, it's beautiful!
Veve: Thank you, but it's not a scarf, it's a foulard!

Marrakech November 2009

http://works-and-places.appartement22.com/
http://www.aimbiennale.org/

Directly from Marrakech...

...for the next 20 days!

L's Agenda/ October 2009

Exhibitions/Art Events:
Miroslaw Balka – Tate Modern, Turbine Hall Comission 2009/10
Pop Life: Art in a Material World - Tate Modern
Jill Magid, Authority to Remove - Tate Modern, Level 2 Gallery
Ed Ruscha – Hayward Gallery
Gustav Metzger - Serpentine Gallery
Sophie Calle - Whitechapel Gallery
Ed Ruscha - On the Road: An artist book – Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street
Castellani/ Flavin/ Judd /Uecker - Haunch of Venison
Yinka Shonibare, MBE – Stephen Friedman Gallery
Clunie Reid – MOT International
Juan Uslé – Frith Street Gallery
Lisson Presents 6: A Troubling Metamorphosis of Loose Ideas Into Cast Forms – Lisson Gallery
Anish Kapoor – Lisson Gallery
Heimo Zobernig – Simon Lee
Sculpture of the Space Age – The David Roberts Foundation
The object of the attack – The David Roberts Foundation
Jim Goldberg: Open See – The Photographers Gallery
Sara Ramo – The Photographers Gallery
Robert Mapplethorpe: A Season in Hell – Alison Jacques Gallery
John Baldessari – Spruth Magers London
Collector Collecting - Gallery 32
Ugo Rondinone: Nude – Sadie Coles HQ
John Bock: The Big Sleep – Sadie Coles, Balfour Mews
Robert Bordo – Mummery+Schnelle
Frieze Art Fair 2009
Zoo Art Fair 2009
Marius Engh – Supportico Lopez – Berlin

Talks:
Miroslaw Balka and Paul Herkenhoff in conversation – Tate Modern
Ed Ruscha – Hayward Gallery
Paulo Herkenhoff on the XXIV Bienal de São Paulo

Books:
Man in the Dark - Paul Auster
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

Films:
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) – Directed by Woody Allen (with Javier Bardem; Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz)
When Harry met Sally (1989) – Directed by Rob Reiner (with Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal)
Two for the Road (1967) – Directed by Stanley Donen (with Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney)
Rome II
Nip Tuck 4

Walter De Maria - The Broken Kilometer

If you are ever in New York, don't miss this fantastic installation!
It's been there since 1979 and I never knew about it!

http://www.diaart.org/sites/main/brokenkilometer