Friday 31 December 2010
2010/2011?
Life is continuous. There are no years, no months, no days, no hours... Time will pass one way or the other. This day is just an invention to make us feel like we have the opportunity of starting over and over again. So, keep it going and be thankful for life every day!
Monday 20 December 2010
Sunday 19 December 2010
Saturday 18 December 2010
Obituaries: Alighiero e Boetti
Alighiero e Boetti, 53, an Artist Who Mixed Disparate Elements
By ROBERTA SMITH
Published: April 26, 1994 in the New York Times
Alighiero e Boetti, an Italian Conceptual artist who saw his work as a collaboration between different people, cultures and disciplines, died on Sunday at his home in Rome. He was 53.
The cause was brain cancer, said Gianenzo Sperone, whose gallery in Rome represented the artist for most of his career.
Mr. Boetti was born in Turin in 1940. Largely self-educated as an artist, Mr. Boetti had his first solo exhibition in Turin in 1966 and was briefly associated with the Arte Povera movement. Drawn to nontraditional techniques, he soon evolved a more poetic, idiosyncratic vision that brought together such unlikely elements as geography and embroidery, or made extensive use of the common ballpoint pen. After traveling to Afghanistan in 1970, he began having local craftsmen translate various motifs, including big, patchwork-like world maps and invented aphorisms, into dense, embroidered surfaces and, later, into kilim rugs. Collaborative artworks so appealed to him that he took "e," the Italian word for and, as his middle name to suggest two people. A List of Rivers his most ambitious project, a version of which was recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, is a large embroidered piece titled "The First Thousand Rivers of the World." In characteristically blocky letters, this work spells the names of the world's 1,000 longest rivers in descending order of length. It is based on a list that required more than seven years of research by Mr. Boetti and his first wife, Anne Marie Sauzeau, an art critic, and that is known to many scientists as the Boetti List.
Mr. Boetti, who had his first New York solo show at the John Weber Gallery in SoHo in 1973, showed his work throughout Europe and is represented in public collections around the world. A large exhibition of his work is planned by the Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea for October.
He is survived by his wife, Caterina; two sons, Giordano and Matteo, both of Rome, and a daughter, Agata, of Paris.
By ROBERTA SMITH
Published: April 26, 1994 in the New York Times
Alighiero e Boetti, an Italian Conceptual artist who saw his work as a collaboration between different people, cultures and disciplines, died on Sunday at his home in Rome. He was 53.
The cause was brain cancer, said Gianenzo Sperone, whose gallery in Rome represented the artist for most of his career.
Mr. Boetti was born in Turin in 1940. Largely self-educated as an artist, Mr. Boetti had his first solo exhibition in Turin in 1966 and was briefly associated with the Arte Povera movement. Drawn to nontraditional techniques, he soon evolved a more poetic, idiosyncratic vision that brought together such unlikely elements as geography and embroidery, or made extensive use of the common ballpoint pen. After traveling to Afghanistan in 1970, he began having local craftsmen translate various motifs, including big, patchwork-like world maps and invented aphorisms, into dense, embroidered surfaces and, later, into kilim rugs. Collaborative artworks so appealed to him that he took "e," the Italian word for and, as his middle name to suggest two people. A List of Rivers his most ambitious project, a version of which was recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, is a large embroidered piece titled "The First Thousand Rivers of the World." In characteristically blocky letters, this work spells the names of the world's 1,000 longest rivers in descending order of length. It is based on a list that required more than seven years of research by Mr. Boetti and his first wife, Anne Marie Sauzeau, an art critic, and that is known to many scientists as the Boetti List.
Mr. Boetti, who had his first New York solo show at the John Weber Gallery in SoHo in 1973, showed his work throughout Europe and is represented in public collections around the world. A large exhibition of his work is planned by the Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea for October.
He is survived by his wife, Caterina; two sons, Giordano and Matteo, both of Rome, and a daughter, Agata, of Paris.
Poemas de Pessoa 8
Álvaro de Campos
Acaso
No acaso da rua o acaso da rapariga loira.
Mas não, não é aquela.
A outra era noutra rua, noutra cidade, e eu era outro.
Perco-me subitamente da visão imediata,
Estou outra vez na outra cidade, na outra rua,
E a outra rapariga passa.
Que grande vantagem o recordar intransigentemente!
Agora tenho pena de nunca mais ter visto a outra rapariga,
E tenho pena de afinal nem sequer ter olhado para esta.
Que grande vantagem trazer a alma virada do avesso!
Ao menos escrevem-se versos.
Escrevem-se versos, passa-se por doido, e depois por gênio, se calhar,
Se calhar, ou até sem calhar,
Maravilha das celebridades!
Ia eu dizendo que ao menos escrevem-se versos...
Mas isto era a respeito de uma rapariga,
De uma rapariga loira,
Mas qual delas?
Havia uma que vi há muito tempo numa outra cidade,
Numa outra espécie de rua;
E houve esta que vi há muito tempo numa outra cidade
Numa outra espécie de rua;
Por que todas as recordações são a mesma recordação,
Tudo que foi é a mesma morte,
Ontem, hoje, quem sabe se até amanhã?
Um transeunte olha para mim com uma estranheza ocasional.
Estaria eu a fazer versos em gestos e caretas?
Pode ser... A rapariga loira?
É a mesma afinal...
Tudo é o mesmo afinal ...
Só eu, de qualquer modo, não sou o mesmo, e isto é o mesmo também afinal.
Acaso
No acaso da rua o acaso da rapariga loira.
Mas não, não é aquela.
A outra era noutra rua, noutra cidade, e eu era outro.
Perco-me subitamente da visão imediata,
Estou outra vez na outra cidade, na outra rua,
E a outra rapariga passa.
Que grande vantagem o recordar intransigentemente!
Agora tenho pena de nunca mais ter visto a outra rapariga,
E tenho pena de afinal nem sequer ter olhado para esta.
Que grande vantagem trazer a alma virada do avesso!
Ao menos escrevem-se versos.
Escrevem-se versos, passa-se por doido, e depois por gênio, se calhar,
Se calhar, ou até sem calhar,
Maravilha das celebridades!
Ia eu dizendo que ao menos escrevem-se versos...
Mas isto era a respeito de uma rapariga,
De uma rapariga loira,
Mas qual delas?
Havia uma que vi há muito tempo numa outra cidade,
Numa outra espécie de rua;
E houve esta que vi há muito tempo numa outra cidade
Numa outra espécie de rua;
Por que todas as recordações são a mesma recordação,
Tudo que foi é a mesma morte,
Ontem, hoje, quem sabe se até amanhã?
Um transeunte olha para mim com uma estranheza ocasional.
Estaria eu a fazer versos em gestos e caretas?
Pode ser... A rapariga loira?
É a mesma afinal...
Tudo é o mesmo afinal ...
Só eu, de qualquer modo, não sou o mesmo, e isto é o mesmo também afinal.
Friday 17 December 2010
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Saturday 11 December 2010
Spooky House Sounds & Noises Explained
Why Your House Probably Isn't Haunted
by C. Jeanne Heida
Are those spooky sounds and noises heard in your house at night the work of ghosts and other spectral visitors? While you and your family might think your house is haunted, it's much more likely that those spooky
ooky sounds and noises have a very earthly explanation behind him.
All houses make noises of some kind or another. Duct work expands and contract loudly, pipes may sing, and even the wood inside the framework of the building may groan as it shrinks. Older houses seem to make more noise than newer homes, which is probably a result of minimal insulation. Without insulation, noises in an old house are amplified to where it sounds much worse than it really is.
If your house has strange sounds and noises that have got you a little spooked, this little guide should set your mind at ease.
Mystery footsteps heard upstairs. Running footsteps is one of the more common of the spooky house sounds and noises many people hear. But, instead of a ghost running around upstairs, it's more likely that a squirrel, rat, possum, or raccoon is running on the roof or the attic floor. The thud of their footsteps is amplified in the pitched cavity of the roof, and makes the soft padding of their feet sound almost human like. To prevent animals from entering the attic, check the second story soffits and eaves for access points and seal them shut with wire mesh.
Scratching sounds. Scritchity, scratchy sounds are usually one of two things; either a branch that is blowing up against the house, or a small animal scratching away behind the plaster of the walls. Again, the hollow space behind the plaster amplifies the noise and makes it much worse than it really is. To stop these noises, prune shrubs and trees away from the house, and set traps in the attic to catch the mice.
Squeaky hinges and slamming doors. Old, poorly insulated houses are naturally drafty and the slightest change of air pressure can open a door or slam it shut. Adding insulation to the house and sealing the drafts can prevent doors from opening and shutting on their own. A little WD-40 can take care of those squeaking hinges as well.
Loud groans are usually nothing more than the timbers inside the framework of the house shrinking and contracting with the fluctuating temperatures and humidity levels.
Clanging chains. As air passes through the duct work in your home, it can cause loose sections of ductwork and the registers to rattle a bit. This rattling noise bounces around the ductwork to sound like chains clanging
and rattling away. While you can't do much about the ductwork, you can check the condition of the registers and tighten up the ones that are loose.
Oooooooo noises. The wind passing over chimneys and around loose windows make a terrible "Oooooooo" noise which sounds quite frightening....until you remember that it's the same kind of noise made when blowing over the top of pop bottles. When the wind passes over the chimney or through small cracks, it makes that low whistle sound whcih sounds much spookier than it really is. To prevent those Ooooooo sounds, close the fireplace damper at night and check the window and door jams for air leaks.
Knocking noises. Ductwork is also the chief culprit for the knocking noises you may hear in your house. As warm air hits the cold ductwork, the expanding sheet metal makes a series of noises that sound like rapid knocking such as what you might hear on a door. The knocking stops after 10 seconds, and may resume once the furnace kicks off and the ductwork starts to cool.
Loud thuds are usually caused by something falling to the floor, having been pushed over not by a ghost, but by a strong draft instead. Thuds also happen when branches drop on the roof of a house or a large animal (such as a cat or coon) leaps from a tree to the roof of your home.
Humming walls. Old houses seem to be particularly susceptible to this, especially older homes with single pane window windows, poor insulation and plaster walls. The humming that is heard in the walls is not a singing spook, but the sound vibrations caused by a car stereo. These low level vibrations can rattle the walls and windows and create a mystical sounding humming noise that can be a bit unsettling. There's nothing that can be done about stereo noise except to ask the neighbor's teenager to pipe it down.
As ooky, spooky as these noises sound, in most cases it's really nothing to worry about. Old houses tend to make all sorts of strange noises that may sound like dead people wandering around, but are really nothing
more than the house shifting and groaning on its own.
by C. Jeanne Heida
Are those spooky sounds and noises heard in your house at night the work of ghosts and other spectral visitors? While you and your family might think your house is haunted, it's much more likely that those spooky
ooky sounds and noises have a very earthly explanation behind him.
All houses make noises of some kind or another. Duct work expands and contract loudly, pipes may sing, and even the wood inside the framework of the building may groan as it shrinks. Older houses seem to make more noise than newer homes, which is probably a result of minimal insulation. Without insulation, noises in an old house are amplified to where it sounds much worse than it really is.
If your house has strange sounds and noises that have got you a little spooked, this little guide should set your mind at ease.
Mystery footsteps heard upstairs. Running footsteps is one of the more common of the spooky house sounds and noises many people hear. But, instead of a ghost running around upstairs, it's more likely that a squirrel, rat, possum, or raccoon is running on the roof or the attic floor. The thud of their footsteps is amplified in the pitched cavity of the roof, and makes the soft padding of their feet sound almost human like. To prevent animals from entering the attic, check the second story soffits and eaves for access points and seal them shut with wire mesh.
Scratching sounds. Scritchity, scratchy sounds are usually one of two things; either a branch that is blowing up against the house, or a small animal scratching away behind the plaster of the walls. Again, the hollow space behind the plaster amplifies the noise and makes it much worse than it really is. To stop these noises, prune shrubs and trees away from the house, and set traps in the attic to catch the mice.
Squeaky hinges and slamming doors. Old, poorly insulated houses are naturally drafty and the slightest change of air pressure can open a door or slam it shut. Adding insulation to the house and sealing the drafts can prevent doors from opening and shutting on their own. A little WD-40 can take care of those squeaking hinges as well.
Loud groans are usually nothing more than the timbers inside the framework of the house shrinking and contracting with the fluctuating temperatures and humidity levels.
Clanging chains. As air passes through the duct work in your home, it can cause loose sections of ductwork and the registers to rattle a bit. This rattling noise bounces around the ductwork to sound like chains clanging
and rattling away. While you can't do much about the ductwork, you can check the condition of the registers and tighten up the ones that are loose.
Oooooooo noises. The wind passing over chimneys and around loose windows make a terrible "Oooooooo" noise which sounds quite frightening....until you remember that it's the same kind of noise made when blowing over the top of pop bottles. When the wind passes over the chimney or through small cracks, it makes that low whistle sound whcih sounds much spookier than it really is. To prevent those Ooooooo sounds, close the fireplace damper at night and check the window and door jams for air leaks.
Knocking noises. Ductwork is also the chief culprit for the knocking noises you may hear in your house. As warm air hits the cold ductwork, the expanding sheet metal makes a series of noises that sound like rapid knocking such as what you might hear on a door. The knocking stops after 10 seconds, and may resume once the furnace kicks off and the ductwork starts to cool.
Loud thuds are usually caused by something falling to the floor, having been pushed over not by a ghost, but by a strong draft instead. Thuds also happen when branches drop on the roof of a house or a large animal (such as a cat or coon) leaps from a tree to the roof of your home.
Humming walls. Old houses seem to be particularly susceptible to this, especially older homes with single pane window windows, poor insulation and plaster walls. The humming that is heard in the walls is not a singing spook, but the sound vibrations caused by a car stereo. These low level vibrations can rattle the walls and windows and create a mystical sounding humming noise that can be a bit unsettling. There's nothing that can be done about stereo noise except to ask the neighbor's teenager to pipe it down.
As ooky, spooky as these noises sound, in most cases it's really nothing to worry about. Old houses tend to make all sorts of strange noises that may sound like dead people wandering around, but are really nothing
more than the house shifting and groaning on its own.
Research Quotes XVIII
If I should go before the rest of you
Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone,
Nor when I’m gone speak in a Sunday voice
But be the usual selves that I have known.
Weep if you must,
Parting is hell,
But life goes on,
So sing as well.
Joyce Greenfeld, Joyce: by Herself and Her Friends
Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone,
Nor when I’m gone speak in a Sunday voice
But be the usual selves that I have known.
Weep if you must,
Parting is hell,
But life goes on,
So sing as well.
Joyce Greenfeld, Joyce: by Herself and Her Friends
Friday 10 December 2010
Sabedoria - seu nome é Clarice Lispector I
Até cortar os próprios defeitos pode ser perigoso. Nunca se sabe qual é o defeito que sustenta nosso edifício inteiro.
Wednesday 8 December 2010
Monday 6 December 2010
Bye Bye to the Basement Life!
In the past few days we have been moving...
...it was hard, but now I'm back!
...it was hard, but now I'm back!
Thursday 2 December 2010
L's Agenda November 2010
Exhibitions:
Fiona Banner. Duveen Comission – Tate Britain, London
Bernd and Hilla Becher. Water Towers – Sonnabend, New York
Louise Bourgeois – Hauser & Wirth, London
Louise Bourgeois and Tracy Emin. Do Not Abandon Me. A Collaboration – Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York
Pavel Buchler – Max Wigram, London
Yoan Capote. Mental States – Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Mat Collishaw – Blain/Southern Gallery, London
John Currin: New Paintings – Gagosian Gallery, New York
Jimmie Durham. Arts, media and sports – Sprovieri, London
Angus Fairhurst – Sadie Coles, London
Peter Hujar. Thek’s studio 1967 – Alexander and Bonin, New York
Inagural Show – CRG Gallery, New York
Leon Kossoff – Annely Juda, London
Christian Marclay – White Cube, London (incomplete)
Brice Marden. Paintings 1961-1964 – Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Ana Mendieta: Documentation and Artwork, 1972-1985 – Galerie Lelong, New York
Nasreen Mohamedi – Modern Art, London
Peggy Preheim. the end (final cut) – Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Alan Reid – Lisa Cooley, New York
Ugo Rondinone - Gladstone Gallery, New York
Tomas Saraceno - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Bojan Šarčević – Modern Art, London
Peter Schoolwerh. Portraits of Paintings – Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
Collier Schorr – 303 Gallery, New York
Gedi Sibony – Greene Naftali, New York
Mickey Smith. Believe You Me – Invisible-Exports, New York
Hiroshi Sugimoto. The day after – Pace, New York
Paul Thek – Whitney Museum, New York
Paul Thek – Alexander and Bonin, New York
Rirkrit Tiravanija – Pilar Corrias, London
Turner Prize – Tate Britain, London
James Turrell – Gagosian, London
Kelley Walker – Thomas Dane, London
Rachel Whiteread. Drawings – Tate Britain, London
Robert Wilson – Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Erwin Wurm. gulp – Lehmann Maupin, New York
Robert Yaber. Irrational Exuberance – Sonnabend, new York
New York Artist’s Book Fair
EAB Print and Artist’s Book Fair
Films:
Couples Retreat (2009). Peter Billingsley. With Jason Bateman, Vince Vaughn and Kristen Bell.
Get Low (2009). Aaron Schneider. With Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray
Grown Ups (2010). Dennis Dugan. With Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Steve Buscemi.
Invictus (2009). Clint Eastwood. With Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.
The Joneses (2009). Derrick Borte. With Demi Moore and David Duchovny.
Old Dogs (2009). Walt Becker. With John Travolta and Robin Williams (so bad I watched it in fast-forward)
Paranormal Activity (2007). Oren Peli. With Katie Featherson and Micah Sloat.
Pure (2002). Alison Hume. With Molly Parker, Harry Eden and Keira Knightley
Snowbeast (1977). Herb Wallerstein. With Bo Svenson and Robert Logan (part of the Barbican’s Bad Film Club).
Teorema (1968) Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Laura Betti and Massimo Girotti.
Dance:
Gezeiten – BAM, New York
To The Ones I Love, Compagnie Thor – Barbican, London
Series:
Brothers and Sisters – series 1
Fiona Banner. Duveen Comission – Tate Britain, London
Bernd and Hilla Becher. Water Towers – Sonnabend, New York
Louise Bourgeois – Hauser & Wirth, London
Louise Bourgeois and Tracy Emin. Do Not Abandon Me. A Collaboration – Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York
Pavel Buchler – Max Wigram, London
Yoan Capote. Mental States – Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Mat Collishaw – Blain/Southern Gallery, London
John Currin: New Paintings – Gagosian Gallery, New York
Jimmie Durham. Arts, media and sports – Sprovieri, London
Angus Fairhurst – Sadie Coles, London
Peter Hujar. Thek’s studio 1967 – Alexander and Bonin, New York
Inagural Show – CRG Gallery, New York
Leon Kossoff – Annely Juda, London
Christian Marclay – White Cube, London (incomplete)
Brice Marden. Paintings 1961-1964 – Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Ana Mendieta: Documentation and Artwork, 1972-1985 – Galerie Lelong, New York
Nasreen Mohamedi – Modern Art, London
Peggy Preheim. the end (final cut) – Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Alan Reid – Lisa Cooley, New York
Ugo Rondinone - Gladstone Gallery, New York
Tomas Saraceno - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Bojan Šarčević – Modern Art, London
Peter Schoolwerh. Portraits of Paintings – Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
Collier Schorr – 303 Gallery, New York
Gedi Sibony – Greene Naftali, New York
Mickey Smith. Believe You Me – Invisible-Exports, New York
Hiroshi Sugimoto. The day after – Pace, New York
Paul Thek – Whitney Museum, New York
Paul Thek – Alexander and Bonin, New York
Rirkrit Tiravanija – Pilar Corrias, London
Turner Prize – Tate Britain, London
James Turrell – Gagosian, London
Kelley Walker – Thomas Dane, London
Rachel Whiteread. Drawings – Tate Britain, London
Robert Wilson – Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Erwin Wurm. gulp – Lehmann Maupin, New York
Robert Yaber. Irrational Exuberance – Sonnabend, new York
New York Artist’s Book Fair
EAB Print and Artist’s Book Fair
Films:
Couples Retreat (2009). Peter Billingsley. With Jason Bateman, Vince Vaughn and Kristen Bell.
Get Low (2009). Aaron Schneider. With Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray
Grown Ups (2010). Dennis Dugan. With Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Steve Buscemi.
Invictus (2009). Clint Eastwood. With Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.
The Joneses (2009). Derrick Borte. With Demi Moore and David Duchovny.
Old Dogs (2009). Walt Becker. With John Travolta and Robin Williams (so bad I watched it in fast-forward)
Paranormal Activity (2007). Oren Peli. With Katie Featherson and Micah Sloat.
Pure (2002). Alison Hume. With Molly Parker, Harry Eden and Keira Knightley
Snowbeast (1977). Herb Wallerstein. With Bo Svenson and Robert Logan (part of the Barbican’s Bad Film Club).
Teorema (1968) Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Laura Betti and Massimo Girotti.
Dance:
Gezeiten – BAM, New York
To The Ones I Love, Compagnie Thor – Barbican, London
Series:
Brothers and Sisters – series 1
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