I wrote about the new joint bio of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek for The New Republic newrepublic.com/article/207309…

“I do think that we largely delude ourselves with the knowledge that we think we possess, that we make it up as we go along, that we make it fit our desires and anxieties and that we invent a straight line of a trail in order to calm ourselves down.” — W. G. Sebald (1997)

Miles Davis photographed by Tadayuki Naitoh (1976)

This 30something kebab worker still makes Phillip Glass the old fashioned way

“I’m gonna stay out here on the margin, and let the center look for me.” —Toni Morrison buff.ly/bPt65ZM

Barthes: “I am crazy”

Sometimes a sentence can be understood only if it is read at the *right tempo*. My sentences are all to be read *slowly*. — Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

The voices are getting louder and they’re telling me to drink

Krishna Reddy, Between the many and the One, 1970

Found myself an invisible blade, which moves through the air unseen and no foe could ever hope to parry or evade. The problem is, it leaves equally invisible wounds, so my enemies don't even know they've been cut. They just keep on living their lives as if I'd never sliced them.

Gerhard Richter, mood (5), 2022

Critics are calling my most recent act of folly a “return to form”

“Reality is a fabric of many transparent films. […] We think it up. Reality touches our intuition to the quick. We perceive with that intuition. Perhaps we perceive the intuition only, while reality remains forever beyond our grasp.” — Guy Davenport, “Robot”

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

u get what u want just in a strange order

it gets better with rage

Pierre Soulages, Peinture 130 x 97 cm, 1946