7 days, 4 cities: Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf & Essen
Natalia Vodianova and Michael Fassbender for Vogue
from Beginners, 2010
Flacking for the piece on Friday, [Morley] Safer told Charlie Rose and Gayle King, “Even Jerry Saltz says 85 percent of the art we see is bad,” adding that he’d suggest that it’s 95 percent. Whatever. I wanted to tell him that the percent I said doesn’t only apply to the present. Eighty-five percent of the art made in the Renaissance wasn’t that good either. It’s just that we never see it: What is on view in museums has already been filtered for us. Safer doesn’t get that the thrill of contemporary art is that we’re all doing this filtering together, all the time, in public, everywhere. Moreover, his 85 percent is different from my 85 percent, which is different from yours, and so on down the line until you get to Glenn Beck, who says everything is Communist. -Jerry Saltz, NYMag
A beautiful music video directed by one of my favorite people in the universe, Laurel Parmet | Frankie Rose, Night Swim
William Eggleston’s high school senior yearbook photo
b.o.y.f.r.i.e.n.d
gorgeous ghostly London
by Idris Khan for the NYTimes Magazine
Diane Keaton, from Another Woman, Tierney Gearon, 2005
young Gerhard Richter with pouty lip, 1960-69
NO LAUGHING, NO BARKING
found in Bristol, UK
I mean, really.
Edouard Manet, Lola de Valence, 1862-1905
fighting grad school headaches with a quick dive back into the Courtauld collection.
This is where The Marriage Plot’s titular enjambment of literature and love — those two beleaguered institutions — is so clarifying. Think about it: I can love you because I want to feel less alone, or I can love you because I want you to feel less alone. But only the latter requires me to imagine a consciousness independent of my own, and equally real.
-Garth Risk Hallberg, “Why Write Novels at All?”, The New York Times
