You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
I am full having spent my greediness in a ritual of joy.
Wanda Coleman
(italien villeggiatura, de villeggiare, aller à la campagne)
And is the heart of youth so light,
Its step so firm, its eye so bright,
Because on its hot brow there blows
A wind of promise and repose
From the far grave, to which it goes;
Because it hath the hope to come,
One day, to harbour in the tomb?
Ah no, the bliss youth dreams is one
For daylight, for the cheerful sun,
For feeling nerves and living breath—
Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
[…]
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm’s not life’s crown, though calm is well.
‘Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But ’tis not what our youth desires.
Youth and Calm, Matthew Arnold
Tony Gilroy on The Treatment. KCRW.
Lee Friedlander.
10 Nudes, presented in a combination of early and contemporary prints, is curated by Alina Sinetos at CASTLE.
10 Nudes is an exhibition of black and white photographs by Lee Friedlander (b. 1934). Friedlander’s nudes, taken between 1977-1990, were first shown together in 1991 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in an exhibition of 52 photographs curated by John Szarkowski that coincided with the publication of the book Lee Friedlander: Nudes.
As part of Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s residency, he hosted a Photo Walk in the Allapatah neighborhood.
Poems are porous constructs: here life flows and seeps in and out, incalculably strong-headed, recognizable and in the most foreign shape.
The poet: always in partibus infidelium
From “Microliths” By Paul Celan, Translated By Pierre Joris, Translated from the German.
BasFisherInvitational share images, via ig, from a recent Weird Miami tour.
Huge thank you to everyone who joined us for Adler Guerrier’s evocative Weird Miami bus tour! Here are some pics from the day — we loved seeing so many of you engage with the city’s layered histories and landscapes through Adler’s unique lens. Please note: Yessica Gispert’s tour A Woman Encased in Concrete has been rescheduled for September — more details coming soon. Stay tuned! A heartfelt thank you to the Miami Downtown Development Authority (DDA), The Andy Warhol Foundation, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Miami Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs for generously funding the program and helping make this event possible and Lalo Tequila for sponsoring our Weird Miami tours. @downtownmia , @warholfoundation , @rauschenbergfoundation , @miamidadearts , @lalospirits ?? #WeirdMiami #MiamiDDA #ArtTours #MiamiArt#BasFisherInvitational #AdlerGuerrier #downtownMIA #BFI
We are ready. Come … sit with us!
Rain tomorrow.
That volcano in the Philippines at it again. What’s her name
Anderson died no not Shirley
the opera singer. Negress.
Cancer.
Anne Carson, The Glass Essay
Kazuko Miyamoto, String Constructions, 117 Hester Street, 1972-73
Exile, Berlin, May 3 – August 2, 2025
The Jameson Tapes, Side A. Matt Seybold, with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson.
Take
and give glee.
Summon surprise.
Something whim-
sical this way comes.
It smells something
like wishes wrapped
in wind as you
trod the winding path
through
the forests
of your interior.
38. Shedding the Old, Samantha Thornhill
I’ve also yearned for what Virginia Woolf describes in her novel “Jacob’s Room” as the “spiritual suppleness” of the kind of intimacy in which “mind prints upon mind indelibly.” That was what I saw in those Penn photographs, and what I saw in recent months, too, in a number of shows, in which artists seemed to be exploring the smaller worlds found in rooms. It started in the late spring, with Sanya Kantarovsky’s (now closed) show “Scarecrow,” at Michael Werner.
Worlds in Rooms, Hilton Als. New Yorker, July 29, 2025.