“Each of us has to find our question.”
“You look for it so you can confront the silence of a pure and uncompromising question.”
“Other possibilities in life.”
“Admire from afar, in silence”
–Sarr
AG2023_1033576a or a possibility in life
Category: art
Beauty calls forth meaning, order, calm
Tippett: It was actually in your book that I first realized, and I had never thought about this, that the root — the Greek root for the word “beauty” is related to the word for “calling”; to “kalon” and “kalein.”
O’Donohue: That’s right. That’s it exactly.
Tippett: That’s fascinating.
O’Donohue: It is, actually, and it means that, actually, in the presence of beauty, it’s not a neutral thing, but it’s actually calling you. And I feel that one could write a wonderful psychology just based on the notion of being called — being called to be yourself and called to transfigure what has hardened or got wounded within you. And it’s also, of course, the heart of creativity, this calling forth all the time, because, like in the work that I do, trying to write a few poems, you never write the same poem twice. You’re always at a new place, and then you’re suddenly surprised by where you get taken to.
On Being with Krista Tippett, John O’Donohue : The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Original Air Date : February 28, 2008
“Pleasure … can fortify us. The pleasure that is beauty, the beauty that is meaning, order, calm” (RS)
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US museums face a funding crisis as new generation of donors comes of age
As the baby-boomer generation of major donors pulls back or dies off, museums are struggling to attract their heirs’ interest
… next-gen donors want to tackle big global issues, from climate change to racial justice. And those who do recognise the arts’ ability to strengthen social cohesion, improve health outcomes and encourage critical thinking are likely to eschew legacy institutions in favour of smaller organisations where their money can make a bigger impact.
Source: Julia Halperin, The Art Newspaper 011924
Betye Saar
Celestial Universe (1988), which has been part of a number of installations over the decades. Hand-painted on silk taffeta, this large, dark blue banner displays a star map from 1840 complete with zodiac signs and figures of the constellations originating from Greco-Roman mythology. Suspended from the ceiling to hover like a canopy above a candle-lined canoe, the work premiered in ‘Voyages: Dreams and Destinations’at the National Taiwan Museum of Art in Taichung in 1988, evoking the use of constellations for nautical navigation.
[…]…the night sky of Celestial Universe may symbolize a space of liberatory potential that reaches beyond the limited map of the past and present
Stephanie Seidel in Frieze
AG2021_1880278aa or and for running after spinning top
Untitled (A place to stand and stare, recalling tunes of ballads in a minor key)
It is “the running after the spinning top” or “To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.” Carson via Enns.
Blck participant in formulating a plot walk in the light of creative altruism
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” Martin Luther King
“…je m’endormis, prêt à retrouver dans mon sommeil la transfiguration hallucinée des événements de la nuit, à me réveiller dans un monde qui paraîtrait inaltéré au premier regard, mais où tout, sous la surface des choses, sous la peau du temps, aurait changé à jamais.
Tels furent, après ma soirée dans la toile de l’Araignée, mes premiers pas sur le cercle de solitude où glissaient Le Labyrinthe de l’inhumain et T.C. Elimane.”
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
The Psychosocial Foundation Presents: On Love, with Anahid Nersessian and Ronjaunee Chatterjee, (032023).
AG2023_1078357a or lies within something of another nature
Untitled (Field Guide; “what’s not found at once, but lies within something of another nature”) ii, 2023. Graphite, colored pencil, gesso, enamel paint, gouache, collage, pigment print on paper. 75 x 54 cm
Denise Levertov, “Pleasures”. (I like to find/ what’s not found / at once, but lies …)
Hard luck and trouble
Been my only friend
I’ve been on my own
Ever since I was ten
[…]
You know wine and women
Is all I crave
A big legged woman
Gonna carry me to my grave
[…]
I’ve been down since I began to crawl
If it wasn’t for bad luck
I tell ya, I wouldn’t have no luck at all[Outro]Yeah, I’m a bad luck boy
Been havin’ bad luck all of my days, yes