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Category: art

  • down to the basics

            When I stop and think about what it’s all about I do come up with some answers, but they don’t help very much.
            I think it is safe to say that life is pretty mysterious. And hard.
            Life is short. I know that much. That life is short. And that it’s important to keep reminding oneself of it. That life is short. Just because it is. I suspect that each of us is going to wake up some morning to suddenly find ourselves old men (or women) without knowing how we got that way. Wondering where it all went. Regretting all the things we didn’t do. So I think that the sooner we realize that life is short the better off we are.
            Now, to get down to the basics. There are 24 hours a day. There is you and there are other people. The idea is to fill these 24 hours as best one can. With love and fun. Or things that are interesting. Or what have you. Other people are most important. Art is rewarding. Books and movies are good fillers, and the most reliable.
            Now you know that life is not so simple as I am making it sound. We are all a bit fucked up, and here lies the problem. To try and get rid of the fucked up parts, so we can just relax and be ourselves. For what time we have left.

    Life, Joe Brainard

    Sol LeWitt, Gouache and pencil on paper. (SL21-001 (composite%2C wall).jpg)

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    Le Jardin aux Habitants, Robert Milin. (tracé, matériaux de récupération, terre végétale, végétaux, peinture, installation dans espace urbain, actions d’habitants.) 2002. Palais de Tokyo. In 2022.

    Book published in October 2022. (les presses du reel)

    https://milinrobert.blogspot.com

    Gifted.

  • AG2026_1211186a or where I’m going only because

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    It’s complicated, my relationship status

    with progress. I often prefer

    the “before” picture. The future

    is where I’m going only because

    I have no choice, because time

    moves in one direction, …

    The Before Picture, Maggie Smith

  • AG2026_1211335a or dexterous and fugitive

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    Through the young and awkward hours
    my lady perfectly moving,
    through the new world scarce astir
    my fragile lady wandering
    in whose perishable poise
    is the mystery of Spring
    (with her beauty more than snow
    dexterous and fugitive
    my very frail lady drifting
    distinctly, moving like a myth
    in the uncertain morning    , with
    April feet like sudden flowers

    E. E. Cummings

  • AG2026_1211252a or stable visual objects

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    aimed at the living, 2025. Liaigre, Miami Design District Showroom

    Henry Roy.

    The Land of Haunted Forests, published by Jane & Jeremy, November 2025.

    Impossible Island, Published by Loose Joints & AGWA, January 2025.

    Présentation de Jackson Thélémaque, dans son atelier au 6B, à Saint-Denis, par Maxime Leblanc et son équipe – Septembre 2017.

    “… she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was life and not a dream.” (TM)

  • AG2026_1130968a or perhaps

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    Richard Diebenkorn, 1922-1993, Freeway and Aqueduct, 1957. MOCA LA. (2018).

    Renee Nicole Good. We mourn you. We are sorry.

    … stricken
    with emotion?—
    horror, pity, disbelief?—
    outrage, sorrow?—
    young-woman face contorted
    and eyes spilling tears
    like Tamir Rice’s mother
    perhaps, or the sister
    made to witness
    the child’s bleeding out
    in the Cleveland park.
    We stare
    as the interpreter’s fingers
    pluck the poet’s words out of the air
    like bullets,

    Poetry Is the Gnomic Utterance from Which the Soul Springs, Fluttering, Joyce Carol Oates



  • Perrine Gardens

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    Rolando López Dirube
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    Miami Dade Public Art. Cintas. Rolando López Dirube Papers (U of Miami).

    Affordable housing development.

  • alternative histories, cosmologies, and systems of release

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    Marius Bercea
    Untitled (Boy who imitates sunset), 2025
    Oil on paper, 23.3 × 16.6 inch

    Jecza Gallery at Untitled Art Fair

    Autograph is the small press of JOAN, an experimental exhibition space in Los Angeles, documenting expressions that arise from new imaginings: alternative histories, cosmologies, and systems of release.