Scissors and Glue

I have been reviewing some of my curatorial journals--black bound books with images and texts pasted inside--portraits, quotes, websites, obits. These selections that I have culled from newspapers and magazines --are things I keep to think about, be prompted by, enjoy perusing.
They include:


"An article and headline on Saturday about the Staten Island Museum, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary, referred incorrectly to one item in the museum's collection of curiosities. It is a four-legged--not four-headed--chicken.

"Picasso's a master at being able to make a face feel like a foot." Lucian Freud

"The portrait of a loved one should be not only an image at which one smiles, but an oracle one interrogates." Andre Breton

Gavin Brown: Why did you take a year to tell me I was pronouncing your name wrong?"
Rikrit Tiravanija: I didn't think it mattered.

Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the roof of the White House in 1979; Ronald Reagan had them torn down in the 1980s.

Recent Exhibition Titles:
Naked Beyond Skin
Here We Dance
This Place Is Close and Unfolded
Emotion Machine

Yves Saint Laurent: Cotton shorts splattered with paint, worn with cashmere sweaters.

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