Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Go into any house in England and you will be offered some tea. Barge in. Just walk in to a nana’s house. “Oh, sorry,” the nana will say. “Can I get you a cup of tea?” The nana will walk slowly to the kitchen. She will boil a fresh kettle of water and warm a…
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We are living through a jubilee of internet forgiveness. After many years of being what it is and doing what it does, the Web seems unexpectedly prepared to forgive its debts, free its captives, and start afresh with the mocked and exiled of yesteryear. And, like the biblically mandated jubilees of yore, we are making…
To be Internet famous is to be at least partially fixed forever in one’s own strange moment of viral fame. Now nine year-old Charlie remains eternally a brother biting baby; Ghyslain Raza is still the “Star Wars” fan goofing with a light saber he was thirteen years ago. Monica Lewinsky, a woman now in her…
Incredible paintings of sci-fi suburbia will make you wish you were Swedish Welcome to rural Sweden, sometime in the late ’80s. Citizens go about their mundane lives and children explore the countryside. But something isn’t quite right. Robots and hovercrafts are commonplace, and decaying science facilities sprout from the harsh Scandinavian landscape. There’s even a…
Buckminster Fuller was a world-renowned architect, math-obsessed designer, and affable weirdo. He died in 1983, but Fuller is still remembered fondly today for his geodesic domes and his three-wheeled cars. Despite extensive historical interest in the man, his FBI file has never been made public. Until now. Photo: Buckminster Fuller in 1929 with a model…
Over the last few years, Taylor Swift has become one of the two or three biggest pop stars in the world. She has accumulated no fewer than four homes (including a $3.5 million place in Beverly Hills and a $20 million Tribeca penthouse) and drawn enormous press and media attention. She’s still on the cover…
CreditRichard Prince. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photographs by Robert McKeever. A show at Gagosian of thirty-eight Instagrams harvested from the Internet and inkjet-printed on canvas by the cynosure of appropriation, Richard Prince, feels fated. The logic of artifying non-art images that Andy Warhol inaugurated half a century ago could hardly skip a burgeoning mass medium of…
Would you let your mother leave the house dressed like a tart on a bender? Jennifer Lopez appeared at the Billboard Music Awards show in Las Vegas Sunday nearly starkers, clad in a navel- and side-boob-baring silvery getup that looked as if she were stuffed into an aluminum can that had burst open around her. The…
Richard Prince Sucks Paddy Johnson, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Installation view of Richard Prince, “New Portraits,” at Gagosian Photo: Paddy Johnson Richard Prince has taken over the Gagosian showroom located behind their bookstore on Madison Avenue. He’s filled the space with 38 portraits, each 65 by 48 inches, taken from his Instagram feed. It’s a…