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Wire and Cork and the Ghost of Laughter: Calder’s Circus as Beautiful Heresy
February 12, 2023 · FalseArt

Wire and Cork and the Ghost of Laughter: Calder’s Circus as Beautiful Heresy

This burly son of a bitch with hands like a steelworker’s is down on his knees in some Parisian apartment in 1926, making cork-headed wire dolls dance for Duchamp and Mondrian, and somehow that’s not the punchline. That’s the actual art. He’s got corks for heads, clothes pegs for performers, scraps of yarn, basically whatever’s […]

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January 18, 2023 · FalseArt

The Theater of No Exit: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Fucking Audience

The Theater of No Exit: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Fucking Audience

I watch people. I mean I really watch them. The way you move through a door when someone’s behind you, the little apologetic shoulder-hunch you do when you’re taking up space, the whole elaborate dance of who-goes-first at the intersection. These tiny rituals that nobody talks about but everybody performs like their life depends on […]

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DIAMOND TEARS AND BURNING CHÂTEAUX: When the Rich Wore Their Madness on the Outside
December 12, 2022 · FalseArt

DIAMOND TEARS AND BURNING CHÂTEAUX: When the Rich Wore Their Madness on the Outside

What went down 50 years ago at the Château de Ferrières on December 12, 1972 wasn’t just some party. It was the kind of decadent, surreal fever dream that makes you question whether you’ve been living wrong your entire life or whether these people had simply lost the plot so completely that they’d achieved some […]

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Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman: A Brief Manifesto
November 13, 2022 · FalseArt

Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman: A Brief Manifesto

What we have here is a middle finger in epistolary form, three guys in 1943 Brooklyn, broke as hell probably, telling some poor bastard at the Times that his confusion is the whole goddamn point. And they’re right, which makes it even more dangerous.         This isn’t a manifesto, it’s a divorce […]

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October 20, 2022 · Industries

CELEBRATION OF ALONZO KING & ZAKIR HUSSAIN

I’ve been in rooms where beauty and horror held hands and French kissed. But you know those nights, the ones that grab you by the throat and won’t let go? The ones where you’re sitting there in the dark and something happens that makes you forget you’re supposed to be the asshole taking photos? The […]

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CELEBRATION OF ALONZO KING & ZAKIR HUSSAIN
William Saroyan
September 25, 2022 · Engineering

William Saroyan

Saroyan wrote about this place. The Armenian families, the immigrant hustle, the particular loneliness and joy of Central Valley life. He got it. That beautiful, messy, complicated thing about America that most writers either romanticize into oblivion or treat like a sociology report. Saroyan just… told the truth. With style. My partner Lindsey’s family comes […]

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August 23, 2022 · Engineering

Euripides Enclose the Divine

Euripides Enclose the Divine

The Fragment: What house shaped by builders could enclose the divine form within its enfolding walls? So here’s the thing about garbage. About the stuff we leave on sidewalks. That dollhouse sitting on the curb, some kid’s entire universe, once upon a time. Rooms where dolls had dinner parties and tucked themselves into beds the […]

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