Tagged — Jamie Lyons
FalseArt 2023
A good art exhibition is a lesson in seeing to those who need or want one, and a session of visual pleasure and excitement to those who don’t need anything — I mean the rich in spirit. Grunts, sighs, shouts, laughter, and imprecations ought to be heard in a museum room. Precisely the place where […]
ReadFalseArt 2015
Here’s the thing about Man Ray sitting in Hollywood in 1948, chain-smoking and staring at photographs he took a decade earlier of nineteenth-century plaster shapes that some French mathematician built to explain shit that nobody except twelve people in the world could actually understand, it’s the most beautiful kind of fuck-you to meaning itself. Think […]
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FalseArt 2013
You hear something like this and you remember that all our clever bullshit about mortality is just that, bullshit. Because here’s the obscene truth: they DID have their whole lives ahead of them. They had seven months, which turned out to be the whole lives they were going to get together. That’s the con. The […]
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