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Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement ... the state of being at one with the object.

D.H. Lawrence

Artwork: Hipolito 'Polé' Hernandez, stencil on wooden fence, n.d., Odessa, Texas
Photo: Josh T. Franco

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Jen Mazza: I like a painting that does something, like a machine does something: you turn it on and it functions —

I have noticed that not infrequently, when I find myself in front of a painting I have been introduced to through an invitation or an article online; that the painting in question does not give back anything more in person than the digital image I’d previously seen. It yields nothing new, no new read, no additional meaning. On occasion it may yield something less than its copy…

— Jen Mazza (read on)

J. F. Martel: Sign City is a place where nothing new can ever happen

There is peace and security in Sign City. Thinking, there, is a matter of associating the right signs with the right things and then submitting these signs to the algorithm of your preferred ideology. But peace and security come at a price…

— J. F. Martel (read on)

David Joselit: Intelligent Touch

In every work of art there is an irreducible singularity; a fund of affect and visual event that is inexhaustible. But with so much art to see in so many locations, the pace of consumption has accelerated, provoking new ways of looking.

— David Joselit (read on)

Dorothea Rockburne: In August at night I would lie in a field and look at the northern lights and think about astronomy as a child might

But at Black Mountain, I felt everyone was doing Abstract Expressionism and that was kind of left over from Surrealism. It was all muscular, masculine, kind of stuff. And I had absolutely no interest in it, whatsoever. I mean, I did some work like that because it was de rigueur at the time, but I really had no interest in it. When I came to New York, I had Max’s books with me and I kept reading them and looking at them and going to where they led me…

— Dorothea Rockburne (read on)

Steven Holl: We can imagine space as a clocking, timekeeping paradigm

Architecture is a phenomenological discipline in the sense that the only understanding of architecture is when you move with your body through the space — when you experience the overlapping perspectives.

— Steven Holl (read on)

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In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone.

— Susan Sontag

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