“All painting is an accident.”
— Francis Bacon
hyde or die
» RIP, John Baldessari, the painter
In 1970 he gathered up almost all the art he had made between graduation from art school in 1953 and the start of the word paintings in 1966 and took it to a mortuary crematorium. Everything was incinerated. Some ashes were interred in a book-shaped bronze urn, and a paid death-notice was published in the paper. RIP, John Baldessari, painter.
Henri Rousseau The Dream 1910
Who knew Rousseau was such a psychic? This is exactly what I would like to be doing right now…minus the lion and maybe adding a few clothes.*
*He had to make the painting a little more scintillating, I get it.
I sent a kind friend in NY a dollar in the mail, along with some return stamps, to pick me up and send me a ‘zine from the Amy Sillman* show at Sikkema Jenkins right now…and he did! I got these documentary photos in my electronic mailbox this weekend and the ‘zine in my real life mailbox today! Hooray for art and hooray for the honor system!
*Said friend says this show restores his faith in painting. I think that’s his subtle way of saying everyone should see it.
