Eighteenth » Art http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog Things that interest Eighteenth Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:10:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 From Don Brodie http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/2010/08/10/from-don-brodie/ http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/2010/08/10/from-don-brodie/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:22:01 +0000 admin http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/?p=1603

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“The situation of a woman as a painter in NY (at my age) is not easy to handle,” Picard (1899-1994) wrote in her diary, in 1960. “The Cedar Bar and the Club are run by cliques and only young and pretty girls are wanted around, it’s a rat race and a racket of the worst sort.”

]]> http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/2010/06/22/picards-comment/feed/ 0 Before iphones http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/2010/06/18/1360/ http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/2010/06/18/1360/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:06:36 +0000 admin http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/?p=1360 Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts and Other Artist’s Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art

Below are selected lists from the exhibit by prominent artists. See more here.

The D section from Alexander Calder’s address book. ca. 1926-38.


Eero Saarinen letter to Aline B. (Aline Bernstein) Saarinen, 1954.


Leo Van Witsen, Costume list with fabric swatches, Nov. 6, 1948.



Frederick Hammersley, Notes on “An Idea”


Gordon Newton asks Sam Wagstaff for $100 for rent, materials, food, and bad habits.

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]]> http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/2010/05/26/alone/feed/ 0 A Definition of Art http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/2010/05/19/todays-definition-of-art/ http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/2010/05/19/todays-definition-of-art/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 16:18:10 +0000 admin http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/?p=1265 Art is not meant to give pleasure but to ask questions and make people think.

- Christian Boltansky

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Untitled , 2005, oil on canvas

Untitled, 2002, oil on canvas

Desert, 2002, oil on canvas

Interview with Wilhelm Sasnal

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Christopher Wool’s site

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Dirk Skreber on Wikipedia

]]> http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/2010/04/05/views-from-above/feed/ 0 Same Hill, Different Day http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/2010/03/14/same-hill-different-day/ http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/2010/03/14/same-hill-different-day/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:41:49 +0000 admin http://www.eighteenthnyc.com/blog/?p=913 Paul Octavious says, “For the past 2 years I have visited a beautiful mound of earth that I have come to call “the hill.” Each time I have come to the hill a new story is told to me as if the hill is my stage and the locals are the actors in this daily play.”

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