Angela Lindvall by Mario Sorrenti for The Face February 2000
Seagram Murals, Mark Rothko, 1959.
“Rothko disclosed to John Fischer, publisher of Harper’s, that his true intention for the Seagram murals was to paint “something that will ruin the appetite of every son-of-a-bitch who ever eats in that room. If the restaurant would refuse to put up my murals, that would be the ultimate compliment. But they won’t. People can stand anything these days.”
"Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it."
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it."
— Mary Oliver, Sometimes
Royal Road Test, Ed Ruscha, 1967, from the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History:
“During the 1960s, Ruscha created a series of mass-produced, cheaply printed photographic books cataloguing the various kinds of banal roadside sites one might encounter on a typical drive through the American West, such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations(1962), Some Los Angeles Apartments (1966), and Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass (1968). Ruscha’s books paid tribute to and slyly parodied the romantic vision of the road epitomized by writers and artists such as Jack Kerouac and Robert Frank, while also subverting the rapidly expanding market for what the artist described as “limited edition, individual, hand processed photos.” In Royal Road Test, Ruscha painstakingly documented himself dropping a vintage typewriter from a speeding Buick.”
Maria de Medeiros as Anaïs Nin, Henry and June (1990), dir. by Philip Kaufman
