RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • touof: Georges Perec – Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, 1974

  • claytoncubitt: One Thursday in 1982, Jean-Michel tells Suzanne to stand up and walk, they are going to the MoMA. He tells Suzanne to wear his clothes. She ties his pants around her waist with a rope. His sweater hangs down to her knees. At the museum Jean-Michel takes a bottle of water out of his…

  • Works of art can fail so easily, it is so difficult for them to succeed. One man will fall silent because of his lack of feeling; another, because his emotion chokes him. A third frees himself, not from the burden that weighs on him, but only from a feeling of unfreedom. A forth breaks his…

  • gallowhill: The Bandaged Orchestra during the Fluxus festival, arranged by Yoko Ono at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1965.

  • In much the same way that PBS exists to make room for television shows that deserve to be seen but likely couldn’t help sell hamburgers or laundry detergent, there should be an arts fund – not a Patreon, not a Kickstarter, a legit fund – for video game creation. Some exist, here and there –…

  • Mark Rothko, No 7, 1964 Ed note: This new-to-me, larger scan is less blue than the previous version which appears more blue center and brown outside, while this appears more neutral and purple but I suspect it’s more true as the other scans of no 7 I have seen resemble it more, and “pushing” Rothkos…

  • America’s greatest shame in 2015 is not a piece of cloth. It’s that a black boy has a life expectancy five years shorter than a white boy. It’s that the net worth of the average black household in 2011 was $6,314, compared with $110,500 for the average white household, according to census data. It’s that…

  • I open up the box in Vanitas every time I’m about to step off the train, because I need a reminder that every moment is magical, every object has something to say to me. Mattie Bricehttp://www.mattiebrice.com/more-than-representation/ (via taleoftales)

  • Just because a game decided it’s a woman shooting a dude in the face doesn’t change why I feel disconnected from this medium. Mattie Bricehttp://www.mattiebrice.com/more-than-representation/ (via notgames)

  • iandeleonarts: latinocaribbeanartists: Ian Deleón ¡Este Pueblo Tiene Sabor!, 2013. Inkjet print, 21 x 21 in (53 x 53 cm). These figurative logos for Hatuey beer (purchased by Bacardi from the original Cuban bottlers) and the Old Colony soft drink (marketed in Puerto Rico through Pepsi) are taken out of their consumer product contexts and placed against the sky…