June 2010
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Jun 26th
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May 2010
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May 28th
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May 3rd
May 3rd
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April 2010
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Apr 11th
ListenThis is kind of amazing because we’re...
Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
March 2010
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“She turned to the obits first. Sports fans turn to the sports page for the...”
– p. 96. No Lease on Life. Lynne Tillman.
Mar 30th
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Mar 10th
February 2010
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Michael Brod reads his most recent poetry, 9:30PM... →
Feb 12th
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“When Vietnamese refugees settled in Southern California they found its culture...”
– 88-89. Hyde, Lewis. The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World.
Feb 6th
January 2010
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Michael Brod dot Com →
thenewinquiry: “I spend a lot of time just doing that [thinking]. I think a lot of people spend a lot of time thinking but they feel guilty about it, because we’re this sort of work-driven culture that if you’re not in some state of mind where you’re actually producing […] producing thoughts does not seem to have the same value as producing widgets.”
Jan 28th
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“Jumping off from that statement, the conversationalists — Sehgal refers to them...”
– “Making Art Out of an Encounter” about the Conceptual artist Tino Seghal’s works. In the New York Times Magazine, Sunday, January 17th. Read the full article here.
Jan 19th
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“I really don’t care that much about “Beauties.” What I really like are Talkers....”
– from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, page 62. (via mebbee)
Jan 16th
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Jan 9th
Now Tweeting: Michael Brod Quote of the Day →
Jan 9th
November 2009
2 posts
Nov 24th
The Greatest Obituary Ever Written & the Worst... →
Nov 21st
October 2009
5 posts
Oct 28th
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Oct 9th
Oct 5th
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Oct 5th
Falling Back into Gallery 221
Gallery 221 was on a summer hiatus. Now we hope to return to a regular tumbling of art, criticism, photos, quotations, and more. If you haven’t visited the website for our current installation, Michael Brod’s WHOEVER EMERGES, please do here.
Oct 4th
August 2009
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Art Waves (WKCR FM) Interview with Michael Brod
Listen here at Podomatic.
Aug 1st
July 2009
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From the Bookshelf
Classic art opened a window on reality. Modern art since impressionism has closed the window and treated painting as part of the wall, a segment of flat surface. The Renaissance, which miraculously survived until 1900, carried the former tradition to the logical yet almost unrecognizable extreme of impressionism. The latter tradition goes back as far as the Egyptians for its models and today...
Jul 16th
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Radio Interview with Michael Brod →
Please listen to the Art Waves interview with Michael Brod tonight, July 10th, at 9pm EST on WKCR FM NY. You can listen at 89.9 FM or online at www.wkcr.org. Click listen now.
Jul 10th
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“Our feelings close down when the numbers get too big. Strangers passing on the...”
– Hyde, Lewis. The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. 1979. p.116
Jul 7th
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Jul 5th
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“Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead, and I will measure with...”
– William Gladston, British Prime Minister. 1808-1898.
Jul 3rd
June 2009
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Jun 28th
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“The twentieth century could not wait fifteen years for a round number; it was...”
– Shattuck, Roger. The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France - 1885 to World War I. p.4
Jun 27th
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Jun 26th
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From the Bookshelf
Reasoning, says Schopenhauer, is of feminine nature: it can give only after it has received. Without information on what is going on in time and space the brain cannot work. However, if the purely sensory reflections of things and events of the outer world occupied the mind in their raw state the information would be of little help. The endless spectacle of ever new particulars might stimulate but...
Jun 25th