Georges Bataille: “Remember That in War Is Truth”
From now on, your joy will debase and trample underfoot your repose, your sleep, and even your suffering. Remember that truth is not stable ground but the ceaseless movement that destroys all that you are and all that you see. REMEMBER THAT IN WAR IS TRUTH You will not cease before you recognize yourself as […]
“New Year’s Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji” Hiroshige, ca. 1857
☛ Metropolitan Museum of Art: “New Year’s Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji”, Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1857. Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 12 13/16 × 8 5/8 in. (32.5 × 21.9 cm). Rogers Fund, 1925. Accession Number: JP1470. In his book Beyond the Great Wave: The Japanese Landscape Print, 1727-1960, James […]
Intermission (休憇): Seven Samurai Interrupted
☛ Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) by Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1954. Intermission card from 01:46:45 to 01:51:46, Criterion Edition. This intermission card arrives 107 minutes in Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai. It lasts approximately 5 minutes and is accompanied by a music score by Hayasaka Fumio. At the time of writing, it can be […]
Bliz-aard Ball Sale by David Hammons, 1983
☛ Radical Presence: David Hammons performing Bliz-aard Ball Sale, 1983, Cooper Square, New York. Photo by Dawoud Bey, courtesy of Tilton Gallery, New York. In the winter of 1983, American photograph Dawood Bey took a series of 20 portraits of David Hammons selling snow balls of various size on the corner of a New York […]
