Jun
24th
Wed
24th
Moscow Olympics, 1980
Jun
17th
Wed
17th
From the set of INTOURIST Soviet Union Russia Labels at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/wavesjax/sets/72157594348507314/
Jun
16th
Tue
16th
Are we going to have royalty dictating to us modern art? Are we going to have royalty dictating their taste in music? Are we going to have royalty dictating their belief in medicine, modern or not? “No, because they’re not experts in any of those fields, but more important still it’s not constitutional to enter into those areas which are political, where they’re protected and where we’re not protected.
— Richard Rogers, regarding the Chelsea Barracks farragohttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8102158.stm
Jun
10th
Wed
10th
El Lissitzky.
Proun, 1919-1920.
for sale at the Russian Art Fair this month:
“White Fungus was the edge-city. Semi-regulated, semi-prosperous, auto mobilized expanses of commercial European real-estate. Mostly white brick, hence the name. White Fungus had paved the region, while city planners were bored, or distracted, or bought-off.
We were natives of White Fungus. After eight years in school, I understood architecture, but White Fungus was what I knew. “
—
Bruce Sterling, White Fungus.
Preview available at:
http://www.sunarchitecture.nl/upload/49d601a8ba4b25.51434338.pdf
Apr
9th
Thu
9th
And after all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm - in fact, there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue), was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.
— TS Eliot, in his 1944 rejection letter of Animal Farm, to George Orwell, published at the Times Archive
I was watching Persona on Film4 on the day Bergman died. it started at some time in the early morning and they cut it off halfway through when the channel closed at about 4am. I am convinced this is what killed him.
— Comment by lindsaymartin123 on “Mad love for New Wave”
