@staff Not Exactly The “welcome Back To The App Store” You Were Expecting Huh

My husband grew up in Encino, California. He was the youngest of eight, and his mother, probably in desperation, fed them a variety of junky convenience foods. To this day, he reverts to Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup and Chips Ahoy when he’s not feeling well. It bothers me, for some reason. It might because I find his mother chilly and unnurturing; I think, “of course she fed her kids that crap.” The fact that he finds that food comforting makes me think of a beaten dog returning to its master. It’s a little overly dramatic, I know.

Night sky woodblock print.

Paul Binnie

Why these all-white paintings are in museums and mine aren't

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Here The Whitney’s assistant curator Elisabeth Sherman talks to Vox’s Dean Peterson about Minimalist art. It was the Minimalist’s who moved art from “being about something” else towards the idea of a piece of art as “an object unto itself.” As Sherman states in the video, “It’s very easy to be dismissive of things we’re not immediately attracted to” and I’m not attracted to Minimalist art myself, it just doesn’t resonate with me. But, I thought it was worth watching this 6 minute video as it provides very brief introduction into what Minimalist art is all about. 

Comet McNaught

REBLOG IF NAZIS OFFEND YOU MORE THAN NIPPLES.

“I remember how I felt when I received the spirit of poetry. It was in the year of 1877 … all of a sudden my body got inflamed, and instantly I was seized with a strong desire to write poetry, so strong, in fact, that in imagination I thought I heard a voice crying in my ears- ‘Write! Write’”

- William Topaz McGonagall, widely hailed as the writer of the “worst poetry in the English language,” according to the website McGonagall Online.

His audiences threw rotten fish at him, the authorities banned his performances, and he died a pauper over a century ago. But his books remain in print to this day, and he’s remembered and quoted long after more talented contemporaries have been forgotten.

Absolutely true.

i think children would read more books if we called them ‘tomes’ instead of books and all libraries were either great towering castles or deep, dark sprawling labyrinths full of skulls and thousands of candles, with magnificent baroque furniture and obligatory hidden doors and forbidden sections full of apocryphal grimoires and lost-to-the-ages secrets.

Shit… but tell me what I don’t already know.

Kiki Smith, Lilith 1994

In medieval Jewish lore, Lilith was Adam’s first wife. When she demanded to be Adam’s equal, she was evicted from the Garden of Eden. Lilith flew away to the demon world, replaced by the more submissive Eve. Most statues receive our gaze passively, but Lilith stares back with piercing eyes, ready to pounce.