April 2012
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“Upon moving to Paris the Stein’s enthusiastically abandoned upper-middle...”
– The Steins Collect wall text.
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March 2012
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Article: Eight New Enthusiasms →
Eight New Enthusiasms
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Moments in an Empty House
I had a few moments alone in my parents house this week-end. They’ve been there, for the most part, of 15 years and I was interested to see what I could see in it. I’ve noticed that as they get older they desperately want to keep their precious things closer and closer to them. Rooms over time have stopped meaning what they used to mean. Now a bedroom is a safe haven with everything pulled close...
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In This Far Place
This weekend I visited my mother in Seaview, one of the most remote places I know. She and my family have been in and around this part of Washington off and on for the last 15 years or more, and it has always been a mystery to me about how and why this is where they landed. It’s a place that’s hard to get to and hard for me to stay in when I get there. As I started to make my way there someone...
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An Assignment
Excerpt from Dana Hoey’s Idiotic Teaching Moves for Groups:
The Sorority Black Ball Party
Have everyone write something good and something bad about the persons work. Stick it in a basket. Pull out the slips and read them at random.
Silent Treatment
Have one artist present his or her work. Everyone else is silent; no response is permitted.
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Top Hat
I’m preparing for a lecture I’m doing in California on Design and Life next week and was feeling generally uninspired. So I went out walking the streets for inspiration (that’s what New York is for.) In the east village we came across a shop where every object, every object, held some surprise and delight. I wish I could post some of the things I bought but I just got all my...
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“Listen to each other, even during the boring bits.”
– Sherry Turkle
