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that's class. you are totally right that i love stuff like that. might make it up there, we go every now and then, Dia:Beacon is one of the best art museums in the world, certainly kicks the shit out of MoMA. i have seen a very similar installation in exactly the same room a few years ago, by...

Sus how many days are you spending in Didcot? People normally do four or five nights

i didn't know that. i don't think you can look for fairness or justice in the art world, the whole thing looks like a winner takes all kind of situation for artists, where who wins seems closer to a lottery than anything based on merit. i did like love is the message. came across it at the new...

Fairly sure they're the ones from the sect that follows that Hungarian dude. Quick google suggests that's the same thing. one of the guys I (failed to) talked to couldn't speak English I think a lot of them only speak Hungarian

a hasidic protest against israel this afternoon

i keep trying to work out the best way to write this on here, without it sounding like showing off or whatever, but i was about two feet away from paul schrader a few weeks ago. he did a q&a after a screening of touch at a cinema here and then was in the lobby afterwards, i had to navigate...

the other one that's on at the moment, at one of the zwirner galleries, is unbelievably shit. i like his stuff in general but the one was so bad it makes me think the guy is a blagger. perhaps an unfair response.

high praise indeed

A couple of additions: Durational TikToks Barbie Everything Everywhere All At Once Poor Things A small canon because it's happening right now and it isn't very old (and because I don't go out of my way to watch them). These films are in conversation with the internet more than they are any...

The Lower East Side

seen in dimes square today: a youngman dressed, more or less, as bob dylan, sitting on a chair in the wind and slight drizzle outside the arch cool coffee shop Little Canal, reading a book called The Sluts