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Ryman at Dia Chelsea

 “Destruction takes place so order might exist. / Simple enough. / Destruction takes place at the point of maximum awareness.”  Charles Wright “An ever dimmer light.”  Samuel Beckett “In every story I tell comes a point where I can see no further.” Anne Carson “That language can suggest a body where there is none.” Rosemarie …

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A Dialog…

Jen Mazza: (A Dialogue of Three Disciplines) hi Richard, I was just finishing Joselit’s piece and found it funny/interesting that many of the things he talks about are things I have picked out from other readings. Like this quote by Hito Steyerl, which refers to her medium and documentary film, but resonates with my concerns …

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In “The Finch”

I like a painting that does something, like a machine does something: you turn it on and it functions–” The click of the shutter, the click of the cliche, but lets come back to that later– I have noticed that not infrequently, when I find myself in front of a painting I have been introduced …

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