February 2012
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The press release for Content 1, Elizabeth Zoe Lindsay Drink Fanta (2011).
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THE BLACK ECONOMY
The Black Economy, 2007
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January 2012
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Jack Smith @ William Gallery 179 Canal
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2001 chanel ads shot by karl lagerfeld shot by jon leon
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Wherever We Put Our Hats, three paper issues, Summer ‘05-Spring ‘06, ed. Jon Leon
December 2011
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every night i die at miyagis
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SEE YOU SOON
Stephen Sprouse for Chateau Marmont, 1991
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Lynne Tillman @ Gladstone Gallery (photo: Jon Leon)
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THE METHOD
Her resentment already exhibits itself in the form of slowdowns and will yet cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions, but they cannot be conciliatory, for she is attacking the foundation of the studio system, and that base is built on decades of entrenched waste.
DESIRE NEEDS NOTHING
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November 2011
17 posts
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A DAY OR A LIFETIME
It’s a holiday in New York City and while I sit here thinking this is no longer language it’s pure magic and listening to “Wicked Games” by The Weeknd I think again about the video I wrote about two months ago in an open letter slash open essay to Lindsay Lohan. I almost never think about this anymore, even when I’m in the lounge of The Jane Hotel for a day or a...
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from The Broome Street Review no. 3
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Thus, the gaze is not a simple universal and abstract power to objectify, as Sartre maintained: it is a symbolic power whose efficacy depends on the relative position of the perceiver and the perceived…
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EVIE FALCI
Almost everything I do is mediated by a screen. I really want a new screen, or none at all. I want a pivotal moment, where the persistent glare reflecting off my flip shades becomes less obtuse. I think this was on my mind when I didn’t purchase the last remaining table at an avant-garde art and culture benefit over the weekend. I didn’t want to sit and watch a chroma key, a...
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When the dominated apply to what dominates them schemes that are the product of domination, or, to put another way, when their thoughts and perceptions are structured in accordance with the very structures of the relation of domination that is imposed on them, their acts of cognition are, inevitably, acts of recognition, submission.
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Well, that space between shoe and heel was for me a metaphysical place, deserving of absolute veneration, of a new mystique: a place outside of time where every aspiration converged.
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October 2011
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EXTERIOR LIFE
“The Revolution was just a crusade against privileges…”
I believe there is a definition of poetry that marks a generalized intuition for the nobility conveyed into things. I take as my example an excerpt from Balzac’s Treatise on Elegant Living: “… the principle of elegant life is a noble thought of order and harmony, intended to give poetry to things.”...
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