Adrianna Ault, from The Impeded Stream
“...a meditation on rural land and how it sustains us and maybe, also, family and how we're sustained by those who came before us. I didn't come by this understanding until I made the work. My work is my teacher. I listen what it tells me to do and, in this way, I learn from it.”

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In honor of Jack DeJohnette’s incredible life as a drummer, we’re listening to him play with John Abercrombie and Jan Hammer on this ECM release from 1975

Agnes Martin


The underside of the leaf
Cool in shadow
Sublimely unemphatic
Smiling of innocence

The frailest stems
Quivering in light
Bend and break
In silence

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Agnes Martin, The Tree, 1964

Forces of Expression at the Frick


“I thought that I liked the Turners because they opened out onto the world rather than closing me in with the pantheon, but it was the wrong world. Turner’s glowing shores were proxies for what I longed to see: a different heat and haze, a native landscape, some record of the places that made this mansion possible. The Collection, perhaps by no fault of its own, makes apparent our ignorance of all the processes that precede it, coal into coke into steel into canvas. I would have preferred two large paintings that opened out onto that, the furnace of an older history that we have so few windows into, that barely even haunts us, that we allow the barons to replace with idylls and seascapes, a fictional European scrim over the fearsome topography of the country.”

Ben Tapeworm on the reopening of the Frick Collection. 





Josef Albers


Einer geht
einer steht

wer hat mehr vecht
auf den Weg


One is walking
one is standing

who is more entitled
to the path



Josef Albers, Poems & Drawings