Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 1947, grey-blue ink on paper, 10⅝ × 8¼ inches. Courtesy Robert Miller Gallery.
Sanded, ink on paper work of a figure holding onto a galloping horse, Black Slipping by Peter Drake.
“It’s so important to make your own little specks of peace around you. It’s a matter of being an idiot.”
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Martin Amis, Gretchen Bender by Cindy Sherman, Charles Henri Ford, and Roland Joffé.
Work that is just about the technical or conceptual, personal or political, is fine; it meets the world with what’s in fashion. But there’s something else bordering on magic, that brings an artwork home, makes it land and resonate. You can’t really teach that so much as conjure it.
Kara Walker
