Caslon Projects

Life is not a fucking pain in the ass. On photography, career ambition and positive thinking with Selina Maitreya: Life is busy and life is fabulous, but if you take the attitude that life is a fucking pain in the ass, well hello welcome to the world you’ve created. Yes, we have to work harder [...]

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What do Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell have in common? All were artists (amongst others) who opposed Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim museum construction. See the open letter below: var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’;

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Robert Storr, US critic, curator and dean of the Yale School of Art: Maintaining a career nowadays is extraordinarily complicated, even if you’re just doing your work and showing up for required occasions. You can waste an amazing amount of energy, time and goodwill by chasing after stuff that’s not worth chasing after. Really wise [...]

Above Photo by Robert Frank, from The Americans. On view now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is the stunning exhibition of photographs by Robert Frank. If you can, go see it. Anthony Lane also wrote about it in the New Yorker. var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, [...]

A microscope photograph of the flow pattern in draining soap film (magnification 10x) by Dr. Tsutomu Seimiya from Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan. Since 1975, Nikon has been awarding annual prizes to scientists and enthusiasts who take pictures through a microscope. Popularly known as a maker of professional and consumer cameras, the company is also [...]

In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. Thirty-eight years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrator James Braithwaite have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, [...]

Marcel Duchamp, after Duchamp.