Status Updates From The Art of Looking: How to ...

“In 1971, Chris Burden, in his performance artwork Shoot, was voluntarily shot in the arm with a .22 caliber rifle” (1). Broooo performance artists just be doin shit I swear..

Slapping that renew button! I'm enjoying the read even if I've been distracted by other media.

I can already tell these words are going to slide right through my head if I don't focus. Focus!

This has been on my reading list for eons! But a recent hole in my non-fiction reading made me actually move it from the reading to the request list. I just wish I'd done so before my recent visit to the SFMOMA. But maybe I'll read it then drag other willing peeps with me to see it again!

“Art, which requires a blind leap of faith, takes you to the realms the unexpected.” just finished the chapter on one of my favorite artists marina abramović and you knowww i can’t stop reading for the night until i finish that chapter

“My advice is to see everything you can — and to look closely.”