Good things from across the web...

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“This is Seara, my sea rabbit." 

"Oh, he’s…cute. Thanks for letting me take your picture.” 

“You can pet Seara if you would like. He is very gentle.”

• When you photograph New Yorkers, you know things are bound to get a bit strange.
• "The stars would come in one by one. They just waltzed in,' she said." - This other photogrpaher named Sherman
• Going dotty at Voitton on 5th Avenue and other bad metaphors that I'll spare you.
• "I’m not sure you could convince me that this elevator didn’t have a floor labeled ’Tim Burton's Apartment’."
• Ghosts in the Machine open at New Museum.
• Banksy the Olympian torches advertising
• Tom Waits nararrating John Baldessari. 6 minutes

And in other news, I fly to Hungary in 40 days. Nothing is ready, except I did get my passport back. But who's counting?

4 Thursday Tidbits

Short weeks don't always go quickly enough. Happy almost Friday!

• On creating the feeling you want the reader to feel via Maud Newton

Not always so easy or pleasant if it means feeling what you are writing

• Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths via But Does it Float

Really striking, lovely images in RED

• The Great Escape via Economy Custard

Always delightful.

• Me, Myself and Why via FT.com

Cindy Sherman interview

Ravels in Review

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Oh, is it time for Ravels in Review again? Great, well, in my disordered placement of life's task I'll put this on the top of the heap while simultaneously making coffee with one hand and juggling oranges with the other. Priorities are amazing things, no?

But to the ravels we're reviewing:

Things were junking up the floor of MoMA's atrium, ala Song Dong this time, and I started rethinking my Conceptual art prejudice.

Richard Misrach's large-format photographs are either either calming or unsettling, and I rather think the latter.

Words straight from the art dealer Betty Parson's mouth.

Vanished poet Rosemary Tonks is one of the most exciting things I've come across in a while. She's on my reading list for the weekend.

And then, of course, there was the beautifully-titled OUCH. My hand is fine, by the way. To sum up my thoughts on the newest film version of Easy Virtue--something went wrong when they tried to make it into a movie and Jessica Beil is only the obvious thing.

Stuff happened in other places, and yet no one had any suggestions for me about contemporary Hungarian art? Any links or vague, unformed thoughts?

I'll get the ball rolling: these images are from Peter Forgacs multimedia installation Col Tempo at the Hungarian Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennial.

Love and Auctions: Midday Links!

My excellent taste was confirmed by the Yves Saint Laurent auction results. Check out the fabulous chair and the price of desire.

Also, check out a beautiful auction catalogue that tells a different kind of story, of love and its personal effects.

If you haven't yet planned your New York art fair visits, start here. Should be a busy few days!