W.H. Auden’s The Shield Of Achilles, Read By A Machine
I’m not BFF’s with Siri, but sometimes I do like to have things read to me by my computer. So when I finished reading Michael Sacasas’ post about psycho dad videos and performative parenting, I wanted...
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Better Read: A Lively Interview With Ray Johnson, c.1968
Ray Johnson, The Paper Snake, 1965, published by Dick Higgins, image: rayjohnsonestate I’ve been thinking of various audio projects, something this side of an actual podcast, perhaps. But unlike a...
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Better Read: Sincerely Yours, An Epic Scholarly Smackdown By Rosalind Krauss
Auguste Rodin, The Three Shades, plaster, for The Gates of Hell This edition of Better Read, an experiment in transforming art-related texts into audio works, is awesome. I really feel like the kinks...
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Better Read: Why We Should Talk About Cady Noland, A Zine By Brian Sholis
Cover, “Why We Should Talk About Cady Noland”, a zine published by Brian Sholis in 2004, image: archive.org It’s been a while since I’ve put up an edition of Better Read, audio works made from...
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Better Read: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks Up
examples of Taliesin Square Papers from the Frank Lloyd Wright Library at Steinerag Welcome to Better Read, an intermittent experiment at greg.org to transform art-related texts into handy,...
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The Jetty Foundation Presents, Send Me Your Money
A couple of days ago I received a check. Actually, The Jetty Foundation, of which I am the president, received a check. It was from the State of Utah for fifty dollars, an overpayment of a filing fee...
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Better Read #007: Spinoza’s Ethica From Sturtevant’s Vertical Monad
Sturtevant’s Vertical Monad, 2008, installed at Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London In case the last Better Read was too mainstream podcasty for you, here are the first few pages of Spinoza’s Ethica...
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Better Read #008: Death By Gun
“Untitled” (Death By Gun), 1990, endless. collection: moma.org We’ve come to reading the names of the dead, to intone them, as a form of memorial. I’ve never felt Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled”...
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Better Read #009: Single Man Looking To The Right (1979), By Richard Prince
Exhibition announcement card for Richard Prince’s window installation, “Single man looking to the right”, 1979, at the original location of Three Lives & Company bookstore, New York, via the...
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Better Read #10 – Questlove: Trayvon Martin and I Ain’t Shit
Has Questlove read this aloud himself? I don’t think so. I wish he would, because if I cry this much when the robot reads it… Download: Better_Read_010_Questlove_Im_Still_Human_20160920.mp3 [11:27,...
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Better Read #11 – Forrest Bess: The Asteroids (1946)
Forrest Bess, The Asteroids #3, 1946, oil on canvas board, via Phillips Collection In 2014 the Phillips Collection received eight works by Forrest Bess from Miriam Shapiro Grosof, including a set of...
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Better Read #012: In The Domain Of The Great Bear, By Mel Bochner & Robert...
Reading a Dan Graham interview transcript about magazine articles as artworks, and contemplating the [so far] failed campaign for Giant Meteor ’16, I thought of Mel Bochner’s and Robert Smithson’s In...
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Better Read #013: Modern Art Shackled To Communism, by Congressman George...
The Mellow Pad, 1945-51, by Stuart Davis, co-founder of the American Artists Congress in 1936, image: whitney.org This edition of Better Read features a speech delivered by Michigan Republican...
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Better Read #014: Richard Hamilton, Five Tyres Remoulded (1972)
Richard Hamilton invitation with 1951 Technique et Architecture illustration used for Five Tyres – abandoned (1964) and Five Tyres remoulded (1972) Sometimes I hit a wall while writing, and retyping...
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Better Read #015: A Pair Of Texts By Kara Walker
Kara Walker, Detail of U.S.A. Idioms, 2017, image via sikkema jenkins & co It feels unusual to feature a current text on Better Read, but then, these are unusual times. It strikes me that Kara...
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Better Read #016: Roy Lichtenstein Word Lists
Laurie Lambrecht, Explosion, Slam, photo composition of Roy Lichtenstein’s Hand Written Word List and comic book clipping source material, made in the artist’s studio between 1990 and 1992. image via...
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Better Read #017: Embroidery Trouble Shooting Guide
SEW SEW SEW SEW SEW SEW This installment of Better Read is the text of the found net artwork, Embroidery Trouble Shooting Page, which was repeated as untitled (etsg) in 2015. When I first found the...
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Better Read #018: Ellsworth Kelly, Notes of 1969
In writing yesterday’s post, I realized I’ve come back to Ellsworth Kelly’s “Notes of 1969” before. What strikes me now, besides the quote I used for yesterday’s title, was this: Everywhere I looked,...
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Better Read #021 – Federal Painted Portrait Ban
Artist Joy Thomas and the John Brysons posing with his official Commerce Secretary portrait, Sept. 2012. image: joythomasart.com As Artnet reported last week, in the wake of the unprecedented...
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Better Read #023: Applied Ballardianism
Applied Ballardianism, by Simon Sellars, published June 2018 by Urbanomic This, the 23rd installment of Better Read, texts that are better read aloud by a computer, was inspired by a @ballardian tweet....
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