Katherine Sharpe | a pilgrim’s blogress

Relaxing With GOOD and ReadyMade

Four authors from GOOD and three from ReadyMade, of whom I am one, have teamed up to write a special section in GOOD’s Winter 2010 issue. The GOOD (and ReadyMade) Guide to Slowing Down is online now, and if I say so myself, it’s a fun read.

Modern Art

Two quotes I liked from Adam Gopnik’s article about van Gogh’s ear in the January 4 edition of the New Yorker.

On art-making:
“Where art since the Renaissance had attempted to limit luck in a system of inherited purpose and patterns, modern art demands that you press the pedal as hard as you can, and pray.”
On van [...]