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"There’s a process to get to brilliancy: you do all the corny things, and you might have to go through five hundred ideas. Any corny thought that comes into your head, do a sketch of it. You’re constantly emptying the brain of the ignorant and the dumb and the silly things and there’s nothing left but the brilliant ideas. The brilliant ideas are hatched through this process."
— David Hammons again, interviewed by Kellie Jones in 1986
"That’s what I loved about California though. These cats would be in their sixties, hadn’t had a show in twenty years, didn’t want a show, paint everyday, outrageous stamina. They were like poets, you know, hated everything walking, mad, evil; wouldn’t talk to people because they didn’t like the way they looked. Outrageously rude to anybody, they didn’t care how much money that person had. Those are the kind of people I was influenced by as a young artist…When I came to New York, I didn’t see any of that. Everybody was just groveling and tomming, anything, to be in the room with somebody with some money. There were no bad guys here, so I said “let me be the bad guy,’ or attempt to be the bad guy, or play with the bad areas and see what happens."
— David Hammons, interviewed by Kellie Jones in 1986
A postcard to our charming editorial assistant Daniel from from his high school hero Jonathan Franzen. Happy Tuesday, nerds!
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Oh, Naomi. That smile!
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David Hammons at MoMA, August 2011. Love love love LOVE.
The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-75
If you haven’t seen this, see it. Visually arresting, both for the footage and the artistry of the film itself, and insanely affecting and thought-provoking. The past isn’t past, y’all. It’s barely even passed.
