Poesia Concreta. Brossa, Iglésias Del Marquet I Viladot, Petite Galerie, Lleida, 1971 [Fundació Joan

It is an eerie experience to write something into a novel, believing it is pure fiction, and to learn later on — perhaps years later — that it is true.

Philip K. Dick, How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later, 1978 (via inthenoosphere)

Yusaku Kamekura, Fujifilm, 1950s [MoMA, New York, NY]

Gregory dances. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him experience joy before. It’s weird.

Art News: Heartbreaking Basquiat drawings go on view at the Acquavella Galleries

Centennial Certificate: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Rauschenberg, 1969, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings

In 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York commissioned Rauschenberg to produce a lithograph commemorating the 100th anniversary of the museum. For this print, he combined representative imagery selected from the Metropolitan’s extensive permanent collection of art. During the project, Rauschenberg learned that the Metropolitan museum’s original goals were detailed in a “certificate” dating to 1870, a document that had been prepared on graph paper. Using this concept, Rauschenberg prepared an updated certificate with his own text, which was then signed by Metropolitan officials, including the museum director, Thomas Hoving. Size: 35 5/8 x 24 3/8 in. (90.49 x 61.91 cm) (image, irregular) Medium: Color lithograph

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/54697/

Teresa Lanceta, Untitled, 1998 [Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid]

The Italians have a word for the store of poems you have in your head: a gazofilacio […] in its original language it actually means a treasure chamber of the mind. The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life. And unlike paintings, sculptures or passages of great music, they do not outstrip the scope of memory, but are the actual thing, incarnate.

Clive James, ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life,’ The Guardian (26 September 2020)

Josh O’Connor for Vanity Fair

O’Connor’s suit by Hermès; shirt and pocket square by New & Lingwood; ring by Hancocks London.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRETT LLOYD; STYLED BY TOM GUINNESS.