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About Me



My Interests



Movies:

Hard Candy, Tideland, Oldboy, Lady Vendetta, Requiem for a Dream, Kids, Vanilla Sky, Amores Perros, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Dreamers, Mysterious Skin...

Books:

"I am against systems, the most acceptable system is on principle to have none. To complete oneself, to perfect oneself in one's own littleness, to fill the vessel with one's individuality, to have the courage to fight for and against thought, the mystery of bread, the sudden burst of an infernal propeller into economic lilies...." Tristan Tzara ~ From: "Dada Manifesto" [1918]

My Blog

no knock room: Bologna Art Fair 2007!

We're proud to present our very personal coverage of Arte Fiera Bologna 2007, a unique event where visitors can explore the latest trends in the world of contemporary art through the proposals of mo...
Posted by no knock room on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:40:00 PST

"Amore (Senilità)"

Let's talk about love... Quotes from "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and back again)" - in Italian, sorry! "Un amore immaginario è molto meglio di un amore reale. Non farlo mai è molto ecc...
Posted by no knock room on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:40:00 PST

Conversation with Andy Warhol (BBC Interview, 1981)

Andy Warhol 1928 - 1987 Conversations with Artists17 March 1981  Radio 3Andy Warhol talks to Edward Lucie Smith about    portrait painting, his choice of subject, his p...
Posted by no knock room on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:41:00 PST

Podcast: Marcel Duchamp Interview (1962)

Marcel Duchamp Speaks - Duchamp explains the readymade! - defines art! Originally broadcast by the BBC, October 20, 1962 http://ps1.el.net/media/podcasts/historic_audio/ha_moma_duch amp.mp3  ...
Posted by no knock room on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:44:00 PST

READYMADE

READYMADE (by Baboon Palace) I'm reading Octavio Paz's brilliant survey of Marcel Duchamp's art. What Duchamp is most known for, or at least the context I knew him in, is the "Readymades". These are...
Posted by no knock room on Thu, 11 May 2006 06:57:00 PST

Painters at the turn of the century

Painting the Figure Since Late Picabia by Matthew Rose Painting is either back, or, never left the building. The age-old profession of applying paint on canvas may have simply been overshadowed by t...
Posted by no knock room on Wed, 10 May 2006 12:25:00 PST

Richter and Warhol had fascinatingly parallel careers...

History In a Blur By Arthur C. Danto [thanks to Daniel Chung for providing this article] It seems scarcely to have required a great philosophical mind to come up with the observation that each of us...
Posted by no knock room on Wed, 10 May 2006 12:16:00 PST