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Nelly & Justin Timberlake photographed by James Devaney during the NSYNC Challenge for the Children IV Celebrity Basketball Game in Orlando, FL - July 28, 2002

“The tradition of modern art is a tradition of revolution: there’s one revolution after another — for better or for worse.” 

— Adolph Gottlieb

From an interview with Andrew Hudson for the Washington Post Article, “Gottlieb finds Today’s Shock-Proof Audience Dangerous,” July 31, 1966 

(Adolph Gottlieb in his 23rd St. studio in New York, 1966. Photographed by Daniel Frasnay.) Read more of the interview here.

“This may sound facetious, but a number of years ago in Provincetown a lady from the Midwest, who was studying with Hofmann, said to me, ‘Mr. Gottlieb, what do you think art will be like five years from now?’ My answer was that if I knew I wouldn’t tell her. I would do it myself.“ 

— Adolph Gottlieb, from an interview with Sister Corita, I.H.M. Published in Jubilee Magazine, December 1964.

Pictured here: Adolph Gottlieb in Provincetown, Massachusetts, ca. 1950s.

“As for the future, by the time our work is accepted by the general public, there will arise new artists, seeking new art forms, who will deny our work in order to be free to express themselves.” 

— Adolph Gottlieb
Excerpted from notes for a talk, c. 1950.

Remembering Marcel Duchamp, born on this day in 1887.

“All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualification and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives a final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.”

Portrait by Bert Stern 1967

“What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable."— Louise Nevelson. See her drawings and prints in the exhibition Louise Nevelson: The Face in the Moon, now on view at the Whitney.

[Louise Nevelson (1899-1988), Portrait, 1953-55. Aquatint and etching: sheet, 24 1/8 × 19 ¼ in. (61.3 × 48.9 cm); plate, 19 5/8 × 15 7/8 in. (49.9 × 40.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist 69.242. © 2018 Estate of Louise Nevelson/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]

“Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.”
- Egon Schiele

• Francesca Woodman

Not perfect things, but honest things