The Soft, Warm Light of the WILLEM DE KOONING Estate
Willem and Elaine de Kooning acquired this property in the woods of East Hampton in 1961. After visiting Jackson Pollock’s eastern Long Island studio in 1948, De Kooning had fallen in love with the area, where the quality of light and proximity to the ocean brought back memories of his childhood in Holland.
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Hair DAVID VON [email protected]; make up LISA [email protected] HOWARD; photography assistant WILL ENGELHARDT; light design CHRIS BISAGNI; first assistant SAMUELE MARFIA; second assistant NICHOLAS J BROWN; production FELIX FRITH
“Violent games don’t appear to predict anything useful about violent thoughts or acts—not physical aggression, social aggression, or even cyberbullying.” So why are games still blamed for massacres like El Paso? Game designer and theorist IAN BOGOST in The Atlantic:
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“We don’t believe the system is broken, so we don’t want it fixed. We want it abolished.”
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We’re dog people at 032c, but in honor of something called International Cat Day, we remember a cat person like no other: STANLEY KUBRICK. Here, 032c contributor Suleman Anaya explores the director’s obsessions and penchants – and not just of the feline variety – through the lens of his 28-year relationship with his loyal driver, Emilio D’Alessandro.
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“And so, when Victoria, one of the director’s favorite cats, fell ill in 1996, Kubrick had Emilio drive her to Cambridge. (The feline specialists at the renowned university handled all Kubrick cats, as the director would not entrust his animals’ care to any ordinary local veterinarian.) With instructions to photograph the cat every few minutes in order to monitor her recovery, Kubrick also gave Emilio a camera to take with him, and the result is a series of slightly blurry, barely distinguishable cat shots worthy of Gerhard Richter.”
TONI MORRISON remembered her friend James Baldwin in The New York Times following his death in 1987:
“[T]here is too much to think about you, and too much to feel. The difficulty is your life refuses summation – it always did – and invites contemplation instead. Like many of us left here I thought I knew you. Now I discover that in your company it is myself I know. That is the astonishing gift of your art and your friendship: You gave us ourselves to think about, to cherish.
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I never heard a single command from you, yet the demands you made on me, the challenges you issued to me, were nevertheless unmistakable, even if unenforced: that I work and think at the top of my form, that I stand on moral ground but know that ground must be shored up by mercy, that ‘the world is before [me] and [I] need not take it or leave it as it was when [I] came in.”’
What Morrison wrote to Baldwin, we now send to her. RIP.
