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Dirty Beaches - Lord Knows Best
"Moreover, I do not think it can be denied that an element of reverie, of approach to a state of dream, enters into the creation of a work of art, nor that the experience of the work when it is intense often throws one into a similar state. Indeed, it is safe to say that ‘creative’ conceptions in philosophy and science come only to persons who are relaxed to the point of reverie."
John Dewey, Art as experience
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Ryan Blackwell: On Conceptual Sculpture 
I read a sobering review by Roberta Smith, well known critic for the NY Times, on Adel Abdessemed’s solo show, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” at the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea. In this review she briefly highlights a few “of the cliches endemic in the Conceptually motivated realist…
