Welcome 2024. We’re marking a new year with a fresh set of Findings, including a timely creative praxis from the archives; a posthumous collaboration we didn’t know we needed; and a lineup of future exhibitions worth storing up wintery anticipation toward.
Daily Vitamin
Jack Kerouac's 30-part list of musings on the creative process, Belief & Technique for Modern Prose, is hard to not reinterpret as guiding principles for the seasons to come. A few selections include:
Something you feel will find its own form.
The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye.
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.
Accept loss forever.
Believe in the holy contour of life.
Backyard Pilgrimages
William Waterworth’s photographic series Ein Tir offers transportation to someplace else:
“Inspired by the legacy of Julia Margaret Cameron, Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, and Jacque Henrie Lartigue’s aerial escapades, Waterworth embarked on three separate pilgrimages across the Isle of Wight, the Alps, and England’s south coast. The result is an immersive cinematic world that conjures up a timelessness reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich’s romanticism.”
On View
Paris, France — Année Révolutionnaire, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Yvon Lambert et Ève Lambert. On view from January 12–February 11, 2024.
And HOME FOR EVERYONE. SOCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE 80s at the Museum of Decorative Arts, through January 28, 2024.
NYC — Women Dressing Women, The Costume Institute's exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is ongoing through March 3, 2024.
Melbourne, Australia — Anumara Piti, Caterpillar Tjukurpa an exhibition of new paintings by Maringka Burton, at the Alcaston Gallery Exhibition Space. On view January 24 –February 14, 2024.
The Art of Delayed Gratifications
Bookmarking a nugget mentioned in a newsletter from Faye Toogood on winter rituals done as a reminder of inevitable change: “I love to plant paperwhite bulbs and bring them indoors to flower. Their heady scent and fresh white blooms remind that spring isn’t too far around the corner.”
We’re also anticipating Alphabetical Diaries, a forthcoming novel from Sheila Heti (February 2024), as well as catching a screening of Fallen Leaves, last year’s shortlisted favorite from Finnish director, Aki Kaurismäki.
Silver Linings
In 1994, five years prior to his death, Donald Judd imagined a full service dinnerware set. The drawings remained archived until recently released posthumously in collaboration with the historic French silversmith, Puiforcat. The eight-piece service —realized in sterling silver—remains faithful to the artist’s original blueprints and dialed-back aesthetic philosophy.