#250: If you can’t stand up for people in life don’t do it in death

Quotes from articles and obituaries about Sinead O’Connor following her death that form the words No One Compares 2 U.

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See: Geraghty, Hollie (2023) Lily Allen “incensed” by “spineless” tributes to Sinéad O’Connor. Available at: https://www.nme.com/news/music/lily-allen-incensed-by-spineless-tributes-to-sinead-oconnor-3475673 (Accessed: 3rd August 2023).

#248: Real Surreal

A surrealist painting but your dreams are really humdrum.

#247: Anti-Racist Black Square

Oil on linen.  A black square with white border painted on a square canvas.  Etched into the black paint of the square are the words: “What we want is no one fighting in any place or at any time and we will take steps to ensure an anti-racist future, a future where discrimination does not exist.” 

And so what will I do next?

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Resource List:

Dunne, Carey (2016) Art Historians Find Racist Joke Hidden Under Malevich’s “Black Square”. Available at: https://hyperallergic.com/253361/art-historian-finds-racist-joke-hidden-under-malevichs-black-square/. 

Grovier, Kelly (2018) The racist message hidden in a masterpiece. Available at: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180312-the-racist-message-hidden-in-a-masterpiece (Accessed: 1st April 2023).

Shatskikh, Aleksandra (2017) Inscribed Vandalism: The Black Square at One Hundred. Available at: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/155475/inscribed-vandalism-the-black-square-at-one-hundred/ (Accessed: 30th March 2023).

Spira, Andrew (2022) Precedents of the Unprecedented: Black Squares Before Malevich. Available at: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/black-squares-before-malevich/ (Accessed: 31st March 2023).

Tolstaya, Tatyana (2015) The Square. Available at: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-square (Accessed: 21st February 2024).

Vakar, Irina (2019) New Information Concerning The Black Square in Lodder, Christina (2019) Celebrating Suprematism : New Approaches to the Art of Kazimir Malevich. Available at: https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzE5MjM5ODRfX0FO0?sid=06827ef3-d2a0-45f7-a118-ea34aa1fcade@redis&vid=5&format=EB&lpid=lp_11&rid=0 (Accessed: 31st March 2023).

von Zinnenburg Carroll, Khadija and Gusejnova, Dina (2017) Malevich’s Black Square under X-ray: A dialogue on race, revolution and art history. Available at: http://www.thirdtext.org/malevich-blacksquare (Accessed: 30th March 2023).

Wikipedia page before Pencil inscriptions section was removed: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Square&oldid=1218618957 (Accessed: 15th July 2024).

#245: A hot drink will make it all better

A simple picture of a mug with steam lines above accompanied by the words: A hot drink will make it all better all in upper case.

#243: Self-portrait with TV and living room (Self-portrait XIX)

A portrait of you in your living room with the TV (if you have one) on.  

What is playing on the TV?  

What else is in the room?  

How much of you is in the room?  

How does each item in the portrait represent you?