Comments on: Episode 125: Tim Fleming/Art Reviews

By: Christopher Robbins

Christopher Robbins — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:19:50 +0000

yess! loved the line about irony not content as well, and the phillip guston if he did landscapes one. Made the whole show worthwhile. However, please don’t “not address” things. If you’re not gonna address it, then don’t address it. Don’t announce that you are “not going to address it.”

Please. It comes off annoying and insidery. Like, you know what you’re talking about, and you just hung it in front of me and told me that I am not going to know what you are talking about.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:33:59 +0000

Maybe the less we know about the actual artist behind work the better. When I worked in the 20th Century department at the AIC we had a saying “The best artist to work with is a dead one” they complained a whole lot less than the living ones.

By: MSB

MSB — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:52:47 +0000

“In his essay on Rimbaud, Marías says that posterity has the advantage of enjoying the work of writers without having the bother of putting up with the writers themselves. Rimbaud never changed his clothes and therefore smelled disgusting, left any bed he slept in full of lice, drank constantly (preferably absinthe), and rewarded his acquaintances with nothing but impertinence and insults.” And we can ignore his likely association, at least peripherally, with the slave trade.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:02:34 +0000

Actually, Rimbaud’s connection to the slave trade has been disputed, although certainly he was involved in business awfully close to the slave trade if not directly involved…

RE: RIMBAUD: A BIOGRAPHY by Graham Robb

“On the issue of Rimbaud’s involvement in slave –trading in Africa, he announces, “The file should now be reopened. Although Rimbaud never tried to profit directly from the slave-trade, it is quite clear that no European could do business in Abyssinia without it.” He goes on for some few convoluted pages, proving at best that Rimbaud may have been, at least once in 1888 for three or four days, in the same city with a caravan run by a notorious slaver.”

By: atha clarke

atha clarke — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:41:51 +0000

Rimbaud had slaves?
whadya know?!?!

what a douchebag

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:40:57 +0000

Ssssh. That was a secret.

By: Mike Benedetto

Mike Benedetto — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:30:51 +0000

Richard keeps sending me these home made movies of him to review. It’s making me really uncomfortable.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:11:21 +0000

Rumor is Mike B. will be back soon. I went to his house and beat him within an inch of his life for his tardiness. The doctors say he will make a partial recovery and will be recording in no time.

By: Ann Onymous

Ann Onymous — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:05:32 +0000

No doubt. We like Mike.

By: A flock of real hot girl foreign exchange students

A flock of real hot girl foreign exchange students — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:25:03 +0000

Hey where is it Mike Benedetto! We miss to him sooo muchhh! When he comes back for more?