Meditations on modernity

Wow. Gug­gen­heim Bilbao: from Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons and a side­t­rip to Calder. Four dec­ades of art from the Broad Col­lec­tion and a whole floor of the beau­ti­ful mobiles of Alex­an­der Calder. And after years and years as a Situ­ation­ist...

Bilbao

Wel­come to the first night of my life in a loc­a­tion where there is active sep­ar­at­ist ter­ror­ism (for those who don’t know, that’s the ETA who want the Pais Vasco (Basque Coun­try) to secede from Spain). In the last week or so, there have been three bombs,...
Leaving Toledo…

Leaving Toledo…

I feel strange leav­ing Toledo. It’s not like I’m actu­ally leav­ing, more like I’m leav­ing home to go on a voyage around Europe. I keep think­ing I’ll just be gone for a few months. If you want more pretty photos of the river, go back to the entry...

I’m leaving tomorrow

So, since I’m leav­ing for Bilbao tomor­row, I thought I’d post a poem I wrote after the Museum the other day. toledo, 1492 So, take this key. We are leav­ing tomorrow. They say: sell everything. They say: there is nothing here for you any­more,...