#also i just found out barbara park passed away in 2013 and that made me sad

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Inspired by @myth-blossom 💕 Their post is here!

Rules: List ten books that have stayed with you in some way, don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you.

Tagging: @letmetellyouaboutmyfeels @princess-of-prose @issytheamateurnerd @abschaumno1 @sharo-maneru -- if you feel like it, of course!

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer - My English teacher hated me (and openly admitted she did) but when she recommended this book for me to read for my list, I did, and surprisingly loved it.

Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson - This children's book is insane in the absolute best way. I will never forget the scene in the black hole.

Tikkop by Adriaan van Dis - I had to read three of Van Dis' books in the 6th year of high school, and I hated the first two with a burning passion. It was a huge surprise when I turned out to actually like Tikkop.

No et Moi by Delphine de Vigan - Lent to me by my French teacher Mrs Loeff to read during grammar lessons, it completely enraptured me at 15. I refuse to watch the movie because I'd rather keep my own mental images.

Het Grote Boek van Sebastiaan by Mieke van Hooft - My grandmother would read this to me and my brother whenever we'd spend the night there (followed by lullabies that I now sing to our son).

Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques - Honestly, I could have put the entire Redwall series here, but this is the book that 7-year-old Belle read in one go and stayed up all night for to finish, and that made me want to change my name to Rose.

The entire Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park - When we emigrated to the U.S. when I was six, Junie B. Jones basically taught me English. My mum and I would struggle through four pages a night. I learnt what a school bus was, and a rubber ducky. Later, I'd save my pocket money every week to be able to buy more of them when we went to Barnes & Nobles.

The Twins by Tessa De Loo - The book that nearly made me fail my Dutch oral final. I had a complete blackout, and couldn't answer the question 'what are the main characters' names?' I'm never, ever forgetting their names are Anna and Lotte ever again.

The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich - These books aren't particularly amazing. The plot isn't brilliant; the humour is just fine, but they transported me to a different world as a teen, one where abusive family members didn't exist.

The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty - As a teen, the plot blew me away. It also took me thirty minutes this morning to figure out the title of this book because I read it in Dutch, where they decided for some godforsaken reason to rename her Scarlett instead of Bindy.

#about belle #tag game #whether or not i should have been reading books about mice going to war at 7 years old #is a separate question that i'm not sure how to answer #also i just found out barbara park passed away in 2013 and that made me sad

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Ariana Rodriguez Instructor Shelby Hallenbeck WRTG 120 28 September 2017

A Look in My Ideal Bookshelf

Literacy means many things to many different people. Merriam Webster defines literacy as “the ability to read and write” and “competence or knowledge in a specified area.” To me, literacy means being able to understand what you are reading and can respond to the text. An ideal bookshelf shows past books and or movies that we have read and saw that shows us how that person learned to read and write or what made them fall in love with reading and writing, and sometimes it shows a little blast from the past. In my ideal bookshelf, there are many books from my past that has helped me be the literate person I am today. My bookshelf shows a variety of books, from Junie B. Jones books by Barbara Park to The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. As a kid growing up I loved reading the Junie B. Jones books because to me they were easy to read and funny as well. Growing up in a Latino house hold my first language was not English but Spanish, so I always had a hard time reading upper level books. I would always get very low reading scores when the class took the star reading test. I would always get anxiety when the teacher would make us read in front of the class, I was always scared that I will not be able to pronounce a word correctly and that the whole class would make fun of me.   The Junie B. Jones books were easier for me to read. They put all the reading levels aside and just made me enjoy a nice, funny, easier to read book. The Junie B. Jones book started my love for reading. Another book on my ideal bookshelf is Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. This was one of the first books I had ever read going into my freshmen year of high school. This is one of my favorite books because I feel it really helped me picked my major, psychology. Reading about the illness that Lennie Small had and how no one really knew what was wrong with him. Everyone in the book just thought that Lennie small was just like any other stupid out there. Lennie nor George know Lennie’s strength, that is why George felt that he had to kill him before he killed someone else just like the puppy and Curly’s wife. In the book, it shows the bond between two friends and shows how far one friend will go to protect the other one, and what better message can high school freshmen receive as they are entering their 4 years of getting to adulthood. The following book, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, shows an emotional, dramatic story of two boys, Bruno and Shmuel. Bruno and Shmuel grew up in the times of the Holocaust, a horrible time that Germany went through under the rule of Hitler. This book shows how two people from two different worlds can become friends just by talking to each other and understanding one another. It shows how kids as young as nine years old can change what their parents have set in their minds. This book leads me to two other books on My Ideal Bookshelf Night by Elie Wiesel and The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank. As you cannot tell already I have love for books about the Holocaust. I love learning about it I find it to be such an interesting topic. These types of book have really grown my literacy narrative because it has made me read so many books in the past four years about the history of the holocaust. Tuesdays with Morrie, one of the many books I read during my high school career and one of the many books on my ideal bookshelf. I read Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom my sophomore year of high school. This book follows a man named Mitch and how he went and visited his sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz. This book got my attention because of professor Schwartz battle with ALS and how he wasn’t bitter about it, which made me more appreciative and also made me realize that it is okay to be sad but to limit it and enjoy life even though there are bad things happening, either to me or within my family. It has taught me to find the bright side of things and to enjoy the little moments that I have with my family. Sometimes, when I am with my friends or family I take a moment and think to myself, I am so unbelievable grateful to have these people in life and think about how awful life would be without them. The Shack by Wm. Paul Young was such an emotional book to read, as I was reading it I started to cry. The book is about a dad who took his two girls on a camping trip, when then youngest daughter wondered off and went missing. Later, the dad found out that a guy who was a murder was out of prison and that the guy killed the father’s daughter. He later got a letter to go the cabin where they found his daughter’s body.  He then found out that God sent him that later and he was sent there to show him that his daughter was fine and happy where she was. This book hit me so close to my heart because three years ago on November 13, 2013 my sister passed away from depression. That was such a hard year for me and for my family. I can still hear my parents crying at night. This book has taught me that I am not the only one who has lost a loved one and felt that the world is over. This book showed me that my loved one is in a better place now living a better life, better than the one she had here. Finally, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. This book shows a bond between a rich man’s son and a servant’s son how they got along well like if they were siblings. Only to later find out that they were half siblings. Even after a big tragic accident Amir welcomed Hassan’s son with open arms to go back and live with him and his wife back in California. This book has taught me a great life lesson, which is, to always be there for my sisters no matter what we go through later in the future. I will always be there for my sisters even if it is something as small as bringing them a cup of coffee or as big as taking care of their child just like Amir did with Sohrab. Junie B. Jones, Of Mice and Men, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Night, The Diary of Anne Frank, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Shack, and The Kite Runner are all books that you can find in My Ideal Bookshelf. The bookshelf alone does not tell you what each book means to me personally this writing does. It shows how each book has affected me and how it has changed my life forever. Each book will always hold a place in my heart. I hope that throughout my college experience I read even more books that will mean a lot to me and will hopefully find a way to make it onto My Ideal Bookshelf.

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Frieze London and Masters Find a Common Future for Contemporary Art

Installation view of Sprüth Magers’s Frieze London booth, 2017. Photo by Tom Carter for Artsy.

Since it was founded in 2003, Frieze London has prided itself on being an art fair dedicated to the leading edge of the contemporary art conversation, a position that grew from its roots as a magazine. In the past, that made for aisles filled with still-wet paint and a focus on the newest emerging artists for most of its 15 editions in Regent’s Park. Frieze took this uber-contemporary distinction a step further in 2012, when it launched the complementary Frieze Masters fair, dedicated to artworks and collectible objects created before 2000 (and some dating back millennia) in a separate set of tents. But while the two fairs, which together welcome some 300 galleries, still played well to the extremes of their official billing during opening day here on Wednesday, much of the work on display was at the crossroads of the two, a reflection of the critical dialogue and market trends that have increasingly blurred the distinction between “old” and “new.”

Take “Bronze Age c. 3500 BC – AD 2017,” Hauser & Wirth’s thematic booth at Frieze London, curated in collaboration with hipster feminist hero and University of Cambridge classics professor Mary Beard, whose fairly tongue-in-cheek descriptions of the works are worth a look.  The mock museum brings together historic works by artists like Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, and Henry Moore with contemporary artists from the gallery’s program (Phyllida Barlow, who currently represents the U.K. at the Venice Biennale, made her first-ever piece in bronze, Paintsticks, 2017, for the occasion). These are interspersed with antiquities Beard helped source from regional museums and around 50 purported artefacts that Wenman bought on eBay.

“Part of the irony is that it looks like a Frieze Masters booth,” said Hauser & Wirth senior director Neil Wenman. “I wanted to bring old things but the lens is contemporary. It’s about the way we look at objects,” and how a given mode of display can ascribe value to those objects.

The gallery hasn’t leveraged the gravitas of its ethnographic museum vitrines to sell Wenman’s eBay finds at a steep margin, but it is offering 80 artworks for sale (out of the roughly 180 objects on display). For those on a budget, they’ve also created souvenirs sold from a faux museum gift shop that will run you £1–£9; proceeds will go to the four museums that lent pieces for the show.

Installation view of Hauser & Wirth’s Frieze London booth, 2017. Photo by Tom Carter for Artsy.

As of Wednesday evening, the gallery had sold a Hans (Jean) Arp sculpture for $1.1 million, Subodh Gupta’s set of 13 bronze potatoes (Food for Others, 2013) for €150,000, one of two bronze panels in the booth by Rashid Johnson for $125,000, and Martin Creed’s bronze rose Work No. 1649 (2013) for $75,000.

The gallery also reported selling, among other works, a Richard Artschwager triptych for $2.8 million, a sculpture by Bourgeois for $2.6 million, and a seven-piece stainless steel Fausto Melotti sculpture for €220,000 from its booth at Frieze Masters, for which the gallery collaborated with Moretti Fine Art.

Following curator Nicolas Trembley’s recreation of seminal exhibitions from the 1990s at Frieze London last year, the fair’s special section this year drifted back even further in time from its stated post-2000 focus. Curated by Alison Gingeras, “Sex Work: Feminist Art & Radical Politics” features nine women artists —Dorothy Iannone, Marilyn Minter, Judith Bernstein, Betty Tompkins, Mary Beth Edelson, and Birgit Jürgenssen among them—who emerged in the 1960s and ’70s with practices at the far edge of feminist expression at the time, and whose works were often subject to censorship due to their sexually explicit nature (at Frieze, the section still bears a disclaimer that it may not be suitable for children).

Works within the section by Iannone and Edelson were acquired for the Tate’s collection on opening day from Paris’s Air de Paris and New York’s David Lewis, respectively. (The purchases were funded by a new acquisition fund supported by WME | IMG, the sports and entertainment conglomerate that acquired a stake in the Frieze fairs in April 2016.) The Tate’s first female director, Maria Balshaw, who took the helm from Nicholas Serota in July, called the section “tremendously exhilarating.”

“Sex Work” follows a strong year for female artists at Frieze last year and also inspired Sprüth Magers’s Frieze London booth. The gallery reopened its expanded London location last week, having increased its exhibition space from one floor to three. At Frieze, it is showing an intergenerational selection of women artists from the gallery’s program: Jenny Holzer, Astrid Klein, Barbara Kruger, Pamela Rosenkranz, and Kaari Upson.

“We wanted to dedicate the booth to this female perspective,” said gallery director Silvia Baltschun.

A 1989 LED from Holzer’s “Survival” series, which features her iconic phrase “Protect me from what I want” was quick to sell on opening day for $350,000. Upson’s drawing Psychic trash (2016–17) also sold for $70,000.

Holzer and Kruger have been a fixture of Spüth Magers booths at recent fairs, at least in part due to their works’ direct and indirect engagement with the Trump administration and other recent social upheavals. But Baltschun said the gallery made a special effort to bring early works from the ’70s and ’80s to Frieze to create a dialogue with Gingeras’s section. Klein, Holzer, and Kruger are part of the same dialogue as those included in “Sex Work” but found acclaim early on because their work was less sexually explicit compared to artists like Iannone, Minter, and Tompkins.

Installation view of Cheim & Reid and Thomas Dane Gallery’s booth at Frieze Masters, 2017. Photo by Tom Carter for Artsy.

At Frieze Masters, a joint booth by Cheim & Read and Thomas Dane Gallery highlighted a range of works from another artist, Lynda Benglis, who also made it into the canon despite some works that were explicit in nature. Perhaps most famous among those is the ad, on view at Frieze, that Benglis purchased in Artforum in 1974 featuring her posing nude and holding a dildo. With its works spanning 1968 to 1990, the presentation is reminiscent of a miniaturized version of the artist’s 2011 retrospective at the New Museum, and required borrowing around half of the works on view.

“It was important that we had all of the different aspects of Lynda’s work, which is so multifaceted. She really is the original material girl,” said Cheim & Read partner Adam Scheffer, listing off the media (video, bronze, welded metal, glitter, prints, and polyurethane foam) present at the fair.

He said no sales had been confirmed by midway through Wednesday afternoon but that foot traffic had been strong, in part thanks to artist Rachel Whiteread’s selection of some of Benglis’s works from the Tate Britain’s collection to be exhibited alongside Whiteread’s current show there. Gingeras’s section’s influence was less of a factor thus far, he said, and in fact he hadn’t known about it.

“Lynda is so much a generation before most of that,” he said. “Showing her within the history of 20th-century sculpture is really where she belongs. She stands alone outside of classification.”

Permeating both Frieze London and Frieze Masters was the influence of Tate Modern’s current show “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” the first major exhibition in the U.K. to highlight the role that black artists have had in shaping art in America. Eleven of the show's artists are included in Michael Rosenfeld Gallery’s Frieze Masters booth, his second showing at the fair and first in its main section. Rosenfeld said that Frieze organizers had told him not to expect to get a larger booth this year but were swayed when he applied with such a large swath of artists from the Tate show, and all works from the same period.

“It’s had a tremendous impact,” he said. “Every work really is as good as the works in the Tate exhibition. We pulled out all the stops really to create an opportunity for collectors and museums to acquire some works that normally aren’t available.”

Installation view of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery’s booth at Frieze Masters, 2017. Photo by Tom Carter for Artsy.  

Among the highlights are pioneering abstractionist Alma Thomas’s Snoopy Sees a Day Break on Earth (1970), a large William T. Williams, Mercer’s Stop (1971), on offer for $875,000, and a series of collages by Romare Bearden from the ’60s priced at $400,000 and $450,000. Rosenfeld said that the Tate exhibition was igniting a conversation but that the artists within it are still very new to the U.K. audience, so he was not surprised that sales were still developing.

“We have to pay special attention to the education process,” he said. “What’s gratifying is that there’s a visceral reaction to the works themselves without having any knowledge of who the artist is. It shouldn’t matter that they’re African-American; they’re just great works.”

Jack Shainman said that the Tate show was the tipping point that brought him to Frieze London for the first time this year after a number of years being on the fence. He echoed Rosenfeld in saying that the exhibition was bringing “a lot of attention to artists and to ideas that maybe weren’t at the forefront here,” among them Barkley L. Hendricks, who passed away at the age of 72 this past April and whose work Icon for My Man Superman (Superman Never Saved any Black People – Bobby Seale) (1969) fronts the marketing materials for “Soul of a Nation.”

“We never imagined that Barkley wouldn’t be here with us today. That was really shocking,” he said.

The Hendricks painting on Shainman’s booth (Anthem, 2015) hadn’t yet sold by Wednesday evening, but a number of other works, including Kerry James Marshall’s Untitled (Bathers) (2017) for $875,000 and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s The Measures (2017) for $80,000, had. Titus Kaphar’s large, unstretched painting on canvas Shifting the Gaze (2017) sold for $80,000 to an unnamed institution.

London’s Stephen Friedman Gallery devoted its entire Frieze London stand to 80-year-old African-American sculptor Melvin Edwards. Three works from his long-running “Lynch Fragments” series are on view at Tate Modern, and 12 works from the series, for which he welds together found steel objects ranging from chains to springs to bullets, are on offer at the fair.

Gallery associate Dora Fisher noted that Edwards had three major museum shows early in his career: He was one of the first African-American sculptors to have a solo show at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and was in the second show at the Studio Museum in Harlem, which subsequently led him to a solo show in 1970 at the Whitney.

Nonetheless, “he only got rediscovered in the last 20 years,” she said, something she attributed to audiences’ too-narrow expectations of black artists. “Maybe there was a pressure on African-American artists to not be part of the abstract movement,” she said.

Installation view of Blum & Poe’s booth at Frieze Masters, 2017. Photo by Tom Carter for Artsy.

The cross-pollination between past and present, Frieze London and Frieze Masters, continued with artists like Julian Schnabel and Alfredo Jaar. Schnabel, an artist more immediately aligned with Frieze London, has eight abstract landscapes from 1994 at Blum & Poe’s Frieze Masters booth. Jaar’s early works from the 1970s and ’80s are on view in a joint Masters presentation by Goodman and Galerie Lelong. Meanwhile, a not-insignificant amount of secondary market material is on offer at Frieze London, with Sigmar Polke’s Laterna Magica (1988–96) selling from Thaddaeus Ropac’s booth there on opening day for $2.5 million.

That is a natural reflection of where the market and critical conversation is currently, with attention distributed evenly among old, young, and established (if not mid-career) artists and dealers more freely mixing among them. But it also means that treating them as two separate fairs—whose tents happen to be 15 minutes apart, necessitating a 2 p.m. jog for dealers who show at both—makes a lot less sense now than it did in 2012.

—Alexander Forbes

from Artsy News

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