Kiss by the window

...I want
a radiance of attention
like the candle's flame when we eat,

I mean a kind of awe
attending the spaces between us—
Not a roof but a field of stars.

from Rent
Jane Cooper 1924-2007










“Kiss by the Window” (1892),Edvard Munch, at the Art Institute of Chicago
: New York Times
Munch Museum/Munch-Ellingsen Group, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Riding the Subway, Rubbing Shoulders With Picasso

New York Times

I am only describing language, not explaining anything.

Joseph Kosuth, No Number #6 (On Color, Blue) (1991), neon tubing with argon gas and mercury. In the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art's permanent collection: "I am only describing language, not explaining anything." (neon on wall, circa 1997, displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the original neon is blue) A succint definition of Conceptual art, in "Inquiry into the foundations of the concept 'art', as it has come to mean," given by Joseph Kosuth, requires "a linguistic rather than plastic context."