Dia:Beacon and Nika Antuanette - 08/17/18
Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audiencewants to see is you processing what's happening in your world. ---Richard Gere
[ Nicholas Croft eats another vegetarian lunch @ Chuang Yen Monastery, Kent N.Y. ]
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our
own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ---Thomas Merton
[ Nicholas Croft engages in gentle dialog with Brother Daniel @ Graymoor Bookstore ]
When the doors of perception to the deepest experience of listening to music
are opened, it is just like having sex with the angels. ---Nicholas Croft
[ Dancer Nika Antuanette @ Wooster Street, Soho NYC ]
I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends...it really
doesn't matter what we do. ---Kirsten Dunst
[ Dancer Nika Antuanette @ Wooster Street, Soho NYC ]
The way to know life is to love many things. ---Vincent Van Gogh
[ Kickstarter Project Scholar Nicholas Croft @ Dia:Beacon ]
Dan Flavin was a minimalist artist known for creating sculptural objects and installations from
commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. He was born in Jamaica, New York, and was
sent to Catholic schools. He studied for the priesthood at the Immaculate Conception
Preparatory Seminary in Brooklyn between 1947 and 1952.
Consilience = Agreement between the approaches to a topic of different
academic subjects, especially science and the humanities.
A counterculture is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from
those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.
Robert Irwin's landmark site-specific work Excursus: Homage to the Square3
exemplifies the artist's practice of creating environments that bring attention
to spatial relations and the subtleties of perception.
No End Neon: 1990/2017: François Morellet (April 30, 1926 - May 10, 2016)
was a French contemporary painter, sculptor, and light artist.
