Fan Letter

‘Contemporary art institutions should stop looking to museums or theatres as role models and, instead, learn from nightclubs’

‘Nelson is wilful and demanding, forever frustrated by the gap between expression and vision, as are all great artists’

‘Gillen suggests that New York is less a place than it is an open-ended idea’

‘Who’s Afraid of Barney Newman (1968) invokes a multiplicity of diasporic readings’

‘The contemporary global economy is based on flows and conversions of energy into information into capital’

‘Appointed by Barack Obama in 2009, Sotomayor is the fourth woman and the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court’

‘Through its transformations and multiple languages, the poem becomes a dark mirror that reflects the missing truth’

‘Its name tells you everything you really need to know: it’s big, it’s complex and it smashes things together.’

‘His work resembles a world from which the humans have departed; all that remains are the mute plastic things, marked with purposeless love’

‘The possibility of arriving at insights, even unsettling ones, makes the pursuit of art worthwhile and necessary’

‘Take the heat and the breadth and the air and the life and the longing and land it in your own back garden’

‘Even a piece of paper had a trajectory and a life: to be written upon; to be used as a tablecloth or to clean the table; to be burned for heat and to become ashes’

‘When I think about Kutcher and Moore, what comes to my mind is a vision of pure, halcyon happiness’

‘This ethereal portrait also miniaturizes Mofokeng’s quest for affinity and understanding in a world dogged by shadow’

‘Since Lucano was elected mayor in 2004, the town of Riace, located in one of the most impoverished regions of Italy, has welcomed thousands of refugees’

‘It’s a sinewy and organic thing, almost threatening, in an otherwise boring district of embassies and hotels’

‘Over the radio, he asked listeners a simple question: what is your favourite sound of Beijing?’

‘I have secretly kept two copies of this series for years’

‘It was exactly the right thing at exactly the right time’

‘The sheer farce of it. Wonderful. That was what made so much sense and felt so good’