Family + Playlab, Configuration Diagram for The Worms at the New Museum, New York City, NY, 2011
People think a lot nowadays about the dignity of work, and about the need for it…But it’s a fraud. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted. Only idleness has a moral value because it can serve as a criterion by which to judge men. It is fatal only to the second rate. That is its lesson and its greatness. Work, on the other hand, crushes everyone down to the same level. It provides no basis for judging men. It brings into action a metaphysic of humiliation. Under the form of slavery which the society of right-thinking people now give it, the best men cannot survive its effects.
Albert Camus, Notebooks
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Celebrate Caribbean American Heritage Month by remembering American painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat’s Haitian mother nurtured his early interest in art. He went from tagging New York City streets with “SAMO,” meaning “same old shit,” to collaborating with close friend and mentor Andy Warhol. Basquiat’s work debuted at prominent galleries around the globe. Even long after his death, the Basquiat name is just as perennial as his art.
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