One version of personal mythology might be: the way in which we misremember information and stories, or the way misremembered stories are passed on to us. Somewhere among the innumerable yoga classes I’ve attended, I picked up a bit of mythology connected to hanumanasana – a pose that in its […]
Reason #10,000 that I am terminally single: I voluntarily signed up for a 4-week class titled Reading Walden in the Anthropocene at the Detroit arm of Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, because it sounded fun and interesting to me. I get it, man, I think too much. But it was […]
DETROIT — The first thing that makes for a harmonious match between fashion-art duo Ruben and Isabel Toledo and the collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts is the shared baseline value of beauty rooted in labor. The majority of the DIA’s world-class collection was funded by the rise of […]
CINCINNATI, Ohio — Intermedia artist Lindsey Whittle introduces her artist statement for Archive as Action — a three-woman show at Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati — with a recounting of the Hindu parable about three blind people who encounter an elephant. One grabs the tail and thinks it’s a snake; one lays […]
SLANT (2019), photographer Aaron Schuman’s new book, combines documentary photography with found poetry excerpted from the newspaper police blotter of Amherst, Massachusetts—an archetypal New England town known for its quaint scenery and for being the birthplace of poet Emily Dickinson. Schuman, a native of the nearby college town of Northhampton, […]
SAVANNAH, Georgia — “Greetings from New Davonhaime,” declares a postcard featuring three oversize slices of cheese pizza floating in a galaxy of sparkles, darkly overlaid across a faint background of checkered picnic blanket in a grassy, tree-lined field. The card is one of an assortment available for visitors to Blackest […]
Something I often talk about, when I am invited to speak at colleges, is the value of creating a personal definition of success. I think this is so important for everyone, but especially people who work independently in creative fields, because the external forms of success are going to be […]
Turn the corner, she thought to herself, as she was brushing her teeth. She’d woken up to emails asking her when work would be finished on a project for which she’d been given no formal deadline. This launched her past her usual morning routine and directly into a rapid-fire attempt […]