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  • Rebecca Solnit – Orwell’s Roses

    To read, via nyer https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/rebecca-solnit-on-the-politics-of-pleasure

    …a natural history of gardening, a dissection of the rose as capitalist metaphor, or a defense of art and beauty as a bulwark against the annihilating forces of totalitarianism.
    …pleasure as a form of resistance

    roses–they became a symbol for the whole contemporary world.

    Part of living in the contemporary world is knowing the conditions under which [ANYTHING & EVERYTHING]…are produced

    …suggesting that meaning is inherent in materials, if you pay attention to them, and meaning is also inherent in the process of making.

  • Surfin’ in the M.I.A. by Haute Tension

    “Surfin‘…” is Haute Tension’s first studio release since their self-titled debut album…

  • INSIDE/OUT at the Black Box Studio Rutgers University–Camden

    INSIDE/OUT at the Black Box Studio Rutgers University–Camden


    Artists hold a dialogue on the provocative and evocative relationship between art and trauma at the Black Box at Rutgers Camden.
    Join renowned contemporary artists Caleb Weintraub, Adler Guerrier, Judith Schechter, and Sergio Garcia, for this live online and on-site panel discussion and Q&A. This conversation will be moderated by artist Margery Amdur and curator Jorge Luis Gutierrez.

    Collectively, the moderators and the panelists come from distinct and notable practices. INSIDE/OUT, an emergent and inclusive platform, aims to discuss the theme by contextualizing and demystifying contemporary artistic practices.

    November 3, 2021, 6pm
    Black Box Studio
    Rutgers University–Camden
    College of Arts and Sciences
    314 Linden Street, Camden
    New Jersey, 08102

    Via: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/98248108363?pwd=STEwOThoQW9zNm45dWVWbjZacjEvdz09

  • Art in America , November-December 2021

    Cover of Art in America, November/December 2021.

    The South is the theme of A.i.A.’s November/December issue. I am featured in STAYING SOUTH, article by Logan Lockner and I have contributed to PORTFOLIO, a print inserted in the physical magazine.

    This issue also has a review of Michael Richards, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Florida, by Ade Omotosho.

  • All the emotions and odds and ends of things

    A light so trumpetlike in its tone knuckles the breeze,

    but it’s a blue world no matter how brassed.

  • Difficult, but really

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    … impossible to defeat an irrational position with a rational argument.

    Persepolis Rising (The Expanse Book 7), James S. A. Corey

  • Smathers Plaza

    in progress.

  • 101821

    Come out of your houses drumming