Take
and give glee.
Summon surprise.
Something whim-
sical this way comes.
It smells something
like wishes wrapped
in wind as you
trod the winding path
through
the forests
of your interior.
38. Shedding the Old, Samantha Thornhill
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inarticulate thoughts in physical lawlessness
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via revue indigene.
Artist Opportunity Database via Fractured Atlas
The friend is indefinite.
[…]
You tell the friend the best things
you can imagine, and every single one of them has
already happened, so you recount them
of great necessity with nostalgic, atomic ferocity,
and one by one by one until many. The eggbirds whistle
the gargantuan trees. The noiserocks fall twisted
into each other’s dreams, their colorful paratrooping,
their skinny dark jeans, little black walnuts
to the surface of this earth. You and the friend
remain twisted together, thinking your simultaneous
and inarticulate thoughts in physical lawlessness,
in chemical awkwardness. It is too much
to be so many different things at once.
The Friend, Matt Hart
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I’ve also yearned for what Virginia Woolf describes in her novel “Jacob’s Room” as the “spiritual suppleness” of the kind of intimacy in which “mind prints upon mind indelibly.” That was what I saw in those Penn photographs, and what I saw in recent months, too, in a number of shows, in which artists seemed to be exploring the smaller worlds found in rooms. It started in the late spring, with Sanya Kantarovsky’s (now closed) show “Scarecrow,” at Michael Werner.
Worlds in Rooms, Hilton Als. New Yorker, July 29, 2025.
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a present made intelligible, tamed with language
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This is all to say that what is unprecedented in scale is not altogether without precedent. The wish for precedented times is a wish for a present made intelligible, tamed with language, a moment we need not flail to meet.
A Sensualist’s History of Gay Marriage and Immigration, By Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker.
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A whisper
Yessica Gispert, Susurro, Frost Art Museum.
Literata, via TypeTogether, comes with a SIL OFL License, released in 2015.
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The Singer is support, but he cannot shield
The Singer is support, but he cannot shield,
But in another city, another valley, another ghetto, another slum, another favela, another township, another intifada, another war, another birth, somebody is singing Redemption Song, as if the Singer wrote it for no other reason but for this sufferah to sing, shout, whisper, weep, bawl, and scream right here, right now.
– Marlon James
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The Alluring Power of Ambiguity
Der Greif Guest Room : Joshua Chuang & Barney Kulok
The Edge of Desire, Jorge Rodriguez. On Evelyn Sosa.
Yessica Gispert, Susurro. Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum.
Agustín Fernández, The Alluring Power of Ambiguity. Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum.
France will recognise a Palestinian state in September at the UN general assembly, Emmanuel Macron has said. Guardian.
