“Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution. “
Waiting for the Barbarians, C. P. Cavafy
Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place, The Fitzwilliam Museum
20 September 2024 – 2 March 2025.
In The Week in Art. (Podcast)
I’m Gonna Getcha, a two person show by Alejandra Moros and Thomas Bils. Spinello, September 21 – October 26, 2024. Checklist.
Glenda León
La Lluvia
The Rain
2015
Monotipo, crayón y foto-grabado sobre papel Bunkoshi 60 g
Monothype, crayon and photo gravure on Bunkoshi paper 60 g
Every sound is a shape of time: selections from PAMM’s Collection is organized by PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans with PAMM Curatorial Assistant Fabiana A. Sotillo.
Participating artists include Abraham Cruzvillegas, Alfredo Jaar, Ellsworth Kelly, Glenda León, Helen
Frankenthaler, Jennie C. Jones, Jules Olitski, Julie Mehretu, Lawrence Weiner, Luis Camnitzer,
Lydia Okumura, Mark Bradford, Morris Louis, Nicole Cherubini, Richard Serra, Richard Dupont,
and Robert Morris.
Bienvenu Steinberg & C, May 26 – July 15, 2022.
Mountains
2023 | USA | 95 mins | Haitian Creole, English, Spanish
Directed by Monica Sorelle
Written by Monica Sorelle & Robert Colom
Produced by Robert Colom, p.g.a.
Co-Produced by Tristan Scott-Behrends
Fredric Jameson in Critical Inquiry:
“The Symbolic Inference; Or, Kenneth Burke and Ideological Analysis” (1978)
“Ideology and Symbolic Action” (1978)
“On Magic Realism in Film” (1986)
“Culture and Finance Capital” (1997)
“The Theoretical Hesitation: Benjamin’s Sociological Predecessor” (1999)
“The End of Temporality” (2003)
“Symptoms of Theory or Symptoms for Theory?” (2004)
“History and Elegy in Sokurov” (2006)
“The Square Peg in the Round Hole or the History of Spaceflight” (2008)
“How Not to Historicize Theory” (2008)
Source: The Years of Jameson | In the Moment
Jameson wrote 17 pieces for the London Review. ( ‘Jameson thinks dialectically in the strong sense, in the way we are all supposed to think but almost no one does’)
Yo vengo de todas partes, y hacia todas partes voy, Amanda Linares, Piero Atchugarry, September 21 – November 2, 2024. Curated by Laura Novoa.
Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crece la palma,
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar mis versos del alma.Yo vengo de todas partes,
Y hacia todas partes voy:
Arte soy entre las artes,
En los montes, monte soy.Yo sé los nombres extraños
De las yerbas y las flores,
Y de mortales engaños,
Y de sublimes dolores.Yo he visto en la noche oscura
Llover sobre mi cabeza
Los rayos de lumbre pura
De la divina belleza.[…]
A sincere man am I
From the land where palm trees grow,
And I want before I die
My soul’s verses to bestow.I’m a traveller to all parts,
And a newcomer to none:
I am art among the arts,
With the mountains I am one.I know how to name and class
All the strange flowers that grow;
I know every blade of grass,
Fatal lie and sublime woe.I have seen through dead of night
Upon my head softly fall,
Rays formed of the purest light
From beauty celestial.[…]
Yo soy un hombre sincero, Jose Marti, translated by Manuel A. Tellechea
Also, at Piero Atchugarry, Women at Large, Nathalie Alfonso, Maria Theresa Barbist, Carolina Cueva, Carol Jazzar, Charo Oquet, Luna Palazzolo-Daboul, Chire Reagans, Carol Todaro, Denise Treizman. Curated by Dainy Tapia.
At Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, The55Project presents Tex(T), by André Azevedo, curated by Jennifer Inacio.
[…]
that one
where something oddly music
will pass through your
night
and it will be me
sweet me
– AN
Also, (The Goddess Who Created This Passing World) via AN
[…] was I
Meant by her to recognize a painting
As beautiful or a movie stunning
And to adore the finitude of words
And understand as surfaces my dreams
Know the eye the organ of affection
And depths
– Alice Notley
There are charms
that forestall harm.
The house bristles
with opportunities
for stasis: refolding
the linens along
their creases, keeping
the spoons and chairs
in their right places.
Nobody needs to
witness one’s exquisite
care with the napkins
for the napkins
to have been the act
that made the fact
unhappen.
Linens, Kay Ryan
She is both detached and human, silent till she wants to say something, and then says it supremely well.
Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf.
It seems like you could, but
you can’t go back and pull
the roots and runners and replant.
It’s all too deep for that.
You’ve overprized intention,
have mistaken any bent you’re given
for control. You thought you chose
the bean and chose the soil.
You even thought you abandoned
one or two gardens. But those things
keep growing where we put them—
if we put them at all.
A certain kind of Eden holds us thrall.
Even the one vine that tendrils out alone
in time turns on its own impulse,
twisting back down its upward course
a strong and then a stronger rope,
the greenest saddest strongest
kind of hope.
A certain kind of Eden, Kay Ryan
Adam Shatz, in LRB, the pager attack and Israel’s forever war.
Since 7 October, the Biden administration has given Israel virtually everything it has asked for, from F-15 fighter aircraft and white phosphorous bombs to diplomatic cover at the United Nations. Joe Biden and Antony Blinken have underwritten the destruction of Gaza
[…]
Let’s imagine a militant organisation, such as Hizbullah, had carried out a similar attack in Israel, detonating explosives in the phones of soldiers and reservists, and murdering Israeli children. The Americans would not have waited to ‘gather the facts’ before denouncing the attack. The response of much of the Western press has been striking, too, full of fascination for Mossad’s cloak-and-dagger ingenuity. What you won’t see in these accounts is the word ‘terrorism’, which is as taboo as the word ‘genocide’ when the perpetrator is Israel.
[…]
Israel hasn’t taken official responsibility for the attacks, but it is gloating. The short-term success can hardly be denied. The pager attacks have put Hizbullah and Iran on the defensive. They have distracted attention from the horrors Israel continues to visit on Gaza and the West Bank, from the obscenity of Sde Teiman, a torture and rape centre in the Negev where dozens of prisoners from Gaza have been murdered, and from the hostage ordeal, the biggest threat to Netanyahu’s premiership.
Terrorizing Haitians will not help you. (NPR) We have been threaten, subjugated to violence, lied to and about, mistreated, poorly served, mocked, derided, and yet, we are. We know love, community, and freedom.