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By Kurt Cole EidsvigOctober 9, 2014 0

FUMES: After “Edward Hopper and Photography” at the Whitney Museum of Art

1. Lights are coming on everywhere you look tonight. The flickering shutter of cameras announce (whisper) everybody already knew how to take photographs of television screens before you even thought to change. Women stand in something greater than the misunderstanding…

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By Greer MansfieldAugust 19, 2013 0

Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting at the High Museum

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are big business, though it’s difficult to say whether these two Communists would have been surprised by their blockbuster marketability. They were famous in their lifetimes, of course, but the level of interest in the…

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By Gabriela JaureguiAugust 19, 2013 0

Les Papesses- Palais des Papes, Avignon and Collection Lambert, Avignon

Pope’s palace populated by she-popes First, Joan impersonates the pontiff, Oh Petre, pater patrum, Papisse prodito partum! And now this! Camille, Louise, Kiki, Jana and Berlinde ride in, red robes aflow leaving behind not flesh babies but objects all sizes.…

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By Leah Triplett HarringtonAugust 19, 2013 0

The Order of Release: John Ruskin and Effie Gray

John Ruskin never slept with his wife. So one of the most enduring stories of the man goes. Yes, he authored Modern Painters (1843), a treatise of ardor and appreciation for a new kind of painter, typified in the work…

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By Amaranth BorsukAugust 19, 2013 0

FUTURE BEAUTY: 30 YEARS OF JAPANESE FASHION @ Seattle Art Museum

SHIFTING SHAPES1. Some Magicians Are Like Sculptors Pinwheel, you are a talisman guiding the light of astral bodies: save it up and blast the bad rays back to space. Backspace. Back up. You cultivate a telic chakra in your cyclone…

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By Kurt Cole EidsvigAugust 19, 2013 0

23 EXIT SIGNS: After Road Trip at the Gallery at Atlantic Wharf

EXIT 1 ↗ The entire history of America is based on rediscovering what has already been found. Picture yourself, late for work, searching for your car keys and eyeglasses only to hear the Hyundai exhaling exhaust fumes out back in…

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By Kurt Cole EidsvigMarch 18, 2013 0

DOOR TO THE RIVER – After Willem De Kooning, 1960

“Poïesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιέω, which means “to make”. This word, the root of our modern “poetry”, was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation…

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By Kurt Cole EidsvigFebruary 22, 2013 0

Renting Basquiat

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By Kurt Cole EidsvigFebruary 14, 2013 0

Still’s Life

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By Kurt Cole EidsvigJanuary 28, 2013 0

Poem for Vladimir Umanets

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By Lin A. NulmanOctober 26, 2012 0

Music of the Ink Dark Moon: An Evening of Music and Poetry at New England Conservatory

If you’ve seen footage of the audience at The Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles appeared, screaming the joy that possessed them body and soul, you’ll have a fair grasp of my state of mind at seeing poet Jane Hirshfield…

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By Tara Merenda NelsonOctober 15, 2012 0

KITTENS GROW UP: Tara Nelson & Luther Price in conversation

Everything will be ok, just close your eyes little thing go to sleep little fuck feel my hand on your warm forehead It’s cold isn’t it? Ice cold. Dream of something real sweet for mommy Mommy likes sweet things Dream of merry-go-rounds…

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