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I Savor The Pain You Cause Me – Prayers
Read more: I Savor The Pain You Cause Me – PrayersIt’s not that I forgot how to pray But when you’ve lost faith, what’s the point? What if faith is the least of losses? Secular prayers Meditation and Daydreams Painting and Music and Fiction and Hollywood and Sexual Fantasies that somehow stay warm on the coldest nights And Memories Memories beyond the imagination of…
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Review: Field of Dreams – The Surrealist Landscape
Read more: Review: Field of Dreams – The Surrealist Landscape“Surrealism is the ‘invisible ray’ which will one day enable us to win out over our opponents. ‘You are no longer trembling, carcass’. This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass. The earth, draped in its verdant cloak, makes as little impression upon me as a ghost. It is living and ceasing…
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Review: Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist
Read more: Review: Archibald Motley: Jazz Age ModernistArchibald Motley was born in 1891 in New Orleans. His travels would lead him over the years from Bronzeville in Chicago, to a year in Paris on a Guggenheim Fellowship, to Mexico in the company of his nephew, the writer Willard Motley, and through January 17 of next year in an exhibit at the Whitney…
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Review: The Vesper Project by Titus Kaphar
Read more: Review: The Vesper Project by Titus KapharThe artist Titus Kaphar has created something simultaneously fascinating and creepy as hell in his installation “The Vesper Project,” on display through December 13 at the Katzen Art Center museum on the campus of American University in Washington, DC. In the New Haven-based artist’s telling, a man named Benjamin Vesper experienced a psychotic break, attacked…
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Brooklyn Sketchbook
Read more: Brooklyn SketchbookA long time ago, when the earth was green, I lived in Brooklyn, on Fifth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets. It’s probably a nice place to live now, out of my price range, but it was neither back then. This was the view from my bedroom window. So was this. I’d be very surprised…