On the Lenbachhaus exhibition and her books.
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Truthfulness to life—both fantasy life and factual life—is the basis of all great art. Maurice Sendak, who died yesterday 5 years ago.
clementinevonradics: Patron Saint of Manic Depressives, Clementine von Radics Thank the stars for this miracle.For the way we work our broken fingers through the dirttill we convince the good to grow there. New poem up on Write About Now Clementine von Radics new poem touches on the messy complexity of art and mental illness (like …
I think identity as an umbrella captures all of these complicated topics. But still, the self is so complicated that we can carry all of these different parts of ourselves around and they somehow make sense Aya Aziz: How Do So Many People Fit Into A Single Nobody? In this interview for Guernica Magazine, Sara …
Hard-working orchestral folk punk band East Cameron Folkcore is releasing a lot of material in September. There is an all-new LP Better Off coming out in September (in Germany on Grand Hotel van Cleef) as is Fossils, an all-acoustic, live EP of older, truly stunning material. The EP is streaming on soundcloud now, and available for streaming …
The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it’s just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them. I can always be rebelling against my boss. Miranda July in an interview with The Believer (via)
We have similar stories all throughout history: the moment when a perception—whether a literal way of seeing or a figurative mode of thinking—is assaulted and fundamentally shifts, a non-reversible alteration, a displacement from one’s old ways. Western society has seen plenty of moments like these, moments where a perceptive or critical threshold has been crossed. …
Photography is inescapably a memorial art. It selects, out of the flow of time, a moment to be preserved, with the moments before and after falling away like sheer cliffs. At a dinner party earlier this year, I was in conversation with someone who asked me to define photography. I suggested that it is about …
Last week on NPR’s Bullseye, host Jesse Thorn talked with Jeff Chang, author of the new book Who We Be: The Colorization of America, about culture and art, the history of multiculturalism in the US, the rise of ethnic studies, microaggressions in Berkley, the LA riots, hip hop, and more. It’s a great, in-depth conversation …
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