It is May 2016 in the paper conservation lab of the Menil Collection in Houston, and a group of researchers and I are coming face to face with the dense sophistication of Trisha Brown's choreography. …
On a Sunday morning a few months ago I went to Mondoñedo, a small town in Galicia, Spain. My friend took me there to show me where her family was from. Hundreds of years ago, the village was quite …
In our current image-saturated global culture and speculative economic contemporary society, images and objects are endowed with multiple layers of meaning. The group of images brought together in …
On October 22, 2016, The New York Times published an op-ed piece by political reporter Alec MacGillis titled "Go Midwest, Young Hipster." It reads as incredibly uninformed now--the opening line is …
Northbound on Interstate 65 on the outskirts of Nashville, just past the shoulder of the highway, is a monument to the Confederacy. A rust-colored bucking horse mounted by a bearded Confederate …
Rock music, better known as Rock and Roll, from its genesis in the 1950s to the present, has remained a dynamic cultural force. For many throughout world history, Dan Graham included, music holds …
No matter what you’re doing—intently reading this piece, scrolling through the journal or flipping between tabs on a web browser, eating, talking to a friend, sitting, walking, …
“There is no political power without control of the archive, if not of memory. Effective democratization can always be measured by this essential criterion: the participation in and the access to …
For the past two years, artist Liz McCarthy has been making whistles from clay, hosting “hangouts” during which people are invited to play with them, and freely distributing them to participants. …
In a minimal black ring box with white interior cushions rests a 2-carat blue diamond set on a silver band. The ring’s simple form doubles in a mirror positioned within the lid of the box, and the …
Honoring the pedagogic legacy of Thomas McEvilley is a daunting task. It is made a little easier by knowing that I am not alone in the attempt: as times goes on, the impact of his scholarship has …
I never met Tom McEvilley face to face. Our personal acquaintance consisted of a few telephone conversations in the late 1980s or early 1990s. Somehow he learned that I had spent some time in India …
Not long before Donald Barthelme moved to New York and became known as one of the most exciting, innovative, and important writers of his time, he lived in his hometown of Houston and served as the …
"…the grace of the black tops spinning out of control … both ominous and startlingly human” as though committed to “edging each other out of the picture”
From the Art Lies Feature: Prepositional Art
From the Art Lies Feature: Prepositional Art
From the Art Lies Feature: Prepositional Art
From the Art Lies Feature: Prepositional Art I was inspired by the work of Lee Krasner and her urban themed collages, in particular her large 1953 collage City Verticals . My work consists of a …
When the actress, poet, playwright, and activist Ruby Dee died in June 2014, I noticed various images of her online and in the newspapers. I had always admired her long and passionate relationship …
Volumes of fiction and poetry, as well as specific poems and stories, often carry dedications, but we generally don’t consider them as central to the meaning of the texts, unless they are part of …