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Live from Mrs. G's House: Episode 1-Maggie Cavallo

June 18, 2017 in Artists, everything after

A talk with the brilliant Maggie Cavallo.

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Tags: Gardner Museum, interview, Live from Mrs-G, Living Room, Maggie Cavallo
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Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag. Designed by Dieter Appelt, Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Justus Müller and Christian Zwirner.
Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag. Designed by Dieter Appelt, Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Justus Müller and Christian Zwirner.

It really does matter....

November 29, 2016 in Uncategorized

History isn’t a unknown to us.

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Tags: climate denialism, Ed Markey, EJI, Elizabeth Warren, Hate Crimes, Hillary Clinton, HRC, KKK, Klan, misogyny, Obama, senators, SPLC, Trumpism, white supremacy
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Reading Room

November 15, 2016 in Books, galleries, Influences, James Baldwin, race

Because there are other people besides me who think of things.

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Tags: Baldwin, Boskin, Brooks, Bullard, Coates, Douglass, EJI, Equal Justice Initiative, Family Pictures, Gallery Kayafas, Hirsch, Hughes, lynching, Obama, Painter, Rankine, Žižek
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"What did you do on your sabbatical?"

February 08, 2016 in studio practice

When you pay attention to what’s around you, it’s stunning that other people don’t see.

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, a dream, Adam Ward, Alison Parker, Carmine, CNN, Daniel Pantaleo, Dante Parker, David Eagleman, death, Don Lemon, Eric Garner, exhibition, Ezell Ford, faculty exhibiition, Ferguson, II, III, influences, John H- Crawford, Kajieme Powell, loss, Maya Lin, Michael Brown, Michael Slager, Neon, Pablo Neruda, race, racism, sabbatical, Tamir Rice, THE GUARDIAN, Vester Lee Flanagan, Walter Scott
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Some Girl Scouts have my back....

January 06, 2016 in politics, race

Folks reach out and you are glad to see their hands….

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Tags: #BlackLivesMatter, Coretta Scott King, Girl Scouts, Jane Elliott, Mall of America, Mr- Rogers, open carry, Rosa Parks, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, Trina Jackson, Viola Liuzzo
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Dushko Petrovich, Regionalism, Installation in Parque El Ejido, Quito, Ecuador, 2013
Dushko Petrovich, Regionalism, Installation in Parque El Ejido, Quito, Ecuador, 2013

ONE QUESTION - Dushko Petrovich

January 05, 2016 in One Question

Plaid. By choice and by necessity.

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Tags: acrylic, Adjunct Commuter Weekly, Anoka Faruqee, Colleen Asper, Daniel Buren, deCordova, Dushko Petrovich, ICA, Ken Johnson, Mary Heilman, n + 1, painting, Paper Monument, plaid, Robert Storr, Roger White, Sol LeWitt, Supports-Surfaces, Will Villalongo, Yvonne Rainer
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A new poem from Kirsten Andersen

December 09, 2015 in Poems

Hell, by Kirsten Andersen

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Tags: Alaska Quarterly Review, companions, Hell, Q- Ave Press, Sewanee, The Believer, Tin House
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I fit the description....

December 04, 2015 in everything after

An attempt to get lunch, in my own neighborhood, on my way to work…

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Tags: Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, police, race, racism
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Cauleen Smith, Drawing for The Fullness of Time, ink on paper, 2007
Cauleen Smith, Drawing for The Fullness of Time, ink on paper, 2007

ONE QUESTION - Cauleen Smith

November 12, 2015 in One Question

Cauleen Smith answers One Question about THE FULLNESS OF TIME.

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Tags: film, Hot 8 Brass Band, Mardi Gras Indians, New Orleans, Orpheus and Eurydice, Paul Chan, Samuel Beckett, science fiction, structuralism, The Fullness of Time, Thomas Hirschhorn, Waiting for Godot
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New Writing from Emily Abendroth

November 11, 2015 in everything after, Poems, texts, writers

New writing by Emily Abendroth

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Tags: Ahsahta Press, Carville Annex, companions, Headlands, James Fenimore Cooper, MacDowell, Mark Twain, Martin Espada, Millay Colony, Miranda Mellis, Pew Foundation
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A Recent Incident in a Black-owned Business...

September 22, 2015 in everything after

Sometimes you people show you who they are.

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Tags: political correctness, privilege, race, racism
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"What would you tell an artist who wants to move to Detroit?" - Part 3

September 15, 2015 in Detroit

Investigate before you emigrate….

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Tags: Detroit Commissioning Project, Joel Peterson, MAHS, Peoples Records, Rebecca Mazzei, Trinosophes
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After a banquet...

September 12, 2015 in studio practice
After a banquet...

How something comes to be sometimes has nothing to do with how it started….

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Tags: painting, portraiture, studio practice
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Photo of Leon Johnson's limited edition book, Vestigial Enclaves and Sacral Enclosures, which include a new commissioned poem by Bill Harris, almanac notes by Norman Douglas, photography by Leander Johnson, a commissioned composition by Joel Peterso…
Photo of Leon Johnson's limited edition book, Vestigial Enclaves and Sacral Enclosures, which include a new commissioned poem by Bill Harris, almanac notes by Norman Douglas, photography by Leander Johnson, a commissioned composition by Joel Peterson (also performed live), six maps by Paul Bartow, and six new works by the Johnson. Designed, typeset and printed by Megan O'Connell. Handbound by Johnson.

"What would you tell an artist who wants to move to Detroit?" Part 2

July 30, 2015 in Detroit

Know before you go…

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Tags: Bill Harris, Edith Turner, Joel Peterson, Leon Johnson, Megan O'Connell, Norman Douglas, Paul Bartow, Salt and Cedar
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"Detroit Skyline Tile," Pewabic Pottery, 4"x4", created in the 1980s by staff artist David Ellison.
"Detroit Skyline Tile," Pewabic Pottery, 4"x4", created in the 1980s by staff artist David Ellison.

"What would you tell an artist who wants to move to Detroit?" PART 1

July 29, 2015 in Detroit

Improve if you want to move…

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Tags: James Hart III, James LaCroix, John Sinclair, MC5, Pewabic, pottery
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