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Devotion: Patti Smith by James Carraghan
I started this review at three in the morning. I woke up with a pain in my side; probably the result of poor cooking decisions on my part. I sat in a large chair, covered myself in blankets, and wrapped a heavy scarf around me for a shawl. The pains subsided with the writing, and […]
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20/20 at the Carnegie Museum of Art by James Carraghan
20/20: An exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA, July 22nd through December 31st 2017 REkOGNIZE: An installation by Bradford Young at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA, June 16th through December 31st, 2017 When you explore the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the sheer number of […]
20/20, african american culture, African Art, Andy Warhol, art, artist, Basquiat, Beauty, bell hooks, black art, Bradford Young, Carnegie Museum, Charles Harris, collaboration, Ellen Gallagher, Elliott Carter, Gordon Parks, history, Horace Pippen, Howardena Pindell, Invisible Man, K.O.S., Kara Walker, Lorraine O’Grady, Malcolm X, Marie Cassatt, Maurice Berger, Meleko Mokgosi, other, Patricia J. Williams, photography, race, racism, Ralph Ellison, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Timm Rollins, white privilege -
Playing the Riot Box by James Carraghan
The beat of the heart my love / Is stronger than the charts my love / Your water sign just lit my fire. –“No Matter What Sign You Are,” Diana Ross and the Supremes. There’s a lot of Motown sound coming out of a hole-in-the-wall bar on Christopher Street. That sound, that space, that park, […]
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To Love Edward Said by James Carraghan
I must confess to my own sins here: there is a small part of me that has fallen in love with Edward Said. I do not mean this in the sense that I admire his scholarship and think of him as a role model (though that is very much the case). I mean that I […]
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The Looker: John Berger by James Carraghan
I was making my way through Ways of Seeing when I stopped at the end of the third essay and sent a text message to my friend. Within a few minutes he had responded, telling me that he was reading the same essay, at the same time, for a class; he had the same thoughts and […]
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Deamon Love: Dennis Cooper by James Carraghan
On a whim I went to the blog I had not checked in on in a long while, only to find there was no blog. Everything had been replaced with a page stating that the blog had been closed down for violating terms of use. This was not in and of itself surprising: transgressive artists […]
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Living InFinite Museums by James Carraghan
The Internet is a museum that goes on forever. This is what I want to believe, at least. We are firmly in the grasp of the Digital Humanities revolution. This means things are irreparably different now. The Digital Humanities—and what that term is going to encompass is a question we are still working out—will bring […]
TERSE. Journal : fears. futures. phantasmagorical. funsized. 