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2017 Fall Reading List by Jordannah Elizabeth
I’m literally sitting writing this reading list in a Hugo Boss jacket that’s a bit too large for my small feminine frame. I found it barely worn in freshly dry cleaned in a “giveaway” box in my neighborhood. Everyone in the neighborhood leaves books, clothes and appliances out to share and trade. Some neighbors are […]
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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 -
PLAYGROUND RULES & PHYSICS by Moriah M. Mylod
Tables turn Moving around and around Seesaw goes up while the other one is down Just so you can push your friend back up again To take the turn The Swing goes Backward to move Forward Then Back & Forth You go up the Slide just to drop back down, again Upward & Downward Your […]
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Auxochrome-Chromophore by Anindita Bhattacharya
Do you believe in a love that informs, enriches, and encourages creativity? What is the purpose of love, if not to uplift us, becalm us, and embalm our broken spirits? We do not want to be crippled and asphyxiated in love, we must be able to soar; our spirits must be free. Two women, two […]
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The Ring Shout and the African Presence in America by Anwar Uhuru
In African American and/or Black American culture, the African and or ancestral presence is both visible and invisible. The ways to name what is Black American is in music and the infamous cuisine that has come to be called “soul food.” The production of highly consumed products of Black labor and the descendants is more […]
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The Performance of Contemporary Art [Part 2] by Adam MacHose
In part one, I wrote about a theme that has emerged in this column of the mercurial nature of artistic quality. i.e. one day this is good art; the next day that is good art. Even the eye of the beholder is fickle. I continued by identifying some trends among the professional artist community. In […]
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The Performance of Contemporary Art [Part 1] by Adam MacHose
What is a professional artist? That sort of word game can sometimes be trivial semantics. Or at best, a predictable Socratic inquiry that ends in “who can say?” But this question informs the way teachers advise students to enter the world as artists, so it’s important to form a basic answer, even if it is […]
TERSE. Journal : fears. futures. phantasmagorical. funsized. 