“I don’t know much about leaving town
just that the wooden handle that pumps that well
keeps going up and down inside of me.”
-Ali Liebegott, The Beautifully Worthless
“An ability to affirm what is contingent and incoherent in oneself may allow one to affirm others who may or may not ‘mirror’ one’s own constitution.”
— Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself (2005)
“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand – that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
A handful of times this year I’ve been asked or had to provide a blurb about why/how I go about my arts journalism work. These are my latest thoughts on that.
Recently I attended a two-day symposium leading up to the opening of an exhibition at the New Museum by Carlos Motta titled We Who Feel Differently. I wrote a piece for Hyperallergic about the symposium and the ideas behind it. TheContinue reading
So I was recently in Costa Rica and stopped into a museum in the small town of Alajuela dedicated to Juan Santamaría, a national hero and a figurehead around which a part of Costa Rican national identity gathers. And as IContinue reading
Maybe it’s because I’m a writer, but the number of times that “breast” and “vagina” have appeared in the news in the past month makes me wonder if people, and by “people” I mean “the government,” remember that those organsContinue reading
