Book Theodora Bocanegra Lang Book Theodora Bocanegra Lang

Being an “Art Monster”

What does it mean to be a monster? Lauren Elkin asks this in her latest nonfiction book, Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (2023).

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Home Jo Minhinnett Home Jo Minhinnett

Interior Design

She had often touched a reflection of herself in the hallway mirror. Sometimes when she ran by it, it wasn’t there. But if she stopped, she could see the whole clear outline of herself.

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Voice Peter Conrad Voice Peter Conrad

Harmonica

“Why does everyone like the fire drill so much?” I asked.

She looked at me, smiling happily, and she continued to rock side to side. “When the bombs fall, there is no warning.”

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Voice Raymond P. Diamond Voice Raymond P. Diamond

FND and Me

I have a condition referred to as functional neurological disorder (FND). Upon its onset some years ago, while I was a full-time acrobatic circus student training 4-8 hours a day, 5 days a week, it functionally ruined my life. It is a type of dissociative disorder that manifests through physical symptoms similar to epileptic seizures.

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Art Katia Vanlandingham Art Katia Vanlandingham

Basement Secrets: Cinema Supply’s “Lost and Found”

Artists Anoushka Bhalla, Wen-You Cai, Benny Or, Roxane Revon, Nicolas Tovar, and Chengtao Yi have each contributed a piece of themselves to the basement of Cinema Supply, in an exhibition that centers on vulnerability, family history, and memory.

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Film Samuel Harwood Film Samuel Harwood

The Beirut Trilogy by Jocelyne Saab

It is difficult to find a purer form of documentary than the Beirut Trilogy, which fulfills exactly the promise of the medium’s name. The three films document glimpses of the life of a cosmopolitan city – once known as “the Paris of the Middle East.”

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Art Waltpaper Art Waltpaper

Gender, Nation, and Photography

It’s this demure, yet impactful timbre that embodies In The Now with the tension of the withheld, replete with turned backs, obscured glances, missing heads, shadows, furry disguises, folds, and curtains.

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Book Mona Angéline Book Mona Angéline

Emily Strasser Speaks the Unspeakable

In her incredibly well researched book, Strasser tries to make sense of Oak Ridge's complicated past, as it transformed a place of nature and stability into a source of man-made, unstable destruction.

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