What the Sun Can’t Heal: Review of Blood Memory by Gail Newman
The strong and steadfast Los Angeles sun no doubt has restorative powers. Well-being emanates from its bright light, an outdoor lifestyle is perennially uplifting; flowers, fruit and trees thrive in...
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Where Suffering is the Rule: SINGA’s Performance Installation, The Open Heart
photo credit:SIGNA/goldmann Imagine an association of people moved to shelter and care for those, whose pain prevents them from functioning normally in society, who then use their charges to study...
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Final Fantasy: A Reflection on Free Fall from the Heart of America’s Pandemic
I can’t stop remembering an incident with a middle school bully named Amanda Barba. We were 12 years old. “You shouldn’t speak to me like that you little faggot. Are you going to cry little faggot?...
View ArticleA 500th Anniversary Commemoration of Renaissance Composer, Josquin des Prez,...
In the Western European Renaissance, the retrieval of antiquity and fulfillment in life became desirable goals, and it is in the music of Josquin des Prez in which these ideals can be heard. The free...
View ArticleCulture Shifts: Urban growth, Decay and Art in the Post-Industrial City
Birkenhead was built around a shipyard, Cammell Laird. When I was nine years old it closed down. Our school was taken to the yard as the last submarine built there was launched. As we waved our little...
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How to Make a Parol — Pinoy Points Value: 300
Pasko na sinta ko / Hanap-hanap kita / Bakit magtatampo’t / Nilisan ako / Kung mawawala ka / Sa piling ko sinta / Paano ang Pasko / Inulila mo It’s Christmas now, my darling / I miss you / Why are you...
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HERE WAS GRETTA, THERE WAS UNTITLED: AESTHETICS, NAMES, & FATES
Image caption: surface detail of Donald Judd’s Untitled (1984) at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MO, February 2018 1. Across a gray, slightly pocked concrete surface—in what appears to be...
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The Legend of Karacaoğlan
a contemporary depiction of Karacaoğlan Karacaoğlan is not only one of the most famous ashiks [a poet-singer who writes, composes and sings love ballads, moving constantly from place to place] who...
View ArticleChanging the Subject: Learning from Postmodernism’s Focus on Context
Sometime in the mid-’90s, I had a phone conversation with my older brother David (who prefers the moniker “DaveR”), in which I shared my growing appreciation of New Music—avant-garde work influenced by...
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Thinking Generatively About Queer/Femme Digital Aesthetics: Field Notes from...
by Katie Schaag with Sarah Ciston, Sam Cohen, Kate Durbin, Feliz Lucia Molina, and Sandra Rosales Katie Schaag: At the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference in San Antonio in...
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