This morning I passed through the pages Philip J. Deloria’s Becoming Mary Sully, looking past the names, for a word: ‘Gossip’. Beyond the above image, there was nothing written there or here online about this work or word by Sully and so I took another – well-worn – route, back to documenta 14. Here is […]
Well, this is embarrassing. After several days of picture-heavy posts without hearing from me, today I need to have him write about what happened to him last night. It’s not pretty. But first, a reminder of who I am. I am the ghost of a library, specifically the library that was ‘killed’ by Richard Fletcher […]
I have seen books about artists come and go, but one figure stays constant: Cy Twombly. What hold does this scribbler have over him? Before my death, I remember one particular period of him flitting from white Twombly tome to off-white Twombly tome (whither this whiteness?), and in his frenzy even slipping beneath the cover […]
After some delay, what says the public? It’s Joe’s time! So now, at long last, the smooth transition of a backwards flow towards normalcy softens the bite of an increasing viral death toll, trimming the long nails of Trumpism…for now. But in the meantime, what can art do for US? Either draw a line in […]
Pictured in this photograph (sic) is the Scow House that once stood at the shoreline of Gwa’yas’dams (Gilford Island). The Gukwdzi (Big House) that holds the treasure of the Yakala (Undersea Kingdom), it is beautifully illustrated with the Sea Monster across the front. It represents who we are and where we come from: it is […]
While waiting at the Dubai International Airport after three whirlwind days at the opening of Sharjah Biennial 14 (hereafter SB14), I found myself idly looking back over my Instagram posts from the exhibition. Even though I had taken hundreds of photographs, videos and audio recordings of my experience at the exhibition, I had only shared […]
What a week! Now is the time to unwind and to escape to Athens and listen to Malidi’s story of her life-changing journey and the light she shines on our own struggles. Malidi means “to always find a purpose and path in life” in Kawakwaka’wakw, the language spoken by the native people of the Pacific […]
Moving past our time-based posts so far this year, we were going to write about names and roles today. We were specifically intent on contrasting Trump’s infantile name-calling of ex-FBI Director James Comey (“Showboat” “Nut job”, “Slime ball”), with the latter’s focus, in his new book A Higher Loyalty and his recent interviews, not on names, […]