The Sun, Chapter 1 was exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art in New York City, a museum located on the former grounds of the 1939 World’s Fair. The painting depicts the front page of a newspaper from Monday, October 14, 1940. This date marks when, after having visited the fair, my grandfather and great-grandfather […]
As tempted as we are to unleash one of Haitian artist Kettly Noël’s zombies (see Oct. 16) to avenge the racist president for his ‘shit hole’ countries remark, instead we want to take you back to those 30 minutes in Hawaii on Saturday morning, when islanders were reacting in horror to the message announcing an […]
The only way I could get my hands on R. H. Quaytman’s early book-work Allegorical Decoys was by the circuitous route of Ohio State Libraries’ Interlibrary Loan system. When it finally arrived this morning, I discovered that I was not able to check the book out of the library and so I had to read […]