Some of my memories pin to a minute of love on a big screen in an imagined future, or broken open when the sax solo of “Careless Whisper” blows through the communal heart. – Joy Harjo ‘Becoming Seventy’, in ‘An American Sunrise: Poems’ (Norton: New York, 2019) pp. 92-93.
I have just read Candice Hopkins essay “The Appropriation Debates” in the most recent issue of Mousse magazine. Hopkins, whose work on global indigenous art and culture I first encountered at documenta 14, discusses two controversial artworks of the last year: the inclusion of Dana Schutz’s painting Open Casket (2016) at the Whitney Biennial and […]
