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Ursula K. Le Guin: “The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.”

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Preparing for a talk I'm giving next week and absolutely dropping this video into the powerpoint. This was one my favorite interviews while at Artforum:

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Martha Rosler last Saturday, telling it how it is.

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“I have not found prayer to be particularly effective at summoning an interventionist deity, but what I have found is that it often foregrounds in my mind something I care about, and I can carry that through the day as I make my decisions.” —Kaveh Akbar www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

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Happy Mother's Day! One day, I hope that every mother will be a willing mother, and every child will be a wanted child. That's why I donate to abortion funds. Find your local fund here: abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/

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She really was incredible. RIP Cris Hassold.

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Excited to be in conversation with the great Annie Ochmanek on Saturday, June 21, at 4pm at MoMA PS1.

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Reviewing Magritte's vache works from 1948 in advance of my talk on Saturday with Emily Mae Smith. Abigail Solomon-Godeau: "...the series can perhaps be seen as means of rebellion, conscious or not: forms of protest against the status quo—be it the German occupation or merely business as usual."

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When NYC’s weather mimics SF 😶‍🌫️

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Grateful to have caught RIVER OF GRASS’s NY Premiere today at the American Museum of Natural History. Couldn’t be happier for my dear friend, the director Sasha Wortzel, seen here with consulting producer/participant Houston Cypress and writer Dessane Lopez Cassell.

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Keisha Scarville’s show of mixed media photos at Higher Pictures was just extended by a week. Beyond beautiful.

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The secret rooms in John Zorn show at The Drawing Center!!

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Two favorites on this most random list of “heroes:” Alex Trebek and Lauren Bacall

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An interview with Vivian Suter!

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An interview with Jane Weinstock!

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They rally ‘round the family / with a pocket full of shells

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NYC Folks - This show of AIDS activist archives opens on Wednesday at MoMA PS1 -resistance has a history - go support it!

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How I love this song. Who wants to cover it with me?

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Many thanks to the anonymous reviewer at Kirkus Reviews for this early take!

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This 1972 documentary about the Soho restaurant/artist co-op FOOD is such a balm.

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Compost workshop and a brand new high rise; just another day in queens.

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Artists! You have until Monday May 5th to apply for the spring grant cycle offered by Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation. I'm a judge alongside Wendy Vogel.

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Thank you to the anonymous reviewer from Publishers Weekly for this early review!

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Going through my photos for sign inspo for tomorrow.

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‘Trump speaks in the name of science, but he does so effectively to insist that God decreed the immutable character of the two sexes, and that he, Trump, is decreeing it once more.’ Judith Butler on the executive order on ‘gender ideology’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Spent a good ten minutes in class today talking about what “woo woo” means

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I responded to some questions posed by the editors of Mutt, a new publication. We desperately need new venues and voices for art writing right now, and we’ll need more people to support them, too.

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“Local history bonds people today to the place where they are, giving them a stake in local people and local politics.” —Nell Irvin Painter, interviewed by Sam Needleman

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This is such good news for art—a new director who has curated excellent shows, who understands and cares about artists, and who (hopefully!) can make this museum feel welcoming to everyone.

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For @pioneerwork.bsky.social's Broadcast, I wrote about what it means to build reparative artistic practices on foundations instead of urgency (and a whole lot more).

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I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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I wrote about Shulamith Firestone’s “Airless Spaces” and radical feminism’s relationship to madness for The New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

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First day of spring in the community garden.

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How I love seeing these galleys in the hands of friends.

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The details about his firing are as scant as the details about his hiring were www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/b...

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Now available for preorder - Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop by J. Hoberman A groundbreaking cultural history of 1960s New York, from the legendary writer on art and film

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Beautiful evening in brilliant company at #TheBeverley discussion last night at American Australian Association! 2024 Beverley Art Writers Travel Grant to Australia grantee Aruna D’Souza was in conversation with 2023 grantee Lauren O’Neill-Butler. Applications for the 2025 grant open through 3/31!

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Tomorrow, 6pm! Come join me in this beautiful space for a talk with @arunadsouza.bsky.social

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fierce pussy’s new, free—as always—poster is a declaration of non-biological kinship perfect for #IWD. If you’re a sister resister, come grab one at tomorrow night’s talk. (Details in my last post.)

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This Sunday! arms ache avid aeon with Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Lauren O’Neill-Butler & Jo-ey Tang A conversation on the individual and collective work of the four core members of fierce pussy and their new exhibition. Doors 5 p.m., event 5:30 p.m. Triple Canopy 264 Canal St, Suite 3W New York, NY

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One week away! Blue Medium and The American Australian Association invite you to join 2024 Beverley Art Writers Grant Recipient arunadsouza.bsky.social as she recounts her visit to Australia in 2024, in conversation with @laurenoneillbutler.bsky.social. americanaustralian.org/events/the-b...

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