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K had a book of Philip Levine poems and gave it to me after she finished it. It’s really good. Stayed with me enough that I read one out loud into a microphone. I spent a bunch of time thinking about Elaine May the past few weeks because of the bio by Carrie Courogen. IContinue reading “Where We Live Now”

I turned fifty-five yesterday. I’m writing this a week before so that’s not exactly true, but close enough. The newsletter comes out Monday mornings and I do my best to be done with the following week’s by Thursday at the latest. Otherwise it gets stressful and I’m not much interested in that. Talking about myContinue reading “Double Nickels”

Art isn’t like math. If you take a picture’s elements apart and put them back together, you may well get an entirely different image. Takakao Konishi—the co-curator of the exhibition this book documents—tells me he used to always start a new piece from a well-thought-out idea. Then, at a recent art residency, he challenged himselfContinue reading “No Narratives Necessary”