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  • Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov—Soviet Texts (Terence Winch)

    May 9, 2020

    Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov  (1940–2007) died of a heart attack on the Moscow metro  at age 66.  An artist of incisive comic genius with a taste for the bizarre, he would no doubt have found…

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  • Book Jackets on Display

    May 8, 2020

      Some beautiful art owes its birth to commercial necessity — the book jacket, for example. The Association of University Presses is displaying 49 of their best covers from 2019 at a virtual trade…

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  • Julius Jaffe: The Analects (4) (by Mitch Sisskind)

    May 8, 2020

    JUDGMENT Seeing that Herman Fishman was about to step on an ant, Julius Jaffe urgently intervened to let the ant pass. He said, "When a judgment against a man has been rendered in the…

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  • Damaged Heritage Part 5: “Over time, the white Southern mouse ate the elephant.” [by J. Chester Johnson]

    May 8, 2020

    (Ed note: This is the fifth and final excerpt from Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and A Story of Reconciliation by J. Chester Johnson. Follow these links for excerpts one, two, three, and…

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  • Confessions of a Mask [by David Lehman]

    May 7, 2020

    These are the confessions of a mask.I looked in the mirror and saw a ghost.Of all lost causes I miss this one the most.These are the questions you must not ask. These are the…

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  • “Young Dancers Dancing” by Eric Fischl [from Drive-By-Art organized by Warren Neidich]

    May 7, 2020

    Coming May 9 & 10: "Drive by Art" in the South Fork [The Hamptons, Sag Harbor, Wainscott et al] Drive-By-Art (Public Art in This Moment of Social Distancing) Organized by Warren Neidich DATES: May…

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