What a Book Can Do: On Editing Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason’s Monographs
For the past weeks, I’ve kept a new monograph on the artist Emily Mason on my glass coffee table, observing the sea of its…
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Loosening the Stays
Bowdoin College is not a place particularly accommodating to weirdos—or at least it wasn’t when I attended lo these many years ago. Perhaps things have changed…
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We’re Alive, Pablo Is Dead
Pablo Picasso is so famous and so ubiquitous and so dead that he is easy not to think about at all. It’s as though…
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“What Makes Great Art?”: Momus: The Podcast with Osei Bonsu (Episode 9)
In continuing our season-long exploration of the question “What makes great art?” co-hosts Lauren Wetmore and Sky Goodden speak to essential voices about what…
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“He Did Not Ring My Head Like a Bell”: Reviewing Geoffrey Farmer
Kathy Acker rang my head like a bell. It happened in the Spring of 1990, while she was reading out loud, a passage to…
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