The Wish in Yong Soon Min’s KISSSSS
“It is worth wondering, perhaps, what the wishes are in kissing,” Adam Phillips writes. In his readings of Freud, Phillips suggests that a kiss…
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All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community
An eight-foot wooden ramp was propped up at a forty-five-degree angle in one corner. Knotted ropes hung from six holes drilled near the ramp’s…
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“If You Are Black, You Really Are Coming from Behind”: Orders of Visibility in Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described the collective imagination of black people in America in terms of freedom dreams, and these dreams…
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Seeing Red: Understanding Kazuo Shiraga’s Sudden Fame
In recent years, the reputation of postwar abstract painter Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) – known for turbulent, crimson paintings made with his feet – has…
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