The need for graffiti but dont risk your life for it
Well to my surprise I found a gem in the original slums of London, Whitechapel, which is a neighborhood known for the atrocious acts of Jack the Ripper in the 1800s. Since then it has become a popular area for the city, with the financial district nearby, with ever growing business endeavors, and a great […]
The need for graffiti but dont risk your life for it
Well to my surprise I found a gem in the original slums of London, Whitechapel, which is a neighborhood known for the atrocious acts of Jack the Ripper in the 1800s. Since then it has become a popular area for the city, with the financial district nearby, with ever growing business endeavors, and a great […]
Mary DeVincentis’ “Fables of the Reconstruction”
While I was in New York, during my second day in the city, I finished a studio visit with Angela Heisch, and headed to David & Schweitzer Contemporary to see Mary DeVincentis’ paintings in a group show called Fables of the Reconstruction. The title of the exhibition is taken from the R.E.M. album of the […]
A Gross Mishandling of the Female Nude, From Cool to Warm, Anselm Kiefer at Gagosian New York
During my last Saturday in New York I was fortunate to spend the day with perhaps my oldest friend Tania whom I have known for fourteen years. She is true-blue, perhaps one of the better people I’ve been fortunate to know in my life. I slept on an air mattress in her living room while […]
We Wear Culture
As the world’s top designers showcase their Resort 2018 collections to a waiting-with-baited-breath audience, here’s where we are, as of this writing, as not all of the collections have been released yet. Those shown thus far for this in-between season have been beautifully conceptualized – Prada joined the Resort fashion ranks for the first time […]
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner
Would’ve Been Could’ve Been But only one was an astute enough navigator through the precarious tunnels, and strong enough to break through the egg’s rigid shell. A monikered tadpole. An industrious radical. A traveler transformed into a cellular stronghold. She blasted off to blastocyst nine months passed. She’s near to seeing it all- including the […]
Kayla Rae Whitaker’s “The Animators”
Zoom to your nearest bookstore or library and get ahold of The Animators, by Kayla Rae Whitaker, as it’s by far the best debut novel of 2017. Ebulliently written and full of the kind of energy that big cities seem to generate in people, Whitaker presents two young women, both of whom are from rural backgrounds, […]
Pajtim Statovici’s “My Cat Yugoslavia”
Another intriguing and often brilliant debut novel, Pajtim Statovci’s My Cat Yugoslavia is particularly timely and topical as it deals with the dislocations of immigration. The novel has two different narrators, which is a fascinating literary trope: one is (at first) a young, marriageable woman in a small Serbian town in the former Yugoslavia, and the other […]