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Author Archives: Allison Conner
Allison Conner's writing has appeared in Bitch, Full Stop, Triangle House Review, and elsewhere. She writes about movies and books at loosepleasures.substack.com
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Brenna Youngblood Revises the Language of Abstraction
Youngblood’s paintings would probably make Piet Mondrian yelp.
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Tracing the Pop Culture Zombie Myth to Haitian Folklore
In sculptures made of sugar, salt, and glass, Sula Bermúdez-Silverman explores the colonial undertones of monster movie imagery.
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Stanley Whitney’s Improvisatory Approach to Abstraction
Each canvas follows its own off-beat rhythm.
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Six Black Artists Test the Limits of Portraiture
“The Black Index” at UC Irvine pursues knottier narratives of self-representation.
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Martine Syms’s New Book Is an Irreverent Performance of Contemporary Living
In Shame Space, the narrator obsesses over sex, money, fitness, drugs, friends, work, and self-hatred.
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Kahlil Joseph’s News Channel Revels in Black History and Experience
Joseph’s project is installed in various Black-owned small businesses throughout Los Angeles, from a barbershop to a medical clinic.
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Kimberly Drew Asks: What Should a Museum Look Like in 2020?
In This Is What I Know About Art, Drew uses her own fumbles and triumphs as a frame in which to examine the symbiotic relationship between art and activism.
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During the Pandemic, Zadie Smith Sits With the Compulsion Towards Doing
Begun at the start of quarantine in the US and finished days after George Floyd’s murder, Intimations ekes out a semblance of narrative during our moment of destabilizing upheaval.
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40 Artists and Writers Respond to 40 Objects “Mistaken” for Guns by the Police
The book This Is Not a Gun collects personal responses to these objects, which include a cell phone, hairbrush, Wii remote, and underwear.
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In Performance About Anxiety, Willow Smith and Tyler Cole Spent 24 Hours In a Box
Visitors viewed the pair through a glass wall, as they cycled through the eight stages of anxiety, including rage, numbness, euphoria, and acceptance.