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Kate Silzer

Kate Silzer is a writer living in New York City. She studied English at Brown University, and has published work online in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Artsy, and Interview Magazine.

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The Best Part of Mary Heilmann’s Memoir Is the Paintings 

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer November 16, 2022November 16, 2022

The All Night Movie recounts the artist’s experiences in New York’s art world of the 1970s and ’80s with a list of mostly bygone names and places.

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The Sheer Vastness of Information Makes Keeping Accurate Historical Records Impossible

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer March 9, 2022March 9, 2022

Judith Schalansky breathes life into buildings and places that have faded from the collective consciousness.

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Giving Cameras to Kids as Tools of Self-Exploration

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer November 25, 2021November 24, 2021

Participatory photography aims to counter the pitfalls of photography as an exploitative or voyeuristic medium.

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Art, Branding, and the Illusion of Authenticity

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer June 12, 2021June 11, 2021

Emily Segal’s novel provides a wickedly sharp depiction of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of New York’s creative community.

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Books to See and Feel

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer February 27, 2021March 3, 2021

These alluringly physical objects provide an opportunity to explore the symbiotic relationship between sight and touch.

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The Story of Women Artists in Revolution, a Movement Against Patriarchy

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer February 13, 2021February 15, 2021

W.A.R. existed for a brief yet prolific period, from 1969 to 1971, igniting a robust movement against New York City’s art industry.

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Satirical Corporate Website Brands Ecofascism

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer December 12, 2020December 11, 2020

Samuel Marion’s satirical corporate website shows how the far right might leverage environmentalism to justify white supremacist agendas.

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Justine Kurland’s Female Utopia

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer October 3, 2020November 5, 2020

In Girl Pictures, the photographer presents a seductive fantasy of a world in which being a young woman is not cause for fear but a source of boundless freedom.

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Lorna Simpson’s Cut-Up Portraits Evoke the Complexity of Identity

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer June 27, 2020December 10, 2020

Composed of photographs culled from vintage Ebony magazines, the faces in these collages are reconstructed into new selves.

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No Touching: Discovering the Art of Books Online

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer May 16, 2020May 15, 2020

This exhibition provides an exciting starting point for exploring artists’ personal sites, statements, and YouTube videos.

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In Carmen Maria Machado’s Experimental Memoir, a House Is More Nightmare Than Dream

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer April 25, 2020February 3, 2021

Focusing on relationships between women, Machado also considers how heterosexual relationships shape and limit our understanding of what constitutes partner abuse.

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The Extraordinary Ordinary in Prose Poems

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer January 25, 2020January 25, 2020

For Maxine Chernoff, language is both the promise and the breaking of the promise.

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