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Mar 10

Harborcoat

Reading Log, Winter 2022 — Some Styles of Masculinity, by Greg Bordowitz. The author describes himself as “an artist who plays a comedian in museums,” and this book is a verbal record of his performances, which combine the bouncy rhythms of Catskills standup with the cerebration of grad-school cultural studies. Bordowitz is a gay Jewish…

Books And Reading

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Harborcoat
Harborcoat

Feb 6

Maps and Legends

Jasper Johns at the Whitney — Ever since the Whitney first announced a full-scale Jasper Johns retrospective I have been anticipating how best to tackle writing about this man and his art. Johns has been a touchstone for me my whole adult life; to say that he is my favorite artist is unequal to the role…

Art

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Maps and Legends
Maps and Legends

Dec 28, 2021

Trigger Cut

2021 in the Rearview Mirror — The utility of year-in-review lists seems ever more tenuous the deeper we get into this [gestures]; nevertheless, here are some things I saw and read in 2021: Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice. This stunning new opera, which ran for only seven nights at the Met, was a dazzling experience…

End Of Year

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Trigger Cut
Trigger Cut

Nov 9, 2021

Blame It on Cain

Reading log, Fall 2021 — Pam Lewis, A Perfect Family. Adequately executed thriller about a troubled WASP clan and its dark secrets. Sexy and fun, but ultimately forgettable. Mark McGurl, Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon. The book so disgusted and enraged me that I simply gave up, out of self-preservation…

Reading Log

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Blame It on Cain
Blame It on Cain

Aug 15, 2021

Summer Can Really Hang You Up the Most

Log: Reading, Viewing, Listening, Summer 2021 — Carol Hanisch, “The Personal Is Political.” I am always interested in the origins of commonplace phrases, slogans, axioms, bywords, etc., and so it was enlightening to encounter the source of this once-ubiquitous, oft-misunderstood phrase. Hanisch’s essay, a brisk polemic first appearing in the anthology Notes from the Second Year: Women’s…

Reading

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Summer Can Really Hang You Up the Most
Summer Can Really Hang You Up the Most

Apr 10, 2021

“Buzz, buzz …”

Reading Log: Winter–Spring 2021 — Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball, by Luke Epplin. An outstanding piece of sports and cultural history from a fine young writer whom I know, in that NYC way, as a kind of a Twitter/friend-of-a-friend/publishing-adjacent acquaintance. The four men are Cleveland…

Books

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“Buzz, buzz …”
“Buzz, buzz …”

Mar 3, 2021

Street, Wise

Duquann Sweeney and the Currents of Urban Life — Jersey City artist and activist Duquann Sweeney has been quietly amassing a body of photography that displays a sure touch and a hard-earned beauty. …

Photography

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Street, Wise
Street, Wise

Jan 14, 2021

Heavyweight Boxer

Donald Judd at MoMA — I managed to get to “Judd” just under the wire, on a frigid January Saturday right after the New Year. Donald Judd, who died in 1994, has long been one of my favorite artists, as well as a primary influence on my own decidedly amateur artistic practice. I had seen…

Donald Judd

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Heavyweight Boxing
Heavyweight Boxing

Dec 31, 2020

Hell Is Empty

Notes on a Catastrophic Year — Words fail in the face of 2020. So much has already nonetheless been written about this terrifying year, however, that trying to drum up more pipe-puffing armchair generalizations feels downright grotesque. There was, of course, no opera or baseball or museums or live music to enthuse about this year, which…

2020

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Hell Is Empty
Hell Is Empty

Nov 19, 2020

Closer to Free

Reading log; end of the year (decade? era? world?) — Dispatches, by Michael Herr. Like many people, I sense, I have occasionally had a hard time reading over the course of this disorienting and scarifying year, finding myself unable to bring my normally formidable reserves of concentration fully to bear on the matter at hand. At such times, I often…

Books

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Closer to Free
Closer to Free
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