Drawings
Psych Ward Coloring Book
Anonymous
News flash: America has a mental health problem! So, how do you think the people who work in psychiatric hospitals feel? Here's an anonymous submission from a psych ward clinician; the coloring books and crayons are supplied...
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Story
I’m 74 Years Old and Will Never Own a Driver’s License
David Halliday
On our first date it was quite windy
She told me she sneezed
1. The car was packed. Egg salad sandwiches had been prepared for the journey. There were lots of pickle jars. It was an expedition like the search f...
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Review
Matthew Wong: Transmissions From a More Perfect Cosmos – Review
Greg Masters
Precision is no longer necessary – nor aspired to – in the works of Matthew Wong. In his first museum retrospective in the U.S., fabrications of a parallel universe mirror our reality but offer an alternative representat...
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Photographs
Dachau Photographs
Jeff Spirer
These are photographs of Dachau, taken over two consecutive days in May of 2022. Both days were bitterly cold, with dreary skies that reinforced the devastating sight of the former concentration camp. I had visited Holocaust...
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Review
Rigor of Semblance: Louise Hamlin at the Hood Museum of Art — Review
Greg Masters
In the early 1980s, when I first became acquainted with her work, Louise Hamlin lived in Manhattan and painted scenes of her urban environment: a stretch of upper Broadway on a rainy night that accented reflections from the ...
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Comics
The Hole on the Roof of My Mouth
Daisy Meisler
–Daisy Meisler
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Story
The Cowboy
James Reich
Here came a cowboy with sun-saddled skin. He had killed but once, but had killed simply, in Santa Fe where the turquoise tells. The cowboy was young with a jackrabbit’s poise, a buck-toothed boy, spring-heeled and dun. It ...
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Art
Blackouts Are Beautiful
Charles March III
These addiction/mental health medical note erasures are a cathartic attempt to creatively find the joy and humor in the absurdity of all of life’s ridiculousness.
On the Cover of Seventeen
Puff, Puff, Pass
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Assembling the American Uncanny – Interview with Shannon Cartier Lucy
Marian St. Laurent
Marian St. Laurent and artist Shannon Cartier Lucy discuss the unexpected ecstasies of disorder
The last time Shannon Cartier Lucy and I crossed paths was in the Lower East Side of New York City over twenty years ago, ...
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Drawings
Cabaret Wuhan 2020
Julia Kissina
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Podcasts
S02E12 – Tom McGlynn
Bernard Meisler
Painter and critic Tom McGlynn in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Tom McGlynn Mob T-Shirt copyright 1994
Tom McGlynn Small Standard 1, 36" x 36" copyright 2018
I had a good time talking to my old pal, painter ...
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Marcus Leatherdale: Photographs New York City 1980-1992
Franklin Mount
Out of the Shadows: Marcus Leatherdale: Photographs New York City 1980-1992
Exhibition: Throckmorton Fine Art, through January 25, 2020.
It’s terribly difficult to photograph a famous person and then actually produce a...
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Podcasts
S02E05 – David West
Bernard Meisler
Paris-based painter David West in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Some new paintings by David West
I met David West at the Pink Pony in NYC, back in 1994 or thereabouts. David was the "bartender" and I used to go th...
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