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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...

Photographs

Birds of Passage – Review

Franklin Mount

The indigenous people of the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia, the Wayuu, are the stars of Birds of Passage. Their resilience and pride (they were never conquered by the Spanish) is evident in everything they do. The Wayuu hold...

Sensitive Skin Best of 2018

The Editors

Welcome to the fourth (fifth?) annual Sensitive Skin Stuff We Liked From Last Year! Remember, it's not limited to items that were released in 2018, just thangs we dug the most in 2018. Of course, there will be disagreemen...

Review

Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective

Franklin Mount

The first Bergman film I ever saw was Cries and Whispers. My father took me. At age 14. It was on a double bill with Amarcord. If that sounds like a strange juxtaposition of films for a double bill, well, it is. Cries an...

Sensitive Skin Best Of 2017

The Editors

Welcome! Time to ring in the old and ring out the new. Or whatever. Here's the best of 2017 picks, from our editors and contributors. Remember, it didn't necessarily come out in 2017—it's just something we enjoyed in 201...

Review

Stephen Shore – The Museum of Modern Art

Franklin Mount

A friend of mine once told me that his photography teacher admonished the class never to turn in a photograph of a sunset. Too obvious, too easy. How does one take a photograph that is beautiful, revelatory, and not repeat w...

Photographs

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern

Franklin Mount

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern At the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, through July 23, 2017 Art and celebrity meet, again, in this exhibition, under the guise of modernity. Actually, there is nothing more modern ...

Review

Irving Penn Centennial

Franklin Mount

Irving Penn Centennial At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through July 30, 2017 Money. Status. Power. Fashion. Style. Art. And some humanity, if it’s in the budget. Postwar New York. The first object we s...

Photographs

Max Beckmann in New York

Franklin Mount

Max Beckmann in New York At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through February 20, 2017 These days, you can’t get away from references to Weimar era figures, in art, politics, or anywhere else. In that Weim...

Painting

Some Reflections on Bertolt Brecht, on the Occasion of the 119th Anniversary of His Birth

Franklin Mount

Some Reflections on Bertolt Brecht, on the Occasion of the 119th Anniversary of His Birth “Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” “Unglücklich das Land, das Helden nötig hat.” - Leben des Galilei, scene 1...

Sensitive Skin Contributors 2016 Favorites – Books, Movies, TV, Art, Performance and Music – Reasons to Live

The Editors

Before we get on to the 2016 Favorites, first things first, I need to get this off my chest: Hey 2016 - go suck a bag of d***s, will ya? OK, and now, without further ado, presented without rhyme or reason, here's our annu...

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Photographs by Nan Goldin – Review

Franklin Mount

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Photographs by Nan Goldin At The Museum of Modern Art, New York, through February 12, 2017 Downtown New York in the late Seventies and early Eighties looms larger than ever in public imag...

Mystic Meanderer, Solo Exhibition by Eric Jiaju Lee — review by Franklin Mount

Franklin Mount

Mystic Meanderer, Solo Exhibition by Eric Jiaju Lee Silk Road Gallery, 83 Audubon Road, New Haven, Connecticut. Through November 19, 2016 At this point in the Twenty-First Century, some impression of “Chinese art” h...

Embrace of the Serpent – A Review

Franklin Mount

There is something terribly mythic about journeys down rivers. A trip downriver takes us out of our quotidian life. It strips away the defenses of home, and of terra firma. Combine a journey downriver in the Amazonian jungle...

The Big Short – A Review

Franklin Mount

The Big Short has ambitions. Based on Michael Lewis's best-selling book of the same name, The Big Short seeks to explain the economic crisis of 2008 and make us laugh. A film with a very serious subject, it's directed by Ada...

Sensitive Skin Books

The Last Poet of the Village

A bilingual (Russian/English) edition of selected poems by Sergei Yesenin, translated by acclaimed Russian-American poet Anton Yakovlev.

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There’s Never Been A Better Time To Die

Bernard Meisler

A neo-noir meta satire of late-stage capitalism in Marin County featuring a hard-boiled realtor.

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Sensitive Skin Selected Writing 2016-2018

A selection of short stories, poems and essays published online from 2016-2018.

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King of the Fireflies

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

A journey through landscapes: urban; rural; mythological; emotional; erotic; cultural; political; and spiritual.

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Print Issues

Sensitive Skin 8

William S. Burroughs interview by Allen Ginsberg, James Greer, Chavisa Woods, Ruby Ray, James Romberger, Tom McGlynn, Rob Hardin, more.

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Sensitive Skin 10

Charles Gatewood, Gary Indiana, Drew Hubner, Patrick O’Neil, Tony DuShane, Sharon Mesmer, James Reich, Breyten Breytenbach, Nick Zedd, more.

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Sensitive Skin 12

April 2015 Poetry Special, featuring John S. Hall, Max Blagg, Emily XYZ, David Rattray, Jack Micheline, John Farris, Taylor Mead, Julie Torres, Winston Smith, Jean-Christian Bourcart, many more.

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Previously, on Sensitive Skin!

Sensitive Skin 13 – Table of Contents

Here's the complete list of all the pieces from our 13th issue, along with the back cover, a collage of mugshots from the collection of Mark Michaelson, submitted for your perusal....

Episode 2 – John S. Hall

Hosted by Bernard Meisler. John S. Hall is a poet, musician and lawyer. He's a fixture on the downtown NYC poetry scene, and achieved fame in the early '90s with the band he...

Elliott Sharp – Rare, Unreleased and Out-of-Print

Elliott Sharp, a composer and multi-instrumentalist, playing mainly guitar, saxophone and bass clarinet, is one of the major figures in the New York downtown and experimental music...

Time Now and Everything

Michael Randall

other nights I’ve heard it just outside the window fluttering in the dark, waiting now I’m not convinced the heart fails the spirit sputters all voices silent then c...

After the Ash-White Wind

Robert C. Hardin

9/11/01: 8:54 a.m. My shift has ended and I’m sitting at my computer, finessing a letter to Swedish musician, Tomas Pettersson. Looking out of an eighteenth-story window off M...

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Music Editor: Steve Horowitz

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