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13th STATE is a blog about art, writing and culture. It’s based in Rhode Island. It’s written by Alexander Castro, who’s been covering the arts since 2014.

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An open-and-shut case

Installation shot. (All images by Alexander Castro/13th STATE)

This post was originally published on June 13, 2022.

Honesty looks good on a painter. Why posture?

In Maxime Belykh’s Making a Case, the only thing posturing is shapes....

2 years ago
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What's your orange?

Barbara Owen's early pandemic era records (both clay and Fitbit) displayed together as April is the Cruelest Month. (All images courtesy of Barbara Owen)

I’m happy to rerun this interview with artist Barbara Owen — one of the early Q&A’s f...

2 years ago
2

Wanna talk about it?

Detail of Snake Eyes, 2012, by Melissa Stern. Clay, paint, dice. Written by Paula Sharp, read by Eddie Peppitone. (Alexander Castro/13th STATE)

Oops again. Guess I didn’t follow through on last November’s promise for a new post (I got a ne...

2 years ago
2

Game Boy as gnosis

Oops. It’s been a minute…or several…or almost 90 days’ worth of minutes since 13th STATE was last updated. New articles have been in the works—and there they’ll remain until finished. 😏 Thankfully there’s no shortage of pieces from the blo...

3 years ago

Concrete evidence

Shey ‘Ri Acu’ Rivera Ríos, On Permanence, 2022. Cinder blocks, photographs and altar offerings. /// All pics by Castro.

Do you like love poems?

I confess I haven’t read many.

I read one by John Donne in college and I mostly stopped...

3 years ago
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