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Boy George Versus the Church of the Poison Mind
Boy George, pencil and digital, 2026, ©FE
As a shrimpy and nervous adolescent, I was bullied from Grade 7 until Grade 11, when I dated my first girlfriend. In those earlier years, I was called a fag and its variations quite a bit. It was a...
To Bear Witness to Oneself
Kitao Shigemasa, Young Women Playing Go
From Gestures (2014) by Vilém Flusser, translated by Nancy Ann Roth.
“There are two levels of history: the four-dimensional one of daily life and the three-dimensional one of the Cartesian basilicas...
The Teaching of the Voluntato
Last year, I tried the Ruth Stout method of growing potatoes, described as “no-work” in various sources, including Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, The Busy and the Indolent. The idea is to put seed potatoes on bare ground, mulch the...
Trump Is Not Responsible for Your Failing Art School
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I’ve written a couple of articles about potential threats to the survival of the Rhode Island School of Design. But RISD is the picture of health compared to some comparable institutions. One of them, the School of Visual Arts, re...
Olitski's Prayer
Last Thursday, I attended a screening of Jules Olitski: Modern Master at the Currier Museum of Art followed by a panel discussion including critic Karen Wilkin, painter James Walsh, and Lauren Poster, Olitski’s daughter by his second wife....
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Artist, art writer, comics poet, latter scion of the modernist project, Fulbright scholar, editor of Aphorisms for Artists by Walter Darby Bannard, OG blogger, navigating the collapse of liberalism armed with only a paintbrush.
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