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The Exhibit as Third: A Conversation with Sam Penn and Max Battle
This post is going up a bit later than I’d hoped, but I didn’t want to close out the year without posting this interview I was generously granted with…
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A man in a dress?
In the intermission of the Queer Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band, I checked my phone and saw some regrettable attack J.K.
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Reading? Let’s Talk About Reading.
Throwing caution to the wind, I decided to respond to (not review) the latest exhibition Cat Suit by friends and comrades My Barbarian (Jade Gordon…
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Azania lands in SoHo
An Interview with Joshua Obawole Allen, on the occasion of Athi-Patra Ruga's exhibit Lord, I Gotta Keep On Moving
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The Morning After
I stayed up to watch Zohran Mamdani’s electrifying victory speech in the New York City mayoral election.
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Fascinating Fascism
The fascination with fascism that Sontag diagnosed has returned not in spite of visibility politics but because of it.
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When the Satire Can't Keep Up: South Park Does Peter Thiel
The latest South Park episode has Peter Thiel visiting an elementary school to lecture children about the coming Antichrist, complete with obscene…
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