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… I was given a copy of Paideia, the workbook that formerly accompanied the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and told to … into a projectile brush. Here, as in Brown’s work, a full-bodied practice in an entirely other discipline—dancing, … expression somewhere between a grimace and a jeer as she points a handgun at the viewer. The X suggests her …
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… Tiny Fissures False Endings and the Daybook Nature of Art My first act of … many of the at-once terribly personal, benumbingly common bits of new motherhood: the baby’s mysterious (and … half figures, and sometimes full figures of mostly female bodies look from across the room to be mottled by splatters of …
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… trendy and belabored fascination with the uncanniness of computer intelligence. AI discourse, when it tiptoes toward … a baby’s sleep, nutritional needs or clothing and toy materials; allowing my productivity or pace of life to vary … The men do not need faces at all in order to engage their bodies in the springing, prying motions that will shortly …
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… craning my neck, to run a hand through my hair before it comes to look as clamped to my head as the calyx on top of … Chance helped: The formidable, generous, and brilliant website Le Cinema Club, which hosts free streams, with … for each other and the camera, knowing that some future audience lies in wait. Calle announces at the start that the …
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… and relied on the magic of the general-delivery mail system—also known as the poste restante. For those who have missed … will slowly yellow from missing you. Together, such letters comprise the poste restante, the post that stays. And unless … needed help identifying the mangled, unidentifiable bodies, Simonides realized that by envisioning himself moving …
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… Safe as Houses Bodies Under Siege in American Art I did not yet know I was … that would or might be, or that require subjectivity, becoming real only in the context of assertion and belief. Her … I had just become pregnant, against all predictive data points, the day I had seen both Bourgeois’s work and the …