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Urgent 2nd Class: Creating Faux Mail, Dubious Documents, and Other Art from Ephemera
… educated people of the time, she can draw with reasonable competence. She sketches the faces of her coworkers as she … of this graphic detour is a fascinating mixture of period commerce and art. Is it important that she never actually … beauty and composition. This means that the opposite is also true—equality is admirable, but why kid ourselves that …
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Color Invocations
… that I don’t know where I’ll end up is both terrifying and also the reason why I do it.” She tells me this in her East … and deeper; the longer one looks, the less sure they become of the painting’s exact borders. Mid-February in Austin … for her. She doesn’t quite know yet, but she’s “sure it’ll come in.” ondas sonoras o Actias luna, 2019. Oil on canvas, …
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Diary of a Radio Junkie
… rhythms of her obsessions with both the news and radio, rituals that reach back to childhood. (She was reading the New … night.) Radio, she says—the voices found there—has kept her company all her working life as an artist. And she is, … began curating, arranging stories into sets.  Engler had completed a year-long project before (365 days drawing each …
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An Audio Guide for the White House Makeover/Takeover Jasper Johns Flags Exhibit
… Three Flags, 1958 Encaustic on canvas (three panels). Welcome, Friend . Thanks for selecting this handheld audio … the new Thomas Jefferson Monticello Mark Rothko Exhibit is also highly recommended. What follows is adapted from the … Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus marshalling truckloads of soldiers to keep nine Black kids out of high school loops on …
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Drawn to War
… is full of hypocrisy. Life and death run side by side in competition. Emotions are stratospherically high. And yet … a pile of sandbags is manned by two or three young soldiers, polite but firm with journalists like me when we ask … boxes and distribute across the country. Thousands of meals are made in the restaurants’ kitchens, delivered to the …
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