Art & Culture Archive
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Nina
Posted on June 10, 2013 | No CommentsListen here, Nina, who did you belong to? Certainly not to me, or any other critic or journalist who’s limited to and limited by the facts, no matter how admiring, trenchant, or true, they’re flat, and you come from another... -
Female Security Guards, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Posted on May 29, 2013 | No Comments -
Daddy
Posted on May 14, 2013 | No CommentsLet me tell you something about Daddy. He was very handsome, a lady killer who buried two partners while he lived in his own isolation. You could not reach him except by telephone; he was inviolate, the chief citizen in... -
Moon River: The Genius of the Parent
Posted on April 9, 2013 | 4 CommentsWhen I was a little boy, I loved to sing. I don’t think I associated it with being a performer; singing was an extension of the music I loved, and words, and the singers I loved–Dionne Warwick, that kind of... -
Toni
Posted on March 23, 2013 | 2 CommentsThese photographs are by Jill Krementz, and were taken of the author Toni Morrison while she was an editor at Random House, in the nineteen-seventies. On Fridays, the esteemed author taught a class at Yale, in the African-American studies department... -
“20,000 Years in Sing Sing.” Film Forum. 2.27.13
Posted on February 27, 2013 | No Comments
