Poetry
from De la Bronx
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Greg FuchsGREG FUCHS teaches students with disabilities to trust themselves and question everything. He has written scores of poems, published several books, and photographed many people, places, and things. Fuchs is a member of Subpress collective, which has published experimental writing for 20 years. In the near past he studied visual art and critical theory at Rutgers University yet still believes in its ability to transform humanity. Fuchs survives beneath the underground but surfaces occassionaly with his fabulous artist wife, Alison Collins, and their magical son, Lucas.
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What Sound Does The Blk Atlantic Make?—on translation in the work of artist Alberta Whittle
By Mother TongueMAY 2020 | Critics Page
Whittle’s filmwork was filmed in part within the North British Rubber Company archives, surrounded by documents and objects relating to their former Edinburgh factory site, singing the mournful lyrics of African-American blues, jazz, and folk singer Odetta Holmes’s song “Deep Blue Sea.”
A Hunger Artist
By Betsy KaufmanMAY 2019 | Critics Page
On my first date with an artist who would eventually become my husband, I said, “Look at me, look at me, look at me!” I am also an artist and I wanted him to know, from the beginning, that I not only live for my work, but that I need an audience to view that work. Eventually my husband gave me “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka.
from PERFORMANCE STUDIES (“TO BE TRANSFORMED”)
By Lara Mimosa MontesFEB 2020 | Poetry
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Hands On: Working with Artist-Endowed Foundations and Trusts
By Patterson SimsDEC 18-JAN 19 | Critics Page
Working with artist-initiated entities charged with stewarding a creative legacy, both artist-endowed foundations (charitable tax-exempt organizations) and artists’ trusts (private, non-exempt entities), has been the core of my professional life since 2009 and a deeply gratifying culmination of nearly fifty years of work in the visual arts.
