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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Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial
By William CorwinMARCH 2022 | ArtSeen
Bronx Calling, the fifth iteration of the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Biennial at the Bronx Museum, is unique in that it passively presents artists working at their own pace rather than proselytizing a curatorial vision of the contemporary scene. The 68 artists included in this hefty and deep exhibition participated in the 2018 and 2019 AIM programs.
53. (The Shoreline of the South Bronx)
By Raphael RubinsteinMAY 2021 | The Miraculous
After learning that the New York City Parks Commission oversees some 30,000 acres of public parkland, an artist its outraged to discover the existence of a century-old law that makes it illegal to grow or to pick edible plants on any of this land.
58. (Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx)
By Raphael RubinsteinJUNE 2021 | The Miraculous
Provided with a generous grant from a private foundation an artist creates a realistic, larger-than-life-size marble sculpture of her and her life-partner embracing in bed, naked except for a sheet artfully draped across their midsections. The pose is inspired by Le Sommeil, Courbet’s scandalous painting of lesbian reverie, which itself was inspired by Baudelaire’s equally scandalous poem, “Femmes Damnées (Delphine et Hippolyte).”
27. (Ridge Street, Attorney Street, South Bronx)
By Raphael RubinsteinNOV 2020 | The Miraculous
A young graffiti artist creates an elaborate series of tags on the wall of a handball court on the Lower East Side. His mentor, a poet-playwright who learned the craft of writing while serving a sentence for armed robbery in Sing Sing, admires the graffiti so much that he urges a painter friend to immortalize it on a canvas.
