Like many writers, I feel centered when I write, or it might be better to say, when I don’t write, when I can’t write for whatever reason, I feel, frankly, de-stabilized. It’s dangerous for me not to write.
—
Sigrid Nunez
Michelle Handelman by Judith Shimer
Video artist Michelle Handelman discusses vampire jewel thieves, censorship, and re-interpreting The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Discover MFA Programs in Art and Writing
Irma Vep, The Last Breath opened at The Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University on September 20, 2013.
Judith Shimer is a feminist artist and musician living in Brooklyn.
Related
Art that confronts abuse toward women.
The retrospective of Hannah Wilke’s career “invites viewers to notice the overlooked details in Wilke’s works, so they can fully embrace the pleasures and contradictions that linger beneath—and, at times, explicitly atop—their surfaces.”
Resisting the true crime genre and shifting focus to the prevalence of violence against women.