I know that I’m depressed, sensitive, and selfish. I’m just determined to do this thing, which is paint in solitude, and I will burn bridges to do it, including relationships.
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Celeste Dupuy-Spencer
Portfolio by Robert Grenier
- Shannon Ebner and Zoe Leonard by
- Teju Cole by Aleksandar Hemon
- Jay Scheib by Alix Pearlstein
- Matthew Barney and Gaspar Noé
- chameckilerner by Eve Sussman
- Etel Adnan by Lisa Robertson
- Natalie Frank by Dasha Shishkin
- Valerie Snobeck by Joe Fyfe
Interviews
- Jason Simon by Andrew Durbin
- Simone Leigh by Malik Gaines
- Samuel Jablon by James Hyde
Artists on Artists
- Portfolio by Robert Grenier
- Before by Lucy Corin
- I Can Give You Anything but Love: A Memoir by Gary Indiana
- Berenice’s Hair by Peggy Shinner
- Poems by Anselm Berrigan
- The Vicious Ladies by Carribean Fragoza
- The Hermit by Lucy Ives
- Poems by Li Shangyin
First Proof
- Shirin Neshat’s Our House Is on Fire by Anna Della Subin
- Bill Orcutt’s Gerty Loves Pussy by Clinton Krute
- Lynne Tillman’s What Would Lynne Tillman Do? by Sara Jaffe
- Ulrike Müller’s Herstory Inventory: 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists by Thom Donovan
- Robert Fitterman’s No, Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself. by Nick Thurston
- Le Derrière Cri by Tom Griffiths
- Tony Medina’s Broke Baroque by Patricia Spears Jones
- Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic by Sabine Russ
Editor's Choice
Color drawing poems from Robert Grenier’s 16 from r h y m m s, a set of prints published by Marfa Book Co./Impossible Objects in January 2014. For more information, visit www.marfabookco.com.
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Experimental black poetry and visual art.
Out, like fireflies, from the inter-dimensional, / silver disks at edge of picture hover over Hillary / with swaddled child, John Podesta counterpose beside her, / in a painting I’d like to paint, had I been a painter, / trading in detail from the too-smooth desert
Originally published in
BOMB 127,
Spring 2014
Featuring interviews with Jay Scheib, Matthew Barney and Gaspar Noé, chameckilerner, Zoe Leonard and Shannon Ebnerm, Teju Cole, Etel Adnan, Natalie Frank, and Valerie Snobeck.
