Martha Diamond, Sun, 1983, oil on canvas, 66 × 88 inches. Courtesy of Brooke Alexander, New York.
Martha Diamond, Flame, 1980, oil on canvas, 40 × 54 inches. Courtesy of Brooke Alexander Gallery.
In English the burning city / Hecuba dreams in my hand // Come man with cup / and hard-luck pitch // Upstream the brunch rush / shines upon our heads
Space shapes bodies; bodies shape space.
In advance of the next installment of his extensive history of New York City, Wallace expounds on the pivotal early years of the twentieth century.
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Nicolas Echevarria, Pam Yates, art by James Nares and Tom Otterness, writing by Daisy Zamora, Kathy Acker, Glenn O’Brien, and more.
I don’t think an artist and a shaman actually have that much difference if we go back, way back, in time. Today, it’s just gotten so wrapped up in intellectual stuff that we’ve gotten far away from a basic truth about what artists do in the world.
Lucy Dodd
