
“It’s been a very, very strange time. I feel very lost and confused and sort of unclear about what I should be doing with the play, where I should be going with it and where I should be going after the play is done.”

“Awkward moments and mutual hostility” abound in this conversation with artist and provocateur Andres Serrano on his most recent collection of photographs of dead bodies.

Ousmane Sembene, the Senegalese writer and director of Black Girl, Ceddo, and Camp de Thiaroye is the point by which African cinema sets its compass.
Every morning at 8:45, one of my clocks plays the Meistersinger Prelude theme on a set of silver chimes, and I wake up.
ON THESE DAYS DRIVING
Perfection is all those horrible old love affairs
Bell was fighting a sex hangover as he fixed a fried egg sandwich.
Ruel is crying.
He has decided to fall in love.
Two boys are making out in the booth across from me.

Piece utilizing burns from a bomb fuse, as well as enamel and resin, on aluminum, Black-Eyed Sue by LC Armstrong.
A drawing (Portrait of Bill) and a photogram (Analgesic, Sugar and Saccharin #3) by Fred Tomaselli.
Abstract painting on paper, Poppie’s by Jimmie Durham, selected by Bill Arning and Paul Ramirez-Jonas. This article is only available in print.