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Joanna Piotrowska is a Polish artist based in London.
In 1935, Maar met Pablo Picasso, and the two began a relationship, which would last for nine years. Early in their time together, they collaborated on photograms and drawings scratched onto photographic paper. Maar documented the painting of Picasso’s “Guernica,” producing an essential art-historical resource, as well as evidence of their creative intimacy. (According to the art historian John Richardson, Maar also made some of the vertical brushstrokes on the horse at the center of the painting.) Picasso encouraged Maar toward painting and away from photography—and then he left her, for Françoise Gilot. Maar had a breakdown, slowly recovered her poise, carried on making art.
— from “The Voraciousness and Oddity of Dora Maar’s Pictures” by Brian Dillon, via The New Yorker
Suzanne Jackson is an American visual artist, gallery owner, poet, dancer, educator, and set designer; with a career spanning five decades.
Philippe Parreno is a French contemporary artist who lives and works in Paris.
I fell asleep with my left hand resting on my phone, and when I woke up the phone had become part of me.
— from "Absorbed" by Katharine Coldiron, via Roi Faineant Press
Wyatt Kahn (b. 1983) lives and works in New York.
Inka (Finland) and Niclas (Sweden) Lindergård is an awarded artist duo who works primarily with photography-based art.
Leah Ke Yi Zheng (b. China) holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2019) and a BA from Xiamen University.
Julia Scher is an American artist who works primarily with themes of surveillance.
Camille Henrot is a French artist who lives and works in Paris and New York.
LICHT: Stockhausen's Legacy
Javier Martin is a contemporary Spanish artist raised in Marbella, Spain.
Scream is a movie about movies I had never seen. We see savvy high schoolers hang out at the video store, or analyzing John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) as they watch it at a house party. A fervent fanboy, Randy, instructs his friends on the “rules that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a horror movie.” Actor Jamie Kennedy plays the character with charming insouciance; his Randy is the nerd who survives. To me, the shock was as intellectual as it was visceral. Alongside its suddenly opening doors, bursts of strident sound, and a knife that could stab into view from anywhere, Scream had administered a different kind of jump scare. It brought not just a killer but a way of life into view: a life in which films could be studied.
— from “It’s (Not) Just Film Studies: On Returning to “Scream” by Kartik Nair, via LARB
Sarah Rosalena is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist based from Los Angeles.
KI: How do you feel about collaboration?
AN: Oh, I hate collaboration. Mostly because I like to have control over everything. I don't really feel like doing something with somebody else—I don't get it.
— from “An Interview with Alice Notley” by Kirsten (Kai) Ihns, via Poetry Society
Leda Catunda Serra, known as Leda Catunda is a Brazilian painter, sculptor, graphic artist and educator.
Eric-Paul Riege is a fiber artist who creates installations and performance art.
Pauline Shaw is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY.
John Carroll Kirby - Dawn of New Day feat. Laraaji
Director: Josh Finck
Joan Semmel is an American feminist painter, professor, and writer.
Özgür Kar (b. 1992 in Ankara, Turkey) lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Born in Okayama, Japan in 1952, Takako Yamaguchi is an artist and painter who has been based in Los Angeles since 1978.
Joey Terrill is a Los Angeles based queer Chicano artist.
What it turned out to be was a cockroach the size of a quarter floating right in her syrup. It was alive, too, because we all saw it crawl onto one of the peaches and just sort of sit there wiggling its horrid little legs.
— from “The Bath” by Bo Huston, via Evergreen
Linda Stark, Artist, Painter, Los Angeles.
Standing in the shower watching iridescent grains circle like starshine to the drain below, Mila wondered how much time she had left. It couldn’t be long, not at the rate she was losing them. She never saw the holes, the ones that must have been there, somewhere. That kind of mass exodus of cells would have to leave a void, but no matter which way she turned in front of the fogged mirror, she never saw where they were coming from.
— from “Fade to Black” by Laurel Hightower, via RRP
Alexander Berdin-Lazursky is a russian photographer and graphic designer from Samara.
Tschabalala Self is an American artist best known for her depictions of Black female figures using paint, fabric, and discarded pieces of her previous works.