'Sacred Fix' was published in 1975. 'Selected Catastrophies' is the fourth section of the book. The author is an incandescent South African poet, who died in 2000. The poem begins:
"society!
I will not support you
when you shed your hideous electronic disguises
and stagger through the alleyways of oblivion
looking for shelter.
o society you betrayed me
with your promises of paradise . . ."
Eduardo Delgado, Public Programs Director of the New World Symphony, shares how they use evolving technology to implement their artistic vision of connecting with community.
In this special edition, I interview National Endowment for the Arts Chair Maria Rosario Jackson and U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos about the...
Cold Turkey Press continues to publish handmade posters printed in editions limited to 36 copies, specializing in avant-garde poets and artists of the past as well as the present. Here is one of the latest, LUDION'S LAMENT.
'The trick is to get out of your own dead body in one piece. One quick hard twist and you're out. Next, you turn black all over and taper at the extremities.' — Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
The New York gallerist James Fuentes is presenting Elsa Rensaa’s paintings in a two-part exhibition: Out of the Wilderness and Into the Blue. "Her paintings, rendered with meticulous applications of thin acrylic washes, bring forth lush, syncretic visual portals," he says. "They draw from a vast and visionary range of references, including Ancient Nordic, Egyptian, and Eastern imagery, in addition to Renaissance, Art Nouveau, and Dada art movements, with a Lower East Side iconography that is distinctly recognizable as Rensaa’s own."
In this tuneful podcast, 2024 NEA Jazz Master Saxophonist Gary Bartz talks about his life and career, touching on his roots, influences, collaborations, and...
Randy Cohen, Vice President of Research at Americans for the Arts, shares the power of sharing the impact of both stories and numbers in advocating for the arts.
Companies like Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, Spotify, Apple and Google have subsidized what they offer (super-cheap or free content, faster service and better accessibility) to capture audience and attention in ways that have played havoc with culture producers and artists everywhere, whether or not they create on any of these platforms.