Author: patrick brennan

[spacer height=”0.1px”]July 2024 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”30px”] BUREAU OF SENSORY AFFAIRS Study #4, Light Affect [spacer height=”20px”] The Bureau of Sensory Affairs (BSA) is an institution dedicated to sensory experimentation. Based in Washington, DC, and co-chaired by Alma Laprida and Nate Scheible, its mission is to provide a platform for research into the limits of… Continue reading Bureau of Sensory Affairs

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Randee Silv & Nicca Ray June 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”40px”] Randee Silv: Your new collection of memoir poems, Go Go Go Girl, was just released by Poison Fang Books. One can’t help but notice this strong, dynamic connection that’s going on between your words and the artwork by Jesse McCloskey that accompanies each… Continue reading Nicca Ray on “Go Go Go Girl”

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Jim Leftwich June 2024 [spacer height=”30px”] Sunrise was at 5:19 this morning. I got up and watched the Hoh River as it slowly came to life. Then I went back to bed. I got up again around 9 o’clock and ate breakfast: five ounces of canned Albacore tuna, with a healthy sprinkling of crushed… Continue reading Under the influence of Eaten Poems 

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Colette Copeland June 2024 [spacer height=”50px”] Sorry, installation view, photo courtesy of the artist [spacer height=”40px”] I met Vishnupriya in an online class through The Alternative Art School. Our workshop with esteemed artists of RAQS Media Collective focused on art and social practice—how as artists we might create “gatherings” outside of the traditional confines… Continue reading Interview with Vishnupriya Rajgarhia

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Daniel Barbiero June 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Joyce Mansour In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems tr. C. Francis Fisher preface by Mary Ann Caws World Poetry Books [spacer height=”20px”] The poetry of Joyce Mansour, one of the last significant artists to be attracted to the Surrealist movement under André Breton, has been undergoing… Continue reading Joyce Mansour: In the Glittering Maw

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus David May 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”]  Remote Theater Project/Roots Mbili Theatre Direction and Dramaturgy by Junaid Sarieddeen [spacer height=”40px”] What connects five prisons over five decades in Uganda, Palestine, and the UK? The U.S. premiere of LINES at La MaMa looks through the bars of postcolonial life as told through stories in… Continue reading Review: “LINES” at La MaMa

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Colette Copeland May 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] from Droho/Drohita, a work in progress [spacer height=”20px”] I met Shruti while in Kolkata for my Fulbright Research when a mutual friend introduced us. She is a classically trained Kathak dancer, scholar and teacher. She participated in my India experimental soundings project, which focuses on amplifying voices that… Continue reading Interview with Shruti Ghosh

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Daniel Barbiero May 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Julien Gracq, Abounding Freedom tr. Alice Yang, World Poetry Books [spacer height=”20px”] “A Door Had Opened onto Unexplored Domains” [spacer height=”20px”] In the years immediately after its liberation, France underwent a major upheaval in its intellectual and cultural life. The overturning of the prewar order, following… Continue reading Review of Julien Gracq’s Abounding Freedom

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Colette CopelandApril 2024 [spacer height=”10px”] Be Courageous, mixed media collage, 4″ x 6″ [spacer height=”20px”] I first saw HagRoot’s art in the gift shop of a gallery in Lake Granbury, Texas. That was 3 years ago and I’ve collected a number of her works since then, as has my daughter. HagRoot’s website/online store is… Continue reading Speaking with HagRoot

[spacer height=”0.1px”] Marcus David April 2024 [spacer height=”40px”] photo by Richard Termine [spacer height=”20px”] The Four Lives Skysaver Productions Created & Directed by Theodora Skipitares Music by Sxip Shirey [spacer height=”20px”] If you enjoy catchy, trippy tunes with a healthy dose of metaphysical angst, then The Four Lives at the Ellen Stewart Theatre at La Mama… Continue reading The Four Lives

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Colette Copeland April 2024 [spacer height=”30px”] from Holding Space, asemic and redacted text, SSVAD residency, 2024 [spacer height=”30px”] I met Avnit in Shantiniketan, a wonderful artist enclave in West Bengal. The town’s name which means the “abode of peace” was founded in 1863 by Debendranath Tagore. His son, esteemed poet, philosopher and philanthropist Rabindranath… Continue reading Interview with Avnit Singh

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Arteidolia March 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”40px”] Question 1: Your new collection of poetry, petal / transport, has just been released by Arteidolia Press. Can you tell us more about what’s behind this title and your use of the strikethrough, which is especially eye catching. Response 1: It is a difficult question to which,… Continue reading Question & Response with James Mesiti

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Colette Copeland March 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] Perpetual Itinerary, Etching Aquatint, 90x50cm, 2020, image courtesy of Champa Tree Gallery [spacer height=”20px”] I first learned about Keerti Pooja’s work during a weekend visit to Delhi last September. I was visiting Champa Tree Gallery and her work was part of the group exhibition A Room Full of… Continue reading Interview with Keerti Pooja

[spacer height=”0.1px”]John Crouse March 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Jim Leftwich’s INVASIVE PLANTS Serious Publications 50, Austin TX, 2024 [spacer height=”30px”] Specifying north-south position on the surface of the earth Leftwich says right where he is: “between words,” and what he’s doing there: “Waiting for the sunrise,” existence of incompatible observables be darned, toe returned… Continue reading “i once upon / And i / Wrote a Poem / About it”

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Ivan Klein April 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] He was famous for his novels of the Old West, was said to have created the genre with his best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage. But there exists a mainly forgotten body of his baseball fiction and lore as well, that celebrates and chronicles the glorious… Continue reading Two Baseball Stories by Zane Grey

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Colette Copeland March 2024 [spacer height=”10px”] Victoria Sails and Hiten Noonwal, 2024, photo courtesy of the artist [spacer height=”20px”] I met Hiten through some mutual friends at National Institute of Design, where he is an alumni and guest faculty in the Apparel Design Department. We met at his family home in Rohini about 90… Continue reading Interview with Hiten Noonwal

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Colette Copeland February 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] still from Haunted by Waters, 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] I first learned of Parvathi Nayar’s work from esteemed Delhi curator, arts consultant and writer Sushma Bahl. Although she currently resides in Chennai, Nayar has lived in Singapore, London and Jakarta. I was initially drawn to her large-scale installations and… Continue reading Interview with Parvathi Nayar

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus DavidFebruary 2024 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”30px”] “Metch is a concert exhibition, an auction dance, an excessive production of paintings, an obsessive dialog with the audience and of course the songs…I know many people come to my shows because they love my songs. For good or for bad those people will need to experience or… Continue reading Review: Ivo Dimchev’s METCH at La MaMa

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Colette Copeland February 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] still from the performance‘thaan‘ space/place : searching the self, 2023, New Delhi Art Fair, Photo by Sajan Mani [spacer height=”20px”] I met artist Manmeet Devgun in New Delhi during the Art Fair. I read about her performance event and contacted her through a mutual acquaintance to set up… Continue reading Interview with Manmeet Devgun

[spacer height=0.1px”]Anne Bower February 2024 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”20px”] CANTATA for a desert poet Sharon Lopez Mooney ARTEIDOLIA PRESS 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] CANTATA for a desert poet is the outcome of a difficult a task taken on by Sharon Lopez Mooney, obeying Salam Khalili’s wish that she tell his story in her words, a task… Continue reading Review of “CANTATA for a desert poet”

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Daniel Barbiero February 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] Untitled, 1969, image WikiArt [spacer height=”20px”] (You can click links throughout this essay to view paintings at the National Gallery of Art) Not long before 1950 Mark Rothko began creating large canvases of sublimely luminous, blurry-edged blocks of color floating over background fields of related or contrasting colors.… Continue reading Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper

  [spacer height=”0.1px”]Marcus David February 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] Photo by Maria Baranova [spacer height=”20px”]  What do you get when you take the brutality, obscenity and violence of ancient mythology, mix it with modern catastrophic thinking, add a bit of the ethos from Pink Floyd’s classic album Animals, and finally sprinkle a dash of borsch belt… Continue reading Aristotle Thinks Again at La Mama

[spacer height=”0.3px”]Sally Brown January 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”30px”] Poet Nadia Arioli provides a captivating glimpse into her latest book, “BE STILL” (Kelsay Books, 2023), centered around surrealist artist Kay Sage. In this  interview, Arioli discusses her shift to a confessional style and the unique narrative choice of channeling Sage’s lens over her own. The… Continue reading Unveiling Kay Sage’s World / interview with Nadia Arioli

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Sally Brown January 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] When I first delved into Gravity & Spectacle (Tolsun Books, 2020), the fusion of Jia Oak Baker’s photography and Shawnte Orion’s poetry left me perplexed. The book, with a cover featuring a 1970s yellow floral couch and a person in a tall, strange mask against an… Continue reading Review: Gravity & Spectacle

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Arteidolia January 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] Samia Halaby in her studio, 2016 (Wikimedia) [spacer height=”20px”] A message from Samia Halaby: [spacer height=”20px”] “On the occasion of reaching over eleven thousand signers to the petition asking for the reinstatement of my retrospective at Indiana University I express admiring gratitude. Some of you are special close friends… Continue reading Reinstate Samia Halaby Retrospective NOW!

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Daniel Barbiero January 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] Jean Metzinger, Le goûter (Tea Time), 1911 [spacer height=”20px”] 1 [spacer height=”0.5px”] The Mona Lisa of the 1911 Salon d’Automne What he hoped to do with painting was to create [spacer height=”0.5px”] an art that…would have nothing to do with the business of creating illusions. I dreamed of… Continue reading Metzinger’s Cup

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Jack Christian January 2024 [spacer height=”20px”] Pierre Bonnard, The Bathroom, 1932, oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Florence May Schoenborn Bequest, 1996 © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York [spacer height=”20px”] 1. Pierre Bonnard’s bright domestic scenes are either a triumph over loneliness, or they are treatments of despair… Continue reading Bed, Bath, and Bonnard