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Archive for November 2012

Now Dig THIS… A Letter to the NYTimes

This post is in response to Ken Johnson’s 25 October review of ‘Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles,’ at MoMA PS1 It was sent via email as a letter to the editor of the New York Times on 27 October 2012. Dear Madam/Sir: I am an artist who lives and works in Boston,… (read more)

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A Surface of Sex… Mario Testino at MFA Boston

I’m standing in the Mario Testino; IN YOUR FACE show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and I hear three ladies a little older than me (I’m 49) talking about how upset they are about the way that a doberman is represented in a large photo of Gisele Bündchen’s husband.  They thought someone must have… (read more)

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