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I’ve Been Sick for Over a Year
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday! Read More >>
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All the Kitsch
John Ashbery, A Dream of Heroes, 2015, mixed media collage, 15 3/4 x 20 1/2. John Ashbery is eighty-nine. In the last two months, he’s published a new collection of poems, Commotion of the Birds, and...
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Zonies, Part 4: Lullaby
Mike Powell’s column is about living in Arizona. Bryan Olson, Dream Catcher, collage. Driving around for groceries one afternoon I encountered an interesting AM radio announcement for homeschooling....
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The Life of Paper
Austin Thomas has an exhibition of new drawings and print work at Morgan Lehman Gallery through March 25. Her work marries layered collage techniques to printmaking processes, making prominent use of...
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Bayou Fever
“Bayou Fever and Related Works,” an exhibition of twenty-one vibrant collages by the late artist Romare Bearden, is on view at DC Moore Gallery through April 29. Made in 1979, the works were originally...
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Fragile but Fixable: The Collages of Deborah Roberts
“Fragile but Fixable,” Deborah Roberts’s Los Angeles solo debut, is on view at Luis De Jesus through June 16. In her collages, Roberts takes found images of black women and girls and alters them with...
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Your Problems Have One Answer
These collages draw on found images of black women and men from vintage Ebony and Jet magazines. A selection is presented below, along with Simpson’s selection of advertising phrases. Lorna Simpson, A...
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Restoring a Family Ghost
Some months ago, I came across a smattering of random family photographs at my parents’ house. The house had experienced some flooding during Hurricane Sandy, and the pictures, having been rather...
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The Paris Review Staff’s Favorite Books of 2018
Lucia Berlin in Oakland, California, 1975. Photo: Jeff Berlin (© 2018 Literary Estate of Lucia Berlin LP). 2018 has been a year of fragments, brief episodes, flashes. The seasons, at least here on the...
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Stealing It Back: A Conversation with Frida Orupabo
Frida Orupabo, Last Night’s Party, 2020. Courtesy of the artist. Frida Orupabo, an artist and former social worker, was born in 1986 in Sarpsborg, Norway. Like most millennials, she can remember a...
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