March 2012
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Mar 30th
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Mar 29th
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“Thinking women sleep with monsters.”
– Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012
Mar 29th
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“Let us consider the waiter in the café. His movement is quick and forward, a...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness. 
Mar 29th
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Mar 27th
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“That grandiose colossus who Stood astride The envious assaults of the sea...”
– Sylvia Plath, Letter to a Purist, 1956
Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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Henry Geldzahler with Basquiat for Interview 13,...
HG: What is your subject matter?
J-MB: Royalty, heroism, and the streets.
Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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Mar 15th
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Mar 13th
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Mar 9th
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“Jean-Michel Basquiat first became famous for his art, then he became famous for...”
– This is the opening sentence of “Repelling Ghosts,” an essay by Richard Marshall for the first Basquiat retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art in 1993.  (Breathing Basquiat this week for a term paper due next.)
Mar 9th
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Mar 8th
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Mar 8th
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Mar 7th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 5th
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Mar 2nd
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Mar 2nd
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Mar 2nd
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