March 2012
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Thinking women sleep with monsters.
– Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012
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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.
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That grandiose colossus who
Stood astride
The envious assaults of the sea...
– Sylvia Plath, Letter to a Purist, 1956
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Henry Geldzahler with Basquiat for Interview 13,...
HG: What is your subject matter?
J-MB: Royalty, heroism, and the streets.
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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.)
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