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  • Postscript: Sarah Charlesworth on Photography

    I stumbled upon a talk that Sarah Charlesworth delivered in 2010. The video was uploaded by the Guggenheim Museum as part of its Conversations with Contemporary Artists series archive on YouTube. Highlights include Charlesworth’s opening manifesto on photography as art, as well as her brief insights on some of her work. She talks about “Stills” at the…

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    Camera lens against a white background

  • Read Harder #12: Wishful Drinking

    #12: A celebrity memoir – Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher Carrie Fisher gives readers a glimpse at the woman behind the famous Princess Leia. She mentions several times that the book takes, in part, from her show of the same name, and the writing proves it: Fisher takes a conversational — sometimes bordering on sloppy, but always…

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    Cover of Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking

  • Read Harder 2018

    I decided to try and read more last year, and 2017 ended with a respectable 36 books tallied. Not bad for a year spent in the intellectual doldrums. (That isn’t drama, either; the worst and longest of my depressive episodes had me vegetating on the couch, staring blankly as episodes played on loop on the…

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    Library shelves with books - header for Read Harder Challenge 2018

  • Stop. Look.

    I’ve been organizing my LA trip photos, more than half of which cover our LACMA visit. The expansive LACMA campus houses more art than my phone memory can hold, but I did snap my favorites from the impressive modern and contemporary art collections and the rotating exhibits. As it turns out, that means amassing shots…

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    Some photos from Sarah Charlesworth's Stills series

  • Thinking about trains*

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    * Did I struggle not to make “train of thought” puns? Maybe. (Update: We’re back in the Bay Area!) Mass transit has been on my mind recently. In a piece for The New York Times, Jonathan Mahler examines the (in)famous New York subway’s deterioration and makes the case for the system’s repair and maintenance, if…

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    Photo of subway passengers

  • June 2017: A Read Harder Challenge Update

    It’s been a few months! I just wanted to do a quick check-in, since I’ve been making some (admittedly slow) progress but not always with the titles I’d planned to read. Finished tasks have been crossed out, and the titles that were actually read are bolded and in italics. Over the next few weeks, I’ll…

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