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Uncertainty and Lostness

By Barry Schwabsky
Most artists do, for better or worse, live through their midcareer. It’s just that they don’t often do so with ease. The middle is not necessarily the conclusion, and you can never predict when or where or how or why an artist might undergo a startling renewal—just as we should admit that we can never predict in advance when he or she might hit a dead end.
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The Dark Arts

By Noah Fischer
There is a trap hiding behind today’s prevailing idea of success in art, and the only way to evade it is to begin visualizing it. In order to do this, we must take a step away from the figure of the artist, and a step closer to this thing that we now call a “market,” so that we can look deeper into the mechanics of support.
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The Long Feeling

By Katy Lederer
For a very long time, I had wanted to talk about feelings—subtle, painful, complicated, difficult to render. By feelings, I was thinking of the physical sensations at the juncture of not only the body and mind, but also of time and its duration. The question of not only how I felt, but why I felt and for how long.
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Politics and the “Magic Negro”

By Graham Jones
Is politics nothing but trickery? Are political leaders nothing but tricksters? Certainly many of us believe so, and not without reason. In this essay, however, I want to step back from these self-evident suspicions to look more closely at how their self-evidence takes shape through an analogy between the domains of democratic politics and entertainment magic.
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Back to the Future

By Suzanne Hudson
John McCracken famously described his iconic vertical planks as vehicles to the beyond. They were first conceived in 1966, the same year that Star Trek debuted as an intergalactic Western, but already the year before, McCracken was writing in his notebooks of life forms from elsewhere. He was imagining them communicating, moving through him to generate composition.
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The Classroom and the Precinct

By José Luis Vilson
To many people of color, the school-to-prison pipeline has become part of the American mainstream. When teachers continue to reinforce their allegiance to criminalization and police brutality, we signal to disenfranchised communities that, in fact, their lives don’t matter, from the time they step into the classroom to the time they’ve been pushed - not dropped - out.
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