Rooms of One’s Own
Marjorie Schlossman’s Fargo Chaplets
with personal history and annotations
by Collier White
1985, outside Palo Alto, California: I am eight years old. Outside my bedroom door, in the brightly lit hallway visible from my bed, is one of Marjorie Schlossman’s large, abstract expressionist paintings. Partially obscured by the doorframe, the cool blue background and the green and red [...]
Inviting Death’s Release: Antichrist and The Box
Let me weep my cruel fate,
and let me sigh for liberty.
May sorrow break these chains
Of my sufferings, for pity’s sake.
– Handel’s Rinaldo
What a stir Lars von Trier creates with each of his movies. He is the Danish director you love to hate and who, until recently, loved to be hated. His latest film, [...]
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Dead Seductive: The Icky Allure of Pamela Valfer’s Fauna
After seeing Pamela Valfer’s exhibition at the Phipps, I seize on a single word from her artist’s statement: abject. Common definitions indicate the hopeless, rejected and impoverished, but I guess that Valfer was working from a more academic definition: I settle on the definition developed by Julia Kristeva. My most cynical take on Valfer, before [...]
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Wondrous Artifacts
By Collier White
I meet a friend in Denver to stay at his parents’ house for a few days. We’ve both flown a great distance, and on the day we arrive, his grandfather dies, expectedly. As he and I drive away from the tent city of Denver International Airport, imperceptibly gaining altitude as we traverse the [...]