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This past Saturday night, fifty-plus hearty spirits crowded the Mediator Fellowship Hall in Providence, RI, braving the churlish end-of-February weather for a night of shiny music, shimmering poetry and shaking prose. It was shaking’s maiden voyage public-wise, a shakingdown cruise so to speak. Everyone survived. Yea, I dare say even flourished__ to the delight of the writers and presenters (Jericho Brown, Marita Andrade, Jo-Ann Reid, R.A. Stovetop Lawson, Liz Carter, Scott Duhamel and shaking editor Mr. Don), and a trio of fine singer/ songwriters (Mark Cutler, Chris Monti and Anthony Loffredio).The next one’s already on the drawing table; check these pages for announcements of more shaking evenings to come.
Candice Breitz (South African, born in 1972) 30?Channel Installation / 30 Hard Drives * Vanmoerkerke Collection, Belgium. *Courtesy of the Artist and Yvon Lambert Gallery *Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston About a year ago I had to chop 10 inches off of my long, blonde locks because they were caked with black, acrylic [...]
…“I may be a fool and a pimp from the brothels, but I know about love, if only because I long for it with all of my being,” Toulouse, Moulin Rouge Now to get personal. My bad luck with relationships is notorious. I live in Boston, and around here it’s common knowledge that [...]
“There is no science without fancy, no art without facts”- Vladimir Nabokov I’ve overheard in the Boston coffee shop talk that true originality is impossible in a post-modern world. ‘Everything has been seen and heard,’ the pseudo-intellectuals drone. ‘So all an artist can hope for is a general truth.’ Such a theory is [...]
All artists are monsters of sorts…Scott Walker is slowly, very slowly, becoming the worst kind of monster.
