Apr 10, 2020 | Essay, From the Chair
In 1992, the Choreographer Bill T. Jones lost his partner Arnie Zane to HIV/AIDS. Shortly thereafter, as he moved through his own grief and still in the crisis days of the AIDS epidemic (and HIV positive himself) he initiated a series of what he called Survival...
Apr 3, 2020 | Essay, From the Chair
Dear Friends, I hope you are all safe and healthy. I must admit these last couple of weeks have knocked the wind out of me. I have written an essay a week for almost five years now—no matter what—an essay a week. But in the last two weeks I had nothing to share. We...
Mar 9, 2020 | Essay, From the Chair
On Finishing An essay, a project, a sentence, a thought, a drawing… How do we know when any of these things are finished? And what does it mean to finish a project or a life for that matter? In On the Creation of Art (1965), the philosopher Monroe Beardsley writes...
Mar 2, 2020 | Essay, From the Chair
Works which demand to be ‘seen and read’ absorb the dialogues and refusals between visual and written communication, and explicitly ask for us to reappraise how we consume literature and art. —Elizabeth Benjamin and Sophie Corser, Literature and Art: Conversations and...
Feb 24, 2020 | Essay, From the Chair
Curiosity is a radical act. To be a curious explorer of artistic and creative possibility, to be intellectually curious in the face of any status quo, effectively insures a life of constant questioning; like seeing the world as an early modern Cubist painting, always...
Feb 18, 2020 | Essay, From the Chair
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless. — Zaha Hadid Artists edit, writers edit, architects edit. Begin with an idea, then find its truth through hundreds of subtle changes, each one creating a new set of possibilities....
