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Pleasure and Pain: Kerry James Marshall’s “Mastry”

November 30, 2016 CNQ 0

“Mastry” is in part pleasure, in part pain. Are the parts equal? That’s what I feel so confused about. In the wall info next to an early self-portrait, Marshall refers to Ralph Ellison: “Ellison’s notion […]

Narrative Painting Part I: Dan Schein’s “Where Do We Dump the Bodies?”

September 20, 2016 CNQ 0

I wonder if other women or even children are beginning to think that adult males are becoming a little too comfortable with the role of the anti-hero? The hopeless, hapless guy who doesn’t know how […]