Blackwing makes some swanky pencils… Four times a year, they put out a special ‘limited’ edition run, and for Q4 2016, they honor Dorothea Lange with Volume 344. https://youtu.be/oBTxLUe0FMU I’m not a huge pencil user, and these are so fancy, I’ll probably end up gifting them or maybe reselling them in a year or two …
Category Archives: Reviews
Paul Graham – ‘Does Yellow Run Forever?’
Paul Graham’s Does Yellow Run Forever? is a year or two old now, so you may already know all about it, but I’m a bit behind I guess. I became aware of Graham’s work following the review of his 2015 show at Pier 24 and its associated, excellent catalog, so it’s understandable that I missed it …
Joshua Rashaad McFadden – ‘Come to Selfhood’
Joshua Rashaad McFadden’s Come to Selfhood, the newest book from Ceiba Editions, might open up some things for me, if I pay attention…
Sophie Harris-Taylor – ‘MTWTFSS’
Sophie Harris-Taylor’s M T W T F S S: Chapter 1. 2010-2015, according to the cover, “is an autobiographical, fragmented, sporadic photo diary.” I was initially hoping for a bit more diary—there are scribbled snippets of what might be diary entries in the front and back, but no other text beyond page numbers, plus a list of …
unboxing Printed Web 4
Printed Web 4: Public, Private, Secret appeared alongside the Charlotte Cotton/ICP exhibition of the same name, as well as Mossless 4: Public, Private, Portrait. I wasn’t at all aware of the Printed Web project, which sounds quite interesting and I would’ve spent more time with it, but the website is an absolute pain to navigate (likely …
Rosalind Fox Solomon – ‘Got to Go’
they call me piggy i eatbrown sugar and whipped creamnothing fills my emptiness father says why buy a cow if you can get the milk for free?
Rosalind Fox Solomon – ‘THEM’
they take our landthey take our money we pay them taxesthey let our garbage rot they hammer your headthey wrap you in the flagthey dance, and shoutmessiah messiah messiah
