by Noah Davis
by Anthony Paletta
by Mark Bibbins, Editor
Cezanne’s Still-Life with Skull, Candlestick, & Book
Poor Yorick would speak a speech about fucking and how to run balls-out into the sea; how the rose once moved
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“An article on June 6 about the Bushwick Open Studios event in Brooklyn misinterpreted a statement by the artist Juniper Alcorn in the process of paraphrasing it to eliminate an obscenity. Ms. Alcorn says that the vulgarity in her manifesto means that she is a feminist who messes around, not that she ‘sleeps around.’”
★★★★★ A friendly upright puff of cloud stood in the western windows. Outside, overhead and to the north, was…
Does anyone do menace prettier than The Weeknd? I think not. [Via]
“A man’s guide on ‘getting awesome with women’ is being slammed as a how-to guide for rapists after disturbing excerpts of the yet-to-be published book were uncovered through social media.”