The Other’s Champion
Duane Michals by Abe Frandlich
Interesting. I bought my first Duane Michaels print in 1979 and I saw a photo of him at the NYCity gallery and he looked like this (with irises in his eyes – I think!). DS
Alexandra Exter
“Guardian of Energy” (costume design for the film “Aelita” by Yakov Protozanov)
1924
Ink, gouache, and pencil on paper
21 ¼ x 14 1/4″ (54 x 36.2 cm)
The J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.
*My favorite science fiction movie, mostly because of her Martian sets and costumes
It’s no secret that we’re held to standards that we cannot meet. Sometimes we don’t even have any intention of meeting them, but there is always someone to hold us to the expectation anyway, someone with enough entitlement to disqualify us from a race we never signed up to run. Though this brand...
A wonderful writing from a friend on unraveling a sense of self from an oppressive culture.
