Robert Enright
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Ends and Beginnings: The Generative Photographs of Nan Goldin
In the interview that follows, “beauty” is spoken. Goldin says, about her photographs from Eden and After, “I desire the beauty. I’m attracted to people who are beautiful. And my people are all kinds of beautiful.”
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The Man with the Moving Camera
I sometimes feel like I don’t know how not to produce photography. When I’m in a long period, and it does happen, that I’m not producing my own work, I feel something important is being neglected.
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Sweetened with Beauty
The interview that follows was prompted by the exhibition at Whitechapel, “Kai Althoff goes with Bernard Leach,” in tandem with our own long-standing interest in the artist’s work.
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The Future Past: Painting in Our Time: Manuel Mathieu, Shaan Syed, Bea Parsons, Amanda Boulos
For our annual painting issue, Border Crossings went to Parsons and three other painters (Shaan Syed in London, UK; Haitian-born Manuel Mathieu in Montreal; and Amanda Boulos in Toronto) to talk about their engagement with this centuries-old storied art form.
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Painting the Impossible Paintings
For our annual painting issue, Border Crossings went to Parsons and three other painters (Shaan Syed in London, UK; Haitian-born Manuel Mathieu in Montreal; and Amanda Boulos in Toronto) to talk about their engagement with this centuries-old storied art form.
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Ways of Looking, Ways of Not Seeing
For our annual painting issue, Border Crossings went to Parsons and three other painters (Shaan Syed in London, UK; Haitian-born Manuel Mathieu in Montreal; and Amanda Boulos in Toronto) to talk about their engagement with this centuries-old storied art form.
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Monotypology
For our annual painting issue, Border Crossings went to Parsons and three other painters (Shaan Syed in London, UK; Haitian-born Manuel Mathieu in Montreal; and Amanda Boulos in Toronto) to talk about their engagement with this centuries-old storied art form.
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Family Archive
For our annual painting issue, Border Crossings went to Parsons and three other painters (Shaan Syed in London, UK; Haitian-born Manuel Mathieu in Montreal; and Amanda Boulos in Toronto) to talk about their engagement with this centuries-old storied art form.
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History Maker
If Stan Douglas weren’t a filmmaker, video artist and photographer, he’d be a writer. He thinks like a writer. When he talks about his projects and bodies of work, how they come into being and how they develop, it is like listening to a novelist outlining a plot, setting a scene or describing a character. He provides a narrative frame in which stories and characters present and configure themselves, often in complicated situations.
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Cinema Like the Music
Arthur Jafa’s unparalleled seven-and-a-half-minute-long video opens and closes with two kinds of Black hero.
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Pressure on Verbal Matter
Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk, 2018, subtitled an Ars Poetica in 59 Versos, has two characters, the author and the clerk. Their interaction is an inventory of complex disagreements and antagonisms.
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Esmaa Mohamoud
For Esmaa Mohamoud, growing up as the only girl between two older brothers and two younger ones, an engagement with sports was inevitable. A self-described tomboy, she played sports like a boy, wore a jersey, was a Raptors fan who admired Vince Carter and wanted some of his magic for her own.
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