The Official Merit-Based Immigration Test Study Guide
An excerpt from The Official Merit-Based Immigration Test Study Guide (College Board, 2018).
Though I wouldn’t ever wish to re-live middle school or high school or even college or last week, I still have these Dolores O’Riordan songs on repeat.
Oakland, poetry, and radical empathy.
Sir William Forsythe’s Freebase Nuptials – Sean Kilpatrick
Stuck festering between brows high and low, Kilpatrick’s latest instantaneously ignored struggle with cultural iconography and line quality inflicts (potential) readers with his wang mural on a bathroom stall.
All through 2017, I found myself in the year’s art with ease.
Quintan Ana Wikswo and Margo Berdeshevsky
I suspect that Evil created Hope, knowing that it would never be a successful opponent.
The Influence Peddlers – Hédi Kaddour
If increasingly Islamophobic western cultures can be collectively taken as Troy, THE INFLUENCE PEDDLERS at its best is a Trojan Horse in which not all the soldiers fit — or at least fit comfortably.
Much like the vast clouds of experience that coalesce into identity, there is no clear way of gathering the many points of intersection among the three movies made by Abe, Teshigahara, and Takemitsu.
I, Parrot – Deb Olin Unferth and Elizabeth Haidle
While the medium of Unferth’s work has transmogrified into this alternate form, her message remains the same: How the fuck did I get here, and now how do I get out?
Gass’s suggestion that the monstrosity of the Shoah could easily arise from much smaller gestures of hate no longer seems, in the present, like a trivialization of genocide—it is a field guide to the unchecked regions where only anger can find reliably fertile ground.