Posts Tagged ‘essays’

Food Fight!

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Having a limitless variety of oranges to pick from is exciting, in theory. Read more.


A Conversation with Paul Chaat Smith

A Place called Irony, the 5 Train Platform, Battery Park, NYC 2007

Smith’s essays are poignantly autobiographical while providing a historical overview of Native Contemporary artists and their sometimes ground-breaking output over the last three decades.


Luna Remembers by Paul Chaat Smith

Luna in the San Diego Museum of Man, circa late 80s

In Washington, a large photograph of The Artifact Piece greets visitors in the National Museum of the American Indian’s third floor gallery. On a winter afternoon a few months after the museum opened, Luna himself was one of those visitors. It must have felt like walking into one of his own installations.


Abandon Your Goals

“...the decision is to encourage the psycopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness.” --Norman Mailer

The American Dream is a dead religion yet believers are steadfast in their determination to sacrifice the present for an increasingly distant tomorrow.