The new New Inquiry goes live Monday, February 6.
Stay tuned.
I eagerly await.
is the primary online presence of a writer named Bradley Warshauer.
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February 1, 2012
2012 New-Orleans-Jazz-and-Heritage-Festival-presented-by-Shell poster
Or, Jazz Fest, as human people call it
This might be my favorite Jazz Fest poster ever.
So I submitted a short piece for this project.
They’ll be wanting more things—fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, photos.
Get on it, New Orleans.
New Orleans, What’s Your Story?
Share it at www.bookbyauthors.org
Book by Authors seeks written works and visual art inspired by New
Orleans. Selected works will be published in the book “New Orleans by New
Orleans” this spring.
Send in your personal essays, short fiction, poetry, neighborhood
histories, heirloom recipes, song lyrics, tall tales and more.
Photography, painting, drawing, screen printing, and all forms of
two-dimensional visual art are invited.
Open to all ages and all levels. Enter as many times as you wish.
Hurry! Deadline is February 21, 2012
Thanks,
Ryan and Rachel
Editors
Also, this just jumped into my inbox:
We just wanted to share with you that we will be on TV promoting the Book
by Authors project.
The TV channels asked us to be prepared to share artwork and specific
stories so we have sent them several of your pieces. If they decide to
share any of them, we requested they credit you for your work.
Thank you for participating in this project and we hope they share your
work and help us get the word out about this project.
Showtimes:
- FOX 8 TV (around 7:20am tomorrow morning, February 2nd)
- WDSU 6 (around 8:00am on February 5th)
Self Portraits of a Declining Brain
William Utermohlen is latest artist to be honored at the GV Art Gallery in London, with an event that has an emotional purpose that is near and dear to the hearts of many. Utermohlen spent the last twelve years of his life battling Alzheimer’s, a degenerative neurological disease that slowly took away his ability to do what he was most passionate about: his art.
At the event, his widow spoke to the many supporters, saying “He died in 2007, but really he was dead long before that. Bill died in 2000, when the disease meant he was no longer able to draw.”
This exhibit is known as William Utermohlen: Artistic decline through Alzheimer’s, as it explores the relationship between Utermohlen’s artwork and the progression and struggle with the disease.
Looking at his pieces as his disease progressed, a clear change is visible. As he slowly lost control over his movements, his composition and techniques changed as he was forced to abandon oils for easier-to-use watercolours and pencils. One thing that did not change throughout time, however, was the sheer mastery and vision displayed by has passion for the content of his pieces.
His paintings display a rarely seen insight into a mind effected by Alzheimer’s, as his struggle and frustration are imminent. Also changed by the progression of time and the disease were his subjects. He began to focus on self portraits and looming dark doorways in the backgrounds
His widow commented that, “it was as if he knew he was going to a very dark place and he knew he couldn’t do anything about it. By the end he couldn’t even recognise his own paintings… that was the saddest thing”.
Rarely does one get the opportunity to chronicle their own experience with mental decline. Even more rarely do we get to share and observe that troubled journey.
This art is that tale.
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The Specter Collective: Trying to Optimistic about Things I Don't Understand, a.k.a Tao Lin, Megan Boyle, Marie Calloway, and etc. →
10:32 am
Ever since I got my ass on the internet and began reading contemporary, alternative writing, I have had an idea for a reading through college or Specter post that I have not yet felt inspired to write. After reading Rebecca Haze’s very well-crafted article on Marie Calloway’s “Adrien…
Until recently, Triple Canopy has been an exclusively online publishing affair, unique in its art-slanted editing and web-fitted writing projects. Last week, the editors released Invalid Format a beautiful, old-fashioned print anthology of material from their first four web issues, including writing and art by Jon Kessler, Ed Park + Rachel Aviv, Jesse Ball, Sheila Heti, Sumi Ink Club, Rivka Galchen,Roberto Bolaño, Adam Helms, and a slew of others. If you enjoy art, writing, or the internet, try it out. -Ross Simonini
9:37 am
The writer's imagination applied to everyday life situations: the cold
Writer Friend:
the mucous. it is. everywhere.
Writer Me:
ew. that was an unpleasant image. the walls and the floors of the apartment covered in mucus. dripping mucus like melting icicles from the doorframes.
Writer Friend:
my brain is buoy on a green, filmy sea.
9:12 am
If these stories aren’t told, then these people don’t count and these places don’t exist. They don’t. I’m from the old neighborhood, as it were, of Dorchester in the Boston area, and I know a little bit about being outside of society. Frankly, the awful things that happened in our neighborhood were the things that really impacted our lives. A homicide in Bed-Stuy says volumes to the people who actually live there. It tells them about the gang problems, the gun problems.
