A Tribute to Peter Lamborn Wilson

OCT 2022 | In Memoriam

There were two Peter Wilsons, the public and the private. He was very much like William Burroughs in this regard. The public image was something of a Holy Monster, while the private individual was warm, humble, and wholly dedicated to his vocation as writer.

A Tribute to Lance De Los Reyes

JUNE 2022 | In Memoriam

Lance was a Renaissance Guy: an Athlete, A Sculptor, A Painter, a Dancer, an Actor, a Poet, a Protector, a Prankster, and about ten other things that don’t have names. Poet tops this list. Words were his swords.

Sam Gilliam: Full Circle

By Maddie Klett

SEPT 2022 | ArtSeen

The late abstractionist Sam Gilliam’s obsession with painting is well documented in the artist’s 2019 interview with Tom McGlynn in the pages of the Brooklyn Rail. Gillaim spoke about how he was both influenced by, and positioned himself in relation to, his contemporary Color Field painters Thomas Downing and Kenneth Noland. He also cites the draping studies by Albrecht Dürer and the improvisational jazz compositions of John Coltrane and Miles Davis as formative to his art making. In the 1960s he recalls beginning to stain canvases and applying acrylic paints before crumpling them up—wet—and re-stretching.

A Tribute to Sylvère Lotringer

MARCH 2022 | In Memoriam

Anyone who has met Sylvère knows he held authority. He had clear, bold ideas, thoughts, strongly-held opinions. He had remarkable charisma. Even in his ailing days, over the last few years, any appearance of him kept everyone still—whether people knew him or knew who he was, or whether they did not. However authority he could manifest, he stood against the very notion of authority: in his theoretical work, he embraced Deleuze’s rhizome.