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1000 WORDS

A large banner reading "I DON'T TRUST NOBODY BUT THE LAND" affixed to a red wooden building beside a street in a residential area, with trees and houses visible in the background under a cloudy sky.
On translating poetry into sculpture
Patterned background of repeating vertical lines resembling stemmed plants, interspersed with small red dots, displaying a transition from sparse to dense arrangement across the image.
In conversation about Hautāmiro, 2025, at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand 
Installation view of two side-by-side pyramids made of jarred chile paste.
Mines the alchemy of found objects in “No Patents on Ideas”
LaToya Ruby Frazier.
On her monument to the Community Health Workers of Baltimore
View of “Martha Jungwirth: Herz der Finsternis” (Heart of Darkness), 2024, Galleria di Palazzo Cini, Venice.
Talks about her painting process 
Jamian Juliano-Villani
The painter talks about her current show at Gagosian
East elevation drawing of the Doris Duke Theatre, Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, MA, ca. 1988–89.
Yve Laris Cohen talks About “Studio/Theater”
Liz Larner, Bird in Space, 1989, nylon cord, silk, stainless-steel blocks. Installation view, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1991.
Liz Larner talks about “Don’t put it back like it was”
View of “Sarah Oppenheimer: Sensitive Machine,” 2021, Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo: John Bentham.
Sarah Oppenheimer talks about “Sensitive Machine”
Arnold J. Kemp, Mr. Kemp: Yellowing, Drying, Scorching, 2020, vinyl chair, vinyl seat cushions, thermometer, forty hardcover and paperback copies of Arnold Kemp’s 1972 Eat of Me: I Am the Savior, 31 × 41 × 32".
Arnold J. Kemp talks about “False Hydras”
Lorraine O’Grady, Announcement Card 1 (Banana-Palm with Lance), 2020, digital C-print, 50 × 33 3⁄8". From Announcement of a New Persona (Performances to Come!), 2020. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Lorraine O’Grady talks about Announcement Of A New Persona (Performances To Come!)