Hello again. A Year of Positive Thinking continues but the facts of everyday life are such that it has been impossible to find time to see much art or sit down for a day to address for this site an issue of concern to me. That is a …

But if she is asked yet again to speak at a “feminist” event, then you know some star fucking is going on rather than some serious thinking about feminism. OK never mind. Point two: what were these “13 tenets of Future …

Because the communities of The Brooklyn Rail, A Year of Positive Thinking's subscribers and readers, and my Facebook community don't overlap as completely as might seem likely, here is the direct link to my contribution, …

Later, I would think, Stop the world, I want to get on, because I felt I was in a race where the other racers were halfway down the track before I'd tied my shoelaces (the art rat race). And now I think, Stop the world, I want to stay …

Today I receive from a former student one of the many exhibition notices I get, for a group show, including other former students. It's a phenomenon rarely discussed: faculty who teach over a long period of time track the …

Because the communities of The Brooklyn Rail, A Year of Positive Thinking's subscribers and readers, and the Facebook community don't overlap as perfectly as might seem likely, here is the direct link to my contribution, “The …

In the past two days, since the latest mass murder at Isla Vista, California, the Twitter hashtag #NotAllMen has generated a responding hashtag #YesAllWomen which has gone viral, with over a million tweets within 48 hours.

Mira Schor: no, my statement certainly includes these categories but I think it is pretty evident that it has to do with all aspects of cultural life, how is a woman educated, what is presented as important and essential to her being …

Regrettably, this reveals an underlying bias, in which Mr. Andre is repeatedly portrayed with positive attributes and Ms. Mendieta with negative ones. Mr. Tomkins omitted two notable points from Mr. Andre's recollection of the event. … Given the figures marshaled in his legal defense, not a few people declined to testify, thinking of its possible effects on their own artistic reputations. Thus, the inequities embodied in the trials themselves are skirted. Although no one was …

It is always fascinating to watch patriarchy take care of its own. A major retrospective of Carl Andre is about to open at DIA and first off let me just say that it looks like it will be a good exhibition, maybe a really good exhibition, …

I began the blog project A Year of Positive Thinking with no end date in mind and it has proved to be an elastic and metaphoric time frame. It celebrates its fourth anniversary today. Today's post is an updated table of contents …

I like it when someone asks me a question on something I might not ordinarily think about or write about: I can't help but start to wrap my mind around it and I may even get so involved that I answer at length when brevity might have made more sense. A case in point: last week I ….. FYI, This post is not a promise that anyone who writes to me should expect a response, short or long, or that I will publish that response on A Year of Positive Thinking. Posted in art, General …

She was born October 10, 1943. in New York City, during World War II, to two refugees in their thirties who had arrived in America barely two years before and who would not become naturalized citizens for another four years.

She always loved the way one could see Norman Mailer sitting in his little study in both his houses here, looking out at the bay, and liked to think of herself in a company of people who have been writers in this place.

The degree to which science fiction visions of a far future and dystopians visions of a near future have turned out to be true is quite astounding. Orwell was wrong in thinking that mind control in the future would only be …

July 16, 1974. After I had lived at my loft on Lispenard Street for about 15 years I finally unpacked the last two boxes I had brought with me when I moved back to New York from Halifax, Nova Scotia where I had been teaching …

I was born. Here is the bill: I was born, in the first hour after midnight on a first of June, a long awaited second child, much beloved. A child is among many things a step into the future. So, surely, my parents did not consciously …

That's what I thought this afternoon, when after about an hour or so, I decided I could do at least one iota more for the cause that had brought me out of the house on a rainy day by writing something about the tiny …

I stuck to my guns and did not give into Pier pressure this year. I had been adamant after last year that I would not go to Armory shows at the piers again. I had gone for about 8 years, and in the mid-2000s I could funnel and …