Tag: Juan Sebastián Andrade-Martínez

  • Basquiat: A Griot and His Skulls

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    “I don’t know how to describe my work, because it’s not always the same thing. It’s like asking somebody, asking Miles [Davis], “How does your horn sound?” I don’t think he could really tell you why he plays this at this point in the music. You’re sort of on automatic.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat It’s hard…

  • Italian Futurism: Movement for Movement’s Sake

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    I have an irrational fear of Antonin Artaud. It’s not because of Artaud himself, a twentieth-century French avant-garde actor and writer. It’s because of the ideas his face evokes in my brain: the uncanny stuttering of a dying lamp, that ethical problem called the repugnant conclusion, and the first-year student stress of finding a lab…