Editor's Message
Running Local
For at least the next few issues, my column no longer will appear on this page. Instead, an expanded version of it will be found in the Local section. As its title—“City Notes”—suggests, the column will focus on life here on the homefront. Rest assured that from Afghanistan to Arizona, the many senseless wars being waged in strange and forbidding lands will get their due as well.
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Side Issues
By George RushOCT 2020 | Critics Page
With the notable exception of the brilliant Beverly Fishman, who encouraged us to question all forms of painting, my education didn’t really consider the sides of paintings. They were painted white—that ever-problematic stand-in for neutrality—or stained by action on the front, but more often simply ignored.
Go Forth
By Kaneza SchaalDEC 20-JAN 21 | Critics Page
My father died in Burundi. Everyone brought their own version of him to the funeral. At the burial ceremony, as part of a ritualized grieving process, I was struck by the continuum of processing and performing death, and the intimacy between Black people and death around the world.
