From the monthly archives:

August 2009

On Christopher Payne: Nostalgia and the Asylum

by Greg Afinogenov on August 28, 2009
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I knew what I would hear. The photographer, fresh from a day trip to one of the more convenient asylum-hulks in the area, would play up the Gothic-horror angle, show lurid closeups of bloodstained old medical equipment, insinuate that the place was haunted, then hawk his book to the audience.

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YTJ at The New Museum

by Stephen Squibb on August 28, 2009
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Even the obsession with describing the millenials by referencing any number of online/networking apps feels like a top-down operation. What’s more likely to stand out to an old grappling with the intricacies of Twitter than the young’s casual fluency?

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