Amy L. Powell
@amyluwho.bsky.social
contemporary art curator, worker in art museums and higher ed, writer and scholar
Catherine Opie's new photographs of Norwegian mountains.
April 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Catherine Opie's new photographs of Norwegian mountains.
Reposted by Amy L. Powell
If you teach or advise international students, especially politically active students, reach out to them. Organize a Know Your Rights training in your department. Invite students to your home for a meal, offer shelter and resources if they need it. Int. students are flailing, rightfully.
March 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
If you teach or advise international students, especially politically active students, reach out to them. Organize a Know Your Rights training in your department. Invite students to your home for a meal, offer shelter and resources if they need it. Int. students are flailing, rightfully.
Higher ed is a fraught place to work these days (saying the least). This @nplusonemag.com piece by Hannah Zeavin is excellent and helpful now. We need brave, clear, vocal leadership and brave institutions. I'm not hopeful, but this *could* all go differently.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/pol...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/pol...
Parallel Processes | Hannah Zeavin
As Sheehi recently argued, “It will be the university that enacts the violence of fascism. The fascist just sends off a letter.” To this story we can add the psychoanalyst, who also seems all too will...
www.nplusonemag.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Higher ed is a fraught place to work these days (saying the least). This @nplusonemag.com piece by Hannah Zeavin is excellent and helpful now. We need brave, clear, vocal leadership and brave institutions. I'm not hopeful, but this *could* all go differently.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/pol...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/pol...
Beauford Delaney, Self-Portrait in a Paris Bath House, 1971 (in the excellent exhibition Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, Art Institute of Chicago)
March 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Beauford Delaney, Self-Portrait in a Paris Bath House, 1971 (in the excellent exhibition Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, Art Institute of Chicago)
"I harbor no shame.
I solicit no pity.
I celebrate my natural tendencies,
photosynthesis, erotic customs.
I allow myself to dream of roses
though I know
the bloody war continues."
I solicit no pity.
I celebrate my natural tendencies,
photosynthesis, erotic customs.
I allow myself to dream of roses
though I know
the bloody war continues."
John Keene traces the life and work of Essex Hemphill, an early poetic chronicler of Black queer experience.
John Keene on the Life and Literary Legacy of Essex Hemphill an Early Poetic Chronicler of Black Queer Life
Throughout Essex Hemphill’s poetry, what we registered was his attentiveness to craft as well as statement, to the possibilities of performance, of form, of the line, and to the expressive content,…
buff.ly
March 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"I harbor no shame.
I solicit no pity.
I celebrate my natural tendencies,
photosynthesis, erotic customs.
I allow myself to dream of roses
though I know
the bloody war continues."
I solicit no pity.
I celebrate my natural tendencies,
photosynthesis, erotic customs.
I allow myself to dream of roses
though I know
the bloody war continues."
Nick Owens and e.g. condon, Unhelpful Spectacle, 2025.
March 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Nick Owens and e.g. condon, Unhelpful Spectacle, 2025.
Millie Wilson, Teacher, 1991
March 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Millie Wilson, Teacher, 1991
Autumn Knight, Live at the Walker, 2025
March 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Autumn Knight, Live at the Walker, 2025