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Michael Gardner
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Artist www.michaelgardnerart.com runswithbrushes.blogspot.com
MA Critical Theory & Political Aesthetics CalArts
Thesis on The Made Vulnerable Artist as examined through Hujar, Thek, and Wojnarowicz
Pisces w/Taurus rising
Marked safe from X.
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Spinning in my head tonight #devo youtube.com/watch?v=ZBRR...
Devo - Peek A Boo (Official Music Video)
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November 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Peter Hujar #peterhujar #lindarosencrantz www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Michael's review of Peter Hujar's Day
5/5: This is a brilliant concretization of a fluid and moving, subtle and virile time shared between Peter and Linda (author), who transcribed the tape recording she produced of her friend Peter. My ...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Dodgers!!!!! @dodgersbot.bsky.social
Dodgers win World Series
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Dancer From the Dance www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Michael's review of Dancer from the Dance
4/5: Beautifully written, and nearly fever-dream rich and sensuous evocation, of just what life in NYC during a few decades through the gay experience is. I fell, lost in my own remembrances with the ...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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The Infra Thin @ Hollywood Fringe Festival
The Infra Thin, performed at the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival, is a performance series by Michael Gardner exploring the fragile threshol...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Last Summer in the City Gianfranco Calligarich
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October 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#Genet www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Michael's review of The Thief's Journal
4/5: I think this work represents an artists quest for a sovereignty through its self-determined separateness that is both inside the experienced world and outside of it resultant of many factors (and...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Life drawing day sketches @tomoffinland.org Tom of Finland House #lifedrawing #nudemodel #artistslife #malesketches #nudemale oil pencil and graphite
Male model life drawing torso and legs Male model life drawing Male model life drawing Male model face close up
October 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Michael's review of Faggots
4/5: I mean, Larry Kramer gets to do whatever he wants to do as far as I am concerned. There are so many thoughts and feelings I have in response to this seriously, outrageously, realistically, comple...
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October 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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#openheaven #seanhewitt www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Michael's review of Open, Heaven
3/5: Following his previous All Down Darkness Wide, I could not help but consider how they perhaps relate to one another, even though categorized differently, Memoir and Fiction. There is a Joycean af...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Michael's review of The Goodby People
4/5: A thoughtful work composing a specific Los Angeles that now only haunts select corners, homes, and canyons set back from the street of today and peopled with characters who could not possibly sti...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Datura flower seed pods. Thorn Apple. #thornapple #datura magickal flowers. #flowersofbluesky
Datura seed pod Datura seed pods
September 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Michael's review of Last Night I Sang to the Monster
4/5: A very sincere book about a very real life-threatening difficulty; addiction, and the hope and struggle toward recovery.
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September 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Michael's review of Loulou & Yves
2/5: Much like a head of red cabbage that has been tossed into a chicken coop; whereupon one after another, fighting for space, hens peck away at the head - and each other - in their want to feed thei...
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September 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts pilot produced over €100 million in Social and Economic Benefits #arts #basicincome

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Basic Income for the Arts pilot produced over €100 million in Social and Economic Benefits
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September 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Michael's review of Young Mungo
4/5: This is a story about the space of a family dynamic amidst alcoholism, abusive and caring siblings, broken homes, social disparity, bigotry, economic struggle; and how this specific space is stil...
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September 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Fall Spiders!! #spiders
Spider
September 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Michael's review of Nausea
5/5: The overwhelming sensation upon finishing this book to return to the beginning and read again must be a result to that which Sartre presses. This book is about making art, the compelling and urge...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Michael's review of Our Lady of the Flowers
4/5: This is not the kind of work one can offer any kind of review, similarly, to other works previously considered and reviewed. The embodiment of the story, the sentences, the words individual, as e...
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September 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Magickal Datura “purple tutu”
Datura plant Datura flower
September 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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San Pedro cactus and its brilliant one night only huge blooming flowers.
Cactus flowers
September 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Michael's review of Disorderly Men
4/5: The harrowing experience of gay persons living under a made-vulnerable status resultant of legislations in the United States, and around the world (and still in many countries), is explored here ...
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September 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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San Pedro cactus flowering overnight.
Cactus flower
August 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Michael's review of All Down Darkness Wide
5/5: Sublime. Illuminating. Devastating. Sean walks us through the road he maps with his prose, down the difficult-middle, while on either side of this road the delineator posts left by the life and ...
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August 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Read.
Patti Smith supporting the beauty of books.
August 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM