A.V. Marraccini
@saintsoftness.bsky.social
essayist + critic + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites) ⎔ Critic in Residence at IDM-NYU ⎔ next book in 2028 from Seven Stories Press
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For the new Pittsburgh Review of Books an essay by me: “Not Not Revelation: On Negative Capability, Meister Eckhart, And The Paintings of Gotthard Graubner”
(Please Google the images, the rights weren’t possible to acquire)
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(Please Google the images, the rights weren’t possible to acquire)
pghrev.com/not-not-revela…
October 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
For the new Pittsburgh Review of Books an essay by me: “Not Not Revelation: On Negative Capability, Meister Eckhart, And The Paintings of Gotthard Graubner”
(Please Google the images, the rights weren’t possible to acquire)
pghrev.com/not-not-revela…
(Please Google the images, the rights weren’t possible to acquire)
pghrev.com/not-not-revela…
In Belgrade on 3 October? Hear Tony Upson talk about art writing as practice and my work in dialogue with Anne Carson and Bruce Hainley. At SKUP Novi Sad as part of the What Should Curating Do? Series.
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www.wcscd.com/lecture-seri...
September 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
In Belgrade on 3 October? Hear Tony Upson talk about art writing as practice and my work in dialogue with Anne Carson and Bruce Hainley. At SKUP Novi Sad as part of the What Should Curating Do? Series.
www.wcscd.com/lecture-seri...
www.wcscd.com/lecture-seri...
For the Berlin Review
(@blnreview.bsky.social ): Notes toward a late criticism, on Motherwell's Open rectangles, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, and enjoining: "Dream About Me" as method. Auch in deutscher Übersetzung von Samir Sellami. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
(@blnreview.bsky.social ): Notes toward a late criticism, on Motherwell's Open rectangles, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, and enjoining: "Dream About Me" as method. Auch in deutscher Übersetzung von Samir Sellami. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
September 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
For the Berlin Review
(@blnreview.bsky.social ): Notes toward a late criticism, on Motherwell's Open rectangles, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, and enjoining: "Dream About Me" as method. Auch in deutscher Übersetzung von Samir Sellami. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
(@blnreview.bsky.social ): Notes toward a late criticism, on Motherwell's Open rectangles, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, and enjoining: "Dream About Me" as method. Auch in deutscher Übersetzung von Samir Sellami. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
A new Schattenblog! Under Construction (p.324-44): I consider our Narrator's arrival at a wall-building city, the ends of pain and beauty, migraines, Bruegel, and more: schattenblog.avmarraccini.com/post-14
Post 14 — Schattenblog
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August 28, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A new Schattenblog! Under Construction (p.324-44): I consider our Narrator's arrival at a wall-building city, the ends of pain and beauty, migraines, Bruegel, and more: schattenblog.avmarraccini.com/post-14
As you can see from the self satisfied liberal hatred response to completely innocuous posts, this website is not a useful or ethical alternative to twitter. I won’t be responding to messages or posts here for a while. Please use @ Saintsoftness on Twitter or Insta. Email avmarraccini@gmail.com .
August 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
As you can see from the self satisfied liberal hatred response to completely innocuous posts, this website is not a useful or ethical alternative to twitter. I won’t be responding to messages or posts here for a while. Please use @ Saintsoftness on Twitter or Insta. Email avmarraccini@gmail.com .
Wouldn’t be ballet class without a pastry afterward— today I was tempted by miraculous gf scone over creampuff:
August 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Wouldn’t be ballet class without a pastry afterward— today I was tempted by miraculous gf scone over creampuff:
I realised I talk a lot about ballet but you don’t very often get to see me doing this thing I love. The studio is busy and we like to keep class private, so we feel safe making mistakes, but one day I was early and there was no class before, so I snapped this:
August 1, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I realised I talk a lot about ballet but you don’t very often get to see me doing this thing I love. The studio is busy and we like to keep class private, so we feel safe making mistakes, but one day I was early and there was no class before, so I snapped this:
Bedside table plus the vintage Fragonard at frick postcard:
July 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Bedside table plus the vintage Fragonard at frick postcard:
Omg the creampuff bakery had gf chocolate chip scones!!! I got my Goma (black sesame) traditional post-ballet creampuff and a scone to toast up for breakfast, mmmm.
July 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Omg the creampuff bakery had gf chocolate chip scones!!! I got my Goma (black sesame) traditional post-ballet creampuff and a scone to toast up for breakfast, mmmm.
Hello (finally) from the Fragonard room of the Frick!!
July 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Hello (finally) from the Fragonard room of the Frick!!
Ephemera— Difficult Epigrams (1)-- I actually thought about pitching a series of these to a magazine, but for the life of me could not think of a magazine that would want epigrams? If you do, or are, DM.
July 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Ephemera— Difficult Epigrams (1)-- I actually thought about pitching a series of these to a magazine, but for the life of me could not think of a magazine that would want epigrams? If you do, or are, DM.
Starting at the end of the week, I want to start posting no stakes non-essay ephemera writing to try things out, but in very short form-- one screenshot attached to a tweet. What do you want to maybe read?
-prose poem
-fictional fragment
-verse poem
-other (explain more in replies)
-prose poem
-fictional fragment
-verse poem
-other (explain more in replies)
July 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Starting at the end of the week, I want to start posting no stakes non-essay ephemera writing to try things out, but in very short form-- one screenshot attached to a tweet. What do you want to maybe read?
-prose poem
-fictional fragment
-verse poem
-other (explain more in replies)
-prose poem
-fictional fragment
-verse poem
-other (explain more in replies)
Tonight, more Rilke from Edward Snow, I am standing on the backs of the koi that live in lotus ponds, on Greenland sharks that are 492 years old and have worms in their eyes, on every glowing anglerfish. Objecthood the one bank, historical time the other.
July 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Tonight, more Rilke from Edward Snow, I am standing on the backs of the koi that live in lotus ponds, on Greenland sharks that are 492 years old and have worms in their eyes, on every glowing anglerfish. Objecthood the one bank, historical time the other.
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"i bought white boots and very short white shorts so i can blend in. i may have to apply my own rhinestones imperfectly with a glue gun. this is not ideal, but it’s the semblance of the thing that matters."
Since there's a new season of America's Sweethearts up on Netflix, here's my short parafiction about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and Robert Smithson (sort of?) over at Death Kit again. Excited to watch doing splits, but I promise no jump splits. deathkitcom.wordpress.com/dallas-cowbo...
‘dallas cowboys’ cheerleaders nonsite liberation plan’ by a. v. marraccini
1let me just clarify i’m not kidnapping the dallas cowboys cheerleaders. i saw photos of the unabomber cabin in storage and artistically, i can’t say i didn’t like it, it was sort of appealing, but…
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July 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"i bought white boots and very short white shorts so i can blend in. i may have to apply my own rhinestones imperfectly with a glue gun. this is not ideal, but it’s the semblance of the thing that matters."
Today’s imitation spoliation (delicious to read aloud) at Prospect Park.
July 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Today’s imitation spoliation (delicious to read aloud) at Prospect Park.
Since there's a new season of America's Sweethearts up on Netflix, here's my short parafiction about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and Robert Smithson (sort of?) over at Death Kit again. Excited to watch doing splits, but I promise no jump splits. deathkitcom.wordpress.com/dallas-cowbo...
‘dallas cowboys’ cheerleaders nonsite liberation plan’ by a. v. marraccini
1let me just clarify i’m not kidnapping the dallas cowboys cheerleaders. i saw photos of the unabomber cabin in storage and artistically, i can’t say i didn’t like it, it was sort of appealing, but…
deathkitcom.wordpress.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Since there's a new season of America's Sweethearts up on Netflix, here's my short parafiction about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders and Robert Smithson (sort of?) over at Death Kit again. Excited to watch doing splits, but I promise no jump splits. deathkitcom.wordpress.com/dallas-cowbo...
Jet Glue and elastic tightening night (I have to tighten my elastics every other class or my arches pull too far from my shanks, which means sewing is a huge part of my life now):
July 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Jet Glue and elastic tightening night (I have to tighten my elastics every other class or my arches pull too far from my shanks, which means sewing is a huge part of my life now):
In addition to being incredibly supportive and kind to my work, @sevenstories.bsky.social has the best bathroom in publishing:
July 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
In addition to being incredibly supportive and kind to my work, @sevenstories.bsky.social has the best bathroom in publishing:
Battlestar Galactica is really about what it means to preserve democracy in crisis. Apollo just used the phrase “consent of the governed”! My timeline is folding back on itself. And for the record, President Adar started his career as mayor of Caprica City… Zohran?
June 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Battlestar Galactica is really about what it means to preserve democracy in crisis. Apollo just used the phrase “consent of the governed”! My timeline is folding back on itself. And for the record, President Adar started his career as mayor of Caprica City… Zohran?
Bluesky happened to me: a guy stopped by to yell at me for grieving for my pet of fourteen years to tell me I should be at an ICE protest instead. Don’t fucking do this. It’s crass and you don’t want someone in an emotionally unstable place interacting with cops at a protest.
June 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Bluesky happened to me: a guy stopped by to yell at me for grieving for my pet of fourteen years to tell me I should be at an ICE protest instead. Don’t fucking do this. It’s crass and you don’t want someone in an emotionally unstable place interacting with cops at a protest.
So basically I’m now coping by a) going to ballet class and focusing really hard on thinking only about what I’m doing and b) streaming all of Battlestar Galactica in the evenings. It’s not totally explicable but it works. I will be slowly coming back on here.
June 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
So basically I’m now coping by a) going to ballet class and focusing really hard on thinking only about what I’m doing and b) streaming all of Battlestar Galactica in the evenings. It’s not totally explicable but it works. I will be slowly coming back on here.
Thank you all, your responses have really been meaningful to me in this difficult time. I’m sorry to send a mass message like this but I can’t figure out yet how to write again.
June 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Thank you all, your responses have really been meaningful to me in this difficult time. I’m sorry to send a mass message like this but I can’t figure out yet how to write again.
Some devastating news: Tuft has passed away.
June 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Some devastating news: Tuft has passed away.
Ballet class impossible due to heat. Doing the leg press in the gym turned out in flat shoes like the reps will make a difference for Zohran. Cranky, hopeful, wondering how many échappés it takes to tamp down anxiety. Answer: probably a million.
June 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Ballet class impossible due to heat. Doing the leg press in the gym turned out in flat shoes like the reps will make a difference for Zohran. Cranky, hopeful, wondering how many échappés it takes to tamp down anxiety. Answer: probably a million.