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"All of Our Friends and Them"
by Tris McCall
published 2025-09-24

"You'll never have friends like you did when you were young," sang Blake Sennett of Rilo Kiley* on "Greetings in Braille." A nostalgic sentiment for sure, but chances are, you know what he's getting at. Friendships among young people conflate identification and desire in a manner that reasonable grownups cannot manage. They are irresponsible, and flammable, and wonderful, even if they don't always last long.




 

Arcadio, O'Connor & Suarez: "The Cheese and the Worms"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-09-17

There's a monster on Sussex Street. It's a scarecrow, or a statue of one, anyway: big, sinewy, bug-eyed and irate, and almost tall enough to reach the second story of a residential building. This beast rises from the patio of a Paulus Hook brownstone and stares out at the block with a combination of menace and proprietary pride. From now until early November and possibly well beyond that, this will be his neighborhood. He's an early-blooming example of our favorite harvest species. He's a Halloween decoration.



Nathalie Kalbach: "If These Walls Could Talk"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-09-10

Around the corner from where I'm sitting, there’s a row house on a residential block. To a motorist blowing by, it probably looks unremarkable. It always catches my eye, though.



Monmouth University presents "Georgia O’Keeffe: the Brightness of Light" and Q&A with the Filmmakers

(WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- Monmouth University's Center for the Arts presents a screening of Georgia O'Keeffe: the Brightness of Light on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 7:00pm in the Pollak Theatre. This is a 2-hour documentary exploring the life and art of the most important woman artist of the 20th century – the "Mother of Modernism." Following the screening, Producer Ellen Casey Wagner and Director Paul Wagner will host a discussion to share insights into the making of the documentary and answer audience questions.



Leandro Comrie: "A Quiet Odyssey"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-09-03

What gives Leandro Comrie's "King" the right to rule? Is it his raiment, decorated with scores of curlicues of white and royal purple paint, signifying motion and activity and cinched savagely at the waist? Is it his arms, long enough to touch his ankles, formidable and thick, draped at his sides in a gesture of ease and preternatural balance? How about the magenta halo behind his head, bright and electric, suggestive of sanctification in some other world? Or could it be the face, with its crown of wavy hair, full lips and slanted white eyebrows, and lower jaw squared against all adversaries. He looks confident and ready. But the crimson dot he stands on and surveys is barely big enough to contain his boat-like shoes.





Erasure Gallery: A Project by Curious Matter

by Tris McCall
published 2025-08-27

I never felt the need to formally come out. It struck me as a redundant thing to do. Nobody in my life has ever treated me as if I was straight. In school, friends, crushes, teachers, coaches, and the many acquaintances who felt the need to assess my masculinity in pungent language all assured me that I was gay all day. I gave the unfriendlier characters points for creativity, linguistic invention, and persistence, even as I was running away from them.



Pollak Gallery presents "Into the Wild" Art Exhibit by Eileen Kennedy

(WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- Monmouth University's Pollak Gallery presents "Into the Wild" Art Exhibit by Eileen Kennedy from September 1 through October 25, 2005. Kennedy's narrative art explores the relationship between contemporary humans and the natural world. The exhibit is free and open to the public.



Anna Collevecchio: "The Door Is Right There"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-08-20

In winter 2015, On Kawara landed, gracefully, at the Guggenheim. For the next few months, the walls of the main rotunda were dedicated to Kawara's life work: intensely rendered monochromatic paintings of the date, every day, every year, for almost fifty years. Sometimes the curator paired these with newspapers that also corresponded to the date. Sometimes, the act of painting the date, over and over, was left to speak for itself.



Kyle Orlando: "Scratch Fever"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-08-13

Artists like cats because artists are like cats. The feline temperament is mercurial, ungovernable, mischievous, intermittently social, prone to periods of feverish activity followed by glowering reclusiveness. I'll wager many painters can relate. Cats are also beautiful animals, moving through the world with a well-curated mixture of adorableness and murderous malice. Phonies they are not. We respect them for their candor.



Deb Sinha: "Cult of Beauty"

by Tris McCall
published 2025-08-06

Storyteller, let's say you want to create a city from scratch. You'll begin by whipping up a cast of inhabitants. They're the reason why towns exists in the first place: they're spots where your characters might congregate, interact, and develop their own narrative trajectories. Unless you're an unusual kind of author, you're going to make these people appealing — attractive to you, and attractive to each other. They've got heavy lifting to do. They've need to maintain your interest while you're bringing them to life.


 

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