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Emily Farranto

Seeing Things: Gabrielle Ledet, Swam to the Moon at Good Children, New Orleans

Art Column by Emily Farranto

“I am not entirely opposed to madness, not when it comes with this kind of clarity.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater 
 
When I heard New York Times art critic Holland Cotter speak at Tulane several years ago, he said something like, …

The Problem of Pain: Meditation Patterns by Matt Vis

Art Column by Emily Farranto

When you first see the photographic constructions artist Matt Vis calls “Meditation Patterns,” you will probably not think, Ah, this is art about pain. These are not illustrations of pain, like many paintings of Frida Kahlo, Edvard Munch, or …

What Does a Stingray Mean?

Art Column by Emily Farranto

Photograph by Kevin Barrios, 2020 

In a post-Christmas torpor, a kind of sensory malaise, I found myself recalling that a year ago I was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now, lying on my living room floor in the doldrums …

Hindsight is 2020

Art Column by Emily Farranto

Hindsight is 2020

My Top Ten Nine Art Experiences of the Year

It’s a tradition to end the year with Top Ten lists. Artforum dedicates its December issue to reviewing the year in film, music, and art. The New York …

The Mail Gaze: Art and the Postal Service

Art Column by Emily Farranto

In 1995, the summer after I graduated from college, I received my first envelope from a stranger named Pascal Lenoir. Inside the tan Euro-style C5 envelope was a collection of original artworks varying in size, subject, and texture. Several were collaged and many included text and rubber stampings. This was the curatorial mail art project of Pascal Lenoir. I received my last Mani-Art envelope in 2000, the year I began an MFA program in painting and then I pretty much forgot about mail art until now.

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We are seeking work in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and book reviews for issue #46. Learn more and submit your work here.

New Orleans Review is delighted to announce the publication of its first book, Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance
(Bloomsbury 2019).

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