by Erin Leland | Jan 9, 2015 | Blog
This month I turn to Hilton Als, a novelist, theater critic at The New Yorker since 2002, and arts writer who most recently contributed to Robert Gober’s MoMA museum catalogue with his essay I Don’t Remember. Novels, reviews, essays – all writings form his...
by Erin Leland | Dec 12, 2014 | Blog
Daily, as a ritual, I read a book on the train entering and returning from the city. Usually I read a book set in the past, and usually fiction, although this month it is Christian Dior’s autobiography: Dior by Dior. The train delivers me to one of two jobs. At...
by Erin Leland | Nov 14, 2014 | Blog
Theatrical sets allow for the real world to be transformed into the internal world. Against complete darkness, imagine a stage light illuminating one room within a house. Walls, hallways and exterior walls of the house are constructed out of the absence of light,...
by Erin Leland | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog
It occurred to me, after knowing sculptor Cameron Crawford for a while, that I thought of him first as a writer, not least of which because his conversations always sounded as if they should be recorded on paper – his language as if read. I saw Cameron read at...
by Erin Leland | Sep 12, 2014 | Blog
Generalized humans, shapes in watercolor, stand in front of a world that looks like a swirling snow globe. Scrawled across Zachary Cahill’s promotional banners and digital photographs of watercolors, are questions: “What is a painting? Why do we still do...
