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Club, Cult, Sanctuary, or Studio

By Juan Carlos Ramos

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A Review of Matthew Binder’s Pure Cosmos Club
Stalking Horse Press, 2023

The New York City art scene can be described in one word: pretentious. So let’s get as unpretentious as possible, and clarify that term with The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (my dictionary of choice), which defines the word as “making an exaggerated outward show, ostentatious.”...

Secrets, Discoveries: The Bank Building

by David Dario Winner

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Nearly a century before Dorle’s death, twenty-odd years before she met her many lovers on ships and at parties, a mob of poor angry Jews from the Lower East Side who had lost their savings at her family’s bank surrounded their upper Manhattan apartment building and rioted. When I learned the bare outline of an essential family story that neither my parents nor I knew anything about, I screwed up...

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