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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't cook, and I don't care to, but Gabrielle Hamilton made me realize that food is about love and connection. And she has had a hell of an interesting life.

Culture
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Nov 07, 2020

Claudia Rankine's book-length poem 'Citizen' was nominated for National Book Critics Circle awards in the categories of poetry and criticism. It is one of the most devastating takes on American culture I have read in a long time, laying bare the stakes of being black in a country long ambivalent about our presence here.

Home
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Nov 07, 2020

There was a time when I was a huge TV addict. I used to race home from school to watch 'Dark Shadows.'

Job
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Nov 07, 2020

I like having a studio to go to. It's like having a job.

High
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Nov 07, 2020

In high school, driver's ed was at the same time as drama class. And I had to take drama class. Now I can sing the lead in 'Oklahoma!,' but I can't drive.

Artist
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Nov 07, 2020

It's an artist's job to always have their antennas up.

Long
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Nov 07, 2020

I have been interested in neon for a long time. The first neon I made was in 2006, using the word 'America.'

Family
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Nov 07, 2020

My mother used to say that when I told her that I wanted to be an artist, her famous line was, 'The only artists I've ever heard of are dead.' It just wasn't in her experience... I don't think she had a sense that one could be an artist, because there wasn't anyone in my family who had done that.

Information
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Nov 07, 2020

I took a very small image and blew it up to enormous scale. What happens when you do that is that the information in the image starts to become indistinct. The image darkens.

Important
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Nov 07, 2020

I was in the 1993 Whitney Biennial and the 1994 'Black Male' show at the Whitney, and I've never seen such vicious press. Twenty plus years later, critics who hated that Biennial have come to Jesus and decided it was a really important, seminal show that they misunderstood.

Everything
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Nov 07, 2020

An artwork is an arrangement of things. The ideal show for me would be if everything touched, literally touched, so that everything would blur together.

Blue
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Nov 07, 2020

The Carrie Mae Weems photograph 'Blue Black Boy,' I thought, was fantastic.

Band
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Nov 07, 2020

'A Small Band' was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013.

Harlem
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Nov 07, 2020

I met Obama once, backstage at the Apollo in Harlem.

Engaged
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Nov 07, 2020

Much of my work is engaged with 'America' - the idea of America.

Forward
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Nov 07, 2020

Things like Ferguson and Eric Garner show us there's an unequal distribution of forward momentum in America.

Been
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Nov 07, 2020

So much of my work has been about disappearing.

Interesting
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Nov 07, 2020

One of the interesting things about quoting in an artwork is that there is a repeated confusion about who is speaking - one essentially becomes the author of a quote one uses.

Lose
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Nov 07, 2020

Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example, writers of slave narratives tend to lose their individual voices, as they were expected to stand in for all other voices, which were absent.

Depending
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Nov 07, 2020

Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation.

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