CHP In the Stacks

In the Stacks with Lara Mimosa Montes: Tim Rollins

In the Stacks with Lara Mimosa Montes: Tim Rollins

I never knew the artist Tim Rollins, but for many reasons, I think about him all the time. Maybe it’s because Tim once described himself...

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In the Stacks with Lara Mimosa Montes: Wild Style

In the Stacks with Lara Mimosa Montes: Wild Style

A few years ago, I attended a screening of Charlie Ahearn’s hip-hop film Wild Style (1983), as part of the Walker Art Center’s Downtown New...

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In the Stacks with Lara Mimosa Montes: Darrel Ellis

In the Stacks with Lara Mimosa Montes: Darrel Ellis

This past March, I visited OSMOS at 50 East 1st Street in Manhattan’s East Village to see some works by the Bronx-born painter and photographer...

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Lara Mimosa Montes in Conversation with Sebastián Pérez: Sophie Rivera

Lara Mimosa Montes in Conversation with Sebastián Pérez: Sophie Rivera

Bronx-born scholar Sebastián Pérez recently chatted with me about photographer Sophie Rivera, whose work was most recently exhibited as part of the wide-ranging traveling exhibition Radical Women: Latin...

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In the Stacks with Lara Mimosa Montes: Sophie Calle

In the Stacks with Lara Mimosa Montes: Sophie Calle

Saturday, October 13, 2018, I visited the New York Public Library’s Prints and Photographs Study Room to view edition 76/250 of Sophie Calle’s The Bronx, which is...

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Introducing Our New In the Stacks Residency: Lara Mimosa Montes

Introducing Our New In the Stacks Residency: Lara Mimosa Montes

This month, Lara Mimosa Montes will be in residency for two weeks in various parts of the Bronx, attempting to create a psychogeography of the...

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