Robert Gipe on the Canard County Trilogy, Arts Activism, and Paying Attention

by Lisa Peet

“You can draw a person, what you think they look like, but if you’re drawing from a live model and are paying attention to the way their parts interact, it’s kind of like transcribing an oral history.” Continue reading →

OTHER BLOOMERS & SHAKERS: Leslie Jones—Look What She Did

by Shoba Viswanathan

In Leslie Jones’s comedy and performance we see a seamless blend of the political and the personal . . . Lorne Michaels told the New Yorker, “I tell Leslie all the time, ‘You’re everything we weren’t looking for.’ When someone’s funny, they’re funny.”
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