Linda Mary Montano, a pioneering feminist performance artist, welcomes Taliesin Thomas into her Upstate New York home and shares a tour of her home-shrine. The visit includes a glimpse into her lifelong spiritual quest expressed through art, framed by unexpected, zany, and charmingly bizarre conversation. In Queens, Thomas J Price and Tavares Strachan are among artists running to design a Billie Holiday monument. Separately, the Museum of the City of New York is preparing a new center for activism. The newsletter also references community honors for Chicano art, an Austrian feminist artist, and a painter and Civil Rights luminary, alongside archived material on Surrealism through journals and reflections on death and Epicurus.
"At her Upstate New York home, feminist performance artist Linda Mary Montano opened the door for writer Taliesin Thomas wearing a "devotional chicken costume" - words I never thought I'd see in that order. The rest of their conversation is just about as unexpected, zany, and charmingly bizarre as you'd expect. You simply must read it."
"A little ways south, Thomas J Price, Tavares Strachan, and a shortlist of other artists are in the running to design a Billie Holiday monument in Queens, and the Museum of the City of New York is getting a new center for activism. Never a predictable moment in the art world."
"Pioneering performance artist Linda Mary Montano gave me a tour of her home-shrine and a glimpse into her lifelong spiritual quest through art. | Taliesin Thomas"
"This comprehensive and enlightening discussion of the inevitability of death reminds me of my naive late in life discovery of Epicurus (Epikouros) 341-270 BC, a Greek philosopher, who founded the philosophical school of Epicureanism that valued living a life of responsible pleasure rather than suffering valued by early follows of Christianity with reward in the afterlife, that Epicurus believed didn't exist."
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