Jackson Davidow is a curator, writer, and art historian in Boston. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Baffler, Boston Review, Poetry, and throughout the art ...
“It is worth wondering, perhaps, what the wishes are in kissing,” Adam Phillips writes. In his readings of Freud, Phillips suggests that a kiss is the admission that the self cannot wholly, singularly ...
Marisol was born Maria Sol Escobar in 1930 to a diplomat family that participated in what Chaffee calls a “peripatetic Venezuelan elite.” Her mother died by suicide when Marisol was eleven, setting ...