Writeswell Inc.

12/03/2025

Truth!

Peter-Ayers Tarantino’s Manhattan apartment is home to over 4,500 books. Tall, neat piles are stacked everywhere: volumes on South American art, on the history of interior design, on British eccentrics, on American Jazz Age writers. Take a look inside his home. https://nyti.ms/4oz4xrA

12/01/2025

What a sharp eye!

11/28/2025

Next year will be the centennial.

11/25/2025

The ever importance of art.

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”—James Baldwin

Photograph by Steve Schapiro, 1963

11/23/2025

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10/30/2025

The Studio Museum in Harlem congratulates Kenturah Davis as our 2025 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize recipient.⁠
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Davis is a multimedia artist who lives and works between Los Angeles, New Haven, and Accra, and whose practice in drawing, painting, sculpture, and performance is deeply concerned with the intricacies of Black life and being, particularly how language can make Black identity legible or obfuscate it completely.⁠
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Davis’s interest in language and its possibilities appear in her meticulous, layered portraits, where figure and text intersect. Through these layers of visibility and invisibility, Davis rejects a clear reading of Black identity. As she says, “There is never one singular way of visualizing, seeing, or engaging with someone"—a belief we share at the Studio Museum in Harlem.⁠
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Congratulations Kenturah Davis! ⁠
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Image: Portrait of Kenturah Davis. Courtesy the artist and Matthew Brown.⁠
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10/26/2025

Remembered, acknowledged, celebrated — at last.

Austen broke from convention to capture New York City street life through a Victorian lens — and to share 55 years with her partner, Gertrude Tate.