Passionate Ambivalence

Julius Eastman at 92NY; Cecily Brown at The Met

This is a post about ambivalence, not as indecisive wishy-washiness but as a condition of strongly held, competing commitments. And so it’s appropriate that it’s also the post where I turn on the option of paid subscriptions for this newsletter, something about which I feel an awful lot of ambivalence. On one hand, I love the freedom of this space, the …