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A Review of Gabriel Don's Living Without Skin

A Review of Gabriel Don’s Living Without Skin

If you don’t know where to start from, you can start from music. A song has no flesh other than your body: wind, a bird’s mind, an ocean’s, glasses, forest, leaves, logs, metals, voids, spirals, the cochlea, receivers, hair cells, motion, sooner or later, right and left.  

Examples: ‘Ordinary love’ by Sade Adu. ‘River’ by the French-Cuban duo, Ibeyi. ‘Deathless’ by Ibeyi again. ‘Iba’ by Aṣa. Or…

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CELESTE LIM, TERESE SVOBODA, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK with Gabriel Don There is a group of people around the world who are oppressed regardless of race, class, economic status, country of origin or religion: women.

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Skye Ferrante in Conversation with Gabriel Don

Skye Ferrante in Conversation with Gabriel Don

Your sculptures, often of nude women, resembling drawings by artists such as Matisse, are made with one continuous, uncut, piece of wire, how did you come to this medium?  Often of nudes, yes, and women, mostly but I do sculpt men and all other identifying in betweens. I’ve even sculpted naked elephants, and recently in France, a naked French bulldog—although not by choice. It was a commission. I…

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Simone Kestelman speaks to Gabriel Don

Simone Kestelman speaks to Gabriel Don

Your home/ art studio in upstate New York has turned in a living art gallery, where you have built yourself a magic land, including a tree-house for yourself. Can you speak to the intersection of life, living space and art? I think art is the physical expression of our souls at a point in time. I put my feelings and aspirations into my art. Having a living art gallery enables me continuously…

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Gabriel Don speaks with co-founder and creative director of Off the Wall Graffiti Maura P. McCarthy

Gabriel Don speaks with co-founder and creative director of Off the Wall Graffiti Maura P. McCarthy

How does fostering self-expression, engaging in constant creativity and collaboration, elevate self-esteem? By being in action we experience ourselves differently than being on the sidelines watching. Being in the game brings challenges, rewards, mastery and collaboration. All of these demand your attention while doing the activity and cause your body and brain to “come up with” solutions. You…

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Animator M. Henry Jones In Conversation with Gabriel Don

Animator M. Henry Jones In Conversation with Gabriel Don

Animator M. Henry Jones In Conversation with Gabriel Don. What are Fly’s Eye and lenticular lenses?             Both of them are plastic lens arrays which project a summation image that can be viewed as three-dimensional. I work with Fly’s Eye more often because it displays the 3D image coherently when you turn it on its side, which lenticular does not. When did you move to the Lower East Side…

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"Portland could care less about hype." Rob Spillman, co founder of Tin House, speaks with Gabriel Don.

“Portland could care less about hype.” Rob Spillman, co founder of Tin House, speaks with Gabriel Don.

Rob Spillman, award winning editor, co founder of Tin House, teacher, writer and exemplary literary citizen speaks with Gabriel Don. You hosted the Gotham Writers series at the Brooklyn Public Library featuring writers such as Greil Marcus and Tracy K Smith, how do you come up with your questions? I approach the interviews somewhat selfishly. I pick writers I want to talk to and ask the questions…

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Smoota Talks to Gabriel Don

Smoota Talks to Gabriel Don

  Smoota, trombonist, musician, sensualist, often found at Union Pool on Monday nights jamming with Rev. Vince Anderson and his Love Choir, talks to Gabriel Don.

  Tell me what you got up to at band camp? I never went to band camp. But I’m studying the flute on my own now.

  In terms of the tangible aspects involved in becoming a musician and achieving this dream, how does one go about…

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