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Contents:
- INSI MY COLLECTN: ROXANE GAY AND DEBBIE MILLMAN
- ROXANE GAY
- ROXANE GAY: ‘IF I WAS NVENTNALLY HOT AND HAD A SLAMM’ BODY, I WOULD BE PRINT’
INSI MY COLLECTN: ROXANE GAY AND DEBBIE MILLMAN
Roxane Gay is known for her laser-sharp w cultural cricism and nonfictn works, but lser known is her growg practice as an art llector.
While Gay and Millman are unifyg their llectns, their distctive approach to how and what they llect are still visible. Millman’s robt engagement wh the art world for nearly 30 years provis a strong foundatn for the llectn she now shar wh Gay. Comg om an amic background, Gay has emerged as a key cril cultural voice to a large public dience over the past .
ROXANE GAY
Although she grew up wh parents who llect, Gay has only recently directed her attentn towards an art llectn of her own. Gay se her art llectn as a powerful tool that n transform the image of what an art llector looks like to a popular dience. Durg a nversatn this past March, Millman and Gay discsed their llectg origs, the artists they admire, and the roadblocks that n renr art llectg accsible for emergg llectors.
Roxane Gay: My parents llect Haian art, so I knew about art llectg through them.
ROXANE GAY: ‘IF I WAS NVENTNALLY HOT AND HAD A SLAMM’ BODY, I WOULD BE PRINT’
Portra of Debbie Millman and Roxane Gay wh Jean-Michel Basquiat, For Leonardo, 1983. Roxane Gay: From athlet elevators and Hollywood executiv emails to ‘alleged’ sexual predators and, y, even the fallen young men the streets, the luxury of goln silence is gone.
Roxane Gay: Prottg the ath of Michael Brown is not a polil act, no matter what the punds say.
Roxane Gay: We shouldn’t need so many women to tell such siar stori.