Author Roxane Gay, Who Lov Art But Dislik the Art World, Has Some Advice for Galleri: ‘Stop Beg Terrible’

Contents:

• INSI MY COLLECTN: ROXANE GAY AND DEBBIE MILLMAN
• AUTHOR ROXANE GAY, WHO LOV ART BUT DISLIK THE ART WORLD, HAS SOME ADVICE FOR GALLERI: ‘STOP BEG TERRIBLE’
• INSI THE COLLECTN OF ROXANE GAY AND DEBBIE MILLMAN – VIA ARTSY
• FROM ROXANE GAY’S COLLECTG HABS TO THE PLUNGG PRICE OF NFTS: THE BT AND WORST OF THE ART WORLD THIS WEEK
• HOW TO HAVE THE BT SUNDAY L.A., ACRDG TO BOOKSTORE STAN ROXANE GAY
• THE ART ANGLE PODST: WRER ROXANE GAY ON WHAT ART CAN TEACH US ABOUT TRMA AND HEALG
• ROXANE GAY ON KARA WALKER
• ROXANE GAY’S MASTERPIEC OF PRIVATE RAGE
• WRER ROXANE GAY WEIGHS ON KARA WALKER’S WORK AT THE NEW MOMA: ‘IT’S IMPORTANT THAT YOU DON’T LOOK AWAY’

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.

AUTHOR ROXANE GAY, WHO LOV ART BUT DISLIK THE ART WORLD, HAS SOME ADVICE FOR GALLERI: ‘STOP BEG TERRIBLE’

Comg om an amic background, Gay has emerged as a key cril cultural voice to a large public dience over the past . 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.

INSI THE COLLECTN OF ROXANE GAY AND DEBBIE MILLMAN – VIA ARTSY

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. Portra of Debbie Millman and Roxane Gay wh Jean-Michel Basquiat, For Leonardo, 1983.

Roxane Gay has n out of wall space.

FROM ROXANE GAY’S COLLECTG HABS TO THE PLUNGG PRICE OF NFTS: THE BT AND WORST OF THE ART WORLD THIS WEEK

Last week, I lled Gay at home to talk about her llectn, which she has begun postg about ocsnally on Twter, where she’s also amassed a cult followg of 830, 000. Below, Gay opens up about toxic gallery culture, the prsur placed on creativ of lor, Seth Rogen’s ceramics, and what visual art do and don’t do for her wrg.

A work by Carole Wells Chandler Gay’s home. Photo urty Roxane Gay.

HOW TO HAVE THE BT SUNDAY L.A., ACRDG TO BOOKSTORE STAN ROXANE GAY

It probably didn’t help, too, when she found out you were Roxane Gay. From Roxane Gay’s Collectg Habs to the Plungg Price of NFTs: The Bt and Worst of the Art World This Week. Hollars, Roxane Gay!, Marcia Aldrich, Ryan Van Meter, Bonnie J.

THE ART ANGLE PODST: WRER ROXANE GAY ON WHAT ART CAN TEACH US ABOUT TRMA AND HEALG

) of the Art Angle, we are thrilled to wele crilly acclaimed thor, profsor, and social mentator Roxane Gay, whose wrgs on femism, polics, tersectnaly, and culture have ma her one of the keent and most important observers of our time. Gay is also an avid art llector and appreciator who has, wh her wife Debbie Millman, amassed an imprsive personal llectn recent years—and been outspoken about the not-always-nice nature of the New York gallery scene.

In a forthg say for Art News, Gay tak a close look at a new patg by the Los Angel-based figurative pater Calida Rawl that recently buted as part of her new show at Lehmann Mp gallery New York. The artwork that Gay is wrg about—tled High Ti, Heavy Armor—was created earlier this year and picts a Black man who bears a strong remblance to Kurt Rehold, a iend of the artist’s who was shot for jaywalkg San Clemente, California, this past Febary.

ROXANE GAY ON KARA WALKER

This week, Art News style edor Noor Brara speaks to Roxane Gay about the them, Rawl’s piece specifilly, and her visceral, personal nnectn to . Culture wrer Roxane Gay scrib the importance of stg wh disfort ont of Kara Walker’s drawg. Roxane Gay | MoMA BBC | THE WAY I SEE IT.

There is a lot of productive work that happens the unfortable spac where we are forced to nont Gay. In this episo of The Way I See It, our rad llaboratn wh BBC, we’ve ved thor and cultural cric Roxane Gay to our galleri to discs a work of art that spir her. Of her selectn, Kara Walker’s enormo drawg Christ’s Entry to Journalism, Gay says, “In many ways she has managed to, a seri of figur, pict the whole of Ain Amerin history on one nvas.

” Gay, like Walker, has a remarkable abily to scribe plex stori a way that prompts both emotn and clary. Gay joed MoMA curator Yas Raymond our galleri this summer before our reopeng. “It’s overwhelmg, ” Gay says, “ the same way is overwhelmg to unrstand history as a whole.

ROXANE GAY’S MASTERPIEC OF PRIVATE RAGE

Roxane Gay. DIFFICULT WOMEN by Roxane GayGrove Prs, 272 pp., $25. Maniftatns of all of the very private Amerin reali n be found the pag of Difficult Women, Roxane Gay’s but short story llectn.

” His unrstandg of what kids are wearg the days is dated, Gay not, but don’t keep Livgston om puttg on his cloth and “posg ont of the full-length mirror and grabbg a handful of nim-clad crotch. ” Even when for those engaged menial jobs, whens nfers other stori, Gay employs the surreal and allegoril to explore the ntradictns of sire, of the yearng for motherhood and the celty that women n flict on other women. “I am a Knife” is the tle of one story, but nearly all feature blood and guts and vlent sex, all bubblg to the surface Gay’s precise prose.

WRER ROXANE GAY WEIGHS ON KARA WALKER’S WORK AT THE NEW MOMA: ‘IT’S IMPORTANT THAT YOU DON’T LOOK AWAY’

In revelg this exposure of rage, Roxane Gay charts a markedly different lerary urse than is routely allotted to the “diverse” or “mory” female is not alone; the stori Ottsa Moshfegh’s latt book Homick for Another World are also flavored wh speratn and lonels, the strange and unrequed. Gay’s tle story “Difficult Women” sketch five tegori of femy: om “Crazy Women” to “Frigid Women” to “Mothers. Gay rests and reclaims this ia her fictn; there is no shyg away om the mabre, only avowal and ownership.