Johanna Fateman
@johannafateman
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Writer @4_columns @bookforum @whitneyreview and musician @letigreworld
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people who mispronounce words because they learned them from reading independently are deserving of admiration not scorn
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republicans now trying to pass ACA repeal by secretly adding it to itunes updated terms of service
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It's not that i think McCain shouldn't get chemo, I just think he should lose his home and bankrupt his family like a real American
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Refreshing twitter to see if Jeff Sessions is in jail
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when you put on a headband and call yourself a new mammal
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the supreme court didn't integrate schools. black children did. the supreme court didn't legalize abortion. women who dared to speak up did
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Hey I'm on the
@artforum
masthead as a contributing editor! I don't even know what to say. A total honor and, funny story, I was passed over for a receptionist job there in the nineties. That's when I became a phone psychic.
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gives me no pleasure to say I can’t see how artforum can come back from this
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My daughter just suggested that they shut down money itself. Home schooling works.
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I want to watch video art from the beginning not from the middle of the loop. It's rarely true that you walk into a gallery and it "doesn't matter" when you start watching. why do we accept this? Sign and share my petition
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my main problem with cancel culture is it brings "comedy" into my field of awareness
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People forget George w bush always has a little coke to share
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I love walking into a tiny quiet gallery and having my phone blare "you have arrived at your destination" from my purse
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No shame in being the person who goes in the bedroom, anyone's bedroom, to lie down for a while.
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Omg imagine going to a bar and eating the pretzels or peanuts from a little bowl
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Ok, i can see it now.
Can’t see how elon musk is so much worse than anybody else’s boyfriend.
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i've got a bad habit of breaking into the first person at the end of things. like i was hiding inside a cake for 2,500 words but here i am! it was ME writing this thing all along!
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An excerpt of my intro for LAST DAYS AT HOT SLIT: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin is up at
@NYRDaily
! The book comes out March 1.
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RT if you're in the mood for ritz crackers and 500 buttered bagels
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I can't believe this is how i'm finding out.
SURPRISE.
@letigreworld
is playing a show next summer in Pasadena. We haven't played a show in over 15 years. It is a festival. There are a lot of other really amazing artists playing.
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we have courage, science, friendship, consensual sex, and art on our side
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Mothers make christmas happen. Weird how a clearly incompetent bearded man gets credit, right?
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I wrote about Niki de Saint Saint Phalle—erecting matriarchal monuments, assassinating Daddy, her perfume, her current NY retrospective—for
@artforum
's amazing May issue.
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Once I went to this Yoko Ono talk, and someone asked her about Fluxus, and she just shrugged and said Fluxus kind of sucked, actually
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copying sacred texts by hand and drawing water from a well in exchange for like two baguettes a day and a private dorm room has always sounded ideal to me
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My mom once turned the radio off in the car when papa don’t preach came on to explain why keeping the baby is not rebellious or smart and Madonna wouldn’t have a fucking career if she were a teen mother and I was like ok jeez but she wouldn’t turn the music back on.
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breaking: devin nunes forced by white house to carry dirty aquarium gravel in his cheeks until memo is released
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Being annoyed by lots of things is not the same as having discernment or a critique nor does it make you an aesthete
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"I despair of being treated with respect, let alone fairly, in your
pages," Andrea Dworkin wrote to the New York Times in 1987. Thank you to
@michelleinbklyn
for this thoughtful, fair piece about AD and
@DworkinBook
in the paper today!
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I can’t believe all my friends in nyc are getting rescued by a ufo and I’m in Berkeley
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The mise en scene of the four seasons total landscaping debacle...the JBL powered speaker on the tripod stand, breathtaking
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I lived in a punk house and my roommate buried the dishes in the backyard when it was her turn to wash them. It took 27 years, but I'm there now.
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the most terrible thing about writing something kind of good is that you're expected to do it again
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I am all for feminist critiques of the sexual revolution but I see contemporary organized child rape in this country as the legacy of slavery and colonialism more than anything so recent. Also let's talk about the catholic church.
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I could see telling everyone you were leaving new york, but not actually doing it, like faking your death, I'd read that essay
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Woman eating a pint of ice cream without a spoon in the alley under my window just told some teens she's not interested in criticism
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I love the new Artforum and am very proud to be in the first issue, but I loved the old one, too. Michelle championed my work and invited me to write my first feature. My writing has never been academic or hermetic; my voice was always encouraged.
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A question for the good-faith critics of the “artforum letter,” who said they only wanted it to mourn the devastation of 10/7 and acknowledge the Israeli hostages too: who do you stand with now?
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why would you want an abortion when, assuming you survive childbirth, you could leave your newborn at a police station without being prosecuted? sounds fine.
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Seems like all artists ever wanna do is evoke, conjure, recall, depict, render, innovate, disrupt, abstract, execute, overturn, underscore, heighten, efface, or distill.
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kids, even when you are feeling totally over it, don't throw out your band t-shirts. u can't see the future
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Remember when it was a big deal that Dan Quayle was stupid?
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There's something to be said for writing art reviews that very few people read
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I like to spend two days reinventing the form of the art review before I give up and write an art review.
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One day Amy Coney Barrett will just be a character played by Jennifer Garner in movie about how we got socialized healthcare
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Deep aversion to male ego and incompetence is another form of radicalism
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i guess i did the right thing by not going to grad school
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certainly there must be some new school riot grrrls who know how to generate barcodes, do sophisticated ticket forgery? i mean, what is today's equivalent to licking someone's stamped hand and pressing it to your own? maybe the bots are feminist hackers, nobody considered THAT
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I've locked myself in a studio apartment in strange city to write a book and I'm starting to crack.
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"This isn't harassment it's my dirty-old-man comedy routine!" Had to be reminded by Kathleen that Franken used something like that on me in a corridor in 2003/4. Unremarkable except for his fame, & that it happened in front of Chuck D and Janeane Garafolo, which embarrassed me.
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to start, radiohead claim presumes time is linear and it's possible to write something "first"
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I think my
@Artforum
essay FULLY LOADED is online, no paywall. In good company with beautiful artist portfolios + Paul Preciado. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Our January 2018 issue is here, featuring
#KiaLabeija
,
#NanGoldin
,
#AdrianPiper
,
@houseofladosha
,
#DonaldMoffett
,
#SableElyseSmith
,
@k8hardy
,
#PaulPreciado
,
@johannafateman
on power and sexual violence, and more
Get it:
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If you like your insurance you have stockholm syndrome
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Not writing about something sometimes says more than writing about it. I mean maybe this is the real task of the critic: to not write!
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!!!
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Set an egg timer to write an art review and spent that time cutting my bangs in the bathroom mirror
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Here’s the type of shit my sex panicking Victorian antirape crowd in the nineties was reading instead of Roiphe’s book
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the TNY fact-checker asked me "is it true you became a writer?" 😭
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pretty sure checking into a hospital as a precautionary measure is not something my insurance would cover
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Stop being an idiot about this. The artist Alexandra Grant has beautiful silver hair, which is extremely fashionable and NBD. Women of all ages in NYC are getting and loving this look, whether transitioning to their natural color or not. Book now at
@SeagullSalon
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my heart soared the other day when I got the PDF to check for my little piece in the forthcoming phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes issue of
@bookfourm
. Did you subscribe yet?
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"Andrea Dworkin is the Guy Debord of feminism."--
@anne_boyer
Happy Valentine's Day! I got a box of books!
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@AmyOrNot
@ilya_lipkin
.
@johannafateman
rediscovers Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Frankfurt Kitchen: “A distilled representation, as well as an authentic and transfixing specimen, of a traditionally feminine sphere that must be un-annexed to expand our story of modernism.”
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when an artwork is aptly titled, well, I'm compelled to note that
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Wearing air pods under studio headphones in my hot apartment so I can play guitar through a fake amp along with my band's songs on youtube. Actually think it's kind of a good way to rehearse for our first show in 17 years, which will be in a sports arena, or is it a stadium
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I wrote about how
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http://t.co/vFWgYGHPaJ
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there's never been just one art world, and there will probably always be at least one where ivanka is welcome
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This might be too unsubtle to be called a dog whistle. What would you call it?
I don’t think there’s a single straight white male artist (working on their own) in the Whitney Biennial of contemporary American art.
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Why did you choose such a heavy door for your gallery?
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Do what you want but I don't tweet anything I wouldn't want AOC to read
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The problem with taking a 2-3 hour break from Twitter is you have to google partner, meat diet, klaus beisenbach, showing id to buy groceries, skinny eyebrows
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I’m always wanting to take Cassavetes out of the set because it’s so widely misunderstood and arguably somewhat Pablo-matic itself, if you will, but then someone writes that it’s their fave and so it’s a dilemma
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I think it's fine to like tweets you don't fully understand
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A tourist asked me for directions to the twin towers.
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And then suddenly, one day, your child can read well enough to understand how disturbing your book collection is.
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lose ten to fifteen pounds a day by giving birth every day
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tonight I raise a glass to 54,749 other small business owners who did not get a Verizon small business grant. I'm sure none of us will ever forget the great generosity of Verizon, and what an honor it was to participate in their PR event during a pandemic 🥂
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I’ve only been to Yale once. To a punk show at the women’s center.
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bitterness in art reviewing...mostly, it doesn't work
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It's a good time to go to museums at least. Dead silence. You can walk through rooms and rooms and you're the only one.
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