Unbearables Reviews

Forty Years of Fusion Art: 1967-2007 by Shalom Neuman

In his writings on the art market, Robert C. Morgan has noted a special equation. As, in the 1980s, more money was pumped in, the more the human qualities of the art that was sold were washed away. No longer would one find prominence given to the eccentric visionaries of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. No more the Dadaist humor of a Rauschenberg, the profound weight of a Barnet Newman or the lacy exuberance and firmness of a Joan Mitchell. ...

April 16th, 2007 Many of the Unbearables had their work anthologized in the beautifully produced oversized volumn entitled Up Is Up But So Is Down. What follows is a review of that book by Anitta Santiago. Up Is Up But So Is Down, Ed. Brandon Stosuy, New York, NY: New York University Press, 2006. $29.95 Up Is Up But So Is Down is a book you have to turn over a lot, and I don’t just mean in your head. You can ...

The year is 1976. Vietnam is stagnating, the kids are smoking homegrown, and high school French teacher Bill Richardson keeps a long-legged junior named Sarah after class to discuss her failing grade. He offers to drive her home, instead taking her to a secluded lake where they begin an illicit relationship that lasts a year and a half. Most nights they have sex on the daybed in Bill’s home office, his wife Mary zonked on sleeping pills upstairs. Rumor is ...

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See Full Review Depicting an illicit relationship that begins in Sauquoit, NY in the 70s and the ensuing three decades worth of unspoken tension, Breckenridge (You Are Here) masterfully develops a world of dangerous love and its damning aftermath. With brevity, Breckenridge jumps back and forth between the beginning of a sexual relationship between Sarah and her high school French teacher Bill, and the affair they re-establish 30 years later. Through this painful, life-changing teacher-student affair, Breckenridge shows that the destruction ...