Lara Fresko Madra's Avatar

Lara Fresko Madra

@larafresko

contemporary art and historiography, Turkey, SWANA Assistant Professor at Center for Curatorial Studies @BardCollege // ed. board CAAReviews // Ph.D. Art History @Cornell In overdetermination we trust! Istanbullu in Harlem and Mahicantuck River Valley

335
Followers
420
Following
166
Posts
15.08.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Lara Fresko Madra @larafresko

culture has regressed tragically, right off a cliff, like road runner.

17.10.2025 20:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

is it better to not respond to being gaslit?

17.10.2025 17:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

art can doesn't mean art always does.

17.10.2025 15:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

top 5 fall hath arrived albums:

5. Charlie Haden and Keith Jarret, Jasmine
4. Bob Dylan and the Band, Before the Flood
3. Norah Jones, Come away with me
2. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
1. Tom Waits, Closing Time

13.10.2025 22:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"'My people,' Kafka said 'provided that I have one'" (Sofia Samatar, Opacities, 19)

03.10.2025 17:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

a generation for whom the coming of age never ended.

13.09.2025 14:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

declaring one's love of protesting centrists while writing for artforum... eyeroll.

07.09.2025 18:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

gotta appreciate good writing... some people just do it better.

09.07.2025 18:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

if there is a hell...

07.07.2025 13:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

does anyone know what day The Studio Museum will reopen? I can't set a syllabus calendar to Fall 2025.

06.07.2025 20:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

gotta say, life without #academictwitter sucks.

06.07.2025 20:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Seven months into a stale hell.

01.07.2025 16:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

is there a reason why I'm looking at exhibition histories of the late 1930s?

30.06.2025 21:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Good writing makes bad writing all the more unbearable

30.06.2025 05:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Reading the news is like listening to a tantrum 24/7.

27.06.2025 19:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

worse than pravda is the nyt. just absolute ruthlessly evil spirited propaganda.

27.06.2025 16:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

make note of those who describe this profound victory as an upset.

25.06.2025 17:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

if academictwitter is out there, I have a question, on that note: who writes about losing oneself in another/an other? or, more legibly, about the critique of the liberal humanist subject?

19.06.2025 13:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ok, I have to say something good: I started writing the day after I finished grading and it felt like the floodgates have opened... I had been brewing, wanting to get to this article for so long. Let's see how long it takes to wrap up but for now, just overwhelm and excitement and keeping at it.

19.06.2025 13:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

do students understand that writing two times the number of pages that is asked for in a final is, like, not good?

17.06.2025 19:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

lately I haven't been reading my horoscope and it's a disaster. Things get stuck in the muck and frustrate me to the point of coming to a screeching halt and then by mid-month I check the horoscope and it's like, don't pitch anything till the new moon on the 25th, it'll get stuck in the muck.

14.06.2025 03:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stanchions are the nuveau-fascist architecture.

10.06.2025 19:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is every psychotic breakdown poetry?

09.06.2025 20:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why are almost all art institutions part asshole?

06.06.2025 00:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

hmmm, or such a hegemonic monoculture should breed a serious counterculture, non?

03.06.2025 01:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

where is the counterculture?

02.06.2025 22:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's almost 7pm and not dark yet outside... that would have been cause to celebrate any other time.

05.05.2025 22:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

not a livable world, this.

05.05.2025 14:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am being grated by my orientalness these days.

21.04.2025 15:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

when I publish things without an editor there is inevitably the sentence that repeats a word more than once without noticing.

14.04.2025 19:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0