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IZABELLA SCOTT is an editor at The White Review.



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Shola von Reinhold’s ‘LOTE’

Book Review

September 2020

Izabella Scott

Book Review

September 2020

To read Shola von Reinhold’s ornate, multi-layered novel LOTE (2020) is to encounter a baroque mind. It tells the story of a queer Black...

Art Review

November 2019

Actually, the Dead are Not Dead

Izabella Scott

Art Review

November 2019

During Bergen Assembly’s opening days, I am asked to attend a number of mock funerals, including one for a...

Chatsworth, established in 1888 in the northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley, took its name from the family seat of the Duke of Devonshire The developers who subdivided this part of Ex-Mission San Fernando, formerly called Rancho El Escorpión, preferred to associate themselves with England’s landed gentry rather than with the poisonous arachnids native to the place As in Hollywood, another formerly rural tract absorbed into the city of Los Angeles, efforts to elevate the tone of the area were never entirely successful Companies producing mainstream entertainment, including the one responsible for the television programme 24, have maintained offices in Chatsworth, but they have generally been overshadowed by the more enduring presence of the sex industry; besides many porn studios, the trade publication Adult Video News has its headquarters in the neighbourhood, and sex toys are manufactured there Most recently, Chatsworth distinguished itself as the place where the figure of Vern Blosum, a painter whose work achieved notoriety in the early 1960s, started to emerge from obscurity   In February 2006, Jon and Tina Cassar bought a painting that looked like Pop Art, as anyone would say: a realistic depiction of a parking meter captioned with the text ‘Twenty Five Minutes’ (the amount of time left on the meter) in the kind of plain block letters used by professional sign painters Jon Cassar, a producer of 24, which consists of hour-long episodes unfolding in an hour of real time, must have felt almost as though the painting, with its image of a finite period time about to expire, had been made expressly for him The Cassars’ notes describe the circumstances: ‘Purchased, Twenty Five Minutes, Vern Blosum 1962, at a price of $1000 In Chatsworth, CA At a corner storage lot Due to storage container being vacated Unknown reasons why Unknown owner Maybe due to no longer paying rental storage fees or could be it was left unclaimed’ After taking the painting home, the new owners found on the back of it a label reading, ‘L A Co Museum of Art, LOAN CAT 88, MR & MRS L ASHER’

Contributor

September 2015

Izabella Scott

Contributor

September 2015

IZABELLA SCOTT is an editor at The White Review.

Book Review

August 2019

Jordy Rosenberg’s ‘Confessions of the Fox’

Izabella Scott

Book Review

August 2019

It’s hot as fuck, said the friend who handed me Confessions of the Fox, a faux-memoir set in eighteenth-century...

Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Echo Chamber

Art Review

November 2017

Izabella Scott

Art Review

November 2017

A lattice of diamonds and crosses, painted onto a 21-metre long wall at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, scatters my gaze. Artist Navine G....
Hot Rocks

feature

November 2016

Izabella Scott

feature

November 2016

‘We have received around 150 of them,’ Massimo Osanna tells me, as we peer into four small crates stuffed full of dusty freezer bags....
False shadows

Art

August 2016

Izabella Scott

Art

August 2016

The ‘beautiful disorder’ of the Forbidden City and the Yuanmingyuan (Garden of Perfection and Light) was first noted by the Jesuit painter Jean Denis...

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Interview

January 2015

Interview with Magdalena Tulli

TR. Bill Johnston

Grzegorz Jankowicz

Interview

January 2015

This interview appeared in Po co jest sztuka? (What Is Art For?), a 2013 collection of interviews with Polish...

fiction

Issue No. 17

Harmless Like You

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

fiction

Issue No. 17

Interstate 95, September 2016   Celeste sat on the front seat wearing her black turtleneck sweater. She had three...

poetry

August 2016

Three New Poems

Sarah V. Schweig

poetry

August 2016

‘The Audit’ and ‘Red Bank’ are excerpts from Schweig’s forthcoming book, Take Nothing With You (University of Iowa Press, 2016).  ...

 

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