Rainer Diana Hamilton

Aug 29, 2024 | joylandmagazine.com | Rainer Diana Hamilton |Jo Barchi

A self-portrait of Rembrandt, a hand-colored print of a courtesan as the immortal Tekkai, and a wooden meditation chair stood in the Central Park Loch. They were each alone, still a few yards apart, and here to admire Flaco, the recently escaped eurasian eagle-owl. The painter’s likeness, looking left and right for an audience, decided to test the courtesan’s interest in being alone together. “He proved them all wrong,” she said of the beautiful raptor.

Jun 3, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Rainer Diana Hamilton |Sammy Feldblum |T.M. Brown |Arielle Isack

I’m reacquiring taste, returning to the naturalRelish for learning how a woman sits, miming her calm,Associating her with piano, the saints, good dreams,Refracted light, whatever else that science wants to dull. I’m tying her to logic, even easily. See, KeatsWas wrong to say that touch of cold philosophy was “mere”—For me, it charms by making formal jokes.

Nov 26, 2023 | thenewinquiry.com | Shiv Kotecha |Rainer Diana Hamilton

When, in 1963, Samuel Beckett endorsed “Playwrights Against Apartheid,” a statement instructing the signers’ literary agents to refuse performance rights in segregated theaters, he made public his recognition that a contract with the agency Curtis Brown Ltd was directly related to the oppression of Black South Africans. In addition to their financial and reputational effects, boycotts shorten the perceived distances between moral actors.

May 12, 2023 | frieze.com | Rainer Diana Hamilton

At 96, Georgia O’Keeffe – supported by her young companion, Juan Hamilton – came to New York for the 1983 Alfred Stieglitz retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.