MY NEGRO PROJECT

May Fourteenth, 2025 A Statement about Genesis “You don’t really want to call it “an artwork,” you wanna call it a proposition [Proposition = It’s okay to fail.] ya know what I’m saying? … it’s like a question about art; it’s a query… the shit you’re making is not an answer.  Mark sure you say it’s exploring something; challenging or investigating, but don’t say it’s solving anything, alright?” Hennessy Youngman ( ART THOUGHTZ: How to Make an Art , YouTube, February 8th, 2011) “Accounting and budgeting are a kind of practice.” L’Rain ( Keynote Address , Campfire Symposium at NYU, April 4th 2025; paraphrased) (7) Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.     [Translation: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent] Ludwig Wittgenstein ( Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung  [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus], 1921)

May Sixth, 2025:  Thoughts on the merits 'Nouveau-Minstrelsy' Photo by Dance10LooksTHREE via Reddit Oh, Mary! Person : Titus Burgess Media : Oh Mary Tituss Burgess as Mary & Phillip James Brannon as Mary’s Husband  in Oh, Mary! (Photo: Emilio Madrid)      Oh, Mary! , a 2024 play written by Cole Escola, is an over-the-top farce about, and centered around, Escola’s fictionalized, self-insert(1), manic, fever dream, and utterly absurd pastiche of Mary Todd Lincoln.  Escola portrays themself, through Mary, as an alcoholic and ne’er-do-well; a rakish, yet rose tinted reminiscence of Escola’s past, wrapped in the guise of a loveless marriage in which Mary’s only ‘role’ is to serve as the beard for “Mary’s Husband” in order to protect his political career(2); a role Mary’s Husband forces her to play night after night.  In doing so, Mary’s Husband has shut Mary away from the world, depriving her of her one true love, cabaret, and this has driven Mary’s al...