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Seph Rodney, PhD
@sephspeaks.bsky.social
Freelance visual arts critic and curator, former editor at Hyperallergic, current contributor to the NY Times (www.nytimes.com/by/seph-rodney), former artist, lapsed poet. "To make something beautiful should be enough; it isn't. It should be" —R. Siken
I'm excited to be part of this, happening in Detroit in September. It will be real talk:
August 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Hey, this is happening at the end of the month: Artists As Writers Virtual Reading & Discussion.

Also our book is out: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
July 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
February 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I saw this on the train and it seems right for this time:

little prayer
by Danez Smith

let ruin end here

let him find honey where there was once a slaughter

let him enter the lion's cage
& find a field of lilacs

let this be the healing
& if not let it be
January 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I'm very happy to see that we made the Top 50 Exhibitions Around the World in 2024: hyperallergic.com/974112/top-5...

#SFMoMA
December 23, 2024 at 8:59 PM
A few months back I was approached by Finley Rhys to write for a new print-only magazine titled REVIEW. I think the first issue turned out well.

I have a piece in it comparing the work of Kehinde Wiley and KAWS through the lens of a scene in the film "Burnt." Please take a look: review.supplies
December 1, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Cattelan has already created a brooch celebrating this godawful monkeyshines (available through Perrotin gallery):
December 1, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Get in the Game opened in October SF MoMA #sfmoma. It took 2.5 years of copious meetings, research, negotiations and thousands of emails to get here.

Shout out to shout out the team members Gabriella Shypula, Daryl McCurdy, Adrian Martinez, Fernanda Carlovich, and Angelo Hallinan, and Hyoeun Kim.
November 25, 2024 at 8:44 PM
For those who have just started following me (a lot in the past few days) I want to repost about Get in the Game show at SF MoMA, co-curated by me and Katy Siegel and Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher. It's legit amazing.

Images and some press to follow. #sfmoma

www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/g...
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November 25, 2024 at 8:35 PM
I’m really looking forward to getting into this new publication today:
November 24, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Life in war time (seen today at my local gym):
November 6, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Well I finally got my picture in the NY times (that's me in the background in the dark suit, talking with Chris Bedford the director of San Francisco MoMA.

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/a...
October 18, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Happy to be here.
September 19, 2024 at 7:45 PM
If you're in Baltimore on the 20th ...
June 4, 2024 at 7:25 PM