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Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

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The Pious and the Pommery

Essay

Issue No. 18

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   Where is the champagne? On second thoughts this is not entirely the right question. The champagne is in the ice trough, on...

Essay

April 2019

Ariana and the Lesbian Narcissus

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

April 2019

‘Avoid me not!’ ‘Avoid me not!’                                   Narcissus   Let me describe a GIF I’ve been watching. A lot....

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

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

Ten Years at Garage Moscow

Art Review

November 2018

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art Review

November 2018

When I arrive in Moscow, I am picked up from the airport by Roman, a patriotic taxi driver sent to collect me courtesy of...
Becoming Alice Neel

Art

August 2017

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art

August 2017

From the first time I saw Alice Neel’s portraits, I wanted to see the world as she did. Neel was the Matisse of the...

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July 2013

Occupy Gezi: From the Fringes to the Centre, and Back Again

Alexander Christie-Miller

feature

July 2013

Taksim Square appears at first a wide, featureless and unlovely place. It is a ganglion of roads and bus...

poetry

November 2013

Rescue Me

George Szirtes

poetry

November 2013

Pain comes like this: packaged in a moment of hubris with a backing band too big for its own...

Art

Issue No. 14

Lenin was a Mushroom

Thomas Dylan Eaton

Art

Issue No. 14

Cast as the ‘savage, ugly’ part in the Popular Mechanics live show, Necrorealists were radical artists in their own...

 

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