And here I thought I could be chill and grateful and just acknowledge the congratulations as they came in, while I processed the shock of being included by the Rabkin Foundation among an inspiring but frankly daunting group of writers, but I guess not.
The first of the series of interviews Rabkin Foundation executive director Mary Louise Schumacher recorded with this year’s award recipients dropped, and it’s great. Curator, writer, and cultural historian TK Smith talked with Schumacher about hope and repatriation; the unsustainability of art writing; Beverly Buchanan’s Marsh Ruins [visited here last year for a NYT story by another Rabkin recipient Siddhartha Mitter]; Derek Jarman’s Blue; and much more.
If they’re all like this, I think I will have to post about each one, including, when the time comes, my own. I hope I make even half as much sense.
The Rabkin Interviews: 2024 Rabkin Prize winner TK Smith [rabkinfoundation]