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Issue 16
Intimacy
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Contributors
Ahmari Benton
Gina Borromeo
Marisa Angell Brown
Wai Yee Chiong
Angela Dufresne
Matt Garza
Christopher K. Ho
Carl Jennings
Vanessa Jennings
MariNaomi
Dominic Molon
Carl Phillips
Troy Richards
Laurie Simmons
Judith Tannenbaum
Stephen Truax
Jessica Urick
Nafis White
Issue 16—Intimacy
Intimacy reveals something deeply human in us. We need each other on a practical level, which means having to trust strangers. It’s analogous to what I understand prayer requires and what writing poems requires: an openness to the unknown, coupled with trust, a belief that we won’t be hurt. It’s at once akin to and the same as devotion.
—Carl Phillips
The RISD Museum’s sixteenth issue of Manual touches on the bonds of intimacy and its many expressions. This issue complements the exhibition Any distance between us, co-curated by Stephen Truax and Dominic Molon, on view at the RISD Museum through March 13, 2022.
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From the Files
Gina Borromeo probes love and death in an ancient Greek alabastron
Judith Tannenbaum reencounters a series of photographs of two women dancing
Artists on Art
Christopher K. Ho and Troy Richards open up the Book of Ours
Matt Garza meditates on an untitled portrait of a same-sex couple
Double Takes
MariNaomi and Wai Yee Chiong get cozy with Kunisada’s Bed of Awakening: Nocturnal Pillow Talk
Diane Seuss and Angela Dufresne bond with Lydia (1776)
Laurie Simmons and Marisa Angell Brown embrace the complications of Eleanor, Chicago, 1949
Nafis White and Ahmari Benton join forces over Hair Necklace 4 (Chain)
Portfolio
Familiar connections and passionate flings from across the museum’s collection
Object Lessons
Stephen Truax lovingly documents the lineage of recent queer figurative painting in Any distance between us
Vanessa and Carl Jennings sing a little lullaby to a Kiowa cradleboard
Dominic Molon spends time with Annika von Hausswolff’s Where everything begins and ends #2
How To
Jessica Urick navigates conservation’s one-way intimacy
RISD Museum Interim Director
and Manual Editor-in-Chief: Sarah Ganz Blythe
Editor: Amy Pickworth
Art Director: Derek Schusterbauer
Graphic Designer: Brendan Campbell
Rights Manager: Sionan Guenther
Photographer: Erik Gould
Printer: GHP
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Cover image:
American
Untitled, August 1944
Gelatin silver print
6.3 × 8.9 cm. (2 ½ × 3 ½ in.)
Gift of Peter J. Cohen in honor of Luke Cohen,
RISD BFA 1971, BArch 1972, Architecture 2015.91.19
