David Velasco

"I do not believe that everything happens for a reason, and I think that people who say this are not just encouraging a lazy worldview but participating in a paranoiac fantasy. Mostly, things can and should be different." harpers.org/archive/2025/1…

“Brent led a life fully committed to his values and his pleasures; unlike most people, he didn’t see a contradiction between the two.” David Velasco (@samuelkidd) remembers his friend, Brent Sikkema. harpers.org/archive/2025/1…

The good folks at @memoreview have made my summer conversation with David Velasco available online. Seems like as timely a moment as ever to think about boycotts, solidarity and "protocol." memoreview.net/magazine/issue…

welcome to the age of the incellectuals

“We are not just speaking; we are fighting with words. And we are fighting to win.” The always 🔥 @andrealongchu

Fassbinder screaming at his mother in Deutschland im Herbst is the last honest political conversation to have taken place in Germany

well, yes

Artforum and the Art World’s “Palestine Exception” jadaliyya.com/Details/45543 via @jadaliyya

i love Artforum, the drama and the glamour, the intellectualism, the debate, the discourse, hahaha, the very casual sex appeal, I want to Lounge on a Sofa.

Hhmmm🎄

@thorasiemsen david velasco is completely slaughtering me, it's a bloodbath, his mind.......

@thestacyleigh My lips are sealed.

Also, my mom has a correction

I still believe what I said about smoking: ssense.com/en-us/editoria…

@deadfirstwife @rossleonardy Thank you...?

We are devastated about the loss of our family member, Michael Friedman. His loss leaves a hole in the theater world that cannot be filled.

@harinef here w @MsRyanMcNamara