We Responsible Others Commissioned to develop a sculpture, the artist instead found herself attempting to define the space around it. What use is a sculpture without a room, a world? She’d asked her gallerist who reminded her that the municipal client had come with a certain budget. Your job is to make things, the gallerist […]

A Brief Introduction to the History, Mission, & Current State of Affairs at  Fence Magazine & Fence Books Inc. 501c3 In Vice, Blake Butler has written: “[In] each issue of Fence…there’s always something to befuddle you, to challenge the idea of what could appear on paper, to make you wonder how or why a thing […]

UNDER NEW LEADERSHIP, FENCE MAGAZINE HOLDS LARGE AUCTION TO BENEFIT MAGAZINE, BOOK & ONLINE PUBLICATIONS Queens, NY 10/2/2022   The newly anointed Editorial Co-Directors of Fence Magazineand Fence Publications, Emily Wallis Hughes and Jason Zuzga, announce an Art + Object + Experience Benefit Auction, hosted on the auction site Galabid. Zuzga and Wallis, who took […]

Artwork by the author and his daughter, Freddy O’Malley The only friend I ever heard about was Carl. They played golf on Sundays, out around Wentzville. It happened once, maybe twice a year that Dad would win, and then he’d hurry home and drive me or my mom over to Carl’s office to get our […]

What else is left for me to come right out with other than a simple list of everything blood has turned out to be no thicker than—viz., both parents, an ex-spouse, my daughter and her selectively unhappy brother? Father was a spuddy little fellow uncolored by anything in life. My room had always had too […]