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Sughra Raza

Sughra grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, along with siblings Abbas and Azra (above), and several others. She studied fine arts as an undergraduate, later shifting gears to become a doctor of medicine, specializing in diagnostic radiology. Sughra lives in Boston, Massachusetts, working and teaching at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She feels most excited in a world of images, invention, art and music; and despite Fenway Park floodlights lighting up the sky in her windows, she remains oblivious to the Red Sox battling the Yankees a stone’s throw away. Email: [email protected]

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Posted on Monday, Apr 4, 2022 2:00AMMonday, April 4, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Sughra Raza. Self Portrait at Gas Station, April 3, 2022.

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Posted on Monday, Mar 28, 2022 1:45AMMonday, March 28, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Bridget Mullen. Threshold Blues, 2018. Acrylic and Flashe on linen. More here and here.

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Posted on Monday, Mar 21, 2022 1:40AMMonday, March 21, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Hung Liu. Migrant Child  Kitty. 2017. Oil on canvas. More here, here, and here.

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Posted on Monday, Mar 14, 2022 1:35AMMonday, March 14, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Sughra Raza. Mood … , Our Pale Blue Dot. Digital Photograph, August 2014.

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Posted on Monday, Mar 7, 2022 1:55AMMonday, March 7, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Sughra Raza. Self-portrait With Trees. Seattle, February, 2022. Digital photograph.

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Posted on Monday, Feb 28, 2022 1:35AMMonday, February 28, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Martin Ramirez. Horse and Rider With Frieze. No date. Gouache, colored pencil, graphite. More here, here, and here.

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Posted on Monday, Feb 21, 2022 1:45AMMonday, February 21, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Sughra Raza. Bey Unvaan. February, 2022. Digital photograph.

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Posted on Monday, Feb 14, 2022 1:50AMMonday, February 14, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Sughra Raza. Kaamdani, Approaching Santiago, Chile, 2017. Digital photograph.

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Posted on Monday, Feb 7, 2022 1:45AMMonday, February 7, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Sughra Raza. Bey Unvaan. Anza-Borrego Desert Park, Calfornia, 2017. Digital photograph.

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Posted on Monday, Jan 31, 2022 2:00AMMonday, January 31, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Sughra Raza. Inside Out, Boston, 2021. Digital photograph.

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Posted on Monday, Jan 24, 2022 1:55AMMonday, January 24, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Whitfield Lovell. Kin XLV (Das Lied von der Erde), 2011. More here, here, and here.

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Posted on Monday, Jan 17, 2022 1:45AMMonday, January 17, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Sughra Raza. Another Morning. Venice, July 2012. Digital photograph.

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Posted on Monday, Jan 10, 2022 1:45AMMonday, January 10, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Sughra Raza. First Snow 2022. Digital photograph.

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Posted on Monday, Jan 3, 2022 1:45AMMonday, January 3, 2022 by Sughra Raza

Sughra Raza. Rainy Reflection Self-portrait for 2022. Digital photograph.

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Posted on Monday, Dec 27, 2021 1:45AMMonday, December 27, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Dorothea Tanning. Notes for An Apocalypse, 1978. Oil on canvas. More here, here, and here.

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Posted on Monday, Dec 20, 2021 1:50AMMonday, December 20, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Theaster Gates. Installation view of exhibition “Amalgam” Palais de Tokyo, 2019. More here, and here.

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Posted on Monday, Dec 13, 2021 1:35AMMonday, December 13, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Beauford Delaney. James Baldwin (Circa 1945-50). More here, here and here.

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Posted on Monday, Nov 29, 2021 1:55AMMonday, November 29, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Mary Kuper. “… our curious type of existence here.” “A response to the close of David Jones’s introduction to ‘In Parenthesis’ This writing is called ‘In Parenthesis’ because I have written it in a kind of spaces between — I don’t know between quite what— but as you turn aside to do something; and because…

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Posted on Monday, Nov 22, 2021 1:50AMMonday, November 22, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Deana Lawson. (title and date not found). More here, here, and here.

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Posted on Monday, Nov 15, 2021 1:45AMMonday, November 15, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Elmgreen and Dragset. The Painter Fig 1, 2021. More here and here. Thanks to Jaffer Kolb and Ingar Dragset.

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The original site was designed by S. Abbas Raza in 2004 but soon completely redesigned by Mikko Hyppönen and deployed by Henrik Rydberg. It was later upgraded extensively by Dan Balis in 2006. The next major revision was designed by S. Abbas Raza, building upon the earlier look, and coded by Dumky de Wilde in 2013. And this current version 5.0 has been designed and deployed by Dumky de Wilde in collaboration with S. Abbas Raza.

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