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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, 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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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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Posted on Monday, Nov 8, 2021 1:45AMMonday, November 8, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Catharine Ahearn. Incredible Hulk, 2014. In the exhibition “Everything Falls Faster Than An Anvil”. More here, here, and here.

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

Sughra Raza. Starry Night, October 2021. Digital photograph.

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Posted on Monday, Oct 25, 2021 1:50AMMonday, October 25, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Tanya Goel. Mechanisms 3, 2019. Dyed paper silk, graphite pens, colour pencils and acrylic on canvas. More here, here, and here.

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Posted on Monday, Oct 11, 2021 2:05AMMonday, October 11, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Cauleen Smith. Space Station Chinoiserie #1: Take hold of the Clouds, 2018. More here, here, and here.

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Posted on Monday, Oct 4, 2021 1:45AMMonday, October 4, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Baseera Khan. A New Territory, 2021. More here, here, and here.

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Posted on Monday, Sep 27, 2021 1:55AMMonday, September 27, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Robert Dash. Flower Bud of the Arbequina Olive Tree (black olives). Microphotography, from National Geographic.

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Posted on Monday, Sep 20, 2021 2:00AMMonday, September 20, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu. Aabam Beebem, 2019. Acrylic on canvas. More here and here.

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Posted on Monday, Sep 13, 2021 2:00AMMonday, September 13, 2021 by Sughra Raza

Florine Demosthene. Before The Decline, 2019. Collage on paper. More here, here, and here.

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