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While you embrace Osaretin Ugiagbe’s fascinating paintings at Slag & RX Galleries, it is worth keeping in mind the necessary slippage between the signifier and the signified. In the case of proper names, for example, the sign is a mark of identity: there can only be one Osaretin Ugiagbe, but who he is for himself and who he is for others is a matter of perception. The same can easily be said of his paintings, and it is the idea of such misperceptions and lost meanings that should guide us t...

Over the past several years the Extension service has offered a program called something like “Who Gets Grandma’s Yellow Plate.” Of course, it has to do with inheritances, making life simpler for the family after...