by snarly | Jul 6, 2023 | Artistic apologies
Guess what? The paperback version of our book, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies, will be out on January 2! With a new title and a new cover, as well as a NEW NIFTY WAY CHEAPER PAPERBACK PRICE, because WHY NOT. You can preorder now, wherever you like to...
by snarly | Mar 22, 2023 | Artistic apologies
Today let’s look at a B+ apology and see how it could have been an A apology. The Portland Art Museum in Oregon recently tweeted this statement: Our first reaction: Booting an indigenous woman wearing an indigenous child-carrier from your museum’s show of...
by snarly | Aug 20, 2022 | Artistic apologies
SorryWatch recently saw a delightful gallery show called “Mistakes Were Made.” In it, artist Jennifer Dalton explores her interest in the faux-sincerity and sameness of bad public apologies. The show is at a tiny gallery called Mother-in-Law’s in Germantown, NY. A...
by snarly | Apr 27, 2022 | Artistic apologies
Snarly and Sumac are both drawn to kintsugi, in which broken ceramics are repaired in a way that the cracks are still visible. The fixed piece feels like a new, quirky, precious thing! To us, that’s a wonderful metaphor for apology. A good apology doesn’t pretend that...
by snarly | Feb 25, 2022 | Artistic apologies
…how about some more book-related apologies? As you probably know, apology fans have been raving about Reading In A Bar guy, aka New Jersey food & culture writer Jeremy Schneider, who infuriated Twitter with 15 simple words: “Please know, if you’re someone who...
by sumac | Apr 15, 2021 | Artistic apologies, Historical Apologies
There’s a letter from Edgar Allan Poe, now in the collection of the University of Virginia, which contains an evasive little apology. The 1842 letter is to J and HG Langley, publishers of the Democratic Review, for whom he’d written before. Poe, a...
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