Semmes

At the Independent, you can see rare handmade T-shirts from Benglis’s Artforum project, images from Kusama’s brief nude-photography-studio project and Semmes’s pictures made by painting over pornography.

Rocky Semmes of Alexandria, Va., had an uncle named Harry.

He’s named after his father, Raphael Semmes.

As they reached the South Side area in their cruiser, they saw three men walking on Semmes Avenue.

Formidable pirates though they were, Captain Raphael Semmes and his crew were spooked by the sea they encountered that January evening.