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This week, Robin D.G. Kelley on the Arnautoff murals, Instagram is ruining architecture, animal rights on the left, the best classical music of the 21st century, and more.
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Art • Weekend
Listening to Plants
Adrienne Adar’s attention to botanical sentience seeks to decenter human perspectives on non-human entities.
Books • Weekend
The Liberating Power of Conversations About Art
When I got to know Bill Berkson, my life as a writer was completely changed.
Books • Weekend
Bridget Riley’s Razzle-Dazzle Career
A first-ever biography of the pioneering British modernist charts the creative path of an intense and deeply sensitive painter.
Art • Weekend
An Artist Looks Hard at Painful Images
Diana Cherbuliez’s Trigger Warning looks at our society, where disasters occur on a regular basis and are fodder for our cultural anxieties and voyeurism.
Art • Weekend
An Unlikely Matchup of Paper and Steel
An odd pairing of drawings by Eva Hesse and sculptures by John Chamberlain sets up unintended comparisons between two artists who otherwise seem to share only an ingrained rebelliousness.
Art • Weekend
Figures in Clay, Embarrassed and Alive
The tension between classicism and chaos is one of the many things that sets Bruce Gagnier’s art apart from figurative sculpture stretching back to Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel, and Edgar Degas.
Books
The Horrors of the Atomic Age Through Artists’ Eyes
The art and literature in Invisible Colors turn our gaze toward the blinding fury of the atom’s explosion in its singular purpose to raze and slaughter.
How Performance Art Leans Into the Unknown
At the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival, performances by Mia Habib and Ligia Lewis stood out for their engrossing contributions to the ever-evolving medium.
Articles
How Much Does An Adjunct Actually Make?
Poverty wages, scarce benefits, job insecurity, and difficulty to unionize. After a spreadsheet about adjunct salaries went viral, professors discuss why their struggle should matter to everyone.
Film
The Riot Grrrl Films of Sarah Jacobson
Thanks to a new release from the American Genre Film Archive, an obscure yet ahead of her time feminist auteur is finally getting her due.
This Pricey Burger Chair Doesn’t Come With Fries, But It Is Inspired by Art
Relish Italian luxury retailer Seletti’s “Burger Chair” — which looks uncannily like Claes Oldenburg’s “Floor Burger.”