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Albert Mobilio

Albert Mobilio is a poet, critic, and an editor at Hyperallergic. He is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant, MacDowell Fellowship, Whiting Award, and the National Book Critics Circle award for reviewing. His work has appeared in Harper’s, Black Clock, Bomb, Cabinet, Hambone, Open City, and Tin House. Books of poetry include Bendable Siege, The Geographics, Me with Animal Towering, Touch Wood, and most recently Same Faces. Games and Stunts, a book of fiction, was published in 2017 by Black Square Editions. He is an associate professor of literary studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and a former editor at Bookforum.

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This Be the Verse: Our Favorite Poetry Books 2021 (Mostly)

by Albert Mobilio and John Yau December 22, 2021January 4, 2022

John Yau and Albert Mobilio select a few choice titles from the past year.

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This Be the Verse: Our Favorite Poetry Books of 2020

by Albert Mobilio and John Yau December 26, 2020January 8, 2021

John Yau and Albert Mobilio select a few choice titles from the past year.

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This Be the Verse 2019

by Albert Mobilio and John Yau December 28, 2019December 28, 2019

John Yau and Albert Mobilio select a few of their favorite poetry books from the past year.

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One Woman, 100 Men, and 100 Arguments

by Albert Mobilio November 2, 2019November 4, 2019

This 24-hour performance resembled a social psych experiment designed to test our patience and desire for change.

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Garry Winogrand in Living Color

by Albert Mobilio July 6, 2019July 6, 2019

If the nostalgic atmosphere of the photographer’s black-and-white images threatens to obscure his compositional acuity these Kodachrome slides dispel it handily.

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In Transit: Willem van Genk’s Cardboard Trolleys

by Albert Mobilio September 13, 2014September 17, 2014

The first United States exhibition of Dutch artist Willem van Genk’s work at the American Folk Art Museum offers a comic counterpoint to the recent Futurist show at the Guggenheim.

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A Zoom with a View: Tullio Crali’s Death Loop

by Albert Mobilio August 23, 2014August 27, 2014

The affection, if not outright idolatry, the Futurists held for machines and speed initially focused on automobiles and locomotives, but in the early 1930s artists like Tullio Crali, Gerardo Dottori, Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni), and Giacomo Balla turned their attentions skyward to produce glorifying images of planes.

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Eternal Recurrence: George Widener’s Time Pieces

by Albert Mobilio June 21, 2014June 26, 2014

You will be relaxing on June 30th in 2030: The guess is based on information provided by George Widener’s mixed media piece “A Month of Sundays” currently on display at Ricco/Maresca as part of the show Time Lapse.

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Memories Are Made of This: Tom Duncan’s Constructed Past

by Albert Mobilio June 7, 2014June 10, 2014

If the so-called “greatest generation,” those that fought in World War II, have mostly passed on, their children, the pre-boomers born just before and during that conflict are still around.

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Single Point Perspective: Dead Man Rising

by Albert Mobilio January 18, 2014May 30, 2014

Viewing the WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY show currently at the Brooklyn Museum offers a test of emotional restraint as well as the inclination to aestheticize. If the number of images is daunting, the sum of human pain on display registers as a body blow.

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Self-Portraits in a Complex Mirror: The Photographs of Vivian Maier

by Albert Mobilio December 21, 2013December 25, 2013

Vivian Maier spent some forty years working as a nanny in Chicago. When she died in 2009 at the age of eighty-three, she left behind well over a hundred thousand photographic negatives, evidence of decades spent wandering the streets of her hometown, as well as others cities and locales around the world.

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Flow Charts: Edward Burtynsky’s Photos of the World’s Watery Parts

by Albert Mobilio November 2, 2013November 6, 2013

It’s well known that landscape photographer Edward Burtynsky thinks big — big subjects, big photographs. His large-format prints (dimensions up to 48 x 64 inches are not uncommon) match the physical scope of the oil industry, quarries, and ship breaking, as well as their thematic implications.

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