Art
A Disruptor of Race and Sex
In a time when many artists are content to establish one-to-one correspondences between signifier and signified, sign and meaning, Wardell Milan’s ambiguity is refreshing.
John Yau
John Yau is an award winning poet, critic, curator, and publisher of Black Square Editions. He has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism.
Art
George Miyasaki's Non-Western American Painting
In writing about artists of Asian descent I have repeatedly bumped up against codified prejudices in both the art and literary world.
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The Secret Paintings of a Hermetic Filmmaker
Jordan Belson wanted the viewer to see only what was in front of his or her face — to scrutinize his paintings from up close.
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Discovering an Unknown Sculptor, 30 Years After His Death
During the past decade, many neglected artists have been reconsidered; this cannot be said for Leo Amino.
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Excavating the Radical Roots of Abstract Painting
With each new exhibition, it becomes more apparent that Don Voisine is adding his own earned options to the legacy of geometric abstraction.
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Minor Master or Master of the Minor?
One reason Joe Brainard made so many small works was to convey that modesty and ambition were not mutually exclusive.
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Photographing the Bloody Cost of Resistance
Between 1968 and 1981, when he turned 13, Khiang H. Hei was at or near the epicenter of several catastrophic historical events reverberating across Southeast Asia.
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A Young Master of Painted Flesh
As invested as Louis Fratino is in his gay subject matter, what heightens the work is his formal mastery of the figure in space.
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A Shape-Shifting Artist, 87 Years Young
Over the course of a 70-year-career, David Driskell has been making art about memory, jazz, cities, spirituality, and nature.
Books
Wallace Berman's Magical World
If you have any interest in the wild array of people who defined the West Coast bohemian world, you must read Tosh Berman's Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World.
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The Pleasures of DIY Art
Is amusement now considered taboo?
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A Photographer of Forgotten Men
Lee Nye’s subjects were the predominantly blue-collar patrons of Eddie’s Club, where he worked as a bartender between the late 1960s and early ‘70s.