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Laurel Nakadate’s Diary of Mourning
Nakadate’s The Kingdom is haunted by grief and irrevocable loss.
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.
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Douglas Crase, Literary Subversive
The entire body of Crase’s writing invites the kind of close attention that is usually reserved for poetry.
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Peter Williams's Everyday American Hell
Williams has a deeply personal awareness of the irreparable harm done to black bodies.
Books
Charles North Shows Us How to Read without Relying on Theories
North pays close attention to what is in front of him, never resorting to what he calls, in another context, a “theoretical program.”
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Trevor Winkfield’s Undomesticated Imagination
Winkfield’s combinations of forms are inexplicable, a seamless fusion of the sinister and innocent.
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The Impermanent Sculptures of Robert Grosvenor
Grosvenor shares almost nothing with other sculptors working today: He has not branded his work, nor has he made variations on a theme.
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Back When Painting Was Dead
When Clement Greenberg, Frank Stella, and Donald Judd tried to define what makes a painting, they overlooked a central feature — capaciousness.
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Two More Women to Add to Modernism’s History
The absence of Mary Callery and Peter Miller (Henrietta Myers) from the history of the 1940s New York art scene does not reflect well upon the city’s museums or their curators.
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Thomas Nozkowski, a Master Improviser
It is possible to imagine an essay devoted solely to the myriad ways Nozkowski uses paint.
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Painting by Touch, Not by Sight
Kim Dingle is an artist with a history of working under preconceived constraints.
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An Artist’s Irrepressible Alter Ego
In the world of Ebecho Muslimova’s recurring character, Fatebe, there are no men: they are irrelevant.
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In Praise of the Baffling
Tabaimo is not interested in dumbing down her references to Japanese culture, or in turning her art into entertainment for a Western audience.