Art
The Frozen Gestures of Lynda Benglis
Benglis always carried the painting process into her work, resulting in a visual representation of material in action.
Michael Valinsky
Art
Toward an Invisible Architecture
A pioneer of electronic sculptural art, Juan Downey made a splash in 1960s and '70s New York when he rigorously critiqued Eurocentric views of Latin American identity.
Books
Revolutionizing the Erotics of Writing
For a writer whose life was so enmeshed with the experiences of being seen and talked about, Acker never truly established a fixed identity outside of language.
Art
Capturing Fragments of Identity
A group show at Westbeth Gallery examines how identities are formed, transmuted, distorted, and displayed in the social sphere.
Art
Michel Houellebecq's Cynicism Persists in His Photographs
For his US gallery debut, Michel Houellebecq presents an exhibition which amounts to a theory attempting to explain the dysfunction of French society.
Interview
A Collection of Poetry Interviews Is a Work of Poetry Itself
Modern poets talk about the Poetry Project, a vital forum in which political ideologies fueled exchanges and spurred literary movements.
Art
Reading Walt Whitman’s Recently Discovered Novel
Last year, English scholar Zachary Turpin uncovered The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle, a fictional autobiography published and serialized in 1852 in a New York Sunday newspaper.
Books
Homage to Josef Albers: Writers Pay Tribute to a Pioneer of Abstraction
In Josef Albers: Midnight and Noon, Nicholas Fox Weber, Elaine de Kooning, Colm Tóibín, and more discuss the artist’s seminal Homage to the Square series.