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Michael Valinsky

Michael Valinsky is a writer from Paris and New York. He received his B.A. in Poetics and Praxis at New York University. His work has been published in i-D Magazine, Hyperallergic, OUT Magazine, BOMB Magazine, NewNowNext.com, Lambda Literary, Kirkus Reviews, Artsy, Surface Magazine, eBay and The WILD Magazine. He is the author of .TXT, Zurich: 89plus/LUMA Publications, 2014. Michael is the former Editorial Assistant at Kirkus Reviews. He currently works and lives in Los Angeles.

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The Frozen Gestures of Lynda Benglis

by Michael Valinsky December 9, 2017December 12, 2017

Benglis always carried the painting process into her work, resulting in a visual representation of material in action.

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Toward an Invisible Architecture

by Michael Valinsky November 19, 2017November 29, 2017

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.

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Revolutionizing the Erotics of Writing

by Michael Valinsky October 15, 2017October 16, 2017

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.

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Capturing Fragments of Identity

by Michael Valinsky August 4, 2017

A group show at Westbeth Gallery examines how identities are formed, transmuted, distorted, and displayed in the social sphere.

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Michel Houellebecq’s Cynicism Persists in His Photographs

by Michael Valinsky July 28, 2017July 28, 2017

For his US gallery debut, Michel Houellebecq presents an exhibition which amounts to a theory attempting to explain the dysfunction of French society.

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A Collection of Poetry Interviews Is a Work of Poetry Itself

by Michael Valinsky July 22, 2017July 21, 2017

Modern poets talk about the Poetry Project, a vital forum in which political ideologies fueled exchanges and spurred literary movements.

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Reading Walt Whitman’s Recently Discovered Novel

by Michael Valinsky May 31, 2017

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.

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Homage to Josef Albers: Writers Pay Tribute to a Pioneer of Abstraction

by Michael Valinsky May 1, 2017May 4, 2017

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.

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