Books
E.E. Cummings’s Long-Forgotten Artist’s Book
Published in 1931, CIOPW includes 99 examples of Cummings's visual art in charcoal, ink, oil, pencil, and watercolor.
Richard Kostelanetz
Books
The Artist as Acerbic Critic: Donald Judd's Writings
A new volume of Donald Judd's art criticism contains previously published essays, rejected ones, and choice passages from his notebooks.
Art
The Lasting Presence of a 51-Year-Old Performance Piece
First performed in 1965, Robert Whitman's "Prune. Flat." contrasts cinematic images with live performers to create its own kind of theater.
Books
Learning Little from John Cage's Letters
Some of us didn’t need letters from him, because he trusted us to do what we did without requiring his instruction or encouragement.
Art
All Wrong About Lower Manhattan: Rereading Sharon Zukin
In the course of writing The Rise and Fall of Artists’ SoHo (Routledge), I read several earlier books about lofts and artists in lower Manhattan. The most embarrassing by far, in spite of some research worth crediting, was Sharon Zukin’s Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change.