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Sleepwalkers in a Box
Doug Aitken, Princeton Architectural Press and DFA Records have attempted to repackaging the magic of Aitken's "Sleepwalkers" film in a box.
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Stickers: Stuck-Up Piece of Crap
Looking at Stickers: Stuck-Up Piece of Crap: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art, a history of stickers from various subcultures, from graffiti and street art to skating and punk music, two years after its publication, the book remains significant as the first major publication on Do-It-Yourself stic
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Art Cannot Provide a Way Out
In 2006, art historian Claire Bishop lit a fire under the collective seat of the art world with her Artforum piece “The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents.” It set off — as much as any essay in the hermetic and staid world of contemporary art theory can — an uproar. Her new book takes it
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Surrealism in a Minor Key: Recent Translations of Ghérasim Luca
Considered through Deleuze and Guattari’s somewhat idiosyncratic interpretive lenses, Ghérasim Luca is a minor writer — minor in the sense that he relentlessly pushes language toward its limits, that he deterritorializes it, that he transmutes it from a mere instrument of representation into an extr
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Photographing Protest
What does protest look like? This was the question posed to over a dozen artists featured in Capricious Magazine #12 — Protest.
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Words in Worlds of Light: Joseph Donahue's Dissolves
Not only fragments and filaments, but also liturgies and litanies embed themselves in Joseph Donahue’s Terra Lucida, a chain of poetic assemblage that both embodies and breaks free of given notions of the long poem. While the formal designs of that thematic behemoth can be ascribed to his project, D
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Working Through the End of Art
When the wide-eyed young painter Jim Holl came to New York City in the mid-1970s to study and make art he was shaken by the news that painting, according to the critics, was dead. Holl spent the next 20 years venturing outside the frame to find his place in this post-apocalyptic art world. His memoi
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Six International Authors to Read This Summer
MIAMI — Need a good summer read? Maybe you should pick up books from one of these authors.
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With a Wild Wahoo!
There’s nothing like an ambitious anthology for redistricting your inner map of poetic possibility. They don’t come along every day, but we’ve had more than our usual share over the last few years. Such books operate on different scales, of course: There’s the kind of anthology that crystallizes a h
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A Comic Book Written on the Streets
Paging through New York-born, Brazil-based street artist Tito na Rua's Street Comics Vol. 1, a story of the search for lost love through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, I couldn't help but become fascinated by the possibilities of a narrative being told in the streets, even though I'm not the biggest
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Not the Man We Used to Be: An Anthropologist's View of the New Weaker Sex
According to a recent book, Manthropology: The Science of Why the Modern Male is Not the Man He Used to Be, by Peter McAllister, modern men are basically fucked. McAllister, an archeologist and science writer, has analyzed the iron men of yore — the Neanderthals and Wodabees, the Tahitian seducers a
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The Fear of Making Art
When Amazon recommends literary selections I might be interested in, I usually do a quick scan of the offerings, decide I can’t afford to splurge on assorted art books and delete the email. But once in a while something catches my eye. Not too long ago, among the artist bios, museum catalogs and cri