A memoir-in-essays, Pop Song is at its most satisfying when the author assembles an arsenal of visual artists to express the ineffable.
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A Year of Struggle in Words and Images
Manjit Thapp’s first full-length graphic novel, Feelings, charts a young woman’s emotional journey through South Asia’s six-season calendar.
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Before Photography, Watercolorists Documented the Luscious Variety of Fruits and Nuts
Between 1886 and 1942, the US Department of Agriculture commissioned watercolorists to document the food from farms and orchards.
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Artists Collectively Write a Poetry Book During the Pandemic
“The Poem is Telling Me I Remember” features collaborative poetry from the Oakland studio and gallery for artists with developmental disabilities.
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Honoring the Stories of Undocumented Indigenous Women in Los Angeles
“Diža’ No’ole” walks a line between revealing and concealing, respecting the women’s decision to keep some things hidden.
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The Salacious and Scholarly Poems of Yusef Komunyakaa
The poet suggests his art’s highest calling isn’t truth-telling but stirring our empathic imagination.
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A Poet of Isolation and Uncertainty
The poems in Jean Day’s Late Human carry a sense of having arrived at a moment when nothing feels quite right.
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Cups of Nun Chai Sheds Light on the Kashmir Often Missing From Headlines
Alana Hunt’s emphasis on everyday experiences, shared over a cup of tea, counters the normalization of state violence.
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The Fascinating Lives of Vincent van Gogh’s Three Sisters
“The Van Gogh Sisters” sheds light on Vincent van Gogh’s place within the family, including a complex relationship with his sisters.
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Joan Mitchell, More Like a Poet
Curators and scholars have increasingly highlighted the importance of poetry to Mitchell’s art, though usually with so much circumspection that the link still remains obscure.
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Michelangelo’s Last Two Decades Were His Busiest and Loneliest
William E. Wallace excavates a lesser-known but crucial final chapter of the artist’s approximately 75-year career.
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Stories of Memory, Loss, and Paranoia
In Dorthe Nors’s minimalist fiction, other people are both an opportunity and a threat.