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A New Book Probes Duchamp's Last Hours of Life
Duchamp's Last Day is a bravo performance capturing the ephemerality of life and the physicality of art.
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A Writer's Choice to Be Borderline Invisible
Small presses and editions remind us that that we're free to stay below the radar in an age of self-promotion.
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Photographs of Fatherly Intimacy Don’t Capture the Whole Picture
Fathers provides an idealized portrait of Black fatherhood, without insights into how one gets through the muck and mire of daily life to find the joy we see here.
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A Photographer's Journey Through the Lost Paradise of 1980s Florida
A Peculiar Paradise: Florida Photographs features Nathan Benn's early 1980s photographs of dreams and debauchery in the Sunshine State.
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The Trauma of War Reflected Inside the Cars of Veterans
In American Interiors, photographer M L Casteel examines the psychological repercussions of military service through the cars of veterans.
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Geoffrey O'Brien's Poetics of Compression
The poet casts himself as an escapist reader, amassing archives to be condensed as paraphrase.
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Dissolving the Boundaries of Asian American Fiction
Janalyn Guo takes Asian American fiction to a new place, where old categories no longer apply.
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An English Translation of Belgian Surrealist Writing
Authors Paul Nougé, Paul Colinet, and Louis Scutenaire exhibited a staunch ethic of underground and elliptical obscurity.
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Bill Cunningham’s Posthumous Memoir Isn’t Quite What You’d Expect
In the beloved fashion photographer's posthumous memoir, we get a peek into his origin story.
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Growing Up in the Avant-Garde Circles of Wallace Berman
Through his father, Wallace, Tosh Berman was in the middle of a vivid circle of artists, writers, and musicians who regarded art as the opposite of cultural business.
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Photojournalism in Nashville During the Civil Rights Era
A book of photos of Nashville at the height of the Civil Rights Movement conveys a story of promises both fulfilled and denied.
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A Novel Inspired by Marina Abramović Falls Short of Expectations
Heather Rose's novel The Museum of Modern Love takes the events of Abramović's The Artist Is Present to show how art influences our lives, but in many ways, the writing leaves the reader with a sense of dissatisfaction.