This week, a Breonna Taylor mural you can see from space, cancel culture, California’s last Confederate monument, moral clarity and journalism, and more.
July 11, 2020
Posted inBooks
Poetry With a Painterly Eye
The latest poetry collections by Lawrence Giffin and Lesle Lewis use the vocabulary of visual arts to extend poetry’s reach.
Posted inBooks
Félix Fénéon: Critic, Collector, Anarchist
What is the relationship between Félix Fénéon’s politics and the art he admired?
Posted inBooks
Abstract Poetry and the Language of Life
What’s most remarkable about Carlos Lara’s Like Bismuth When I Enter is the palpable sense that the author is translating life into language.
Posted inArt
The Crafting of an Art Critic
How did I learn to judge between one work and another? By looking and reading and looking and reading and looking.
Posted inArt
Patrick Strzelec Shows Us One Way to Cut the Mustard
Uncertainty is important, and not just because we are living in uncertain times.