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Required Reading
This week, world's first poet, reviewing Antinous: Boy Made God, Queens modernism, Octavia E. Butler on Pasadena, mile-high architecture, and more.
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A Poet's Symbolic Resignation
With The Resignation, poet Lonely Christopher shows his interest in "speeches that mean next to nothing."
Books
Ann Lauterbach Expands the Possibilities of Poetry
In an age dominated by literalism and an insistence on facts, what can the imagination summon into words?
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Brenda Goodman Moves into New Territory
Between 1994 and 2011, Goodman painted a series of self-portraits that constitute one of the most powerful and disturbing achievements of portraiture in modern art.
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Ancient Tools for a New Way of Seeing
This is what very good artists are supposed to do: use the past to bring about the present — in David Rabinowitch’s case, a visionary one.
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Lo-Fi Art for the Internet Age
Noh Sangho asks if the terms of eye-catching, short-lived virality were not so different in the 16th century as they are now.
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Explores Psychological Depths
The painter's introspective subjects can make the viewer feel uncomfortably voyeuristic.
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Jim Osman’s Off-Kilter Arcadia
Osman's suite of new sculptures might look like buildings, or the things within buildings: furniture, toyish tools, and strange-ified objects of interior design.
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Artist Drops Massive Opioid Spoon at Entrance of Another Sackler-Owned Drug Manufacturer
The Sackler family founded Rhodes Pharma in 2007, just months after pleading guilty to criminal charges that their family company, Purdue Pharma, had mismarketed OxyContin.
Film
A Few Gems Among This Year’s Bizarre Oscar-Nominated Shorts
The 15 films nominated for the Academy Awards tackle racism, aging, parenthood, and more.
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Humorous and Disturbing Self-Portraits Packaged for an Instagram Audience
Obscuring his identity with motorized toys and raw meat, David Henry Brown "Nobody" Jr. seeks to liberate himself from the ways capitalism tends to dehumanize us.
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A 19th-Century Guide to Euclid's Geometry Reborn as an Interactive Site
Designer Nicholas Rougeux created an interactive version of one of the first multicolor books, which turned Euclid’s pivotal geometric ideas into visual diagrams.