Art
The Eerie Stillness of Domenico Gnoli’s Close-ups of Everyday Details
The paintings, of which Gnoli made only 40, have extreme close points of view that create a portentous, clinical intimacy.
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Required Reading
This week, contemporary art and global inequality, Melania's jacket and fascist history, queer Turkish identities, children and their toys, and more.
Books
Mirtha Dermisache's Writing Is a Rorschach test
Dermisache's drawings posture as communication yet undercut it through illegibility.
Art
Daniel Zeller's Cyberpunk Abstractions
Zeller is a cartographer of alien surfaces — recording something between skin and machine, reptile and vegetation, thermal imaging and imaginary highways.
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Susanna Coffey Studies the Nature of Portraiture
For years, Coffey has produced modestly scaled self-portraits with not a brushstroke of flattery.
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Jeff Sessions’s Secret Fantasies
Stepping onto the path the Nazis trod.
Art
Van Gogh’s Japanese Idyll
Through willful imitation of Japanese art, van Gogh became the van Gogh we know, perhaps the world’s most famous painter.
Music
Rap Futurism: Cupcakke, Ski Mask and the Slump God, Playboi Carti, and Kanye West
The future of rap lies in silliness, absurdism, functionalism, and sonic delight.
Art
Jasper Johns' Life and Work: A Conversation Between John Yau, Martha Wilson, and William Villalongo
Who gets remembered and how?
In Brief
Smithsonian Gets Some Vibranium with Acquisition of Iconic Black Panther Costume
The National Museum of African American History and Culture acquired various objects from the movie, embracing the first superhero of African descent to feature in mainstream American comics.
Film
Overcoming Isolation Through Mukbang, the Subculture Where People Watch You Eat
Pam Nasr's short film Clams Casino centers on a young woman struggling to reconnect with her mother but successfully connecting to thousands of viewers and eaters online.
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In the Land of Guns, Masculinity, Whiteness, and Power Are Often Inseparable
The exhibition, which consists of photography culled from the Addison Gallery of American Arts’s collection, demonstrates that the gun exists as an ideal, a prop for power, a tool, and as a metaphor.