Art
Required Reading
This week, a gigantic Katharina Grosse in Sydney, Anuradha Vikram on radical of women, Trevor Paglen on the changing nature of contemporary images, talking to Haitian art collective Ti Moun Rezistans, and more.
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Books
A Modern Poet's Timeless Word Bank
Maureen McLane starts off her collection with a gaze that projects itself from the ground to the depths of the galaxy.
Art
An Artist’s Devotion to Exactness
The sensual surfaces of Susan York’s graphite sculptures bring together sight and touch without favoring either.
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Catherine Murphy Sets the Bar Higher and Higher
Murphy shows viewers things they know — a cherry pie or a pile of broken dishes — in ways that are arresting, straightforward, and extremely unsettling.
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Feeding King Narcissus
Sucking at the shithole, an unquenchable leach.
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Taking the Painter Out of Painting
For Christian Bonnefoi, it is when the painter disappears as the author of a painting that the artwork emerges.
Music
Shimmer and Melancholy in SZA's 'Ctrl'
The songs on Ctrl occupy a space where insecurities over sex, romance, and gender are credibly illuminated, coexisting as they do with music committed to functionalism and the pleasure principle.
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The Visible Language of Outsider Art
Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic, an exhibition of illustrated texts by self-taught artists, feels so intimate that it seems to enter the creative process itself.
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A Year in the Life of Pablo Picasso
An exhibition at the Musée National Picasso in Paris tracks the artist's life and work, month-to-month, in 1932.
In Brief
In Greece, a Red-Winged Sculpture Is Exorcised and Destroyed
Religious conservatives condemned the red figure as satanic and yanked it from its pedestal, while a priest attempted to exorcise it.
Art
The Power of Protest One Year After the #J20 Art Strike
How have our ideas of strike and protest changed and what should we learn about their utility today?
News
New Dossier Shows British Museum Had a Role in Dealings Between BP and Russia
Newly public emails show correspondence between the museum, Russia's London embassy, British officials, and BP.