Art
Entangled Objects Through the Ages, from Sorcerers’ Amulets to Voodoo Dolls
The latest show at La Maison Rouge is a collection of hexing creations that are difficult to disentangle and fully interpret.
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Required Reading
This week, the Calibri typeface's controversies, finding lost languages, the missing Native American bodies of the Effigy Mounds National Monument, Malcolm Gladwell hates McDonald's fries, and more.
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Weekend Words: Dawn
"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
Interview
Arto Lindsay Remembers Hélio Oiticica
The guitarist of the No Wave band DNA talks about the 1970s in Downtown New York and his friend Hélio Oiticica, whose retrospective is now at the Whitney Museum.
Books
Intertextual Depth in Susan Howe's Debths
These poems collage Paul Thek's art, 19th-century American literature, and a fairy tale to create a fresh understanding of the memory and soul.
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Will Alexander's Celebration of the Possible
Alexander’s poetry is swarming with information from a vast library — like the one lost in Alexandria — that he has absorbed into his bloodstream.
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The Dark Puppeteer
Vlad the Influencer has accomplished what decades of Soviet saber-rattling never could.
Books
In Venice, With That Sinking Feeling
The book Migropolis: Venice, edited by Wolfgang Scheppe, examines the migrant and tourist crises afflicting Italy’s fabled “water city.”
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The Blindness of Edgar Degas
His virulent belief system, which led him to cut off his Jewish friends in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair, is unredeemed by his art.
Art
Slippery Geometry and Beguiling Color
An exhibition of works by Gabriele Evertz and Sanford Wurmfeld demonstrates that color theory and painting can arrive at very different conclusions.
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Squeeze in Some Last-Minute Summer Adventure with These Cultural Landscape Guides
The Cultural Landscape Foundation wants to connect people to the places of culture around them.
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The Rubin Museum Becomes a Soothing Soundscape
Slip into The World Is Sound, close your eyes, and leave the jangled world outside for awhile.