Books
The Past and Future of China's Socialist Literature
The story Nicolai Volland tells will surprise those who believe communist China was closed to the world, and anyone who thinks communist literature is dull or irrelevant.
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Books
Letters to the World: A Poet Turns His Words Into Song
In The Absolute Letter, poet Andrew Joron breaks words down to their constituent parts to reveal their hidden music.
Art
Sociopaths Don’t Cry
A full year after the election, thousands of US citizens wake each morning in shocked disbelief that Donald Trump is our president.
Art
You Are in Good Hands with Matt Connors
Connors has arrived at a synthesis of what, up until now, has been a stylistically identifiable but rather diverse output.
Art
An Artist’s Bond with Her Imprisoned Father
In Sable Elyse Smith’s exhibition Ordinary Violence, the artist’s father is both muse and specter.
Art
Michelangelo’s Majestic Humanity
The Met’s new exhibition presents Michelangelo not as a demigod, but as a student, a thinker, a teacher, and a friend.
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Arshile Gorky’s Heretical Abstractions
Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes offers an in-depth exposure to the artist’s personal flowering after spending years at the altar of Cézanne and Picasso
Interview
Anti-Gentrification Activists Protest Laura Owens Exhibition at the Whitney Museum
An alliance of activists from Los Angeles and New York highlighted the role of the artist and her dealer, Gavin Brown, in artwashing the gentrification of working-class neighborhoods.
Art
Watch the Artist Who’s Living in a Storefront on the Lower East Side
Brooklyn street artist RAE is spending 24 hours a day, seven days a week, living and working inside the storefront.
News
Last-Minute Appeal Tries to Halt Berkshire Museum Art Auction [UPDATED]
On Friday, the AG's office filed an appeal seeking a last-minute injunction to stop Monday's auction of works from the Berkshire Museum collection at Sotheby's.
Art
From Plant to Page, a Conservatory Grows Trees to Turn into Handmade Paper
Cleveland's Morgan Conservatory is one of the few places in the US dedicated to conserving paper-making traditions and considering the material's artistic and functional future.
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Miami Beach’s Bass Museum Cranks It Up After Renovation
The Museum closed for nearly three years to work on developing visitor experience and adding a contemporary dimension to its more extensive classical holdings.