Art
The Stones Are Burning
The waves were slow, but persistent, giving us ample time to prepare for extinction.
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Interview
Serious Play: An Interview with Sam Cornish
In Britain, specifically, there has been a tendency to link artistic production to a festive attitude that marked the 1960s as a whole, melding it with a broader cultural image of “Swinging London.”
Art
Going to Hell in Berlin, with Lu Yang
Lu Yang's installations and videos hyperbolize the morass of narcissism, identity-loss, fantasy, and fetish that comprises our relationship to synthetic experience.
Art
An Eye for Words: Concrete Poets at the Getty
Concrete Poetry focuses on the purists of the movement, particularly the Brazilian Augusto de Campos, the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, and the Austrian poet Ernst Jandl.
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Now and Then: The Rediscovery of Flora Mayo
If I could, I would give this layered, richly human (and often tear-inducing) work my own private Golden Lion, inventing a new category: Best and Most Meaningful Work in the Exhibition.
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John D. Graham and "Another Way of Making Modern Art”
Digging deeply into his own psyche, Graham was able to cast off the pastiche of styles that had been crowding his mind’s eye, and follow his own peculiar path.
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The Competing Politics of the Jamaica Biennial
This year's biennial was a mash-up of claims and interests that played out in four exhibitions grouped under one umbrella.
Books
The Racist Caricatures of African Soldiers that Soothed French Colonial Anxieties
With a Weapon and a Grin, a new book by Stephan Likosky, traces the iconography used to infantilize African soldiers who fought in the French army during World War I.
Art
Generate Absurd Descriptions for Fictional Artworks
Isabel Kim’s delightful Infinite Artwork Simulator is “a tongue-in-cheek artwork description generator” based on Mira Schor’s musings on “Recipe Art.”
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Laughing at the Jokes on Ancient Greek Vases
An exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum showcases the vessels of the so-called Berlin Painter, highlighting the oft-overlooked comedy in Greek ceramics.
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A Book Festival in Miami’s Little Haiti Seeks to Empower the Community
The Little Haiti Book Festival, now in its fifth year, is an homage to Haiti's culture and historical legacy, both past and present.
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A Field of Lavender Nourished by Trump’s Tweets
A subterranean field of lavender, planted by Martin Roth in Midtown Manhattan, is nurtured by lights that are largely controlled by the President's tweets.