Books
Homage to Josef Albers: Writers Pay Tribute to a Pioneer of Abstraction
In Josef Albers: Midnight and Noon, Nicholas Fox Weber, Elaine de Kooning, Colm Tóibín, and more discuss the artist’s seminal Homage to the Square series.
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"I Have Seen My Death": The First X-Ray Photograph
In December of 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen revealed the bones of his wife's hand in the first X-ray photograph.
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Required Reading
This week, painters painting themselves as lions, Google's modern day Library of Alexandria, the new Museum of Failure, the CIA and Arab modern art, Chinatowns today, and more.
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Weekend Words: Accomplice
"Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act."
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Sonja Sekula’s Time May Have Finally Come
Sekula was part of a number of different overlapping scenes, and she was loved and thought highly of by many. And then nearly everything about her and her work got forgotten.
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Thomas Trosch’s Pointed Confections
Trosch has not had a solo show in New York since 2009, which is more than a generation and nearly a lifetime in art-world years.
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Cloud Blossoms
The desire to make corny, mindless drawings had its partial impetus in a need to get away from the cerebrally crushing news cycle that day, because it was a day in 2017, and nearly every day of the news cycle has been like that this year.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Peter Acheson
Acheson does not care about trading niceties or being ingratiating. He would rather propose and debate philosophical ideas.
Music
Rappers Talk Dirty: Future, Migos, Kodak Black, Cupcakke
2017 is shaping up to be a terrific year for hip-hop — better than 2016, I hope.
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"One Minute Sculpture” at Twenty: Erwin Wurm’s Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order
Wurm’s latest series of one minute sculptures, incorporating mid-century modern furniture and presented alongside five new cast bronze sculptures at Lehmann Maupin, evidences that, even as he plays with variations on familiar themes, his work remains relevant and fresh.
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One Hundred Years of World War
“Wounded Man (Autumn 1916, Bapaume),” from Dix’s portfolio of 50 etchings, The War (Der Krieg), shows a brutal reality that lays waste to George W. Bush’s anesthetized vision of war wounds.
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Hunting for the Magic Mushrooms of Ancient East Asian Art
A Mushroom Perspective on Sacred Geography explores the visual history of the lingzhi mushroom in art from China, Japan, and Korea.