Art
In Memory of Dump.fm, an Endlessly Collaborative Image Poem
Dump.fm died a quiet, seemingly definitive death this month, after having survived a number of rumored deaths over the years.
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Film
An Insider's View of the Life and Death of a Brooklyn DIY Venue
A new documentary about Death By Audio, a beloved music venue in Williamsburg that was forced to shutter in 2014, over-relies on the reminiscences of the people involved with the space.
Art
Maira Kalman's Daily Digressions
In the writer and illustrator Maira Kalman's latest project, she narrates a morning workout at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that exemplifies her digressive spirit and openness to new ideas.
Art
The Power of Protest Art and the Dignity of the Protester
An exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem about organized protests asks if they can push us to recognize our shared humanity.
Art
Required Reading
This week, magazine designers go for the jugular, Trump turned down Warhol prints, the state of the digital in 2017, ancient Roman cities, female photojournalists, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Nuclear
"We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we, Jack?"
Books
Reader's Diary: The Monastery Door Is Open
Pierre Reverdy’s novel The Thief of Talant is not a novel at all, but a long poem or sequence with elusive narrative underpinnings.
Books
The End of the World as We Know It
The Nuclear Culture Source Book considers the “lived experience of the uncanny nature of radiation” ushered in by disasters such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima.
Art
Perhaps Eleanore Mikus Will Not Be Under-Recognized Anymore
If we compare her with other women artists from the 1960s working in a reductive vein, Eleanore Mikus seems to have thoroughly vanished, more so than her peers, and often isn’t included in surveys or textbooks of that period.
Art
A Ribald World of One’s Own: The Watercolors of Gladys Nilsson
It is Gladys Nilsson’s attention to awkward and unconscious things that people do to themselves while out in public that makes her work fascinating to look at.
Art
The Populist and a Big Sculpture
He uses religion as a way to find a common enemy from within the people. Where is his humanity?
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Tal R
Tal R talks about “watching” paintings — not just looking at them. It might be a language tic, but it also feels specific.