Art
Weekend Words: Obsolete
"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."
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Books
Hirato Renkichi: The Black Shadow-Man Illuminated
Already in the three short volumes which Hirato had hoped to publish, but for which he was unable to raise money, we see a growing tendency to break up the language and images, abstracting them into a pulse of pure energy that conveys the meaning rather than simply expressing it.
Art
Steve Keister’s Cargo Cult of One
The first thing that makes Keister an outlier is that he made sculpture that you didn’t back into, but which you bumped your head against.
Art
Branden Koch Looks at America and Doesn’t Like What He Sees
There are eighty works on paper in the exhibition, Branden Koch: Bald Ego at Regina Rex, all of which speak to and about the dilemma of being an artist and sympathetic human being in America under the current regime.
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Dicks at War
What did the Tomahawks accomplish?
Art
From the Feminine to the Infinite: Marisa Merz at Met Breuer
Married to a key member of the Arte Povera movement in Italy, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz’s recognition as an artist in her own right is long overdue, at least in the United States.
Interview
Not Settled: An Interview with Adam Zagajewski
Zagajewski consistently writes with lightness, wit, and a dry sense of irony that never shades into cynicism or self-satisfaction.
Interview
Going Crazy in New York and San Francisco: An Interview with Poet Julien Poirier
Reading these and the other poems that make up Out of Print what struck me was less the ostensive morbidity of Poirier’s images than the searing honesty underlying them.
Art
Franklin Furnace at 40: Still Radical After All These Years
For Martha Wilson and her collaborators at the Franklin Furnace Archive in New York, the avant-garde spirit is alive and well, and as relevant as ever.
Books
Drenching Found Negatives in Washes of Vivid Color
After discovering a series of negatives in an abandoned skyscraper in St. Louis, Aaron Farley altered the degraded images with caustic colors.
Art
Art F City Goes Goth for Its Benefit Bash
On April 18, the blog–cum–nonprofit will host a goth opera benefit starring performance artist Joseph Keckler.
Art
Collaged Paintings with Presence
Dona Nelson's works are literally made to stand up for themselves, bolted to wooden platforms and staged in coteries of pictorial bodies.