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Typical Monday Morning Pep Talk
Today is the first day of the brand new me.
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Required Reading
This week, a museum of rocks that look like faces, Art Basel reports, Putin defends artistic freedom, the apolitical Turner Prize, hidden art in Switzerland, and more.
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Weekend Words: Absolve
"Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. "
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Reader’s Diary: Liam Gillick's ‘Industry and Intelligence’
Is Liam Gillick a writer?
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A Poetics of Being: Charles Olson Reconsidered
In Letters for Olson, the reader is reminded repeatedly that the intellectual projects of Charles Olson and his students were aspects of a larger cultural transformation, which began in the 1940s and continued into the early ’70s.
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Original Translations
Diane Simpson’s sculptures, which are made from planes she cuts and scores when she wants to curve them, always begin with a drawing.
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“Neither Flesh nor Fleshless”
What’s great about Rothko’s paintings is their refutation of language, the way they push back against conclusions.
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Origins of Originality: 'Matisse/Diebenkorn' at the Baltimore Museum of Art
At the core of this show is a conversation in paint about influence and individuality.
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Agnes Martin’s Contemporary Sublime
This uninterrupted stroll through nearly six decades of work reminds one of how few other artists from her generation sustained such long, capable, trajectories in art-making.
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American Drift: Becca Klaver’s Empire Wasted
Divided into five sections that could function as stand alone chapbooks, Empire Wasted opens with a nod to Andy Warhol.
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For Ellen Cantor
Ellen Cantor spontaneously called me on a July evening, inviting me to the Colony Room in Soho for a drink.
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Daniel Boccato: Sculpture in a Crowded Field
In a savvy move, Daniel Boccato has latched onto a currently popular color-and-shape-based aesthetic and taken it to a material extreme.