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Required Reading
This week, bad but effective design, Time magazine's "subversive" cover, a good bad review of the Trump Grill, the alt-right targeting of left-wing art spaces, and more.
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Weekend Words: Oil
"Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Caetano Veloso’s ‘Tropical Truth’
Caetano Veloso is an aesthete, not a man of politics, but the times and his conscience lent a political valence to his aesthetic choices.
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With an Eye to Our Common Future
Some painters — following in the footsteps of Arthur Dove — offer us received images of transcendence. John Dilg isn’t one of them.
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Why Give a Name to It?
I liked Outside In because I found out what five artists whose works I have followed are doing these days.
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#DecolonizeThisPlace Pens an Open Letter to the Incoming Director of Artists Space
An open letter to the new director of Artists Space from the people involved in the Decolonize This Place residency.
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An Unsettling Room and Feeling Like You Belong
An unusual gallery installation in Manhattan raises questions about belonging.
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Katharina Wulff: Sachlichkeit in Marrakesh
Katharina Wulff grew up in East Berlin and moved to Marrakesh some fifteen years ago. Her work reflects her situation amid the elaborate, distinctly Islamic decoration that adorns traditional architecture in Morocco.
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A Gift to Be Simple: John McLaughlin's Paintings Pose Fundamental Questions
The beautiful large-scale retrospective of this major but often forgotten artist’s work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is a truly revelatory exhibition.
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Bill Scott’s Bittersweet Fictions
Bill Scott acknowledges that the Garden of Eden is a fiction, and yet he is willing to paint his versions of that place, not as a way to make that garden great again, but to insist that pleasure is a crucial ideal for survival.
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Another Hidden Chapter of ’70s Abstraction
The nine artists in 1970’s: 9 Women and Abstraction infuse their art with an unexpected warmth, humanity, and quirkiness that feel all the more invigorating when compared with the cerebral objectification prized by their male Minimalist counterparts.
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Reconstructing the Tattered History of a Fictional 19th-Century Family
Titus Kaphar's The Vesper Project is a complex, multimedia project that dissolves the boundary between reality and fiction.