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The Mind Games We Play
I spend a lot of energy trying to outsmart my brain.
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Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the new African American museum, the troubles of nonprofit workers, Norton Museum's Cranach diptych, the Qatari art scene, colonial nostalgia, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Soft
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Frank Lima's ‘Incidents of Travel in Poetry’
“There are several Puerto / Ricans on the avenue today, which / makes it beautiful and warm,” wrote Frank O’Hara in “A Step Away from Them.” It was 1956, the day after Jackson Pollock’s funeral.
Books
Foreign Sounds or Sounds Foreign
Brandon Som’s first book of poems, The Tribute Horse, won the 2012 Nightboat Poetry Prize.
Art
Is It a Trojan Horse?
In 1989, after a protracted litigation, a jury of five voted four to one in favor of removing Richard Serra’s “Tilted Arc” (1981) from Federal Plaza in Manhattan, where it had stood for nearly a decade.
Art
Seymour Krim to William Saroyan: A Letter
You're surrounded by jerks, ass-kissers, sycophants.
Books
The Poetics of Embodiment: Elaine Kahn's 'Women in Public'
The poems in Elaine Kahn’s Women in Public are highly self-aware. They’re porous, riven with gaps and fragmentation; at the same time, they’re unquestionably "lyrical" in their concision and fluidity
Art
How Do You Say Goodbye to a Painting?
Titian’s “The Flaying of Marsyas” is among the most celebrated and disturbing images the Venetian master ever painted.
Art
Decoding Public Art in City Hall Park
Between the four speakers of Chris Watson's "Ring Angels," the fluttering of a thousand wings fills a corner of City Hall Park.
Music
In His New Trio of Releases, Frank Ocean Crafts a Mortal Self-Image
At a time when we swipe through thousands of images a day and cruise through thousands of paintings in an hour at an art fair, it's only the rarest of artworks that we return to again and again.
Art
The Second Coming of Betty Tompkins
LOS ANGELES — Sweetie. Pushy Broad. Sheela Na Gig. Queen. Sapphic Poon Hustler. These are just a few of the thousand or so terms used to describe women featured in Betty Tompkins’s sprawling painting installation, WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories on view at Gavlak Gallery in Hollywood — it is her f