Books
Reader’s Diary: ‘The Brexit Crisis’
The presses roll fast when there are no presses to roll.
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Books
America’s Philosopher Poet
The Swimmer is John Koethe’s tenth book of poetry. For many years, he was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee until he retired in 2010.
Art
The Other Side of History
One of the fascinating things about The Keeper, organized by Massimiliano Gioni, with Margot Norton, Natalie Bell, and Helga Christoffersen for the New Museum, is the sheer number of distinct collections they managed to include in a space that is not particularly hospitable to art.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Enrique Chagoya
I visited Enrique Chagoya in his Stanford University studio when classes were out for the summer. The bucolic fields outside the building were quiet, other than the rustling of tree branches, and a group of swallows and a hummingbird flying near the roof.
Music
World Music Doesn’t Exist: Aki Kumar, Lakuta, Metin Batur/Mamed Dzafarov, Choose Amore
There are critics out there made so uncomfortable by how foreign music is marketed to Western listeners, especially Europeans, that they’ve sworn off any sort of foreign style.
Books
Cosmic Wind: Yoshimasu Gozo’s 'Alice Iris Red Horse'
In 2003 I received an invitation to attend a reading by the poet Yoshimasu Gozo, someone I had never heard of. I asked around, and was told that Gozo was an avant-garde poet who read in a bygone oracular style.
Art
Roger Ricco, Artist, Has Something to Show You
Roger Ricco is an artist. He is also a steel-foundry worker’s son, a former rock-band promoter, and a co-founder and co-director, with Frank Maresca, of Ricco/Maresca, a well-known New York venue specializing in contemporary art by both schooled and self-taught artists
News
Work by Irving Penn and Other Teachers of the Famous Photographers School Emerges
In the 1950s and '60s, tens of thousands of students across the US were receiving an arts education by mail, through correspondence courses designed and distributed by the Famous Artists School on painting, illustration, and cartooning.
Art
A Dancer Carves a Queer Space in Classic Khmer Performance
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Prumsodun Ok deeply loves classical Khmer dance.
Art
The Weird, Wondrous, and Worldly Art Visions of LA
LOS ANGELES — What does it mean to be an LA artist? This is the question that curators Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker came up against when organizing the Hammer Museum’s third Los Angeles Biennial, Made in LA 2016.
Art
Dismantling the Myths of Sports
BERLIN — Today, more than ever, athletes are presented as role models.
Art
MFA Boston Publicly Conserves 18th-Century Buddhist Painting Masterpiece
Starting tomorrow, visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will have a rare opportunity to experience what usually occurs behind the scenes in conservation labs.