Opinion
Weekend Words: Paper
A new exhibition at the Grolier Club in Manhattan celebrates 500 years of the paperback book with a tribute to the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius (1455–1515), who was the first to create books in a portable format.
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Poetry
Dread States: Samuel Beckett's Poems
Confronting the new volume of The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett of nearly 500 pages in length, one might be tempted to proclaim — as many have of Beckett’s mentor, James Joyce — that his best poetry appeared in his fiction and, in Beckett’s case alone, in his dramatic works.
Poetry
This Is Not a Book Review of 'Model City' by Donna Stonecipher
I want to begin by stating this is not a review of a Model City, a book of poems that I recently read. The author is Donna Stonecipher, an American poet and translator who has lived in Berlin for some years.
Music
Physical Spiky Funk
Put on the new D’Angelo album and you’ll discover fifty-six minutes of music completely hidden behind a veil of static.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Gregory Botts
I have known Gregory Botts for about twenty years. Early on, I remember being captivated by the guerilla action he and his wife, fellow painter Jenny Hankwitz, took in the early 1990s: planting sunflowers in the meridian of Houston Street in SoHo.
Art
Quickly Aging Here: The 2015 Triennial
After six years and three installments, is the New Museum’s Triennial entering middle age? An odd question for an exhibition devoted to “early-career artists,” as the museum’s press release describes them.
Community
A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — Artist studios in Annapolis, Boston, Inglewood, San Diego, and Kennewick.
Art
Dining with Contemporary Artists and Designers
What does your favorite artist like to eat for dinner?
News
The Many Lives of Leonard Nimoy: Artist, Collector, Vulcan
Leonard Nimoy, the actor whose name and face were synonymous with Star Trek's Spock, died this morning at the age of 83.
Art
The Intimate Duality of Human Behavior
HUDSON, New York — Surrounded by Thomas Micchelli's works in the John Davis Gallery yesterday, with my back to the gallery's back wall, I became transfixed by two paintings that throbbed with a rich purple that glowed as if lit by the winter dusk.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: The Barnes discovers two new Cézannes, the US returns a stolen Picasso to France, and a professional basketball team drops $8 million on a Koons.
Opinion
The Philosophical Anxiety Behind #TheDress Controversy
The dress controversy is compelling because it touches, however unsophisticatedly, on some of the oldest and most difficult questions in philosophy of mind.