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This week, American adulthood, women in comics, dealer/collector mistrust, artists expecting more from dealers, NYC etiquette, Fatih Akin's new genocide film, bad ledes, distorting the Renaissance, and more.
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Weekend Words: Apple
While all eyes were on Apple's Watch, CEO Tim Cook wrote an open letter which, according to CNET, “sought to reassure Apple's customers that their data was safe from the prying eyes of government surveillance agencies, which have reportedly procured information on electronic communications from Goog
Books
The Collagist’s Hand: Afton Wilky’s "Textureechoes"
To immediately grasp the innovative nature of Afton Wilky’s debut volume Clarity Speaks of a Crystal Sea and to begin to appreciate its exploration of language’s materialities and its playful stretching of the conventions of the codex form, one need only consider its front cover.
Art
Harriet Korman’s Chromatic and Linear Improvisations
The key to Harriet Korman’s work is drawing. However, until this exhibition, Harriet Korman: Line or Edge, Line or Color, New Paintings and Drawings, at Lennon, Weinberg she has tended to show only a few drawings at a time.
Art
In London, Showcases for Self-Taught Artists’ Works
LONDON — Back in the 1970s, England, the home of such pioneering researchers in the outsider art field as Roger Cardinal and the late Victor Musgrave, played a significant role in calling attention to a subfield which, at that time, was still emerging within the art world’s international terrain.
Music
Keep Brooklyn Weird
Parquet Courts have been compared to Wire, Television, the Velvet Underground, the Modern Lovers, Sonic Youth, the Feelies, the Fall, Minor Threat, Flipper, Guided by Voices, Archers of Loaf, Silkworm, of course Pavement, and I could go on.
Art
Memory and Regret: Jenny Holzer’s “Dust Paintings”
Is an exhibition ever too beautiful for its own good? Jenny Holzer’s new show at Cheim & Read, Dust Paintings, is ravishing. But the sensuality of these text-based abstractions, done in oil on linen in mostly muted colors, runs counter to their content, which is derived from declassified government
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Annika Larsson's Bodies Politic
ROME — In Annika Larsson's Introduction at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), the recent political unrest in Europe is cast between the historical and the personal, with two video works accompanying a vast arrangement of printed matter.
Art
Seeing New York for the First Time
Photographer Nana Kofi Acquah hails from Ghana and arrived in New York this week to participate in Instagram's first-ever exhibition at Photoville.
News
Brooklyn Book Festival Participants Sign Petition Denouncing Israeli Government Funding
In response to the Israeli consulate's sponsorship of a panel discussion at the Brooklyn Book Festival, Adalah-NY has released an open letter and petition denouncing the funding as a violation of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Art
Past, Present, and Future Feminism
One of the most important tools for helping feminism reach a wide audience in the 1960s and '70s was the consciousness-raising (CR) group.
Interview
Images of Blindness in a Sighted World
Photographer Gaia Squarci's Broken Screen series poignantly examines the implications of the blind man’s sign, deconstructing what it means to be visually impaired in a sighted world.