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This week, criticizing Ai Weiwei, the FBI is tracking your Google searches, history of Pong, Hirst is a joke, the Paris art "underground," and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Bigness
With the announcement this week that Christo plans to build the world's largest sculpture, “The Mastaba of Abu Dhabi," at 492 feet high with a base measuring 984 by 738 feet, Weekend Words turns to bigness.
Poetry
At Play in the Fields of Language: The Poetry of Cathy Park Hong (Part Two)
Engine Empire (2012) is divided into three discrete sections or, perhaps more accurately, three self-sustaining worlds, each with its own invented languages. In each section Hong utilizes radical forms and devices — a list, an abededarian, a lipogram — to propel her poems out of the lyric torpor so
Art
After the Fall of Troy: The Paintings of Pieter Schoolwerth
Pieter Schoolwerth’s recent exhibition After Troy (November 9–December 22, 2012) builds upon his previous show, tellingly titled Portraits of Paintings, at Miguel Abreu Gallery. Schoolwerth continues to address the question of what can be done after the death of painting by someone who loves to pain
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Beware the Tragic Sublime
My first exposure to Eugène Leroy’s (1910–2000) work goes back to 1973: a small group in just as small a storefront in an eighteenth-century Flemish baroque-style building close to the historical center of Lille, a city on the French/Belgian border. I only went to see the show — mostly Flemish regio
Poetry
At Play in The Fields of Language: The Poetry of Cathy Park Hong (Part One )
The argument between lyric poetry (that is poetry that arises from the poet’s voice (the “I”) or what Robert Grenier characterized as “SPEECH”) and text (the primacy of the written or printed word) is becoming an increasingly obsolete opposition. Globalism and immigration (or migration) – in the for
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Art for the Hell of It: The Sinister Side of Pop
Maybe the Whitney Museum’s exhibition Sinister Pop should be titled Discarding Pop. And by that I mean Pop as a label that implies a common mindset rather than a common set of tools.
Art
MoMA Breaks for Recess
I have to be honest: as a child, I wasn't a big fan of recess. All is well and good when you're running around the dodge ball court — until someone gets pegged in the face. Don't get me wrong, I've always been a big fan of capture the flag, and who doesn't love a little fresh air, but that shit can
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Reenacting History through Artistic Performance
CHICAGO — All over the United States, groups of people (usually men) get together a few times a year or more to reenact great battles from history. The US Civil War is popular, of course, but according to Charlie Schroeder’s memoir Man of War: My Adventures in the World of Historical Re-Enactment, t
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Why Slate's Takedown of the Art World Is Totally Wrong
As a longtime reader and admirer of Slate, I've often lamented the fact that there's pretty much zero visual art content on the site (although, to be fair, they're only one of a handful of culture publications that ignores the category, and their new photo blog is great). So I was excited when I saw