Art
The Land Art at Desert X Confronts Borders and Politics on Indigenous Territory
The second edition of Desert X is a manifesto for poetical activism, tangled between nature and urban development.
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See Films About Love in Time for Valentine's Day
BAM hosts a new film series, the first segment of which begins this week, with the theme of love.
Books
Marina Warner Lays the Groundwork for Dynamic Art Writing
A new anthology of erudite essays shines a light on how to address the artist's biography.
Announcement
A Three-Part Exhibition Explores Race, History, and Time at ICA Philadelphia Throughout 2019
Curated by Meg Onli, Colored People Time: Mundane Futures will be on view through March 31, 2019.
Books
A Look at the Auteur of Animation, Hayao Miyazaki
Susan Napier's Miyazaki World eloquently defines Hayao Miyazaki as an auteur who creates immersive animated realms.
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PAIN Sackler Storms Guggenheim and Metropolitan Museums for Financial Ties to Opioid Manufacturers
The drug policy advocates, led by photographer Nan Goldin, held a covert die-in at the Guggenheim, then marching to the Met to publicly protest on its steps.
Art
Required Reading
This week, world's first poet, reviewing Antinous: Boy Made God, Queens modernism, Octavia E. Butler on Pasadena, mile-high architecture, and more.
Books
A Poet's Symbolic Resignation
With The Resignation, poet Lonely Christopher shows his interest in "speeches that mean next to nothing."
Books
Ann Lauterbach Expands the Possibilities of Poetry
In an age dominated by literalism and an insistence on facts, what can the imagination summon into words?
Art
Brenda Goodman Moves into New Territory
Between 1994 and 2011, Goodman painted a series of self-portraits that constitute one of the most powerful and disturbing achievements of portraiture in modern art.
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Ancient Tools for a New Way of Seeing
This is what very good artists are supposed to do: use the past to bring about the present — in David Rabinowitch’s case, a visionary one.
Art
Lo-Fi Art for the Internet Age
Noh Sangho asks if the terms of eye-catching, short-lived virality were not so different in the 16th century as they are now.