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# Required Reading
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/required-reading-32/
- Published: 2011-10-17T00:03:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:35:15.000Z
- Description: This week is a grab bag of reviews, video clips, profiles and historic finds.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Christopher Knight, Jeffrey Deitch, John Baldessari, Lisa Yuskavage, Moby Dick, Required Reading, Willem de Kooning, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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The athelete's from the US pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale speak (via imamuseum.org/blog)

This week is a grab bag of reviews, video clips, profiles and historic finds.

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 The *Times Literary Supplement* has a [review](http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article781051.ece?ref=hyperallergic.com) of Wendy Steiner’s The Real Real Thing that looks at the nature of realism and this thought-provoking line:

> Today’s aesthetic controversies seem to turn specifically on the issues of truth-telling and the ethical treatment of the real in art.

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 The *LA Times* has posted a number of interesting short video clips with LA-based artist John Baldessari, including one where he [talks about street art and graffiti](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/10/john-baldessari-thoughts-on-street-art-video.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) and another where [he explains](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/10/john-baldessari-money-and-art-video.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) how the LA scene has changed.

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 A new illustrated version of Moby Dick, [according to The Rumpus](http://therumpus.net/2011/10/moby-dick-illustrated-and-interpreted/?ref=hyperallergic.com#more-88534), “makes it relevant again.”

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 Margaret Atwood [writes](http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/10/15/margaret-atwood-how-a-love-of-comics-started-a-love-of-reading/?ref=hyperallergic.com) about how a love a comic books developed into a love of reading.

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*Smithsonian Magazine* has an [extensive feature](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Willem-de-Kooning-Still-Dazzles.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) on Willem de Kooning, who they say “still dazzles.”

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[Famous gadget wars](http://www.mint.com/blog/trends/famous-gadget-wars-of-the-past-present-10201/?display=wide&ref=hyperallergic.com) of the past and present: VHS vs. Betamax, Nook vs. Kindle, Zune vs. iPod …

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 Christopher Knight thinks [Jeffrey Deitch pimped out MoCA too cheap](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/10/critics-notebook-moca-shills-for-christies.html?ref=hyperallergic.com).

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 A [classic clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWJuqLZeTGI&ref=hyperallergic.com) of Canadian painter Alex Colville describing the motivation behind some of his most well-known images.

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 The Kalm Reports [visits the new Lisa Yuskavage show](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFfOR7Cwu4s&ref=hyperallergic.com) at David Zwirner.

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 A mysterious [WWII photo album of 214 images](http://swanngalleriesinc.blogspot.com/2011/10/franz-krieger-wwii-album-that-became.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) that feature, among other things, Nazi solders en route to Minsk (the site of a concentration camp), political prisoners of war, a Jewish prisoner wearing a Star of David, and Hitler arriving at Marienurg, is up for auction in New York.

[*Required Reading*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/required-reading/) *is published every Sunday morning-ish, and it is comprised of a short list of art-related links (10 or less) to long-form articles, videos, blog posts or photo essays worth a second look.*