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How Alexander Calder Made Modern Art Move
In the second volume of a definitive biography, the art critic Jed Perl recalls how the innovative artist revolutionized sculpture.
Alfred A. Knopf
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The 1980s in New York
New books by Ingrid Sischy and Gary Indiana expand our understanding of a crucial decade.
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Reader’s Diary: Caetano Veloso’s ‘Tropical Truth’
Caetano Veloso is an aesthete, not a man of politics, but the times and his conscience lent a political valence to his aesthetic choices.
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Reader’s Diary: Kevin Young's ‘Jelly Roll’
So many poets out there.