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Required Reading
This week, Pink Floyd calls Trump a pig, the problem with the Met Gala, working with Barkley L. Hendricks, an indigenous curator's view of the Venice Biennale, reviewing Vanessa Bell, and more.
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Weekend Words: Paris
"With an apple I will astonish Paris."
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Behind the Masquerade of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier
If asked to choose an opera in the category of “most satisfying,” I would choose Richard Strauss’s brilliant Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose, 1911).
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Blaise Cendrars: A Poet for the Twenty-First Century
Cendrars was, beyond all questions, the pioneer of poetic modernism.
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Anne Harvey’s Strange Painting of Tulips
Anne Harvey’s life — the first half of it, at least — reads like a fairy tale.
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Flora Crockett Should No Longer Be Written Out of History
The question is: who is Flora Crockett?
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Roy De Forest’s Search for Paradise Did Not Always Go Well
De Forest is part of a group of artists working in Northern California in the late 1950s who rejected New York and what they regarded as mainstream art and thinking. This group included Joan Brown, Jay De Feo, Bruce Conner, William T. Wiley, Jess, Wally Hedrick, and others.
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The Stones Are Burning
The waves were slow, but persistent, giving us ample time to prepare for extinction.
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Going to Hell in Berlin, with Lu Yang
Lu Yang's installations and videos hyperbolize the morass of narcissism, identity-loss, fantasy, and fetish that comprises our relationship to synthetic experience.
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An Eye for Words: Concrete Poets at the Getty
Concrete Poetry focuses on the purists of the movement, particularly the Brazilian Augusto de Campos, the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, and the Austrian poet Ernst Jandl.
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Now and Then: The Rediscovery of Flora Mayo
If I could, I would give this layered, richly human (and often tear-inducing) work my own private Golden Lion, inventing a new category: Best and Most Meaningful Work in the Exhibition.
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John D. Graham and "Another Way of Making Modern Art”
Digging deeply into his own psyche, Graham was able to cast off the pastiche of styles that had been crowding his mind’s eye, and follow his own peculiar path.