Interview
Hanif Abdurraqib on Black Performance and the Joy of Writing his New Book
The poet talks to Hyperallergic about A Little Devil in America and the process behind his new music podcast, Object of Sound.
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New Hokusai Graphic Biography Shares Stories from His Extraordinary Life
At the age of 44, Hokusai took on an amazing challenge: a giant portrait of the founder of Zen Buddhism.
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Analyzing the Biases of Western Art History With Hard Data
Careful and yet compellingly fresh in its approach, Painting by Numbers offers a new kind of methods book.
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The One Book You Need to Read Right Now Is About Canadian Colonialism
“Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being” by Amy Fung is a collection of linked personal essays about language, displacement, and ownership — about being both an “outsider” and an “intruder.”
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Giuseppe Ungaretti's Wartime Poems
Ungaretti should be numbered among the ranks of such Great War poets as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Isaac Rosenberg.
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JEB’s Groundbreaking Book of Lesbian Portraits Gets a Second Edition
First published in 1979, Eye to Eye is a work of social practice art that existed decades before the term entered the lexicon.
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New Map Unearths New York’s Oldest and Rarest Trees
Part botanical history, part social history, Allison C. Meier’s map provides a welcome alternative route through New York’s urban jungle.
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New Helen Frankenthaler Biography Favors Nostalgia Over Artist’s Interiority
In Fierce Poise, the paternalistic attitude toward Frankenthaler undermines both the author’s gifts and the artist’s.
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100 Women Street Photographers Freeze the Exquisitely Mundane
A new book compiles unstaged public photographs by 100 artists of all ages, hailing from 31 countries spanning Ghana to Iran.
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A Conceptual Compendium of Conceptual Art
Flipping through Seth Siegelaub’s collection of writings and interviews is a bit like diving into an archive without a finding aid, as exhilarating as it is overwhelming.
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Poetry as the “Art of Thinking It Through”
The linguistic imagination of William Fuller’s new collection, Daybreak, takes the form of sustained odysseys between philosophical abstraction and the everyday concrete.
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“They Feel Like a Time Capsule”: Portraits of New York Commuters, Pre-Pandemic
David Rothenberg photographed passersby between 2019 and March 2020 at a subway station in Jackson Heights, Queens.