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The Modernist Poet Who Took on Colonialism
Since Aimé Césaire’s death in 2008 at the age of 94, as democracies devolve into autocracies, his Discourse on Colonialism remains prescient about the barbarity that informs civilization.
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Don Mee Choi’s Language of History
Just as collage artists might paste a scrap of newsprint or a piece of rattan chair-bottom to their canvas, documentary poets form their poetic work from public records, firsthand accounts, and newspaper reports.
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An Illustrated Children’s Book on the Pandemic and Our Environmental Future
Tom and Bee Rivett-Carnac's "What Happened When We All Stopped," which urges us to choose our environmental decisions wisely, came to life in an animation narrated by Jane Goodall.
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Keith Haring’s Lines of Desire
With his recent book, Ricardo Montez complicates notions of collaboration, refusing clean conclusions about Haring’s work and relationships.
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The Last of the Storytellers
In his fiction, Nikolai Leskov writes as if he is overhearing the stories being told.
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Victor Burgin’s Unclassifiable Take on the Passages of Art and Life
The artist's landmark experimental text, Between, now reissued, remains one of a kind more than three decades after its publication.
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“We Are Advocating for Us”: A New Book Centers BIPOC Artists and Educators
Jasmin Hernandez, author of We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World, says her work is all about collective effort.
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Fernando Pessoa and His Fictional Coterie of Poets
The Portuguese author concealed his identity behind aliases, or what he called heteronyms, who served as guides to living.
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Dan Hicks on the Benin Bronzes and Ultraviolence of World Culture Museums
"The Brutish Museums" considers the histories of cruelty that western museums perpetuate when they do not endeavor to return looted colonial artifacts.
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M. Sharkey’s Luminous Photos of Queer Kids in the US
The light in Sharkey’s images doesn’t so much cover his subjects but illuminates them from within.
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In a New Book About Unions and Financial Capitalism, Lessons for the Arts
"Unions Renewed" explores the changing role of organized labor under financial capitalism. It maps meaningfully onto the arts.
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Writing from Another World
Eric Baus’s sentences follow the rules of grammar, but something inexplicable happens by the time you reach the end.