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The Silly, Sexy, and Serious Wigs That Made History
"The Wig: A Hairbrained History" explores the wig as a tool for gender bending, seduction, and disguise in a collection of fanciful short essays.
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Reynaldo Rivera's Photographs of a Los Angeles That No Longer Exists
In the 1980s and ’90s, Rivera photographed drag performers in Latinx gay bars, house parties in pre-gentrified Echo Park, and performers like Sade, Vaginal Davis, and Chaka Khan.
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Only Poetry Can Interrogate Sex
Language caresses the tongue.
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Poems of Spiritual Quest and Musical Yearning
Joseph Donahue's verse is rarely melodramatic, but rather humane and temperate, even when the insights are startling.
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Poking Fun at Art History, Amy Sillman Makes a Case for Awkwardness
A collection of relatable but often erudite texts, Sillman’s Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings muses on the unwieldy question of painting’s status in a world preoccupied with bigger problems.
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Some of the Best Art Books of 2020
Abstractions, illusions, DIY concoctions, museums touting their collections, and other holiday confections.
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A Poet Who Wrote the Way Abstract Expressionists Painted
Barbara Guest stands apart as a radical traditionalist, committed to poetry’s clairvoyant, mythical potentials.
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30 Years of the Guerrilla Girls’ Art and Advocacy
As the old saying goes, “If you can’t beat ’em, put on a Halloween mask and publicly indict their terrible record of human rights infractions.”
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres's Photostats Document Subjugation and Violence
The artist stretched constructs of authority and authorship to impel the viewer's awareness and participation.
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The Best Books of 2020, According to the New York Public Library
The library released its anticipated lists of the year’s best titles, including books for teens, kids, adults, and poetry.
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Yayoi Kusama’s Self-Portrait as a Young Provocateur
Kusama: The Graphic Novel is an ode to the power of art, which, on multiple occasions, saved her.
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Poems About the Business of Being a Poet
Kent Johnson skewers the silliness of the swarming poetry world.