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Justine Kurland's Female Utopia
In Girl Pictures, the photographer presents a seductive fantasy of a world in which being a young woman is not cause for fear but a source of boundless freedom.
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Buckminster Fuller's Delightfully Idiosyncratic Recipes
Re-issued on the 125th anniversary of his birth, Synergetic Stew is a document of a magical life of heady science matched only by Fuller’s penchant for “light, wild things.”
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Making the Case for Debt Abolition
Saddled with student loan debt? Now might be a good time to pick up the Debt Collective’s Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay, which makes a compelling case for “economic disobedience.”
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Using Language to Investigate Whiteness
In Wite Out Linda Norton seeks the words to envision relationships not shaped by hundreds of years of white supremacy.
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The End of Art History
Writing a global art history demands that we give up historical thinking.
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A Pocket Guide to Women Artists Overlooked by History
Concise, pithy, and accessible, Susie Hodge’s The Short Story of Women Artists introduces readers to artists forgotten and obscured, many of whom are now rightly being reassessed.
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The Shadow of Chernobyl
Darmon Richter ventured to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to record the remnants of one of the world’s most serious nuclear disasters.
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A Comic Tells the Rebellious, Messy Lives of Teenagers
Ancco, who became famous for her diary-like webcomics, has published a collection of stories that ripple through domestic violence, social oppression, and rebellion.
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This Satire of Sports, Activism, and Policing Might Make You Laugh and Cry
Set in the aftermath of a Super Bowl victory, Ben Passmore’s Sports is Hell spotlights human folly, displaying the US at its worst and most ridiculous.
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Yayoi Kusama Gets Her First Graphic Novel Biography
In this excerpt of Kusama: The Graphic Novel, illustrator Elisa Macellari time travels to Kusama’s life in 1960s New York City, when the artist became “the high priestess of love and pacifism.”
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The Life of an Anti-Establishment “Rock Star”
In a first-ever biography of the recently deceased, Polish-born sociologist and theorist, there are lessons for creative people — and everyone else — about perseverance and personal truth.
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New Art Books for the New Season
An autumnal offering of Artemisia Gentileschi, Dorothea Tanning, Henri Matisse, and Guston galore, among much, much else.