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A Trans Activist's Memoir Is a Monumental Contribution to Queer History
Lou Sullivan’s diaries, spanning 1961 to 1991, might be one of the most valuable affirmations one can read on the trans masculine experience to date.
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Visceral Drawings From Antonin Artaud’s Final Years
Spanning a period of more than 20 years, the works in Antonin Artaud: Drawings and Portraits are a devastating record of a soul lashing out and grasping at the page.
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“Why Is Television Dumb?” and Other Musings by Nam June Paik
In the recently published collection We Are in Open Circuits, Paik's prescient critiques of image consumption suggest he probably would’ve been great at Twitter.
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Twenty Years of Peter Schjeldahl
Schjeldhal moves quickly to characterize an artist, like a cat pouncing on his prey.
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A Novel Set in the Berlin of the Future Pokes Fun at the Creative Class
Elvia Wilk combines satire, dystopia, sci-fi, and millennial ennui all in one book.
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Photos of 1968 California Show a Surreal Way of Life
Dennis Stock’s California is that of an outsider, shooting the most obvious aspects of West Coast life against the diverse, strange, and fascinating backdrop of the late 1960s.
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The Little Magazines Behind Avant-Garde Art and Literature
These magazines often served as laboratories for thought experiments, and were crucial to the creative and political development of many artists.
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In Search of the Unique at Printed Matter’s 2019 NY Art Book Fair
Despite the overwhelming number of independent presses, it was challenging to find the books and zines that couldn't easily be seen elsewhere, say on Amazon or in gallery bookshops.
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The Aesthetics of Ugliness
At what point does an image become objectionable?
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A Memoir of Art, Love, and Jamaica
The artist Judy Ann MacMillan examines changes in her understanding of herself, the world, and painting against the backdrop of Jamaica’s challenging emergence as a modern, independent nation.
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Shining a Black Light on Art Forgery
María Gainza's novel dives into art-world forgery and false identities amid Argentina's politics of the 1960s.
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How Surrealism’s Playful Aesthetic Was Deeply Political
The Surrealists’ insistence on irrationality was not a sport, but an attempt to engage in the political debates of their time.