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Andy Warhol's "Screen Tests" Inspire an Investigation into Criticism, Failure, and Time
Kate Zambreno's Screen Tests show us that all good criticism is about what it means to look, slowly and closely.
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A Modernist Sculptor Finds a Language in the Canadian Landscape
Murray’s sculpture develops a unique perspective, despite synthesizing many aspects and themes of contemporary sculpture emerging from New York in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Chantal Akerman's Painful Final Memoir
Almost four years after her death, My Mother Laughs, the last book by the pioneering director, has been translated into English.
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The Layered Nature of Artifice in a Book About a 16th-Century Naturalist
Insect Artifice is divided into two parts: one consisting of an intellectual biography of Joris Hoefnagel, and another, which analyzes Hoefnagel’s seminal work Four Elements, a compendium of the known animal world.
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A Chronicle of 100 Contemporary Artists Who Use Textiles
With artists spanning all corners of the globe, Vitamin T is a timely contribution to dismantling the division between art and craft.
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The Unreality of Everyday Life
What makes Ha Seong-nan's Flowers of Mold so powerful is her ability to reveal the almost imperceptible slippage between actual events and the protagonists' perceptions.
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Remembering Eva Palmer Sikelianos, the Artist Who Lived Like an Ancient Greek
An illuminating biography by Artemis Leontis reveals the little-known story of Eva’s mission to revive an ancient culture.
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A Murder Mystery Novel Satirizes the New York Art World
Barbara Bourland's gripping new novel Fake Like Me unfolds at the pace of a thriller but is steeped in contemporary art theory.
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Imagining the Architecture of Our Futures
Paul Dobraszczyk's Future Cities surveys the multitudinous ways creatives have imagined how humans might build their living spaces in the future.
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A Photographer Sees a Prophecy of Trump's America in Atlantic City
Brian Rose's Atlantic City connects what Trump did in that city as a businessman to what he's doing to the US as president.
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A Photographer Sees a Prophecy of Trump's America in Atlantic City
Brian Rose's Atlantic City connects what Trump did in that city as a businessman to what he's doing to the US as president.
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Geoffrey Hill's Darkly Luminous Poetry
Hill worked on The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin for several years before his death, planning no conclusion; the book would simply consist of as many sections as he had completed in his life.