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The 1980s in New York
New books by Ingrid Sischy and Gary Indiana expand our understanding of a crucial decade.
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Politicize Your Bookshelf with Colorful, Codified Stickers
Shelf Life, a take-home exercise, makes you think more deeply about the paradigms you might be absorbing, perhaps unconsciously, from your own book collection.
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The Early History of Women in the Digital Arts
New Media Futures is poised to become a valuable study tool for those interested in the intersection between art, women artists, and technology.
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Gary Indiana's Helter-Skelter Prose Experiments
In the 1980s I religiously read Indiana's weekly, polemical Voice dispatches in which he described the ills of US society from the point of view of an energetic, radical, gay critic absent art bona fides.
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A Poet’s Heartfelt Biography of Cy Twombly
Joshua Rivkin, a poet himself, passionately admires Twombly’s art and feels compelled to understand the man who made it.
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A Potent, Personal Comic on Women’s Work and Anger
In This Woman's Work, Julie Delporte reflects on the limitations of being a woman.
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Nerd Out with This Encyclopedia of Architects’ Scale Figures
The encyclopedia, which considers architecture's relationship to people, includes some 1,000 images of figures produced by more than 250 architects.
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Marina Warner Lays the Groundwork for Dynamic Art Writing
A new anthology of erudite essays shines a light on how to address the artist's biography.
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A Look at the Auteur of Animation, Hayao Miyazaki
Susan Napier's Miyazaki World eloquently defines Hayao Miyazaki as an auteur who creates immersive animated realms.
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A Poet's Symbolic Resignation
With The Resignation, poet Lonely Christopher shows his interest in "speeches that mean next to nothing."
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Ann Lauterbach Expands the Possibilities of Poetry
In an age dominated by literalism and an insistence on facts, what can the imagination summon into words?
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Paul J. Sachs Trained a Generation of American Museum Leaders, Including Alfred Barr
Between 1921 and 1948, Sachs taught a year-long graduate class at the Fogg Art Museum “that decisively shaped the development, character, and ethos of the American art museum.”