Books
In case you were wondering, no, it was not by oversight that I didn’t bother to mention, when writing last week about Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter, the recent brouhaha about the violation of Ferrante’s privacy.
Art
For a poet who is notorious for writing opaque poems, a number of collages celebrate the youthful male body with an innocence that is touching, tender, and, frankly, poignant, and sweet.
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Although the poetry of William Butler Yeats is often misconstrued as autobiographical, the poet scorned such transparency, calling it “unimaginative” and comparing realism to “putting photographs in a plush frame.”
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For Night Room, David Guinn treated the two rooms in the gallery as different parts of the mind.
Art
Sometimes a single, simple pictorial device is all it takes to set your work apart.
Books
Gauguin’s art furthered the dematerialization of beauty that Proust discerned in Rembrandt's use of light by freeing color from form and drawing from realism.
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Samuel Levi Jones uses books to raise questions about how history is remade and repurposed for the present and future.
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Being among such a dizzying selection of uplifting stories, you cannot avoid the conclusion that America would not be what it is without all the people represented here.
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The centerpiece of Monica Cook's new exhibition at Postmasters Gallery is the stop-motion video "Milk Tooth," which brings to life a vivid and dystopian alternate world.
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A group exhibition at the Municipal Art Gallery in East Hollywood critically questions the infrastructure of democracy.
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Kai Althoff’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, and artifacts at the Museum of Modern Art provide questions rather than answers.
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The artwork at the BRIC Biennial mostly hinges on corporeal experience, on what it is to be a body.