Books
Reader’s Diary: Liam Gillick's ‘Industry and Intelligence’
Is Liam Gillick a writer?
Review
Books
A Poetics of Being: Charles Olson Reconsidered
In Letters for Olson, the reader is reminded repeatedly that the intellectual projects of Charles Olson and his students were aspects of a larger cultural transformation, which began in the 1940s and continued into the early ’70s.
Art
Original Translations
Diane Simpson’s sculptures, which are made from planes she cuts and scores when she wants to curve them, always begin with a drawing.
Art
“Neither Flesh nor Fleshless”
What’s great about Rothko’s paintings is their refutation of language, the way they push back against conclusions.
Art
Origins of Originality: 'Matisse/Diebenkorn' at the Baltimore Museum of Art
At the core of this show is a conversation in paint about influence and individuality.
Art
Agnes Martin’s Contemporary Sublime
This uninterrupted stroll through nearly six decades of work reminds one of how few other artists from her generation sustained such long, capable, trajectories in art-making.
Books
American Drift: Becca Klaver’s Empire Wasted
Divided into five sections that could function as stand alone chapbooks, Empire Wasted opens with a nod to Andy Warhol.
Art
Daniel Boccato: Sculpture in a Crowded Field
In a savvy move, Daniel Boccato has latched onto a currently popular color-and-shape-based aesthetic and taken it to a material extreme.
Art
The Twilight States of Jonathan Meese
Since the early 2000s, Jonathan Meese, who is based in Hamburg and Berlin, has cultivated a persona as a propagandist for what he calls the Dictatorship of Art
Art
In Miami's Little Haiti, a Fair Spotlights Artists of the African Diaspora
For its fourth edition, the Prizm Art Fair has relocated to Little Haiti and maintained its focus on artists of the African Diaspora in two special exhibitions and its eclectic main show.
Art
Painting According to Art Basel Miami Beach
At Art Basel Miami Beach, if you only look at the art, it’s an affair worth the trip, because if you want to see the newest art made in Saint Petersburg, Vienna, Barcelona, or Berlin, it’s here.
Art
Miami Beach's Satellite Art Fair Draws the Interactive into Its Orbit
Miami Beach’s Satellite art fair is not a release from an inundation of art — but perhaps it’s a reminder of why you like it in the first place.