Art
Etel Adnan’s Vibrant, Visual Poems
LONDON — “Colorists are epic poets,” said Charles Baudelaire, and here at the Serpentine Gallery we have both: a painter of abstract landscapes and a poet, not to mention activist, scribe, and filmmaker.
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The Divine Messages of a Victorian Spiritualist’s Drawings
LONDON — Frenetic spirals of color and swirling sinuous lines characterize the disembodied ink and watercolor works by Georgiana Houghton, currently on show at the Courtauld Gallery.
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The Prescient Work of an Artist Killed on 9/11
The Michael Richards exhibition on Governors Island, curated by Alex Fialho and Melissa Levin, proves what an astonishing loss it was when the artist was killed on 9/11.
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Hieronymus Bosch’s Worlds that Could Have Been
MADRID — Commemorating the fifth centenary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch, Madrid's El Museo del Prado has arranged an exhibition that, according to its catalogue, displays "the greatest number of Bosch’s works ever to be assembled."
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Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a school wall in cheap, bright acrylics.
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The Brutality of Little Bighorn, as Seen by Someone Who Was There
TULSA, Okla. — Decades after the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, Stephen Standing Bear, who participated in the tumultuous engagement, recalled its chaos: "I could see Indians charging all around me. Then I could see the soldiers and Indians all mixed up and there were so many guns going off that
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Women Do Run This Thing
We Run Things at the Y Gallery, featuring the artists Mie Olise, Manuela Viera-Gallo, and Summer Wheat, is an excellent show.
Books
Reader’s Diary: Fred Dewey’s ‘From an Apparent Contradiction in Arendt’
Hannah Arendt, an untimely, unassimilable figure, looms ever larger in the life of thought.
Books
The Good Life
We want things to be simple, but we know they aren’t, probably never were, and chances are will get only more messy with time. What’s a young poet to do, but try and take some control?
Art
The Party We Are All Invited To
Jessica Stockholder lives in a contingent domain, which means it is very much like the one where most of us live.
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Disconnected Realities: The Art of David Barnett
Perhaps it was the joy of seeing contemporary art that could have fit comfortably within the Dadaglobe Reconstructed exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, that opened my eyes so widely to Barnett's magic.
Music
Prince's 'Sign o’ the Times,' Part II (The Law of Genre)
Since genre is a perceived, externally imposed category rather than an intrinsic musical element, the job of assigning genre usually falls to the critic.