Books
Reader's Diary: Maurizio Lazzarato's ‘The Making of the Indebted Man’
Debt is the crux where economics and morality intersect.
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Art
Erotic and Abstract
I first became aware of Carole Seborovski’s work in the mid-1980s, when she was a geometric artist working on paper with a restrained palette.
Art
Deluxe Redux: 'Asia in Amsterdam' at the Peabody Essex
SALEM, Mass. — The Dutch East India Company wrested control of the Asian spice trade from the Spanish and Portuguese, went on to own virtually all of Indonesia, and monopolized trade with Japan for 200 years.
Art
What Isn't There: Audra Wolowiec’s Sounds, Scents, and Erasures
If the exquisitely mercurial art of Audra Wolowiec can be reduced to a single factor, it would be breath.
Art
An Expansive Exhibition Stars Hollywood and Contemporary Art
As Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, the Museum of the Moving Image's auspicious foray into exhibiting contemporary art, wryly suggests, it might be film and its iconic images that help stave off decay.
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A Century of Wild and Utopian Experiments with Self-Sustaining Worlds
Can a house sustain itself by eating its own tail?
Books
In His New Book, Daniel Clowes Explores Our Urge to Change the Past
Imagine confronting past versions of yourself — would you recognize your present self in them or feel completely alienated?
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The Penetrating Portraits of an Overlooked Photographer
TORONTO — Wendy Snyder MacNeil is as much a documentarian as she is an artist.
Books
Parsing Anselm Kiefer’s Digressive Notebooks
Anselm Kiefer bears a burdensome relationship to the written word.
Books
Marcel Broodthaers's Teeny-Tiny Atlas
The work of Marcel Broodthaers balances erudite postmodernism and a straightforwardness so literal that it borders on humorous.
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The Inca Rope Bridge That's Woven Across a River Each Year
WASHINGTON, DC — Each June in Huinchiri, Peru, four Quechua communities on two sides of a gorge join together to build a bridge out of grass, creating a form of ancient infrastructure that dates back at least five centuries to the Inca Empire.
Art
South African Artist Nails It with Sculptures Made from Thousands of Press-Ons
These works suggest the uneasy relationship between sex, power, and desire that is brought to the surface by performed femininity.