Film
In Sound of Metal, There Are No Small Sufferings
Darius Marder’s Oscar-nominated film is less about the Deaf community than about the process of losing a sense inextricably tied to one’s identity.
Weekend
Books
Joan Mitchell, More Like a Poet
Curators and scholars have increasingly highlighted the importance of poetry to Mitchell's art, though usually with so much circumspection that the link still remains obscure.
In Brief
Required Reading
This week, Mister Rogers's cardigans, the myth of Noblesse Oblige, inequity at a LA museum, digital media's issues, and more.
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Mernet Larsen
“Rather than being attracted to artists because of their skills or sensitivity, I was always more interested in ideas and imagination.”
Art
Matt Bollinger’s Working-Class Elegy
Bollinger is a major artist chronicling a substantial sector of American life.
Art
Beverly Pepper’s Monumental Legacy
I had questions for Pepper, but I arrived too late.
Art
Cordy Ryman’s Stubborn Joy
Ryman’s sculpture embodies DIY aesthetics raised to a high level of sophistication while remaining modest and self-effacing.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“It still seems difficult to imagine a world that isn’t equal parts awful and terrifying.”
Books
Stories of Memory, Loss, and Paranoia
In Dorthe Nors’s minimalist fiction, other people are both an opportunity and a threat.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the first-ever NFT and lost promise, a Cree-based programming language, a 16-year-old architecture critic, Queen Victoria's drug habits, and more.
Art
Required Reading
Today, NFT legal issues, looking closely at Bosch, talking to Beeple, Ken Burns on documentaries, superhero pay, and more.
Art
So Much Achieved by One Artist in So Little Time
The Belgian artist Ilse D’Hollander rejected abstraction and figuration as an either/or premise in favor of a path that embraced both.