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Artworks as Portent and Balm
Two exhibitions by Patricia Satterlee have bookended the plague year.
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Books
The One Book You Need to Read Right Now Is About Canadian Colonialism
“Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being” by Amy Fung is a collection of linked personal essays about language, displacement, and ownership — about being both an “outsider” and an “intruder.”
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Painting the Family Dynamics of Toys and Food
Ulala Imai does more than project human feelings onto toys; she proposes that they represent us, and that we share some of their qualities.
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Giuseppe Ungaretti's Wartime Poems
Ungaretti should be numbered among the ranks of such Great War poets as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Isaac Rosenberg.
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Required Reading
This week, Hong Kong's culture scene is facing major challenges, an NFT "house" sells big, Ishmael Reed on Alice Walker, Woody Allen's manipulation, and more.
Art
Surrounded by Spirits
Izumi Kato’s exhibition at Perrotin dispatches us to long-forgotten realms of childhood, when the world was full of benign, sinister, weird, and mysterious beings.
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Halsey Hathaway’s Impure Abstractions
No matter how optical a color may become, our experience of it is — to state the obvious — visceral.
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Paintings Embedded With Echoes of War
Jane Irish’s work offers an archive of painterly traditions juxtaposed with horrific acts of violence driven by the moneyed class.
Books
A Conceptual Compendium of Conceptual Art
Flipping through Seth Siegelaub’s collection of writings and interviews is a bit like diving into an archive without a finding aid, as exhilarating as it is overwhelming.
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Poetry as the “Art of Thinking It Through”
The linguistic imagination of William Fuller’s new collection, Daybreak, takes the form of sustained odysseys between philosophical abstraction and the everyday concrete.
Art
Mira Dayal Maps a Gallery Floor
The graphite floor map can be understood as a post-apocalyptic landscape, a commentary on artistic labor, or a parable about COVID-era confinement.
Art
Required Reading
This week, the most Googled artists around the world, the Pentagon's role in Marvel movies, and more.