Art
Weekend Words: Dawn
"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
Weekend
Interview
Arto Lindsay Remembers Hélio Oiticica
The guitarist of the No Wave band DNA talks about the 1970s in Downtown New York and his friend Hélio Oiticica, whose retrospective is now at the Whitney Museum.
Books
Intertextual Depth in Susan Howe's Debths
These poems collage Paul Thek's art, 19th-century American literature, and a fairy tale to create a fresh understanding of the memory and soul.
Books
Will Alexander's Celebration of the Possible
Alexander’s poetry is swarming with information from a vast library — like the one lost in Alexandria — that he has absorbed into his bloodstream.
Art
The Dark Puppeteer
Vlad the Influencer has accomplished what decades of Soviet saber-rattling never could.
Books
In Venice, With That Sinking Feeling
The book Migropolis: Venice, edited by Wolfgang Scheppe, examines the migrant and tourist crises afflicting Italy’s fabled “water city.”
Books
The Blindness of Edgar Degas
His virulent belief system, which led him to cut off his Jewish friends in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair, is unredeemed by his art.
Art
Slippery Geometry and Beguiling Color
An exhibition of works by Gabriele Evertz and Sanford Wurmfeld demonstrates that color theory and painting can arrive at very different conclusions.
Art
Required Reading
This week, bus seat ridicule, rewatching The Apprentice, Dunkirk’s colonialism problem, the White House as West Wing, and the future of fake news.
Art
Weekend Words: Constitution
"We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution."
Books
Self-Immolator: Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Meadow Slasher
In in his new book of poems, Joshua Marie Wilkinson cuts, nicks, and rips the pastoral to achieve terrors both startling and beautiful.
Art
Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo Mourn the Fate of Immigrants
We are intent on poisoning the earth one way or another. Misrach is determined to document that poisoning without looking away, while Galindo wants to transform the results of that venom into a salve.