Art
Going to Hell in Berlin, with Lu Yang
Lu Yang's installations and videos hyperbolize the morass of narcissism, identity-loss, fantasy, and fetish that comprises our relationship to synthetic experience.
Weekend
Art
An Eye for Words: Concrete Poets at the Getty
Concrete Poetry focuses on the purists of the movement, particularly the Brazilian Augusto de Campos, the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, and the Austrian poet Ernst Jandl.
Art
Now and Then: The Rediscovery of Flora Mayo
If I could, I would give this layered, richly human (and often tear-inducing) work my own private Golden Lion, inventing a new category: Best and Most Meaningful Work in the Exhibition.
Art
John D. Graham and "Another Way of Making Modern Art”
Digging deeply into his own psyche, Graham was able to cast off the pastiche of styles that had been crowding his mind’s eye, and follow his own peculiar path.
Art
Required Reading
This week, South Korea's HighLine, the new Marciano Art Foundation in LA, gentrifying African art, chemtrail conspiracy theorists, peak latte, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Violin
"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."
Books
The Uncanny Body: Jennifer Firestone's Gates and Fields
At its center, the book offers the refusal to accept an already-formulated understanding of loss that lies at the heart of the experience of grief.
Books
Julio Cortázar's Literature Class
Circumscribing his goals and ambitions, Cortázar says that “in the present day, what matters is not to be a writer from Latin America but to be, above all, a Latin American writer.”
Art
Florine Stettheimer’s Vision of Equality
Stettheimer was born into a wealthy, financially secure Jewish family, and she never had to work. For some people, her wealth means that she did not suffer enough to be an artist, and therefore her work does not have enough gravity.
Art
Demolition Detail
The presence of a mattress and the trauma of displacement.
Art
The Future Is (Still) Female: Feminist Art for the 21st Century
The Future Is Female focuses primarily on the work of women artists who came of age after the Women’s Art Movement.
Music
Twelve Reasons Why the Chainsmokers Are Failing at Love
Such is the appeal of the blank slate.