Books
Besides examining in-depth both the early and late Maine periods, Marsden Hartley’s Maine includes a fine essay on materials and techniques, based on careful examination of a dozen works, which shows a surprising continuity in composition and methods across Hartley’s career.
Books
Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Worker Poetry, edited by Qin Xiaoyu and translated by Eleanor Goodman, collects work by Xu Lizhi and 30 other worker poets.
Music
Moody guys excel at mood music.
Art
Marianne Bernstein, an artist and curator of this exhibition, told me that part of her interest in assembling this exhibition was to chronicle the changing storyline of Sicily and to encourage non-binary thinking.
Art
A meta-besotted, multilayered, impudent, lacerating exhibition that pricks pretense and self-delusion on every level.
Art
This week, making Picasso paintings 3D, best restaurant review hate read, Lucas Cranach the Elder's business acumen, architectural terra-cotta, and defining "re-accommodate."
Art
"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."
Books
Already in the three short volumes which Hirato had hoped to publish, but for which he was unable to raise money, we see a growing tendency to break up the language and images, abstracting them into a pulse of pure energy that conveys the meaning rather than simply expressing it.
Art
The first thing that makes Keister an outlier is that he made sculpture that you didn’t back into, but which you bumped your head against.
Art
There are eighty works on paper in the exhibition, Branden Koch: Bald Ego at Regina Rex, all of which speak to and about the dilemma of being an artist and sympathetic human being in America under the current regime.
Art
What did the Tomahawks accomplish?
Art
Married to a key member of the Arte Povera movement in Italy, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz’s recognition as an artist in her own right is long overdue, at least in the United States.