Art
Required Reading
This week, magazine designers go for the jugular, Trump turned down Warhol prints, the state of the digital in 2017, ancient Roman cities, female photojournalists, and more.
Weekend
Art
Weekend Words: Nuclear
"We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we, Jack?"
Books
Reader's Diary: The Monastery Door Is Open
Pierre Reverdy’s novel The Thief of Talant is not a novel at all, but a long poem or sequence with elusive narrative underpinnings.
Books
The End of the World as We Know It
The Nuclear Culture Source Book considers the “lived experience of the uncanny nature of radiation” ushered in by disasters such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima.
Art
Perhaps Eleanore Mikus Will Not Be Under-Recognized Anymore
If we compare her with other women artists from the 1960s working in a reductive vein, Eleanore Mikus seems to have thoroughly vanished, more so than her peers, and often isn’t included in surveys or textbooks of that period.
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A Ribald World of One’s Own: The Watercolors of Gladys Nilsson
It is Gladys Nilsson’s attention to awkward and unconscious things that people do to themselves while out in public that makes her work fascinating to look at.
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The Populist and a Big Sculpture
He uses religion as a way to find a common enemy from within the people. Where is his humanity?
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Tal R
Tal R talks about “watching” paintings — not just looking at them. It might be a language tic, but it also feels specific.
Film
Invitation to the Party: Jan Nemec's 1966 Satire of Czech Communism
Long seen as the “enfant terrible” of Czech cinema, Němec constantly found himself in trouble with Czech government authorities, and was almost arrested for making this film.
Art
After 113 Years: Have We Come a Long Way?
When I was 14, after reading yet another biography of Verdi, I asked my mother, “Do women write operas?” She looked at me with incredulity and responded, “Never heard of any.”
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It’s Nothing Close to Fantasy: Brandi Twilley’s Imaginary Friend
Brandi Twilley, who was eight years old when Pretty Woman was released, creates an atmosphere in which the real world becomes the phantom, while the fantasy strives to become real.
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In Memoriam Dore Ashton
Dore Ashton could very well be called the Last Irascible, but she would have laughed it off.