Books
American Drift: Becca Klaver’s Empire Wasted
Divided into five sections that could function as stand alone chapbooks, Empire Wasted opens with a nod to Andy Warhol.
Weekend
Art
For Ellen Cantor
Ellen Cantor spontaneously called me on a July evening, inviting me to the Colony Room in Soho for a drink.
Art
Daniel Boccato: Sculpture in a Crowded Field
In a savvy move, Daniel Boccato has latched onto a currently popular color-and-shape-based aesthetic and taken it to a material extreme.
Art
The Twilight States of Jonathan Meese
Since the early 2000s, Jonathan Meese, who is based in Hamburg and Berlin, has cultivated a persona as a propagandist for what he calls the Dictatorship of Art
Art
Required Reading
This week, a rainbow in Toledo's Old Masters' galleries, American artists and politics, the failed state of the internet, and more.
Art
Weekend Words: Boil
"The only safe pleasure for a parliamentarian is a bag of boiled sweets."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Azra Raza and Sara Suleri Goodyear's 'Ghalib'
While Ghalib's poetry contains the delicate, evanescent moods and divided self-consciousness one associates with periods of decline, it also embodies the opposite, an arrogant rhetorical vehemence and originality that at times calls to mind John Donne more than any of his Western contemporaries.
Art
An Abstract Expressionist Master of Etching
In contrast to other Abstract Expressionists, most notably Robert Motherwell, Richard Pousette-Dart saw prints as a beginning, a surface to work on. He goes over them with acrylic, gouache, graphite, and ink.
Art
The Ecstasy of Drawing
Cecily Brown is genuinely interested in all the ways a body experiencing pleasure can occupy space. In her drawings she records the results of her curiosity, her looking.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Alex Katz
“It’s been my most productive summer ever,” Alex Katz declares. “The real work is here, though,” he tells me, unrolling pounce paper to show me his preparatory drawings. “I want to go even bigger,” he says.
Music
Bon Iver Deconstructed
Vocal snobs had better get used to Auto-Tune, because it ain’t going away.
Art
Of Lava and Lava Lamps: Marilyn Gold and Robert Guillot
Marilyn Gold is a painter; Robert Guillot makes sculpture and drawings. Both have been working in New York for decades. As their studio output indicates, they have profoundly different interests and divergent means of exploring them.