Art
Stephen Pusey’s Remarkable Calligraphic Abstractions
Pusey’s cursive marks sit in that zone where writing becomes drawing and vice versa.
Weekend
Art
John Mendelsohn’s Paintings of Radiating and Falling Light
The change in hue and density from painting to painting struck me as simultaneously methodical and intuitive.
Art
Ragnar Kjartansson’s Extravagant, Enthralling Bliss
It’s hard to imagine how three minutes of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro repeated for 12 hours can be so riveting.
Books
The Last of the Storytellers
In his fiction, Nikolai Leskov writes as if he is overhearing the stories being told.
Books
Victor Burgin’s Unclassifiable Take on the Passages of Art and Life
The artist's landmark experimental text, Between, now reissued, remains one of a kind more than three decades after its publication.
Art
Required Reading
* Earlier this month Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein wrote about the creative class and how eulogies may be premature: While this system produces culture, no one is paid enough, and the rent climbs ever upward. I once worked an art fair with a kindly but grizzled art handler who told me that he’
Books
Fernando Pessoa and His Fictional Coterie of Poets
The Portuguese author concealed his identity behind aliases, or what he called heteronyms, who served as guides to living.
Art
Drawings of Migration and Pandemic
In her dozens of pastels on handmade paper, Mie Yim seems to start each one over, never attempting to make a variation on a theme.
Art
Altoon Sultan’s Powerful Challenge
Sultan’s works implicitly reject the corporate scale of the Minimalists in favor of a domestic and intimate space
Art
Beer With a Painter: Chie Fueki
“I am interested in the symbols that are flooding our world, which everybody can recognize, but which have almost no meaning.”
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Since the start of the pandemic I’ve hung onto fleeting moments of beauty.”
Music
It's Time for Post-Disco
Reviving the 1980s with the 1975, Haim, Jessie Ware, and Tame Impala.