Books
Square Deal: Anselm Berrigan’s 'Come In Alone'
The formal inventiveness of this new volume by Anselm Berrigan is satisfying and maddening.
Weekend
Art
Painting from the Ground Up
The first paintings you see in Construction Site, the new exhibition at McKenzie Fine Art on the Lower East Side, are three slabs of red polyurethane resin with wood inlays by Noah Loesberg.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the lie in Gay Talese's new book, Jupiter's northern lights, socially engaged art in Tunisia, Angels in America as great art, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Remain
"We are all born mad. Some remain so."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Henry Miller's ‘The Colossus of Maroussi’
At some point in my teens I read a number of books by Henry Miller — though not as many as I read, at around the same time, by Hermann Hesse, despite the fact that Hesse’s books, in contrast to Miller’s, were not reputed to convey much information about sex.
Art
Summer Carousing and Revelry
It must be summer. There are group shows galore all over Manhattan. This is when you get to discover new artists, get enthusiastic, become disenchanted, fall in love, fall out of love, all of the above, and none of the above, in one day, and still have time to sit back and read a book of poems in th
Art
All The World’s Bigger than a Stage
There is the artist’s artist, and there is June Leaf.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Ridley Howard
I fell in love with Ridley Howard’s painting when I saw his 2014 exhibition at Koenig & Clinton Gallery. The show, as a whole, created a world that one rarely sees in contemporary art: romantic, refined, delicate, and impeccably crafted.
Art
The Space Between: A Profile of Cammisa Buerhaus
In the summer of 2015, at a backyard party in Bushwick, a lone woman – Cammisa Buerhaus – performed a confident set of songs with distorted electronic accompaniment.
Art
John Crawford’s Heavy Metal: Forging Meaning from Pure Form
About two years ago, while doing my research rounds, I stumbled into an exhibition of mostly forged-metal sculptures by the American artist John Crawford at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in Manhattan’s Chelsea district.
Art
From Flint with Love, Art of the African Diaspora
Unlike many notable private art collections that serve the public good only after they have been donated to a museum (or turned into museums of their own), the Mott-Warsh Collection was conceived to fulfill a larger social purpose.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, court room comedy, typography in Blade Runner, Trump's architectural legacy, China's deleted buildings, white working class, and more.