From one project to the next, Self reinvents herself and reimagines how to portray the human body.
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Two Forms of Sculptural Ingenuity
For Eduardo Chillida, a work was a finished thing. Gustav Metzger, on the other hand, would make works that sometimes existed in a state of perpetual evolution.
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Brenda Goodman’s Abstraction and Pain
In her art, Goodman seems to both revisit trauma and heal it. The results are moving and painful.
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Required Reading
This week, illegal COVID-19 boosters, the joys of flossing, a nonbinary medieval warrior, DIY cocktails in the Bay Area, and more.
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Invisible Racism in the Old West
In his debut novel, Tom Lin underscores the invisibility of the Chinese to white Americans in late 19th-century United States.
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The Willful Jouissance of Hannah Wilke
Wilke’s joyful effusions were a reminder of the limitlessness of the body’s creative potential.
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Is It Fair to Call Louise Bourgeois “Freud’s Daughter”?
It’s a good bet that being called his daughter would have made Bourgeois hopping mad.
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A Tango with Intuition and the Unconscious
Alan Gilbert’s poems unpack the quotidian nature of life to depict a trippy, scatological dystopia.
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Required Reading
This week, the real meaning of “carpe diem,” Kerry James Marshall gets the profile treatment, Andrew Cuomo’s network of protection, James Baldwin’s birthday, and more.
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With Mother Tongue, Camille Henrot Calls for Change
Henrot demonstrates the need to look at the beginning of our very existence to address social and gender inequalities.
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A Poet-Artist Looks to the Stars
Monica Ong is a 21st-century visual poet who extends the reader’s sense of what is possible.
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Trevon Latin Finds Joy in Melancholy
Latin’s colorful artworks touch on aspects of queer and Black experience, not in broad strokes, but in exceedingly specific ones.