This week, the first-ever NFT and lost promise, a Cree-based programming language, a 16-year-old architecture critic, Queen Victoria’s drug habits, and more.
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Required Reading
Today, NFT legal issues, looking closely at Bosch, talking to Beeple, Ken Burns on documentaries, superhero pay, and more.
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So Much Achieved by One Artist in So Little Time
The Belgian artist Ilse D’Hollander rejected abstraction and figuration as an either/or premise in favor of a path that embraced both.
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Artworks as Portent and Balm
Two exhibitions by Patricia Satterlee have bookended the plague year.
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The One Book You Need to Read Right Now Is About Canadian Colonialism
“Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being” by Amy Fung is a collection of linked personal essays about language, displacement, and ownership — about being both an “outsider” and an “intruder.”
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Painting the Family Dynamics of Toys and Food
Ulala Imai does more than project human feelings onto toys; she proposes that they represent us, and that we share some of their qualities.
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Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Wartime Poems
Ungaretti should be numbered among the ranks of such Great War poets as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Isaac Rosenberg.
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Required Reading
This week, Hong Kong’s culture scene is facing major challenges, an NFT “house” sells big, Ishmael Reed on Alice Walker, Woody Allen’s manipulation, and more.
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Surrounded by Spirits
Izumi Kato’s exhibition at Perrotin dispatches us to long-forgotten realms of childhood, when the world was full of benign, sinister, weird, and mysterious beings.
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Halsey Hathaway’s Impure Abstractions
No matter how optical a color may become, our experience of it is — to state the obvious — visceral.
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Paintings Embedded With Echoes of War
Jane Irish’s work offers an archive of painterly traditions juxtaposed with horrific acts of violence driven by the moneyed class.
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A Conceptual Compendium of Conceptual Art
Flipping through Seth Siegelaub’s collection of writings and interviews is a bit like diving into an archive without a finding aid, as exhilarating as it is overwhelming.