Books
Memoir as the Fragments of Memory
When Michel Leiris died in 1990 at age 89 he was a canonical figure in France, mainly for having remade the genre of memoir in his own image.
Weekend
Art
Hauntingly Beautiful Photos for an Anxious Moment
On Instagram, Kana Hashimoto’s images of nocturnal Tokyo unwittingly capture the odd feeling of time itself as the coronavirus pandemic drags on.
Books
Bernadette Mayer Evokes the Banality and Urgency of the Quotidian
In Memory, the poet shapes a new visual and textual language that explores the simmering possibilities of consciousness.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“In the midst of a contagion that threatens our way of life, isolates us remorselessly from family and friends, and breeds fear and paranoia, I find these pieces grounding.”
Film
What Hollywood Does to Asian Actors
Hollywood stereotypes define the Asian male as bowing, scraping, obsequious, devious, sneaky, dismal, and sexually frustrated.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Black Lives Matter is changing the world and here are some links that address many of the issues people are talking about.
Books
On the Figurative Road
Alice Notley's book-length poem charts the journey during which we assess the value of words and their historical contexts.
Art
A Digital Archive Mines the Depth of Design
The digital Letterform Archive has made nearly 1,500 objects accessible to browse online through over 9,000 high-resolution images.
Books
Van Gogh and the Books He Loved
To Vincent, books were calls to action, lessons in life.
Art
The Prophecies of Deborah Kass
What can we say about an image that understood Trump’s root persona early on, and froze it in time?
Art
Elliott Green’s Voyage of Self-Discovery
Green has attained something that few artists accomplish in their lifetime: he reinvented himself.
Art
Required Reading
This week, Soraya Nadia McDonald on the neck as a point of subjugation and control, Nicole J. Caruth on Black birth, Saidiya Hartman on the end of White Supremacy, John Edwin Mason on protest images, Hari Kunzu on Masha Gessen's new book, and more.