Art
It’s Okay Not to Be a Member of a Club
For Julia Fish, the ordinary is not banal, as it was for Andy Warhol and his followers, who seek out the sensational rather than stop to examine the small sensation.
Weekend
Art
Required Reading
This week, the world’s largest anamorphic illusion, the story behind Rosie the Riveter, not Didion's California, and much more.
Music
Fiona Apple's Joyful Racket
Every Fiona Apple album has been sharper and more abrasive than the last, while remaining true to her characteristic hybrid of folk singer-songwriter conventions and vaudevillian musical comedy.
Books
Malcolm McLaren’s Life of Chaos, Music, and Art
In a new, in-depth biography, Paul Gorman offers a vivid portrait of the postmodernist impresario who conjured up punk’s angry pose, the Sex Pistols, and much more.
Interview
Beer With a Painter: Judy Pfaff
“Generosity and openness are important to me, so that the viewer is not intimidated, threatened, or belittled.”
Art
Aubrey Beardsley's Self-Conscious Depiction of Degeneration
Although Beardsley was foremost a decorative illustrator, he depicted the physically monstrous and assorted polymorphous perversities.
Interview
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“I have been looking at this painting and receiving relief like a cool drink on a hot day.”
Books
Wanda Coleman, the Great Poet of Los Angeles
Coleman not only embraces her multitudes, but changes effortlessly from one persona and voice to another — things she needed to do in order to survive as a single Black mother raising two children in Los Angeles.
Art
One of New York's Purest Abstract Painters
Harriet Korman has never wanted to become part of someone else’s story.
Art
Required Reading
This week, LaWhore Vagistan talks about being an auntie, art dealer Larry Gagosian speaks from his quarantine in the Hamptons, how blackness became a legal identity, the rise of conspiracy theories, and more.
Books
An Unconventional Art Critic of La Belle Epoque
Lacking formal training in art, Joris-Karl Huysmans had a knack for seizing on the unanticipated, the gritty, and the revelatory in painting.
Books
No Touching: Discovering the Art of Books Online
This exhibition provides an exciting starting point for exploring artists' personal sites, statements, and YouTube videos.