Books
What Are Exhibition Catalogues for?
No exhibition of any pretension is complete without lasting proof of its existence, preferably in print on coated paper.
Weekend
Art
The Work of Art in the Age of the Internet
How will the internet transform the way that contemporary visual art is created?
Art
Raging in the Pandemic’s Grip
Sanja Latinović's "Abandoned" pierces our self-protective veil with a glimpse of COVID’s raw truth.
Art
How to Keep Drawing After the Death of Painting
Dan Douke conveys the possibility that painting, even after its death, remains inexhaustible.
Art
Required Reading
This week, fantastic knitted masks, immunoprivilege, Juilliard's socially distanced rendition of "Bolero," Axl Rose and Steve Mnuchin on Twitter, and lots more.
Books
Susan Howe's Feminist Poetics
Throughout her work and in her latest volume, Concordance, Howe confronts the plight of the female writer in a masculine literary culture.
Books
Questioning the Very Form of the Book
Madeline Gins uses the form to dislodge our notion of individual subjectivity, the narrator commonly known as “I.”
Books
The Media’s Brave New World
Two new books focusing on journalism and news, and on how they are delivered, offer expansive visions of what “the media” have become.
Art
An Artist as Resilient as She Is Joyous
Few artists have reinvented themselves in their prime the way Jo Smail has; few have had to.
Books
Lifestyle Over Life: Stephen Wright’s Vision of America
Wright’s darkly comic novel burrows into our hollow cravings, and finds more hollowness.
Art
Norman Bluhm's Sensual Spiritualism
Norman Bluhm transformed the vocabulary we associate with the gestural branch of Abstract Expressionism into something that others of the so-called Second Generation did not pursue, much less attain.
Art
Required Reading
This week, why we love writers' homes, reviewing Jerry Saltz's new book, why are there no photos of people dying of COVID-19, a missing piece of the Venus de Milo, and more.