Art
Strong Women and Male Privilege at the Felix Art Fair
Kaari Upson's work resonated with the excesses and liberties that characterize the relationship in Hollywood between powerful men and less powerful women.
Weekend
Art
Required Reading
This week, surrealist photography, the new anti-semitism, fighting the corporatization of Burning Man, the monotony of contemporary architecture, Lagos's art scene, and more.
Books
The Poetry of Psychoanalysis
Jasmine Gibson’s training as a psychoanalyst seems to permeate the organization of her poems’ imagery.
Books
Dora Malech's Formal Feelings
Malech poems foreground the beauty and power of form in her willingness to follow its constraints uncertain of the end result.
Art
Jasper Johns’s Messengers of Aging and Mortality
In these works, we are looking at a merging of organization and dissipation, an image of our destiny.
Art
Leonor Fini’s Erotic Theater
Fini’s art disarmed male authority and dissolved gender norms, with delicate, nude men attended by sumptuously dressed, leonine females.
Music
Turning Inward with Robyn, Gazelle Twin, Rosalia, and Low
Four introspective new albums depict the outside world in microcosm.
Art
Jessica Campbell and the Ghost of Emily Carr
Campbell implies that there has been one constant in the experiences of women across generations: the sexual aggression of men.
Books
The 1980s in New York
New books by Ingrid Sischy and Gary Indiana expand our understanding of a crucial decade.
Art
Required Reading
This week, world's first poet, reviewing Antinous: Boy Made God, Queens modernism, Octavia E. Butler on Pasadena, mile-high architecture, and more.
Books
A Poet's Symbolic Resignation
With The Resignation, poet Lonely Christopher shows his interest in "speeches that mean next to nothing."
Books
Ann Lauterbach Expands the Possibilities of Poetry
In an age dominated by literalism and an insistence on facts, what can the imagination summon into words?