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A Book Nominally about Rubens Offers an Honest Portrait of the Way the Author’s Mind Works—and Sometimes Doesn’t
Morgan Meis doesn't make points so much as bellow them with varying levels of coherence.
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The Posadism Adventure: A History of the Bizarre Communist Movement that Embraced UFOs and Nuclear War
Despite the image of the Posadists as "brainwashed Bolsheviks or socialist Scientologists," they were sincere in their certainty that revolution was coming.
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Giorgio Griffa’s 1990s Paintings Possess a Nervous Energy—Much Like the Decade Itself
Griffa's 1990s paintings hint at something not necessarily good that is yet to come.
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Shifting Styles and Moral Steadiness Made Philip Guston a Lodestar for Artists Today
Guston encourages artists to change their work, to examine their relationship to evil, and to revel in their own ambivalence about the meaning of art.
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Carceral Aesthetics: The Conditions of Making Art in Prison
Nicole R. Fleetwood's new book explores prison art and the broader visual culture of incarceration.
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An Exhibition of Works on Paper Shows the Power of an Old-Fashioned Medium
Making art out of fragile, resilient paper in some sense means making art about fragility and resilience.
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Josh Kline Is Here to Give You Some Alternative Facts
Kline critiques the values of a country that prioritizes the ability to have your own version of the truth delivered to you on a TV you bought at half-price on Black Friday.
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A History of Architects Mistaking Design for Politics
The World as an Architectural Project, recently published by MIT Press, surveys fifty projects, most of them ambitious in a troubling way.
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A Show of Japanese “Expanded” Cinema Neglects to Include the Works’ Expansive Parts
Originally, the works incorporated live soundtracks or performances and were shown in places like the Tokyo disco Killer Joe's.
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Sam McKinniss’s Child Star Portraits Mine the Culture of the 1990s
Lindsay Lohan appeared three times.
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Breaking Down the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Trump’s Taxes