Destroy All Prejudice: The Godzilla Group’s Art World Mission
In the 1990s, the New York–based Godzilla collective launched a campaign against the exclusion of Asian Americans from the US visual arts scene.
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Body Language: “Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition”
A new study explores how fin-de-siècle artists used posture to convey emerging understandings of human psychology.
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Fathers and Sons: Ai Weiwei’s “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows”
Ai Weiwei's memoir looks at the parallels between his life as an artist-activist in China and that of his father, Ai Qing, a poet imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution.
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Man of Action
A new biography of the midcentury critic Harold Rosenberg offers an unconvincing case for his reappraisal.
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The Picture of What Is to Come
A history of computing shows how the logic of graphics processing shapes our world—but doesn't explore this insight's implications.
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Revolutionary Pants: Modern Garb as a Herald of Modern Art
Curator David Elliott argues that adopting Western-style trousers signaled new modes of living and art-making throughout Asia.
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Gray Areas: Maggie Nelson’s Ambivalent Essays
In her new essay collection, "On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint", Maggie Nelson offers an unconvincing argument in favor of indeterminacy.
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How the Internet Ruined Art
Janet Kraynak describes digitization's adverse effects on the art world, but doesn't reckon with the problems of the art world that made it vulnerable to these changes.
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Seeing Blackly: Tina Campt’s A Black Gaze
Campt's new book proposes a theory of art as a deliberate challenge to social-political reality.
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Unboxing the Museum
Curator Johannes Cladders outdid today's remote access efforts when, fifty years ago, he packed mini exhibitions by Jasper Johns and Hanna Darboven into cardboard boxes.
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