History’s Painter: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh’s “Gerhard Richter”
In a long-awaited monograph, art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh reckons with the work of Gerhard Richter.
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A Color for Our Times: “Safety Orange” Considers a Curious Hue
A new theoretical text convincingly argues that orange is the new red, white, and blue.
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Minor Literature: Kafka’s Drawings
The mediocrity of Kafka's previously unpublished drawings, collected in a new volume, throws the brilliance of his novels and stories into sharp relief.
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Documentary by Every Means Necessary: Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa’s “Dark Mirrors”
In his artwork—currently on view in "Greater New York" at MoMA PS1—and his criticism, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is concerned with the hidden relationships between images and ideology.
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Fire Breather: Gary Indiana’s New Essay Collection
In a new collection of essays, Gary Indiana savages American culture and politics.
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Restitution’s First Wave: Bénédicte Savoy’s “Africa’s Struggle for Its Art”
A new book details how the repatriation debates got their start in postcolonial Africa.
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Haunting Modernity
Two new books trace the history of Jewish art collectors and dealers in Europe.
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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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