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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What a Movement Looks Like
Sarah Schulman's oral history of ACT UP is not just a record of the past but a guide to designing and staging direct action.
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Data and Detail
An experiment in the digital humanities seeks to shift the scale of art historical analysis.
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A Theory of Everything
A new history of autotheory suggests that anyone can deploy the genre to effective ends. But is it really so universal?
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The Beautiful and the Damned
A new biography of Dave Hickey argues that the controversial critic belongs in the canon of American letters.
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Funny Business: Two Comics Anthologies
Two recent volumes from NYRB Comics—Gary Panter's "Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise" and "It's Life As I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980"—highlight the artistry and ingenuity of an…
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Getting Our Own
In a new anthology, Asian American art workers use the epistolary form to speak on their own terms.
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