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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Book Reviews
All Black Everything
The anthology Black Futures captures the richness of Black creativity today.
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Elegant Stains
A new biography examines the decade in which Helen Frankenthaler helped pioneer Post-Painterly Abstraction.
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Learning from Ljubljana
A new study explores how experimental artists responded to the political tumult of postwar Yugoslavia.
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Magnificent Monstrosity
In her moving memoir Golem Girl, the disabled portrait painter Riva Lehrer reclaims monstrosity.
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Photography in Fragments
Two new books by leading photography critics offer unconventional takes on the medium's history.
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Experimental Art Unlimited
Kenneth Goldsmith chronicles the history of his avant-garde pirate site, UbuWeb.
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Slumming It
Andrew Strombeck's DIY on the Lower East Side is a cultural history of New York's fiscal crisis.
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Remembrance of Flings Past
John Giorno's memoir sketches a loose picture of New York's painting and poetry scenes of the 1960s but lavishes detail on the author's liaisons with Warhol, Rauschenberg, and others.
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