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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Pure Camp
Andy Sweet's photographs of a 1970s sleepaway camp offer a glimpse at suspended summertime rituals.
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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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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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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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John Cage, Man of Music—and Mushrooms
In February 1959, John Cage appeared on the Italian television program "Lascia o Raddoppio" (Double or Nothing), a popular game show on which contestants had to answer obscure trivia questions about…
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In a New Collection of Genre-Bending Essays, Wayne Koestenbaum Swerves from Literary Criticism to Sex Dreams
Wayne Koestenbaum's prose can be picked out of a lineup more quickly than that of almost any living American writer. Other contemporary stylists have easily identifiable signatures, but few of them…
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