Six Great Art Novels
Reading about art is now one of the more direct ways we have of experiencing it at all.
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Doubt and Affirmation: A Book by Ben Lerner and Anna Ostoya
The Polish Rider can be understood as an extended meditation on doubts about—and faith in—art.
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The Whitney’s Conservation Team Is in This Week’s New Yorker
One of the longest articles in this week’s New Yorker has an unlikely subject: the Whitney’s conservators. Written by novelist and MacArthur Fellow Ben Lerner, the piece is about the trials…
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Future Imperfect: Robert Zemeckis in Retrospective
Two thousand fifteen was destined to be the year of Robert Zemeckis since at least 1989, the same year a frizzy-haired scientist and his baby-faced protégé set the clock forward to October 21…
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Peter Sacks
From a distance, Peter Sacks's new 6-foot-square mixed-medium canvases seem to be composed primarily of a thick impasto.
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Occupy Wall
An exhibition of Diego Rivera's portable murals made in the '30s for New York's MoMA prompts the author to consider their timeliness.
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