Photography in Fragments
Two new books by leading photography critics offer unconventional takes on the medium's history.
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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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Madeline Gins’s Cybernetic Poetry and the Radical Language of the 1960s
In a new collection of Madeline Gins's poetry and prose edited by Lucy Ives, Ives compares Gins’s poetry to the work of artists like Dan Graham and Adrian Piper, exploring how each approached semantics.
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Naked Soap Operas: An Interview with Brontez Purnell
As a writer, Brontez Purnell's ink spills between zines, music columns, novels, and screenplays. Not content with just literary prodigiousness, he also counts choreography, filmmaking, musical perform…
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A Generous Medium: In Conversation with Melissa Catanese
Along with her partner, the photographer Ed Panar, Melissa Catanese runs Spaces Corners, a photo book store in Pittsburgh. The store is small, and only open on Saturdays and by appointment, but along…
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Less Like Art: Seth Price as Author
For a moment, Seth Price dropped out of the art world. In the summer of 2013, he stopped producing new work, laid off his assistants, canceled his upcoming exhibitions, and requested that online magaz…
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Into the Marketplace, Comrades!
China's huge economy, rapid urbanization, environmental and social problems, and swelling ranks of both millionaires and migrant workers are not the only things that capture headlines in the West…
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Nippon Interzone
Ryan Holmberg on Chewing Gum and Chocolate: Photographs by Shomei Tomatsu, edited by Leo Rubinfein and John Junkerman.
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Together Apart
Relationality, sociality, performativity are just a few of the key terms that John Paul Ricco explores in his new book The Decision Between Us: Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes. …
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The Art of War
For many years, the consensus was that in Europe, at least, the air had been sucked out of visual creativity during the years of WWII.
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