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What’s the Use?
... of frustration across the twentieth century, a time when disappointment “shaped many of the . . . most important works of literature and art.” This approach implicitly promises to show how...
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Pippa Garner: $ell Your $elf
... AFTER BEING KICKED OUT of art school for creating a model car with human legs that looked like it was pissing on a map of Detroit, the Conceptual artist Pippa Garner built her infamous...
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Uncut Femme
... filmmaker, downtown-scene fixture, fashion designer, and now writer whose primary medium—even when she’s not decorating silk canvases with her own blood, as she did for a 2017 art show called R...
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Finder, Keeper
... smart enough to come with good wall text.” Nobody misfortunate enough to inhabit the art world has ever thought highly of the wall text. Of course it is a shield, but for more than racism. “If you...
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Let It Reed
... in the early days of college, and meet future Reed bandmate Sterling Morrison, Reed’s neighborhood friend Art Littmann, and his college friend David Weisman. Reed’s affection for J. D. Salinger...
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Blood and Guts in Art School
... NIKKI SHANER-BRADFORD: Your new book Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35) riffs on a term many people first heard in Jenny Offill’s 2014 novel, Dept. of...
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Viewer Indiscretion
...). They are pejorative terms for a certain type of New York City cinephile, one whose zeal for the seventh art seems to have been leached of all pleasure and has instead transmogrified into grim...
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The Overcorrections
... her book as equally important forecloses The Fraud’s potential and exposes how ill served Smith is by her philosophy on fiction. After years of deriding the shallowness of treating art as a site of...
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The Journalist and the Editor
... to themselves; not all her subjects loved that about her. A big chunk of what I know about the art of creative inference I learned from Malcolm, who practiced it deftly (sometimes ruthlessly). I...
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Background Poise
... indirect discourse, her first-person speakers embed the act of storytelling, the art of fictionality, into their own narration. Little surprise, perhaps, that the creature so prominently featured on the...
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Oblique Strategies
... conjure is more game than tactic: one “homosexual genius” scrawling, perhaps chuckling, leaving inky volumes to pass from Juan to the narrator to us. Torres excels at the art of cutting tragedy with...
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Rand Illusion
... student debt. While it is emphatically true that there are complicated, worthwhile intra-leftist fights to be had about what constitutes equitable discourse in our communities and our art—and...
