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Come as You Are
... previously. As in that affair, the borders between Ernaux’s experience and her documentation of it collapse. In her diaries she at first insists that “I wanted to make this passion a work of art,” before...
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Quiet Quitting
... FRANZ KAFKA’S LAST STORY was a fable about art and labor. “Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk” is a tale told by a mouse who, with marked erudition and fair-mindedness, reflects on an...
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Guilty Pleasures
... IN HIS 1980 ESSAY ON THE AMERICAN SCENE, “Within the Context of No Context,” George W. S. Trow supplies an anecdote from Harvard in the early 1960s. During an art history class on the Dutch...
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All the President’s Women
... of its comic mileage out of set pieces that let Plunket merrily skewer bad art, from a feminist theater collective’s interactive play (All My Sisters Slept in Dirt: A Choral Poem) to a LACMA gala...
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Pier Pressure
... York City art world. Here on “the Slip”—a commercial dock designed for transience and exchange—they lived in cheap and drafty lofts, nurturing intuitions and ideas into radical practices, producing...
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Where Egos Dare
... the top. For the early Sullivanians, that role fell to Clement Greenberg, the most prominent art critic in midcentury America. “Chumship” or an “intimacy of peers” was as central to this revolution...
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Spit Happens
... “Berkeley Renaissance” of 1948, the artist Jordan Belson, said that Smith “had nothing but insults and sarcasm for most art and most artists.” (This quote comes from the fantastic American Magus, a...
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Atlas Slugged
... States,” as they attempted to identify what form of martial art was most effective at incapacitating an opponent. Inspired by a Chuck Norris flick, they chose the cage—no electricity—to determine...
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Inner Visions
... Only recently, af Klint’s work (or what was thought to be hers) upset the art-historical timeline, placing her ahead of solitary male artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich as the...
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Shocks to the System
... was coined by the scholar, critic, and novelist Tom LeClair in his 1987 study In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel and expanded upon in his 1989 book The Art of Excess: Mastery in...
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Bookforum Is Back!
... deeply engaged with books and contemporary culture. Since 1994, Bookforum has staked out its own territory, inviting authors to take on—with critical acuity and personality—fiction, art, literary...
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To Affinity and Beyond
... Wilde’s aesthetic philosophy” from so thoroughly ironic a text, but Gilbert does advance a coherent theory that not only is art a “self-conscious, deliberate” criticism, “criticism is itself an art...
