A Different Handmaid’s Tale: On Joanne Ramos’s “The Farm”
Joanne Ramos's "The Farm" doesn’t always make it easy to classify who is the oppressed and who is oppressor, and this is one of the book’s strengths....
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Violence Against Women from Ancient Rome to Today: On Mithu Sanyal’s “Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo”
Stephanie Sy-Quia reviews Mithu Sanyal’s history-crossing account of violence against women in “Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo.”...
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On view at the Marciano Art Foundation is Berlin-based, Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca’s first large scale institutional exhibition OBSIDIAN LADDER. Using a unique mixture of painting, sound, installation, sculpture and performance, OBSIDIAN LADDER is intended to create a femme intervention into architectural spaces (in this case, the male-only legacy of the former Scottish Rite Masonic Temple). The show contains a heavily performative element with models who move throughout the space according to a general choreography given by Donna. Featured at MAF, just like all of her recent exhibitions, is her wide-ranging practice of painting extending from the bodies of the models to the surfaces of the sculptures and paintings – all creating a self-sustaining and densely referential ecosystem of material, surface, skin and color.
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Generosity: Frederic Tuten's Life of Art, Literature, and Solidarity
This episode of the LARB Radio Hour features guest Frederic Tuten, who discusses his memoir "My Young Life," plus book recommendations from John Waters.......
