Much, Much Love: On Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby’s “Oracular Transmissions”
Sophia Stewart considers the epistolary collaboration of Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby....
Postcards from Confinement
Author portraits in the age of COVID-19....
“Art Is So Scary”: Yulia Tsvetkova and the Suppression of Dissent in Putin’s Russia
Lillian Avedian examines the campaign of persecution against an outspoken Russian artist and activist....
Making Art “Bad” Again: Shock, Protest, and Visual Art in the Age of Trump
The problem of obviousness in today’s protest art....
Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Claudia La Rocco on Seven Years Ago
Claudia La Rocco looks back on her artistic encounters of 2013 for Art Matters Now....
The Light in Istanbul: On Orhan Pamuk’s “Orange”
The writer as photographer and flâneur, tracing the changing cityscape....
Art Matters Now — 12 Writers on 20 Years of Art: Rahel Aima on the Rallying Cries of 2009
In the newest installation of Art Matters Now, Rahel Aima looks back on Occupy and the rallying cries of 2009....
Making Art Do Work
Reviewing W. Patrick McCray’s “Making Art Work,” Peter Sachs Collopy argues it can be read as a history of how art became managerial in the 1960s and ’70s...
The Great Unread: On William Deresiewicz’s “The Death of the Artist”
Robert Diab on William Deresiewicz’s new book, “The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech.”...
The Art and Artifice of Remembering in Steve Fagin’s “The Batista Syndrome”
Susannah Rodríguez Drissi considers Steve Fagin’s video miniseries about trauma, memory, and Batista-era Cuba....
From Cluster Bombs to Spoons: An Interview with Artist Pratchaya Phinthong
Artist Pratchaya Phinthong discusses his sculpture “Spoon,” which is made from disarmed munitions and was featured at SFMOMA in 2019....
Sidelights: Searching for the Young Edward Hopper
Dispatches from the childhood archive of one of America’s most iconic painters....
