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The Painter Novel
Gideon Leek reviews Sophie Madeline Dess’s “What You Make of Me.”
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa
Vital Congruities
Rose Higham-Stainton reviews the reissue of Claire-Louise Bennett’s “Fish out of Water.”
Making Space for Beauty in Miniature
A. Cerisse Cohen reviews Christine Coulson’s “One Woman Show.”
Mother of Invention [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld talks to artist, product designer, tinkerer, and satirist Pippa Garner about her life and career.
Artist for Survival
Fiona Lindsay Shen reviews a display of countercultural art soon to be open at Cerritos College.
Seeing Like a Simulation
Reviewing Chaim Gingold’s “Building SimCity,” Celine Nguyen finds similarities between tech billionaires’ attempts to build a utopian city in Solano, California, and being a godlike player in “SimCity.”
Exuberant Assembly [VIDEO]
Michael Kurcfeld attends the 2024 Venice Biennale and profiles its curator, Adriano Pedrosa.
Life in the Archive
Rowland Bagnall reviews the recent rerelease of Bernadette Mayer’s “Memory.”
The Last Avant-Garde
Alexander Billet reviews Dominique Routhier’s “With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation.”
Rejoice, Artists and Lawyers, at the Mutual Goal of Art and Law: On Yxta Maya Murray’s “We Make Each Other Beautiful”
Ishani Chokshi reviews Yxta Maya Murray’s latest book, “We Make Each Other Beautiful: Art, Activism, and the Law.”
Another World, Another Life: On Anaïs Ngbanzo’s “Who Are You Dorothy Dean?”
Conor Williams reviews a new biography of Dorothy Dean, edited by Anaïs Ngbanzo.
The Ongoing Present: On Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro’s “Against Erasure”
Tal Frieden reviews “Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba” by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro.
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