Resistance Is Futile
Caleb Crain’s second novel, ‘Overthrow,’ examines how art, as much as life, has been reduced to materialism.
Overthrow
by Caleb Crain
April 23, 2020 issue
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Jason Farago is an art critic for The New York Times and the editor of the anthology Out of Practice: Ten Issues of “Even,” 2015–2018. In 2017 he was awarded the inaugural Rabkin Prize for art criticism. (April 2020)
Resistance Is Futile
Caleb Crain’s second novel, ‘Overthrow,’ examines how art, as much as life, has been reduced to materialism.
Overthrow
by Caleb Crain
April 23, 2020 issue
Curation as Creation
We in the art world spent years laughing at the curated pizzas and curated nail salons, but the joke was on us
Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions
an exhibition at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, February 6–May 6, 2018; Kunsthalle Bern, June 9–September 2, 2018; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, October 13, 2018–January 20, 2019; and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, February 26–May 26, 2019
Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us
an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 4–April 22, 2018; Gerechtigkeitsgasse 74, Bern, June 9–September 2, 2018; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, October 13, 2018–January 20, 2019; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, February 26–May 26, 2019; and Swiss Institute, New York City, June 28–August 18, 2019
Harald Szeemann: Selected Writings
edited by Doris Chon, Glenn Phillips, and Pietro Rigolo and translated from the German by Jonathan Blower and Elizabeth Tucker
October 24, 2019 issue
J’Accuse!
History of Violence
by Édouard Louis, translated from the French by Lorin Stein
Who Killed My Father
by Édouard Louis, translated from the French by Lorin Stein
April 18, 2019 issue
A Flag Is a Flag Is a Flag
How best to come to grips with Jasper Johns?
Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture
edited by Roberta Bernstein with Heidi Colsman-Freyberger, Caitlin Sweeney, and Betsy Stepina Zinn
Jasper Johns: Redo an Eye
by Roberta Bernstein
Jasper Johns: “Something Resembling Truth”
an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 23–December 10, 2017; and the Broad, Los Angeles, February 10–May 13, 2018
Jasper Johns: Pictures within Pictures, 1980–2015
by Fiona Donovan
March 22, 2018 issue
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