Sometimes it's the small thing. The seemingly irrelevant detail in a snatch of familiar idiomatic spe
| Sometimes it’s the small thing. The seemingly irrelevant detail in a snatch of familiar idiomatic speech: “I wanted to always play it down.” The word play associated most commonly with childhood, creativity, music, and pleasure being put to such sinister use. The word play in the context of ventilators and mortality rates. To hear that word stained by a cruel and ugly mouth feels nearly as enraging as the larger catastrophe. But that’s the way it is sometimes with small things—they’re really not as small as you thought.– Albert Mobilio, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend | |
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| The Life of an Anti-Establishment “Rock Star” In a first-ever biography of the recently deceased, Polish-born sociologist and theorist, there are lessons for creative people — and everyone else — about perseverance and personal truth. Edward M. Gómez |
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| How Robert Kobayashi Elevated the Tin Can For all the sameness of material and process, Kobayashi was able to attain a wide range of nuanced feeling and subtle pictorial conventions in his tin artworks. John Yau |
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| New Art Books for the New Season An autumnal offering of Artemisia Gentileschi, Dorothea Tanning, Henri Matisse, and Guston galore, among much, much else. Michael Glover |
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| Tauba Auerbach’s Sculptural Art Books Much like her bookworks, Auerbach’s catalogue S v Z deserves to be examined as a sculptural object before we unfold its cover and consider its contents. Megan N. Liberty |
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| Required Reading This week, fact check all of the vote-by-mail falsehoods, an academic takedown of a trade book, riding an ostrich, how we can dismantle white supremacy, an uptick in cracked teeth, and more. Hrag Vartanian |
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