Weekend
May 23, 2020
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Aubrey Beardsley’s Self-Conscious Depiction of Degeneration
Although Beardsley was foremost a decorative illustrator, he depicted the physically monstrous and assorted polymorphous perversities.
Ben Shields
Fiona Apple’s Joyful Racket
Every Fiona Apple album has been sharper and more abrasive than the last, while remaining true to her characteristic hybrid of folk singer-songwriter conventions and vaudevillian musical comedy.
Lucas Fagen
One of New York’s Purest Abstract Painters
Harriet Korman has never wanted to become part of someone else’s story.
John Yau
Malcolm McLaren’s Life of Chaos, Music, and Art
In a new, in-depth biography, Paul Gorman offers a vivid portrait of the postmodernist impresario who conjured up punk’s angry pose, the Sex Pistols, and much more.
Edward M. Gómez
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“I have been looking at this painting and receiving relief like a cool drink on a hot day.”
Stephen Maine
Wanda Coleman, the Great Poet of Los Angeles
Coleman not only embraces her multitudes, but changes effortlessly from one persona and voice to another — things she needed to do in order to survive as a single Black mother raising two children in Los Angeles.
John Yau
Beer With a Painter: Judy Pfaff
“Generosity and openness are important to me, so that the viewer is not intimidated, threatened, or belittled.”
Jennifer Samet
Required Reading
This week, the world’s largest anamorphic illusion, the story behind Rosie the Riveter, not Didion’s California, and much more.
Hrag Vartanian
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