What’s the problem? The problem, so says Charles Bukowski, is that "you had to keep choosing between
| What’s the problem?The problem, so says Charles Bukowski, is that “you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidates who reminded them most of themselves.”That’s the problem.– John Yau, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend | |
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| | Cosima von Bonin Takes Cute Art Seriously Implicit throughout the artist’s latest show is the tension between the feeling of failure and the struggle to be recognized and taken seriously, rather than erased. Natalie Haddad |
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| A Painter for a Heated World Given his red-dominated palette, I don’t think it is implausible to suggest that one of Frank Holliday’s subjects is conflagration — a world consumed by fire. John Yau |
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| Robert Mangold’s Emotional Optics With his recent works, Mangold underscores a consciousness of mortality that he meets with a gracefulness that is breathtaking. John Yau |
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| Required Reading This week, the newly selected Theodore Roosevelt President Library design, Cuties outrage, philanthropy’s difficult relationship to social justice, climate migration in the US, and more. Hrag Vartanian |
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