Weekend
February 23, 2020
Eileen Myles Listens for the “Pulse Outside” Her Home
Myles’s poems walk and shift with all their pieces sloshing this way and that, and invite the reader for the ride.
Albert Mobilio
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Taking Appropriation Too Far
To manipulate the historical record, I would think, is to abandon the search for truth.
David Carrier
The Electronic Symphonies of Video Game Scores
I haven’t played the game Death Stranding, but I know one thing: The score, composed by Ludvig Forssell for prepared piano, synthesizer, and found percussion, is beautiful.
Lucas Fagen
Shaking Up Op Art
Takuji Hamanaka’s works seem to have been made by a mason who lives in a heightened state of consciousness.
John Yau
A Model Who Shunned Celebrity for Marxism
The Disappearance of My Mother honors the staunch conviction and introversion of Benedetta Barzini, who shunned Warhol celebrity for political solidarity, and in her later years, Spartan solitude.
Eileen G'Sell
Once More Into the Culture Wars
To assert one’s inner life in a time of reactionary politics is a radical act.
Jason Stopa
Required Reading
This week, the full story behind the closing of the Marciano Art Foundation, the LA County Museum of Art’s debt issues, colonialism and Parasite, a Hieronymus Bosch parade, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
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