Weekend
January 26, 2020
Looking at Monet as the Planet Burns
At Giverny, by rendering landscapes of his own creation, Monet was not so much replicating nature as, in a sense, collaborating with it.
Adina Glickstein
Welcome Back, William Gibson
In Agency, Gibson’s unequaled sequel to The Peripheral (2014), characters return from the future, virtually and with a vengeance.
Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
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The Marvelous Variety of Straightforward Rap
Fans and critics will tell you that 2019 was a lousy year for consensus in rap.
Lucas Fagen
A Contemporary Master of the Brushstroke
David Reed has figured out how to bring illusionism back into an abstract painting while remaining committed to paint-as-paint.
John Yau
Two Aboriginal Artists Pay Tribute to Their Homeland
A tree is never just a tree, a water source is never just a water source in the works of Barbara Moore and Sharon Adamson. “They’re all signs of ancestral action.”
Carl Little
The Extraordinary Ordinary in Prose Poems
For Maxine Chernoff, language is both the promise and the breaking of the promise.
Kate Silzer
Required Reading
In this week’s Twitter-heavy edition, the world’s second largest diamond, reviewing American Dirt, gentrification and the Istanbul Biennial, Twitterstorians, emoji RIPs, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
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