Weekend
May 30, 2020
Theaster Gates’s Emotional Confrontation With Racism
With Black Chapel, Gates references the racism embedded in modernism’s failure to adequately acknowledge non-white sources of inspiration.
Alexandra Sommer
Talking About Art Now
What comes after postmodernism is less interesting than the changed nature of the art system and art writing.
David Carrier
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It’s Okay Not to Be a Member of a Club
For Julia Fish, the ordinary is not banal, as it was for Andy Warhol and his followers, who seek out the sensational rather than stop to examine the small sensation.
John Yau
A Fleeting Glimpse of Francesca Woodman
Woodman was one of the 20th century’s great surrealists.
Michael Glover
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The Fertilizing Power of Funk
Fred Moten’s innovative poems investigate the fugitive philosophy of Black sound.
J. Peter Moore
Breaking Down the Limits of Identity Through Poetry
Sally Wen Mao Mao recognizes that there is no commonly shared Asian American experience, except racism of one form or another.
John Yau
Required Reading
This week, a mural for George Floyd, chilling images of a CNN reporter’s arrest, anti-racism resources for white people, Trump’s ghost writer, Barry Schwabsky on Hal Foster, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
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