Weekend
August 15, 2020
The Lives of the Art Museum
Like cabinets of curiosities from the old regime, art museums often display plunder.
David Carrier
Warren Isensee’s Breakthrough
Isensee has gone from being a dutiful geometric abstractionist to defining his own trajectory, and gaining a verifiable freedom for himself.
John Yau
Relic Joins the New Era of “Mommy Horror”
Relic delves into a darkness beyond filial caregiving, approaching the mother figure as the first, and last, monster, her house a veritable womb for distinctly female trauma.
Eileen G'Sell
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How Words Cast Their Spell on a Poet
Geoffrey O’Brien explores language’s magic — part sound, part sense, part bodily sensation.
Norman Finkelstein
Rediscovering Leslie Kerr’s Pop Abstraction
Kerr was an abstract artist with a vulgar sense of humor.
John Yau
Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“I used to think art was an escape from the grind of daily life, but this work tells me it might be more of an inoculation — pieces of the world absorbed in small amounts so we can go out and live in it.”
Stephen Maine
Required Reading
This week, very very soft furniture, butt types, the Combahee River Collective, Samuel Fosso talked to curator Okwui Enwezor, PowerPoint activism on Instagram, climate apartheid, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
From the Store
"A Little Taste Outside of Love" Silk Scarf
She's back in stock! Bring a little art into your home with this delicate silk scarf based on "A Little Taste Outside of Love" by Mickalene Thomas — it's one of our favorite pieces.
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