Riot Material: Recent Episodes
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Reviewed by Jennifer Kurdyla Chouette by Claire Oshetsky Ecco Press, 256pp., $13.29 HR If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then Claire Oshetsky’s delightfully disturbing novel, Chouette, offers a nonplanetary paradigm through which to view the female experience: the bestial. Equal parts magical realist and radical feminist, the novel follows the plight […]
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by Garry Wills NYR We are the disgrace of nations because we can’t stop killing our children—along, of course, with their teachers, relatives, and innocent bystanders. We don’t even seem to want to stop doing it, not effectively, at any rate. We say we should, but we don’t. We just can’t. We are worse than […]
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by Amadour In this conversation, I speak to Julian Lennon from his home in Monaco about his recent exhibition, ATMOSPHERIA, at William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica. These works capture magnificent aerial landscapes from the vantage point of an airplane. A fascinating, multi-hyphenate creator, Lennon shares his insights on photography, the curiosity behind his painterly images, and […]
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by Amadour . Artist Naama Tsabar is like a scribe reauthoring the hypermasculine skit of the rockstar breaking the guitar. Instead of continuing this canon of destruction, she pieces together broken instruments to interact with others and develop new sounds. In line with her recent exhibition, Breaks and Suspensions, at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery in Los Angeles, […]
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Sleaford Mods feat. Florence Shaw (of Dry Cleaning) from UK GRIM on Rough Trade
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Reviewed by Justin Herfst In the opening sequence of Igor Posner’s Cargó, two images are stacked on top of each other. In the top image is a green thicket, and in the bottom a black and white image of an elderly gentleman dressed in a long coat walking in the dark. The man appears deep […]
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at Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles (through 8 April 2023) Reviewed by Lorraine Heitzman In the midst of the frenzy of Frieze week, the quiet of Martin Puryear’s show at Matthew Marks Gallery was practically deafening. Admittedly, Puryear’s art has always been somewhat monastic, even restrained, and the sculptures in this show are no less hushed. […]
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Reviewed by Jason Tandon No Land in Sight by Charles Simic Knopf, 96pp., $23.95 HR Charles Simic is not just one of the most celebrated and honored poets of the last fifty years; now in his eighties, he remains one of the most prolific, having released four books since 2015. Fans of Simic’s poetry who […]
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CINEMA DISORDINAIRE Reviewed by Manuel Betancourt The opening moments of Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please (2022) play like an archly stylized West Side Story by way of Kenneth Anger. Only, instead of the Jets, we have the “Young Gents,” a group of leather-clad rascals who dance their way through the streets of a neon-tinged, foggy 1950s Manhattan […]
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slowthai “Feel Good” from Uglyout now on Method
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Barley from the forthcoming Everyone’s Crushed on Matador Records .
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by Jill Conner In some respects Susan Kaprov’s art has remained elusive, until now. Her experimental photomontages are included in the permanent collections of museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Susan Kaprov was […]
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from Bubblegum “Kerosene” newly released on RCA Records .
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the Bad Tuner Remix “Ooo La La” on Ghostly International
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Reviewed by Ian Frazier Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It by Tom Philpott Bloomsbury, 246 pp., $28.00; $17.00 (paper) The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm by Sarah Vogel Bloomsbury, 407 pp., $19.89 NYR We are eating a big […]
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from their debut release Attachement Styles out now on Tulle Collective.
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at The BAG, Los Angeles (through 19 February) Reviewed by Eve Wood Yehonatan Koenig’s luminous ink drawings are studies in both absence and presence, suspension and saturation, death, and rebirth. The patterns he creates in his drawings repudiate any obvious associations one might have when considering the act of mark-making and, indeed, the process by […]
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at Advocartsy, Los Angeles (through 4 February 2023) Reviewed by Christopher Ian Lutz The human mind seeks connectivity. The writing of letters and numbers, and the drawing of lines in a painting, are acts of connecting points. Furthermore, geometry, language, narration, astrology, and philosophy are intellectual means to connect points that align with our thoughts […]
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Slow Winter Sun, at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (through 25 February 2023) by Amadour Artist Pae White captivates her audience with a solo exhibition, Slow Winter Sun, at Jessica Silverman Gallery in San Francisco, featuring new monochromatic paper-clay paintings on wood, iridescent ceramic sculptures, and tapestries. Timed in proximity to the city’s FOG Design+Art Fair, […]
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at Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles (through 11 February 2023) Reviewed by Eve Wood Glenn Hardy’s second solo exhibition, aptly title Who Am I If I Don’t Represent? — at Charlie James Gallery in LA’s Chinatown — comprises a visual investigation into the complex nature of black identity while also standing as positive visual documents of […]
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Riot Material Presents Entering The Mind Audiobook C von Hassett’s deep dive into the practice of Dzogchen, Entering The Mind – his highly accessible meditation text – is newly available in audiobook format. Narrated by renowned Los Angeles poet Rachel Reid Wilkie, you can now enter the mind upon a voice so supple, eloquent, and […]
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Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkable, at Gagosian, Beverly Hills (12 January – 25 February 2023) by Amadour Artist Jim Shaw captures the tantalizing spectacle of Hollywood in a new series of paintings and sculptures in his exhibition Thinking the Unthinkable, opening at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. Last month I visited the artist at his studio in Highland […]
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at The Drawing Center, NYC (through 15 January) Reviewed by Robyn Creswell Pain Relief Drawings by Ibrahim El-Salahi Contributors: Laura Hoptman, Hassan Musa The Drawing Center Catalogue, 157pp, $35.00 NYR The face is a mask, vaguely leonine, narrowing from its enormous eyes to a snout of flared nostrils and a small mouth, twisted into what […]
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“Dog on a Roof” From Four out now on Blue Note Bill Frisell, Guitar Greg Tardy, Saxophone Johnathan Blake, Drums Gerald Clayton, Piano .
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Reviewed by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. Stalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh translated by Hanna Leliv and Reilly Costigan-Humes Astra House, 160pp., $13.59 HR The disaster at the nuclear power plant at Chornobyl in April 1986 created, in real life, a geography people had only imagined. The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation […]
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Reviewed by Erik Hmiel The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 880pp., $18.89 When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I played in punk-rock bands. Not just punk-rock bands, hardcore-punk-rock bands, bands you might even call post-punk. We played shows in basements and […]
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Reviewed by Michael Gorra The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy Knopf, 383 pp., $20.22 Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy Knopf, 190 pp., $19.99 NYR No regular reader of Cormac McCarthy will be surprised to find that The Passenger begins with a corpse. Or two corpses, really, one of which has gone missing. The one we see, in the […]
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by Amadour . Artist duo Gerard & Kelly personify the collaborative nature of art making. Their exhibition, Panorama, at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, displays a dynamic video with three dancers questioning the colonialist narratives on the ceiling mural of the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, now the Pinault Collection. The artists also work with silkscreening […]
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Best Jazz Record of 2022 Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy Eremite Records Reviewed by Henry Cherry Four selections of sets from Jeff Parker’s Monday evening live performances with his quartet are the basis of his most recent release, Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy. There is no actual tennis involved. ETA is a small […]
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Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (through 25 March 2023) by Rachel Reid Wilkie Los Angeles poet Rachel Reid Wilkie was given the task of walking into Anselm Kiefer’s Exodus — a literally monumental exhibition, in that each of these paintings are upwards of 30’ tall — and addressing the colossal artworks “cold,” as in […]
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Henry Taylor: B Side at MOCA Grand, Los Angeles (through 30 April 2023) Reviewed by Eve Wood Ages ago when there were LP records and 45s, the B side of a popular single made allowances for experimentation and could be counted on as an alternative vision to the more mainstream and compulsory hit single. B […]
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“Show Me Some Love” Honey Dijon & Channel Tres Feat. Sadie Walkier out now on Black Girl Magic on Classic Music .
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Reviewed by Dan Chiasson The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan Simon & Schuster, 352pp., $28.93 NYR Bob Dylan’s new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song, is a kind of music-appreciation course open to auditors and members of the general public. It is best savored one chapter, one song, at a time, while listening to the […]
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Knowing Not Knowing, at Matt Drey Arts (presenting with the Kava Collective) by Mat Gleason The art of Yehonatan Koenig is a subatomic soiree, every mark-making molecule involved in contributing to a higher purpose along the way. There is form and structure revealed here, an elegant point in the digressions of a thousand or more […]
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“Contingency Song” by Jane Remover on deadAir.
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Smoking the Bible Reviewed by Rhony Bhopla Smoking the Bible by Chris Abani Copper Canyon Press, 96pp., $15.99 HR Chris Abani’s autobiographical book of poems, Smoking the Bible, centers on the relationship of two brothers growing up in Nigeria with an Igbo father and an English mother. The poems, which incorporate the Igbo language along […]
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Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio at Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NYC (through 3 December 2022) By Michael Bonesteel Freelance writer and editor Deborah Coffin of Albany, California, was in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 when she first encountered street musician Brian Wallace at a party. “I had a friend who knew Brian,” […]
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New work from Special Interest “Midnight Legend” ft. Mykki Blanco from the new release, Endureon Rough Trade.
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at University of Southern California, Fisher Museum of Art. (through 3 December 3, 2022) Reviewed by Margaret Lazzari Louise Bourgeois is widely recognized for her sculptures and installations, but Louise Bourgeois: What is The Shape of This Problem is a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in her perhaps-lesser-known prints, fabric work and writings. This exhibit contains over […]
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Moonage Daydream Dir. Brett Morgan Reviewed by Nicholas Goldwin As one of the greatest shapeshifters in the expansive history of rock music, it seems only fitting that the documentary with David Bowie as its subject never seems content to express the trials, tribulations and artistic triumphs of Bowie in any one fixed way. This is […]
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by Merve Emre NYRB The essay form…bears some responsibility for the fact that bad essays tell stories about people instead of elucidating the matter at hand. —Theodor Adorno The personal essay is a genre that is difficult to define but easy to denounce. The offending element is rarely the essay as a form, but its […]
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by Margaret Lazzari The Inglewood Open Studios (IOS) Art Walk features over 75 artists working in all media and will tour artists’ studios as well as host film screenings and gallery exhibitions. The event will kick off with an opening reception featuring all participating artists at Residency Art Gallery in Downtown Inglewood on Friday, November […]
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Bienalle Arte and Bienalle Danza, Venice 2022 By Allyn Aglaïa Chest bound, lips sealed, I walked through Venice alone, quiet, and: thought about narratives that bind us to erotic binds what binds us to each other the woven grass net of the Silver Lion winner’s dance the knots in the laundry lines outside my window endings […]
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from Most Normal (out today) on Rough Trade
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at Advocartsy, Los Angeles (thru 5 November 2022) Reviewed by Christopher Ian Lutz Fantasy requires a symbolic vehicle to transport a character from the real world into the imaginary realm, where the laws of reality are subverted or obscured to justify an otherwise absurd event. The artist might depict the vehicle as a real object […]
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The Pattern of Landscape, at Sean Kelly, Los Angeles (through 5 November 2022) by Ricky Amadour Opening on the corner of Highland and De Longpre Avenues in the heart of Hollywood, Idris Khan’s The Pattern of Landscape is the inaugural exhibition at Sean Kelly, Los Angeles. Khan investigates color theory, text, and musical concepts through […]
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by Sue Halpern The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew Ball Liveright 352pp., $18.89 NYR In October 2021, when Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would now be called Meta and its business interests would be pivoting to the metaverse, there was almost universal confusion: most observers had no idea what he was […]
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Riot Material Presents Entering the Mind — Upcoming Events — PURCHASE THE BOOK . ENTERING THE MIND BOOK SIGNING EVENT THURSDAY, 27 OCTOBER, 5:30pm Riot Material Presents the inaugural book signing event of Entering The Mind @ Joshua Tree Retreat Center. C von Hassett, author of Entering The Mind, will be in conversation with Rachel Reid Wilkie, his co-publisher […]
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at George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles (through 8 October 2022) Reviewed by Nancy Kay Turner “Things are not what they seem: nor are they otherwise.” –Buddha Margaret Lazzari’s luminous solo exhibition of paintings, entitled Breathing Space, were painted during the pandemic, and the exhibition title is indeed significant. It’s defined as a respite, a hiatus, or an […]
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A wisdom transmission by Samaneri Jayasāra . Excerpted from — Advice from the Lotus Born from the chapter “Pointing the Staff at the Old Man” Translated by Eric Pema Kunsang Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 184pp., $21.95 . .
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by Jarrett Earnest Far From Respectable: Dave Hickey and His Art by Daniel Oppenheimer University of Texas Press, 141 pp., $24.95 The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded by Dave Hickey University of Chicago Press, 123 pp., $15.00 (paper) Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy by Dave Hickey Art Issues Press, 215 […]
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Mad God Dir. Phil Tippett Reviewed by Nicholas Goldwin Technically astonishing and immersive to a fault, director Phil Tippett successfully demonstrates that thirty years of relentless dedication to your craft can lead to cinematic innovations even his old stomping grounds – the sets of Star Wars and Jurassic Park – have yet to catch up. […]
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Eve Wood: Hanging in There to Hang On at Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles by Julie Adler I met Eve Wood at Holly Matter, an art gallery on Heliotrope in East Hollywood, 22 years ago now. I recall she got up and read some of her poems. Incisive, cutting, direct, I thought, “wow, what a […]
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Reviewed by Cintra Wilson The History of Bones: A Memoir by John Lurie Random House, 435 pp., $28.00 NYRB It was 1989 when I saw John Lurie on TV in a late-night advertisement for the new Lounge Lizards album, Voice of Chunk, which was “not available in stores” and selling exclusively through an 800 number. Operators were standing […]
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New from Hudson Mohawke: “Bicstan” From the Cry Sugar release out now on Warp Records.
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Reviewed by John Biscello Água Viva by Clarice Lispector New Directions Publishing 88pp., $14.95 Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas by Clarice Lispector New Directions Publishing 864pp., $29.95 The word is my fourth dimension –Clarice Lispector And on the eighth and endless day, where the bottomless hallelujah meets Ouroboros, God created Clarice Lispector. Maybe. […]
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open-end, at Palazzo Grassi, Venice (through 8 January 2023) Reviewed by Arabella Hutter von Arx Four relatively small artworks greet the visitor in the first room of the Marlene Dumas exhibit, open-end, at Palazzo Grassi. D-rection shows a young man contemplating his rather large and purple erection. A bluish white face and a brown face unite […]
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at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick, Cleveland OH (through 30 September 2022) Curated by Stephen Romano Gallery Reviewed by Christopher Ian Lutz The extension of a lineage occurs not merely by the repetition of form, but by the intersection of conservation and revolution. Transformation is fundamental to preserving the essence of a given tradition’s rituals and […]
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at the Lois Lambert Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica (through 3 September 2022) Reviewed by Austin Janisch The exhibition Reflections On Our Warming Planet, at the Lois Lambert Gallery, signals that the time for reacting to our planetary warnings has now passed. We have transitioned into a new stage, that of reflection. This progression into […]
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at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, NYC (through July 29 2022) Reviewed by Phoebe Hoban The small scale of Donna Ferrato’s snapshot-like black-and-white photographs belies their personal and political power. Whether they document the medical sinks and shelves in a now-shuttered Texas abortion clinic, or hone-in on the badly bruised face of a domestic violence victim, […]
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A Cadence for Redemption: Conversations With Abraham Lincoln by Eve Wood Del Sol Press, 46pp., $5.99 Employing the fictive voice of a former president, Eve Wood shifts the perspective on the happenings of our times – where all indicators point to the slow, inexorable collapse of the American Experiment – to the one man who […]
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Crimes of the Future Reviewed by Anna Shechtman and D.A. Miller Neon NYRB A line from Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg’s latest film, has been trailing it around with the campy insistence of an old-fashioned ad campaign: “Surgery is the new sex.” On receiving this information, a skeptical Saul Tenser, played by Viggo Mortensen, asks, “Does there have […]
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July 2022, Los Angeles by Margaret Lazzari “An iceberg is 10% above water and 90% below. When we talk about our work, artists all talk about the stuff above water, but we never talk about all the stuff way beneath the work. Who knows what their work will be until they do it, until they […]
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at Rory Devine Fine Art, Los Angeles (through 6 August) Reviewed by Eve Wood Albert Camus once famously asked, “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” One can only hope that this was a rhetorical question, yet however ironic, it is still a sentiment worth pondering, especially considering today’s current socio-political climate […]
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at Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, France (through 23 October 2022) Reviewed by Eve Wood Art is never made in a vacuum, as all visual iterations must derive from something: a momentary glimpse of refracted light, a train pulling out of the station, a woman lying languorously on a bed. Whatever it is we are […]
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An excerpt from Entering the Mind, the new book from C von Hassett which speaks to the ways we can enter our own mind in meditation to both recognize and stabilize in its already perfectly awakened state. To do this, we must first cleanse the body of the myriad mind-clouding toxins taken in through food. The […]
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By Catherine Nicholson Katie Kadue: Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton Timothy M. Harrison: Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England Nicholas McDowell: Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton Joe Moshenska: Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton NYRB Of the many liberties John Milton took in writing Paradise Lost, his 1667 epic […]
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Brilliant new work from Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” w/ Perfume Genius from the forthcoming Cool It Down out 30 September on Secretly Canadian
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JOEUN KIM AATCHIM 사자굴 [SAJAGUL] — THEN, OUT OF THE DEN at MAKE ROOM LOS ANGELES (through June 4th 2022) Rachel Reid Wilkie: There seems to be a shamanistic quality to your work. You summon your family members into the architectural space of your paintings and beckon them to dream with you, as a collective consciousness, as […]
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Dälek Feat MC dälek & Mike Mare Directed by Will Brooks .from Precipiceout now on Ipecac Recordings.
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Reviewed by Marcel Radosław Garboś Foucault in Warsaw by Remigiusz Ryziński translated by Sean Gasper Bye Open Letter Books, 220pp., $15.95 Harvard Review Since Poland’s state socialist system collapsed in 1989, the records of its police agencies and security services have gone to a government commission entrusted with the “prosecution of crimes against the Polish […]
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Riot Material Presents Entering the Mind — The Tour — C von Hassett and Rachel Reid Wilkie on their global radio and podcast tour in support of Entering the Mind, the new book by Riot Material Founding Editor, C von Hassett. Audio and video access to shows as they go live can be found below: […]
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Rose Wylie: Which One, at David Zwirner, NYC (through 12 June) Reviewed by David Salle Rose Wylie: Which One by Rose Wylie; with Barry Schwabsky, Judith Bernstein, and Hans Ulrich Obrist David Zwirner Books, 196pp., $75.00 NYRB Rose Wylie, who is now eighty-seven, has been painting in the same rural studio in Kent, England, since […]
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from the forthcoming Sunshine Factory “sophia” on Company Records . .
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For Esmé – With Love and Squalor, at Pace Gallery, Los Angeles (through 21 May 2022) Reviewed by Eve Wood How does one represent, let alone quantify hope, hate, grief, love, joy, tragedy, or anything, for that matter, which stands in opposition to something else? Throughout his illustrious career, Julian Schnabel has always been one to […]
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from Club Tularosa feat. Megan Sutherland “No Regrets” newly released on Me Me Me . .
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at Whitney Museum of American Art, Curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards (6 April – 5 September 2022) Reviewed by Jill Conner Throughout Quiet As It’s Kept, the Whitney Museum of American Art has finally reached beyond the limitations of the white cube in order to bring 63 artists and collectives together in what has resulted […]
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by Jill Conner There is usually nothing to say in the wake of violent conflict. The history of forms is bound to the dynamic of time, as a rendering of thoughts on survival. Perceptions create and deconstruct what one sees and experiences before them. Sometimes essence is all that we are left with, because words […]
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Tanya Tagaq’s “Tongues” out now on Six Shooter Records
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Leon Kossoff: A Life in Painting, at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NYC (with concurrent exhibitions at LA Louver in Los Angeles, through 9 April 2022, and Annely Juda Fine Art in London) Reviewed by Arabella Hutter von Arx The first painting greeting us in the Mitchell-Innes & Nash exhibition is, aptly, a self portrait. Smaller than […]
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Noah Davis, at the Underground Museum, Los Angeles Reviewed by Ricky Amadour Directly across from the entrance, an opening statement to Noah Davis, at the Underground Museum, reads “many of the paintings you are about to see were painted in this space.” Smudges, dribbles, and droplets on the floor embody the physical notion of Davis […]
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by James McWilliams Robert Lowell Life Studies / From the Union Dead Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 176pp In 1958, The Partisan Review published Robert Lowell’s poem “Skunk Hour.” This was a notable moment in American literary history. The poem was closely linked to Lowell’s friendship with Elizabeth Bishop. Reading and re-reading Bishop’s work allowed Lowell […]
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Riot Material Presents Entering The Mind 3-Part Podcast Entering The Mind 3-Part Podcast is an intimate discussion on “the nature of mind” and how we as meditators can recognize it within ourselves, then realize it through day-to-day practice. But the conversation is so much more than that, for it is an intimate discussion between two […]
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by Ibibio Sound Machine feat. Eno Williams out today, 25 March on Merge Records
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by Hypatia The verve of English is under house-arrest by the under-educated: the students of Ivy League universities. They are the standard-bearers — Premium Woke — of our freshly scoured language. Still hallowed as God’s little incubators of future elites, America’s most prestigious universities began their decline in the 1980s. The humanities became a forum for […]
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In his new book, Entering the Mind, C von Hassett takes us luminously into the life-affirming, heart-awakening, consciousness-altering terrains of mind in its natural state, where he shows us how to recognize it within ourselves, then realize it through holistic, wholly committed practice. “EtM is a singular accomplishment, remarkable for its clarity as well as its […]
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from the new release Tropical Dancer “It Hit Me” out now on DEEWEE / Because Music
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at Nailya Alexander Gallery Booth, Paris Photo 2021 by Allyn Aglaïa Aumand The Ephemeral Palace . I walked across Paris to the Palais Éphémère to go to Paris Photo. I walked Across Paris, Dense with ghosts. I walked between selves. I walked to the future. I walk. I walked. * I walked along the banks of […]
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“The Captain’s Tale” .Recorded on a debauched, drug-addled evening where the Desert Stranglers laid down a dozen or so tracks — all improvised on-spot, all one takes, a single mic — in the remote highlands above Pioneertown, CA. This is the resultant carnage: .The Desert Stranglers are: Ben Moore | @harvest_recordings Steve Seleska | @steveseleskaart […]
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In his new book, Entering the Mind, C von Hassett takes us luminously into the life-affirming, heart-awakening, consciousness-altering terrains of mind in its natural state, where he shows us how to recognize it within ourselves, then realize it through holistic, wholly committed practice. “EtM is a singular accomplishment, remarkable for its clarity as well as its […]
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Entering the Mind by C von Hassett PURCHASE | IG . . . Read Chapter 3 Excerpt: The View . . . Back Cover Blurb In these extraordinary teachings that speak to the way one confidently enters the mind and observes it in its natural state, C […]
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by Christopher Benfey A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art at New Bedford Whaling Museum, MA NYR “American history is haunted by nightbirds in the nineteenth century,” Lewis Mumford wrote in The Brown Decades, his landmark 1931 study of Gilded Age culture. Chief among these nocturnal artists, for Mumford, was […]
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The Boundary Stone by C von Hassett PURCHASE . Nothing of you but breakage, scattered bone, a length of which I lift. Black, charred, one with all else, its drippings run with light, its marrows the fats of luminous night… . And so begins The Boundary Stone. Back Cover Blurb Amid the smoking ruins of […]
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Fifty years after the publication of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and more than a decade after his death, Hunter S. Thompson’s celebrity continues to obscure his literary achievement. Savage Journey refocuses our understanding of that achievement by mapping Thompson’s influences, probing the development of his signature style, and tracing the reception of his major works. […]
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Pipilotti Rist’s wonderful exhibition, Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor, is currently on view at The Geffen Contemporary, DTLA, and is a must see! Below is one of the many Rist videos on display in varying contexts. “My Boy, My Horse, My Dog” is in gallery-space ‘Das Zimmer (The Room),’ and viewed on the old television […]
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James Castle at David Zwirner, NYC (through 12 February 2022) by Andrew Martin James Castle: Memory Palace John Beardsley Yale University Press, 280pp., $65.00 NYR Every James Castle picture seems to contain a secret. Approaching one of his works for the first time, you peer into pockets of shadow and smudge, examining the depopulated landscapes […]
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from the upcoming EP Forbidden Feelingz on HIJINXX
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From the inaugural print edition of The New York Review of Books In remembrance of Jason Epstein, originator and co-founder of NYRB RIP 1928-2022 by Mary McCarthy Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs Grove Press, 304pp., $14.49 “You can cut into The Naked Lunch at any intersection point,” says Burroughs, suiting the action to the […]
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An excerpt from a new book which examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre’s relation to queer male erotic life. —The University of Chicago Press Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction by Steven Ruszczycky University of Chicago Press, 216pp., $30.00 In the United […]
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By Ricky Amadour As an indefatigable voice for women of color and the greater human spirit, Alison Saar recomposes fractured histories into multivalent sculptures. Saar curated SeenUNseen, a group exhibition at L.A. Louver Gallery, with a focus on spirit portraiture. Throughout human existence there has been a predilection to the allure of the unseen. Hidden […]
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Sofia Kourtesis’s “Estación Esperanza” featuring Manu Chao the single is out now on Ninja Tune
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at Craig Krull Gallery, Bergamot Station (through 19 February 2022) Reviewed by Eve Wood The intricacies and inherent beauty of the natural world are rarely celebrated these days, and when artists do turn their attention to the surrounding landscape, the resulting images are usually ones of devastation and chaos — charting the movement of fires, […]
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A film written and directed by Joel Coen Reviewed by James Shapiro NYR Those who have long followed the Coen brothers and their cinematic universe of criminals, nihilists, and overreachers may see in Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) a long-deferred reckoning with Shakespeare, who has been there before them. We don’t typically think of Shakespeare […]
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at the Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (through 5 February 2022) Reviewed by Johanna Drucker What is the difference between a wall label and a work of art? The unrelenting didacticism that prevails in current gallery and museum exhibits of contemporary art makes it seem that many curators and artists cannot answer that question. […]
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The United States’ democracy is being threatened by increasingly polarized politics. Other countries’ histories offer warnings and suggest possible solutions. by Jennifer McCoy and Benjamin Press From a study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The rise of political polarization in the United States has pushed analysts to ask a fundamental question: what long-term […]
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The Third Door:Occult Works of Ray Robinson, at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (through 15 January) by Christopher Ian Lutz Burn the Sun The persecution of the witch is a war of the hours. The Inquisition that charged women with witchcraft was not just about controlling women’s bodies – it was a crusade to extinguish […]
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by Ricky Amadour . Interdisciplinary artist Gala Porras-Kim frames her research to highlight and question the current institutional practices of conservation, acquisition, and deaccession. Acting as an investigator of cultural artifacts that correspond to institutional collections, Porras-Kim deep dives into the expansive histories, stories, and functions of those objects. The artist’s first solo exhibition in […]
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Featuring Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) & drummer Tom Skinner (Sons of Kemet) See The Smile Live in London
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by Mark Arax The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax Knopf, 576pp., $25.00 MITTR The wind finally blew the other way last night and kicked out the smoke from the burning Sierra. Down here in the flatland of California, we used to regard the granite mountain as a place apart, our […]
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An excerpt from Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent it, by Tom Philpott. THE FLOOD NEXT TIME In November 1860, a young scientist from upstate New York named William Brewer disembarked in San Francisco after a long journey that took him from New York City through Panama and then […]
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An excerpt from the first chapter of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, by Benjamin Madley. CALIFORNIA INDIANS BEFORE 1846 Within a few days, eleven little babies of this mission, one after the other, took their flight to heaven. -Fray Junipero Serra, 1774 We were always trembling with fear of […]
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at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (through 31 July 2022) Reviewed by Nancy Kay Turner “What are the days for? To put between the endless nights. What are the nights for? To slip through time into another world.” –Laurie Anderson “Stories are our weather” –Laurie Anderson Laurie Anderson is a Renaissance polymath whose […]
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at Petzel Gallery, New York City Reviewed by James Quandt Maria Lassnig: Film Works edited by Eszter Kondor, Michael Loebenstein, Peter Pakesch, and Hans Werner Poschauko FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen, 189 pp., $35.00 NYRB Many female artists — most recently Carmen Herrera, Faith Ringgold, and Lorraine O’Grady — have had to wait a lifetime to be accorded the recognition […]
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from the new release The Clearing out now on NNA Tapes
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