...alter ego appears in Respiración artificial (Artificial Respiration), the 1980 novel that propelled Piglia to prominence in the Hispanic literary world, as well as in the 2010 Blanco nocturno (Target...
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Forgery Fiction
...on it. Ever since Aestheticism’s mantra of art for art’s sake, capital-A Art has kept its distance from the taint of money, even though they have always been attached by...
You Are Never Alone at the Museum
...take place? Where is art allowed to attract capital, visibility, and legitimacy?”1 Moreover, as one of the subjects of the film, the artist Cedart Tamasla, affirms: “The film, like the...
The Art of Extraction: An Interview with Jean-Claude Carrière
...be a filmmaker. G&W: So do you spend time in the editing room on all of your films? Is it part of your contract now? JCC: Once I...
The Art of Protest
...with friends about the lecture we just heard by the artist Alfredo Jaar, who discussed some of his provocative public memory projects in Chile, Japan, Switzerland, and Memphis, Tennessee. There’s...
Bringing Outsiders In
...in the art. The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection (March 3–June 9, 2013), now joined by an...
The Art of the Communist Museum: The Leon Trotsky House in Coyoacán
...the Batman movies would use to hypnotize you. It might seem unfair, however, to expect beauty from a Trotsky museum; Trotsky was, after all, not an artist but the leader...
Found in Translation: Franco-Belgian Comics in America (Part 1)
...the publication by NBM this year of Étienne Davodeau’s The Initiates: A Comic Artist and a Wine Artisan Exchange Jobs (the original French title—Les ignorants: Récit d’une initiation croisée [literally,...
In the Yellowstone Valley, a Beet Farmer with an Artist’s Soul
...the artist Harry Koyama, Dances in White. Oil, 36 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the artist Harry Koyama, Elk of Yellowstone. Oil, 11 x 14 inches. Courtesy of the artist...
A Conversation with Ellis Avery
...that characterizes the stories of both of the artists she loves. And I’m doing this because I want to valorize a more egalitarian perspective on art, art-making, and art appreciation....
Unreal Realism: Chicago’s Avant-Garde Women
...merges art and life to portray Chicago itself as a kind of surrealist topography. An artist’s encounter with that unreality seems to arouse an avant-garde disposition: an art of tactics...
Fascism’s Cultural Behemoth
...show’s disconcerting title—Post Zang Tumb Tuuum. Art Life Politics: Italia 1918–1943—is perhaps the place to start. It is an opaque mix, an art deco cocktail, its ingredients artfully stirred together...
#Storytelling: The Art of the Micro-narrative
For four days this March, as part of Twitter’s second Fiction Festival, writers from around the globe tweeted works of fiction in installments of no more than 140 characters. This...
When Art Disrupts Life
...wild fact that Tangerine is the first widely-released feature to be filmed entirely on iPhones, but nearly all of those reviews then qualify that merit: the film’s artistry is achieved...
Brexit or Utopia?
...such that the “Art” in nature might ascend to something like artfulness, beyond mere artifice. But before that very late half-redemption, Art suffers repeated indignities. He loses control of his...
The Metamorphoses of Alberto Savinio
...his part, Savinio, in articles published in 1921, asserted the centrality of memory to modern art, contending that dreams, due to their inconsistency, cannot provide any aesthetic foundation.5 Walking a...
Breaking Down Walls at the Havana Biennial
...back to 1981, when a group of young artists, working with abstract expressionism, pop art, conceptual art, and the neo-figurative, put on a groundbreaking show called Volumen Uno (Volume One)....
“What Invisibility Looks Like”
...began to question some of minimalism’s tenets, especially the supremacy of the objet d’art, or finished work. The most important element of art making, he came to believe, wasn’t the...
Rancière’s Counter-Modernism
...of art’s categories and the impossibility of mapping a territory called “art” is art itself. Under Rancière’s thesis, Kant’s notion of beauty without a concept becomes the experience of liberation...
Build Culture, Build Community, Break Fascism
...nearly two weeks, artivistas—art activists—from across the borderlands tapped cultural expression as a vehicle for building relationships, and for reflecting on the struggles Chican@ and indigenous people experience as political...