Books: Keith Haring's Lines of Desire

"Let’s imagine museums where nothing is stolen," urges Dan Hicks, author of The Brutish Museums: The

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“Let’s imagine museums where nothing is stolen,” urges Dan Hicks, author of The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution. Check out Cassie Packard’s brilliant interview with him, covering his recent book, restitution, and how we can subvert colonial tools.This week, dive into the layered personas of Fernando Pessoa and a re-reading of Keith Haring’s work and relationships. Also, a new book profiles 50 BIPOC art world figures you should know.Happy reading.– Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

Reading Between Keith Haring's Lines

Keith Haring and LA II in front of their collaboration (1982) (photo by Tseng Kwong Chi © Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc., art by Keith Haring © Keith Haring Foundation)

In Keith Haring’s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire, Ricardo Montez complicates our understanding of collaboration, refusing clean conclusions about Haring’s work and relationships. Dive into Danilo Machado’s review.

“We Are Advocating for Us"

The cover of We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World, by Jasmin Hernandez (image courtesy Abrams)

We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World aims to be a new kind of art book, one that isn’t just for the elite. Author Jasmin Hernandez highlights 50 art world figures, from artists to curators to museum educators. With photography by Sunny Leerasanthanah and Jasmine Durhal, the book offers readers a peek into the lives andcreative minds of its subjects.

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Fernando Pessoa and His Fictional Coterie of Poets The Portuguese author concealed his identity behind aliases, or what he called heteronyms, who served as guides to living. Nolan Kelly

Victor Burgin’s Unclassifiable Take on the Passages of Art and Life The artist’s landmark experimental text, “Between,” now reissued, remains one of a kind more than three decades after its publication. Melissa Holbrook Pierson

The Last of the Storytellers In his fiction, Nikolai Leskov writes as if he is overhearing the stories being told. Nolan Kelly

An Interview with Author Dan Hicks

The Benin Bronzes and Ultraviolence of World Culture Museums The Brutish Museums considers the histories of cruelty that western museums perpetuate when they do not endeavor to return looted colonial artifacts. Cassie Packard

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