Books: Why a Disabled Artist Collective Was What I Needed All Along

Ah, the power (and performative pleasure) of wigs. As Lauren Moya Ford reminds us, throughout history

Dec 21, 2020 • View in browser

Ah, the power (and performative pleasure) of wigs. As Lauren Moya Ford reminds us, throughout history wigs have been “tools for gender bending, seduction, and disguise. So why not write a book about them?” Check out her take on Luigi Amara’s fanciful new text below.Meanwhile, Andrea Gyrody perused Amy Sillman’s newest collection of essays, which won us over for its ability to poke fun at art history’s pomp and pretension. Also worth checking out is this excerpt of Golem Girl, a memoir by artist and curator Riva Lehrer, which recounts her own process of unlearning the ableist shame often foisted on people with disabilities.– Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

Why a Disabled Artist Collective Was What I Needed All Along I hadn’t just needed Disabled friends. I’d needed friends who could give my experiences context and analysis. Riva Lehrer

The Silly, Sexy, and Serious Wigs That Made History “The Wig: A Hairbrained History” explores the wig as a tool for gender bending, seduction, and disguise in a collection of fanciful short essays. Lauren Moya Ford

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Poking Fun at Art History, Amy Sillman Makes a Case for Awkwardness A collection of relatable but often erudite texts, Sillman’s Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings muses on the unwieldy question of painting’s status in a world preoccupied with bigger problems. Andrea Gyorody

Only Poetry Can Interrogate Sex Language caresses the tongue. Mark Scroggins

Poems of Spiritual Quest and Musical Yearning Joseph Donahue’s verse is rarely melodramatic, but rather humane and temperate, even when the insights are startling. Rachel DuPlessis

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