Weekend
January 19, 2020
The Quiet Dignity of Peter Hujar
Hujar wrote that his portrait subjects were “those who push themselves to any extreme” and those who “cling to the freedom to be themselves.”
Eileen G'Sell
El Anatsui’s Urgent Visions of the Past and Future
While the material itself consists of forgettable or disposable objects from everyday life, El Anatsui transforms these into remarkable forms embedded with narratives and histories in manifold ways.
Mohamad Khalil Harb
Minimalist Art that Speaks for the Birds
With their exhibition, Look, it’s daybreak, dear, time to sing, Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens investigate the complex, cross-species relationship between birds and humans.
Gregory Volk
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What Giacometti Learned From de Sade
Prompted by his friend André Breton, Alberto Giacometti first read de Sade in 1933, and his studio notes ruminated on seduction, idolatry, and fetishism.
Tim Keane
Jpegmafia, Isolated in His Own Head
The more you listen to All My Heroes Are Cornballs, the more it teaches you how to listen.
Lucas Fagen
A Not Completely Lost History
The artists in Post prove that paintings and drawings can be captivating years after they were done, and that a timely style has a way of becoming uninteresting, even mummifying.
John Yau
Cowboys, Curators, and Finicky-Fingered Mincers
As fairly customary, Glen Baxter is taking a tilt at the absurdities of the fuzzy, whizzy showbizyness of the art world.
Michael Glover
Required Reading
This week, a Mercedes inspired by the film Avatar, the psychosexual dimensions of Slave Play, Instagram censorship, the dance that revolutionized ballet, the anti-imperialist history of the untucked shirt, and more.
Hrag Vartanian
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