Far-Out
We at the Review are big fans of the work of Tomi Ungerer, so we were delighted to hear about this documentary on the idiosyncratic illustrator. As the trailer and this interview with the director...
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In Extremis
Self-Reflection, c. 1901-2 Danger, 1901 Into the Unknown, c. 1901-2 Epidemic, 1901 Dolmen, c. 1900-1 Black Mass, 1905 Siberian Fairy Tale, c. 1901-2 The Moment of Birth, c. 1901-2 Alfred Kubin was an...
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Douglas Coupland Is Covered in Gum
Photo via Escape Kit Douglas Coupland—you know him. Author of Generation X, and conflicted progenitor of the same term; occasional Financial Times columnist; one-time Paris Review Daily interviewee....
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Art Amnesty
Why are some people artists while others are not? Was Joseph Beuys an idiot when he said everyone is an artist? Do artists think they are a cut above the rest of us? Are the arts a good in...
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Jane Freilicher, 1924–2014
Jane Freilicher, Untitled, 1965. Jane Freilicher died last week at ninety; the New York Times’s obituary called her “a stubbornly independent painter whose brushy, light-saturated still lifes and...
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Alice Neel’s Brothers Karamazov
Alice Neel, Untitled (Karamazov, His Three Sons, and the Servant Gregory), ca. 1938, 14 ¼” x 10”. © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London. Alice Neel, who died in 1984, is...
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Work About Work
Mika Rottenberg, Barbara from Mary’s Cherries, 2004, color photograph Mika Rottenberg’s installation NoNoseKnows, showing now at the Venice Biennale, focuses on production, as much of her work does: in...
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Good Old Neon
Iván Navarro, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb (Matte Black and Warm White), 2014, neon, wood, formica, drum hardware and electric energy, 72" x 32".Iván Navarro was born in Chile, in 1972, the year before Pinochet...
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Charles Keeping’s Beowulf
The British illustrator Charles Keeping (1924–88) is remembered largely for his work with children’s books. But his morbid style—his first book commission was Why Die of Heart Disease?—often felt...
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A Photographic Memory: In the Studio with Lorna Simpson
Lorna Simpson. Photo: Menelik PuryearAfter we summited the ridges high above Aspen in late July of this year, the artist Lorna Simpson and I finally had the occasion to speak at length. Simpson, in...
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We Are Unable to Use the Enclosed Material
An artist’s quixotic attempt to convince The New Yorker to embrace photography.From “The New Yorker Project.” Courtesy Institute 193Nina Howell Starr’s “The New Yorker Project,” currently on view at...
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Lesbian Whale: An Interview with Barbara Hammer
Installation view of Lesbian Whale. Courtesy Barbara Hammer and Company Gallery.Barbara Hammer is something of a legend in queer feminist and experimental filmmaking circles. In the seventies, she was...
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Hands, Spatula
The Japanese artist Izumi Kato has his first solo exhibition in the U.S. at Galerie Perrotin, in New York, through February 27. Eschewing brushwork, Kato, forty-six, paints directly with his hands,...
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A Quiet, Meditative Place
Joe Gibbons on his drawings from Rikers Island.Photo: Andrew LampertOver a forty-year career, Joe Gibbons has become a legend in the world of experimental film. His work so thoroughly wrinkles the...
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Some Unearthly Master, and Other News
William Horton’s illustration in The Savoy No. 7. Via the Public Domain Review.Brad Bigelow thinks of his blog, Neglected Books, as “one little step against entropy.” His reviews of forgotten or...
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Serial Queens Now and Forever, and Other News
The actress Ruth Roland in an advertisement for the serial Hands Up in 1918. Image via The Atlantic.Remembering Zaha Hadid, the “starchitect” who died yesterday at sixty-five: “It always amazed me that...
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Congratulations, You’re Everywhere, and Other News
William Sergeant Kendall, Narcissa (detail).Today in mirrors: they’re everywhere. As Alexandra Kleeman points out, they’ve proliferated to such a degree that our self-image is inescapable. There’s...
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Summer Hours, Part 2
Catch up with Part 1 of Vanessa Davis’s new column. Vanessa Davis is the author of the collections Spaniel Rage and Make Me a Woman. She is one of the Daily’s correspondents.
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Visual Anarchy
The artist Michael Kidner died in 2009. In New York, a new exhibition at Flowers Gallery celebrates his works on paper from the 1960s and 2000s, which found him experimenting with moire patterns,...
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Inspired by our famous Writers at Work interviews, “My First Time” is a series of short videos about how writers got their start. Created by the filmmakers Tom Bean, Casey Brooks, and Luke Poling, each...
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