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Ferrari Sheppard: Positions of Power
At UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles (through 15 May 2021) Reviewed by Eve Wood The history of portrait painting is long and star-studded from the stunningly humanist portraits of Alice Neel to the...
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Christoph Waltz’s Savagely Clever Directorial Debut In Georgetown
Reviewed by Kristy Puchko At 53, Austrian-German actor Christoph Waltz became an unlikely Hollywood star. After decades working in German film and television, he broke through with Quentin Tarantino’s...
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Aidan Salakhova’s The Dust Became The Breath
at Gazelli Art House, London (through 6 June 2021) Reviewed by Niccy Hallifax Walking into a London gallery again after a year of restrictions and lock-downs was strange but uplifting for the soul....
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The Beautiful and the Damned: Yelena Moskovich’s A Door Behind A Door
Reviewed by John Biscello A Door Behind A Door by Yelena Moskovich Two Dollar Radio, 188 pp., $16.99 In the afterlife You could be headed for the serious strife Now you make the scene all day But...
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A Quiet Place Part II Delivers Everything You’d Want For This Horror Sequel
Reviewed by Kristy Puchko A Quiet Place was one of the most exhilarating cinematic experiences of the last decade, unfurling a unique vision of horror that weaponized audience screams against them....
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Recalibrating Awareness in Rebecca Campbell Infinite Density, Infinite Light
At LA Louver (through 2 July 2021) Reviewed by Eve Wood How does an artist adequately describe in paint the concept of love? One could say that even the idea of attempting to capture this ineffable...
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Degeneracy So Pure It Transcends Hate: Breath Like the Wind at Dawn is This...
Review by James McWilliams Breath Like the Wind at Dawn by Devin Jacobsen Sagging Meniscus Press, 200 pp., $16.80 One doesn’t really enjoy a novel with a protagonist whose distinguishing feature is a...
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Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax and Provocation
Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax and Provocation by Antoinette LaFarge DoppelHouse Press, 432pp., $49.95 Introduction [excerpt] It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with.… It matters what...
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‘Aliveness Made True of Blackness’ in Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water
Reviewed by Yagnishsing Dawoor Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson Grove Atlantic, 160pp., $12.10 ORB The killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers quickly spawned a soundscape...
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Restless Threads: The Tapestries of Annette Cords
Reviewed by Jill Conner at Project:ARTspace, New York City . When Shape/Shifters opened on January 7, 2020 at Project:ARTspace in Manhattan, no one was remotely ready for something as dramatic as the...
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The Liquidity of Ourselves: Amoako Boafo’s Singular Duality: Me Can Make We
at Roberts Projects, Los Angeles (through November 6, 2021) Reviewed by Eve Wood Amoako Boafo’s second exhibition at Roberts Projects, Singular Duality: Me Can Make We, represents an exploration into...
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Songs in the Key of Consciousness: XI’s Extrasensory Dance Poetry
Reviewed by Henry Cherry In the year of the pandemic, at-home bread baking was king. There’s no denying that. Why would you want to? A nice sour dough loaf can go a long way to knocking down the...
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A Howl of Grief for the Life Bleeding Out: Harrow, by Joy Williams
Reviewed by Justin Taylor Harrow: A Novel by Joy Williams Knopf, 224pp., $22.99 Bookforum I drove across the Everglades in May. I had originally planned to take Alligator Alley, but someone tipped me...
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Stillpoint: Reflections From A Year On The Cliff
an excerpt from: Stillpoint by Barrett Martin Sunyata Books, 112pp., $12.99 Northern Lights There are seven tall pines that line the edge of the cliff. We call them the Seven Sisters, because their...
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Beyond the Pleasure Dome: The Lost Occult World of Burt Shonberg
at Buckland Museum, Cleveland (through 1 November 2021). Presented by Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn Reviewed by Robin Scher “The truth is out there,” that quintessentially quotable tagline from the...
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Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
An excerpt from a new book W. W. Norton calls “a radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights.” Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia...
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Break//Breathe: Broken Men That Glitter
by Allyn Aglaïa Aumand On the coherence of fracture an essay in fragments on fragments * I had a lover once, who self described as a volcano, but fully encased. Make space to let it out sometimes, I...
View ArticleHenry Taylor’s B Side: Where Mind Shapes Itself to Canvas
Henry Taylor: B Side at MOCA Grand, Los Angeles (through 30 April 2023) Reviewed by Eve Wood Ages ago when there were LP records and 45s, the B side of a popular single made allowances for...
View ArticleOn Wing With Word Through Anselm Kiefer’s Exodus
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (through 25 March 2023) by Rachel Reid Wilkie Los Angeles poet Rachel Reid Wilkie was given the task of walking into Anselm Kiefer’s Exodus — a...
View ArticleIt Begins with a Corpse: New Work from Cormac McCarthy
Reviewed by Michael Gorra The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy Knopf, 383 pp., $20.22 Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy Knopf, 190 pp., $19.99 NYR No regular reader of Cormac McCarthy will be surprised to...
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