Books in Brief: What to Read in May
A.i.A.'s five most-anticipated art books coming out in May, from an experimental Fassbinder biography to a history of how Danish chairs took over American homes.
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HOARD: A Peek at the Pop-Up Lady’s Moveable Book Collection
Ellen Rubin gives ARTnews a tour of her collection of 10,000 pop-up books.
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History’s Painter: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh’s “Gerhard Richter”
In a long-awaited monograph, art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh reckons with the work of Gerhard Richter.
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Reading Material: Books Shaping Artists’ Practices Now
Ten artists highlight a text that has influenced their work over the past year.
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Minor Literature: Kafka’s Drawings
The mediocrity of Kafka's previously unpublished drawings, collected in a new volume, throws the brilliance of his novels and stories into sharp relief.
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In Print: Summer Reading
Art in America's second annual Summer Reading issue (June/July 2022) considers the relationship between art and books.
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‘The Museum Has Never Been a Neutral Space’: Curator Laura Raicovich Takes Aim at Institutions
In her book Culture Strike, she looks at recent controversies in which museums have faced protests.
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Photography in Fragments
Two new books by leading photography critics offer unconventional takes on the medium's history.
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A History of Architects Mistaking Design for Politics
The World as an Architectural Project, recently published by MIT Press, surveys fifty projects, most of them ambitious in a troubling way.
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Madeline Gins’s Cybernetic Poetry and the Radical Language of the 1960s
In a new collection of Madeline Gins's poetry and prose edited by Lucy Ives, Ives compares Gins’s poetry to the work of artists like Dan Graham and Adrian Piper, exploring how each approached semantics.
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