American artist Alison Knowles (1933–2025), one of the founding members of Fluxus—an international network of artists, composers, and poets most active in the 1960s and 1970s—long remained without the kind of dedicated scholarly monograph afforded to…
1: The Giantess When I first saw her in 2023, I had a job that paid me to tell stories about animals and an apartment in Berlin I rarely left. Most days I was squirreled under…
The 61st Venice Biennale, “In Minor Keys,” cites One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez as one of its inspirations—the story of Macondo, the town where the novel unfolds. A fragment that never made…
By Alt Går Bra (Branko Boero Imwinkelried and Agnes Nedregård)
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Aaron Cobbett’s analog camera immortalized queer nightlife in Manhattan’s East Village through fabulous photo shoots that both rivaled contemporary fashion editorials and rejected the fashion world’s unattainable beauty ideals. Most…
In 2008, the publishing giant Penguin Random House launched their Penguin Clothbound Classics (PCC) series, featuring attractively bound copies of the English literary canon. The books are affordable collectibles with a clear aesthetic formula: linen hardcovers,…
Approaching the university as a site of both critique and endeavor, Ben Spatz’s Race and the Forms of Knowledge: Technique, Identity, and Place in Artistic Research offers a series of refreshingly challenging claims whose implications for academic inquiry…
In Curating Worlds: Museum Practices in Contemporary Literature (2025), literary studies scholar Emma Bond forays into urgent debates concerning the future of public museums. On its face, a literary theorist’s intervention in museum studies discourse—and operational museology at that—might…
Los Angeles is the kind of place that drives people—artists, writers, filmmakers—not just to understand it but to reckon with it, to publicly parse its ungraspable multiplicity. Such is the task handed to the rotating curators of the Hammer…
Anthony Petro’s Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars brings forward a significant counternarrative of the role of religion in American art during the 1980s and 1990s. This period is frequently narrated as the “Culture Wars”: a…
