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Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
When Louise Bourgeois published “The View From the Bottom of the Well,” a seminarrative portfolio of prints, in The Paris Review (Fall 1996), she seemed already to be gazing up from the grave....
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The Long and Short of It
Adorable, literal interpretations of author names by illustrator Mattias Adolfsson. “I know I said that if I lived to 100 I’d not regret what happened last night. But I woke up this morning and a...
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A Week in Culture: Claire Cottrell, Art Book Shop Owner and Editor
DAY ONE 7:00 A.M. Wake up to dog barking and strong skunk smell in house. Fear that door to garden was left open and skunk is loose in house. Get out of bed to confirm. Garden door is not open and...
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Marks on Paper: Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls
At Bluestocking Books, my favorite indie bookstore in Hillcrest, San Diego, I pick up a glorious-looking object. The cover is textured, beige with a blue inside flap—a look typical of the publisher...
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Movie Novelization Is a Dying Art, and Other News
The portraits of Carl Van Vechten: Henri Matisse, Gertrude Stein, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and more. “Even when he’s dead, as he is for much of the book, we feel that he’s still hovering...
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Bring Home a Little Piece of Obscenity, and Other News
Detail from Robert Mapplethorpe’s Self Portrait, 1983. If you’ve got an extra $250k–$350k lying around, you could own a part of obscenity history—a print of Robert Mapplethorpe’s electrifying...
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Eileen Myles and Jeremy Sigler Go to an Exhibition
Jeremy Sigler and Eileen Myles at “(Re)Appropriations,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery. Photo: Andrew Arnot Not long ago, I found myself reading Jeremy Sigler’s 2009 interview with Eileen Myles in The...
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Holy Disobedience: On Jean Genet’s The Thief’s Journal
In the first stirring lines of The Thief’s Journal, Jean Genet bares his youthful aspirations, his doctrine as a poet, and his tenets as a man. He offers a single sentence—“Convicts’ garb is striped...
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The Irreplaceable Ingrid Sischy
Ingrid Sischy. I’m thinking of a summer evening in Venice in 1982. The Biennale was on, and Ingrid and I were standing outside a palazzo where a loud party was in full swing. Ingrid was expected at the...
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