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Book Review: Three New Novels Explore the Power of Trauma
A trio of new novels suggest that bad as it gets may not be as bad as it can get.
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“Working on The Way We Live Now was a natural process of learning about modernist architecture and the dominating visions of figures such as Le Corbusier, Mies, and Adolf Loos.”
Read More about Visual Arts Interview: “The Way We Live Now” — Blending Modernist Architecture and Contemporary ArtWe learn, over and over, that the author of the song “Vicious” dispensed his legendary acts of cruelty with sadistic aplomb.
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Bomb Magazine’s goal is not merely to comment on the arts, it is about making art.
Read More about Fuse Book Review: “Bomb’s Author Interviews” — Hipper Than ThouIn 1957, Women’s Wear Daily called Andy Warhol “the Leonardo da Vinci of the shoe trade.”
Read More about Visual Arts Review: The Young Have Come Down With “Warhol Mania”What Nerve! takes an innovative and fresh take on a little-noticed but piquant tributary of American art.
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Simon Fujiwara epitomizes the new model of a successful avant-garde artist in the world today.
Read More about Visual Arts: Simon Fujiwara at Harvard’s Carpenter Center — A Canny, Wildly Funny Lens on Modern IdeasSome fifty-five objects trace a legacy of casual brutality and white hegemony that is at the heart of Yale University’s—and this nation’s—founding.
Read More about Visual Arts Review: “Figures of Empire” — When Racism and Art MeetThough acknowledged as one of the half-dozen or so key figures in Latin American modern art, Wilfredo Lam’s status in the modernist canon is unclear.
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Fuse Commentary: The Value of Browsing and Discovering That the “Shit Must Stop”
Sometime you go in search of one thing, and you stumble upon something else. And maybe that newly discovered thing is something wonderful.
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