Books Reviews
How Joseph Grigely Blazed a Trail for Disability Arts
His new book of collected writings, out from Primary Information, surveys 40 years of work.
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Why Did Coreen Simpson’s Stylish Pictures of Exuberant Black Life Fail to Reach a Wider Audience Until Now?
Her new monograph shows how she merged fashion and social photography.
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Why Do Men Keep Saying Culture Is Over?
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century is a sweeping argument about our era's bad art
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Olivia Laing’s New Historical Fiction Sees Famed Italian Filmmakers Navigate Fascism
Silver Book, set in the Years of Lead, stars Federico Fellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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How Jean Baudrillard Turned Philosophy into Performance Art
A new biography details his ideas as he lived them.
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In His Paintings, Chaïm Soutine Found the Divine in Decay
Soutine's representational canvases may have fallen out amid micentury AbEx fervor, but they are certainly back in now.
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The Only Thing More Vapid Than the Art World Is This Novel About It
Zoe Dubno'sHappiness & Love sears—but also epitomizes—the contradictions of the creative class.
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How Artists Resisted Fascism a Century Ago
A new bookComrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism, 1933–1943 tells the story of the Artists International Association (AIA).
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Nayland Blake’s Conceptually Horny Work Traverses the Dungeon and the Studio
Blake has a new essay collection and a show at Matthew Marks.
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Stephen Shore’s ‘Early Work,’ with Pictures He Shot at Age 13, Is Anything but Amateur
He was given a Kodak ABC Darkroom Outfit for his sixth birthday, a Ricoh 35 for his eighth, and a copy of a Walker Evans book for his tenth.
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