Watch Royal Academy curators Sarah Lea and Professor Dorothy Price discuss the pioneering work of four women making art on their own terms: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kӓthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin.
Category Archives: Arts & Literature
Books: TLS/Times Literary Supplement – Dec 16, 2022
Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS – December 16, 2022: Featuring @CLEdwall on Keats; @prospect_clark on Starmer’s Labour; Martin Ivens on Liz Truss; @zoeguttenplan on Orlando at the Garrick; @pottmeister on White Noise; @angusjnicholls on Eckermann and Goethe – and more.
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Dec 19, 2022
Shooting Shakespeare with Jean-Luc Godard
The actress and writer recalls working with French cinema’s enfant terrible.
The World-Changing Race to Develop the Quantum Computer
Such a device could help address climate change and food scarcity, or break the Internet. Will the U.S. or China get there first?
The Promise and the Politics of Rewilding India
Ecologists are trying to undo environmental damage in rain forests, deserts, and cities. Can their efforts succeed even as Narendra Modi pushes for rapid development?
Books: The New York Times Book Review – Dec 11, 2022
@nytimesbooks December 11, 2022 features:
2022 Reading Picks From Times Staff Critics
The books they read this year that have stayed with them.
When It Comes to Picture Books, Santa Sells
At this time of year, the best-selling books for children are all Christmas, all the time. And they’re not even new!
A Family Drama, Taiwan History and Murder Case, Rolled Into One
“Ghost Town,” a novel by Kevin Chen, recounts the overlapping — and hotly contested — memories of a Taiwanese family.
Arts & Literature: Ursula Magazine – Winter 2023
Ursula (Winter 2023) is the art magazine of Hauser & Wirth, featuring essays, profiles, films, interviews, original portfolios, and photography by some of the most thought-provoking writers and artists in the world.
Artists and Sitters
Henry Taylor in conversation with Sheree Hovsepian about depiction and the depicted
Maker: Akiko Hirai
For our first film in a new series focusing on some of the world’s best emerging and established artist-makers, we take you inside the studio of Akiko Hirai
Culture: The American Scholar – Winter 2023
@TheAmScho – Winter 2023 issue:
The Road to Paradise and Back
Fires in the West, hurricanes in the East—what it’s like on the ground as we confront our rapidly changing world
The Corals and the Capitalist
The key to avoiding an ecological catastrophe might be found in the wealth of nations and the spirit of innovation
Our Founding Contradiction
The entrenched dichotomy at the center of the national story
Literary Readings: ‘The Illiad’ (London Review)
Among the Ancients: The ‘Iliad’
A sample from the first episode of the Close Readings series from Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones.
Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace.
Books: TLS/Times Literary Supplement – Dec 9, 2022
Times Literary Supplement (December 9, 2022) @TheTLS: Features @jennieerinsmith on the Huxleys; @TristramHuntVA on Birkbeck; @lib_thinks on Lady Glenconner; @jamesbpcook on fatherhood; @MisakCheryl on John Venn; @snsyquia on this year’s Michael @MarksAwards – and more.
Books: New York Review Of Books – Dec 22, 2022
‘Competitive Consumption’
An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art displays the extravagant Tudor taste for jewels, artworks, tapestries, and other finery.
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 10, 2022–January 8, 2023; the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 26–May 14, 2023; and the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June 24–September 24, 2023
Writing the Furies
The essayist Judith Thurman has made a career of profiling complicated, often unstoppable women.
A Left-Handed Woman by Judith Thurman
The Sea, the Sea
Rachel Carson’s ocean books reveal an author profoundly engaged with the problem of how to convey ecological knowledge—and how to decenter human life.
The Sea Trilogy: Under the Sea-Wind, The Sea Around Us, The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson, edited by Sandra Steingraber
Literary Preview: The Paris Review – Winter 2022 – 2023
Colm Tóibín on the Art of Fiction: “No matter what you do in a novel there’s a secret DNA of whatever it is that you’ve suffered.” N. Scott Momaday on the Art of Poetry: “I was writing lines that looked like lines of poetry, recollecting my early days on the reservation, but I didn’t know the difference between a spondee and a dactyl.”
FICTION
Mieko Kanai – Tap Water
Addie E. Citchens – A Good Samaritan
Sophie Madeline Dess – Zalmanovs
Tom Drury – Where Does This Live?
Isabella Hammad – Gertrude
Lucas Hnathfrom – Old Actress
Kate Riley – L. R.
Avigayl Sharp – Uncontrollable, Irrelevant
Prose by Avigayl Sharp, Lucas Hnath, and Mieko Kanai.
Poetry by William IX of Aquitaine, Cynthia Cruz, and Peter Mishler.
Art by Mary Manning and Lily van der Stokker.
Cover by Uman.
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