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Humanities Magazine – Spring 2025 Preview

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HUMANITIES MAGAZINE (April 10, 2025): The latest issue features Eliot Noyes, pictured here on the television show Omnibus, brought a sculptural grace to his work. 

Corpus Linguistics Is Changing How Courts Interpret the Law

David Skinner

Monet Saving the World

Public art and politics

Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated

Steven Nadler

The Extreme Geometries of Bodys Isek Kingelez 

Christopher Byrd

The New York Times Magazine – March 9, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (03/07/2025): The 3.9.25 Issue features David Enrich on the attack on The New York Times v. Sullivan ruling and its protections for the press; Ruth Margalit on the activist Einav Zangauker, whose son is captive in Gaza; Jonah Weiner on the director Bong Joon Ho; and more.

The ‘Parasite’ Director Brings Class Warfare to Outer Space

Bong Joon Ho has turned his funny-sad excavations of life under capitalism into unlikely blockbusters. With “Mickey 17,” he’s bending a whole new genre.

Why Is Hollywood Obsessed With Architects? ‘The Brutalist’ Gives Us a Hint.

The trope of the embattled auteur exerting their will is too tempting for filmmakers to ignore. By Walker Mimms

The New York Times Magazine – Feb 23, 2025

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: The 2.23.25 Issue features Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg on the Murdochs’ succession drama; David Yaffe-Bellany on the cryptocurrency scam that turned a small community on itself; Ismail Muhammad on the comedian Roy Wood Jr….

Six Takeaways About the Murdoch Succession Fight

Here are the main revelations about the battle for control from a secret Nevada trial.

The Comedian Looking for Something All of America Can Laugh At

Roy Wood Jr. performs in small clubs from Georgia to Wyoming, finding humor in the moments that leave us humbled and confused.

The Cryptocurrency Scam That Turned a Small Town Against Itself

How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away?

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Times Literary Supplement – January 10, 2025 Preview

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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (January 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ – The evolution of morality.

Arts: The Brooklyn Rail – December/January 2025

The Brooklyn Rail (December 11, 2024): The latest issue features…

“When you invent the ship, you must also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you must also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.”
–Paul Virilio

“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”
–Albert Einstein

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Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Tapes, Fields, and Trees, 1975–84 – By Rebecca Allan

David Smith: The Nature of Sculpture – By Phong Bui

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 – By David Carrier

Jaeheon Lee: Ghosts in the Garden – By William Corwin

Edges of Ailey – By Ekin Erkan

Patterns in Abstraction – By Leia Genis

Jordan Nassar: THERE – By Robert Alan Grand

Jay DeFeo: Trees – By Suzanne Hudson

Nour Mobarak: Dafne Phono – By Eana Kim

Yuli Yamagata: Ghosts Don’t Wear Watches – By Alfred Mac Adam

Soledad Sevilla: Ritmos, tramas, variables – By Valerie Mindlin

Mark Bradford: Keep Walking – By Charles Moore

André Griffo: Exploded View – By Rômulo Moraes

Jesse Krimes: Corrections – By Joanna Seifter

Lynne Drexler: Color Notes – By David Whelan

Rosemarie Beck: Earthly Paradise – By Leah Triplett Harrington

Francesco Clemente: Summer Love in the Fall – By Selena Parnon

Sean Scully: Duane Street, 1981–1983 – By Raphy Sarkissian

Henni Alftan: Stop Making Sense – By Ann C. Collins

Hap Tivey: Perception is the Medium – By Benjamin Clifford

William Gropper: Artist of the People – By Margot Yale

Los Angeles Review Of Books – Winter 2024-2025

LA Review of Books (December 11, 2024)The latest issue, #43 – Fixation, features:

Conversation

A Precise Excavation of the Soul: A Conversation with Hilton Als by Melissa Seley

Nonfiction

Mean Mommies: Care in Contemporary Queer Literature by Jenny Fran Davis

Our Ambassadors to the Future: Relics of—and for—ourselves by Christina Wood

The Only Girl in the World: On Madonna and ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ by Brontez Purnell

Homespun Tiara: A Profile of Model and Activist Geena Rocero by Enzo Escober

Syria’s Forgotten Island of Opposition: A report from the al-Tanf military compound by Charlie Clewis

Bedrock: On gravesites literal and not by Charley Burlock

American Blondes: Are we having more fun yet? by Arielle Gordon

Fiction

Bright by Grace Byron

Finishing Moves by Evan McGarvey

Witches of Fresno and Pigfoot by Venita Blackburn

The Good Life by Brady Brickner-Wood

The Aforementioned Journal by David Hollander

Poetry

Srdičko Bolí by Claressinka Anderson

Has Your Spirit Dried Up? by emet ezell

I Haven’t Heard My Brother’s Voice in Ten Years by Douglas Manuel

Montauk by Connie Voisine

Straining for the Noise by Jenny Xie

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Lida Abdul

Los Angeles Review Of Books – Summer 2024

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LA Review of Books (August 13, 2024) – The latest issue, No. 42, features Gossip. The editors start a group chat on group chats, inviting Daniel Lavery, Summer Kim Lee, Whitney Mallett, Natasha Stagg, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Tal Rosenberg, Sophie Kemp, Hillary Brenhouse, Sophia Stewart, and Jamie Hood;

Zoe Mendelson puts a dollar sign and a public spin on the phrase “daddy issues” in an online-only exclusive;

Rhian Sasseen swipes right on behalf of a fictional porn addict;

Francesca Peacock roots through the archives for a deeper understanding of scandal and speech;

Ruth Madievsky closes the gate on her college rumor mill;

and Emmeline Clein recounts an “American Icarus story” spelled out in diet pills and rhinestones.

Gossip as a Literary Genre, or Gossip as “L’Écriture feminine”?

Francesca Peacock roots through the archives for a deeper understanding of scandal and speech in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”

Arts & Culture: Aesthetica Magazine-Feb/March 2024

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Aesthetica Magazine (February 2, 2024) The February/March 2024 issue features ‘Perception is Everything’. This issue recognises agents of change. Throughout history, art has influenced societies, challenged norms, questioned the status quo, raised awareness and prompted new perspectives.

The artists in this issue embody this notion. We speak with Tania Franco Klein about her distinct style, which is realised through cinematic photographs. She surveys present-day anxieties and effects of media overstimulation. Meanwhile, Cristóbal Ascencio’s work and research focuses on the relationship between images and memory. He looks at how experience can be appropriated between generations. Kaya & Blank is a photographic duo that explores the way that humans inhabit the world, pushing the boundaries of how reality is presented. Tara Donovan, featured in When Forms Come Alive, opening at the Hayward Gallery, London, this winter, is one of 21 artists in an exhibition that reclaims space in an increasingly digitised world. It spans 60 years of contemporary sculpture and shows works that trigger a physical response.

In photography we traverse continents with an extraordinary range of practitioners, including Derrick O. Boateng, Ibai Acevedo, Jonathan Knowles, Tom Hegen and Neil Burnell. Our cover duo, Tropico Photo, offers pop colours and urban cool. Finally, the Last Words go to Yannis Davy Guibinga.

Fine Art: The Burlington Magazine – January 2024

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The Burlington Magazine – January 3, 2024: The new issue features ‘The Golden Age of Avignon’ – Avignon as ‘New Rome’; Rubens and women; Tiepolo in New York; Gertrude Stein and Picasso, and more….

China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta

A vivid photograph of a lotus pond ushers visitors into this ambitious exhibition on the arts and culture of Jiangnan. Lying to the south of the Yangtze – its name literally means ‘south of the river’ – this part of China includes such major cities as Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou. Curated by Clarissa von Spee, Chair of Asian Art and the James and Donna Reid Curator of Chinese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), this is the first exhibition outside China to present an encyclopaedic view of the cultural history of this historically affluent region. 

The Walpole Society

Ever since the Walpole Society was founded in London in 1911 ‘with the object of promoting the study of the history of British art’, The Burlington Magazine has taken a close interest in an organisation with aims and principles so close to our own: this is the sixth Editorial we have devoted to the subject. The first, written by the art historian August F. Jaccaci, who edited the Magazine’s ‘Art in America’ section, appeared in 1913 on the occasion of the publication of the first of the annual volumes that are the society’s raison d’être.

Artisans: Metalwork In Ladakh, Northern India

NOWNESS Films (December 11, 2023) – Travelling to India’s northernmost point, at the western tip of the Himalayas, the Ladakh region stands in a remote corner of the planet, flanked by towering peaks.

Deeply entwined with its cultural heritage, the mountainous territory carries a historic tradition of craft metalwork – as a center for the production of hand-crafted ornaments, teapots and spiritual artefacts, destined for temples, and held in high regard by India’s king dynasties.

But the craft has entered a point of decline, continued by just a handful of artisanal metalworkers who fight for its preservation.…