Times Literary Supplement (January 13, 2023):
Why Vincent van Gogh’s sister-in-law was responsible for his worldwide fame
How did Henry VIII’s love letters to Anne Boleyn get to the Vatican?
The eccentric members of the Hypocrites set
Some people say their thought takes place in images, some in words. But our mental processes are more mysterious than we realize.
What has become of the tens of thousands of people who have disappeared on their way to Europe?
The company offers steady jobs and is enjoying record profits. So why is a strike looming?
Photograph Magazine – January-February 2023:
The German-born photographer’s precise work, on view at the Getty Center, explores what it’s like to see and perceive our surroundings.
The photographs in Mary Ellen Bartley’s series Morandi’s Books – meditative still life compositions in muted colors transformed by collage elements – are gently disorienting despite their formal precision.
Cover of Twenty-five Years Ago, by Joan Lyons (Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1998)
frieze Magazine – January / February 2023 issue:
In the January/February issue of frieze, Terence Trouillot profiles artist Henry Taylor ahead of shows at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Plus, one year after Russia declared war on Ukraine, artists and writer respond to the crisis in a dossier, including: a personal essay by painter and writer Kateryna Aliinyk; Adam Mazur profiles Taras Gembik, an artist and performer organising picnics to raise money for Ukraine in Warsaw, Poland; Nikita Kadan on what art can mean in a time of war; editor-in-chief Andrew Durbin interviews Olha Honchar, the director of Territory of Terror Museum, which documents war crimes, and the coordinator for the Museum Crisis Center, an organization helping Ukrainian museums rescue their holdings from occupied zones.
Profile: Henry Taylor
“I became the observer because I was trying to understand my own life and that’s why I started making pictures. I just like looking at people.” Terence Trouillot considers how Henry Taylors oeuvre goes far beyond the canvas.
HUMANITIES – National Endowment for the Humanities (Winter 2023) Issue:
Centuries before the rise of feminism, this underappreciated thinker wrote to set women free
A visit to the Strong Museum
The disputed legacy of an Indigenous icon
Operation Root Canal
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Apollo Magazine – January 2023 Issue
The painter’s house in Suffolk now tells a compelling story about his formative influence
George II gave his god-daughter a decorative silver bowl that was later put to surprisingly practical use
Along the country’s seven-hundred-mile front line, constant artillery fire and drone surveillance have made it excruciatingly difficult to maneuver.
Presidents have been impeached, but none has ever been asked, after leaving office, to turn himself in for arraignment. The January 6th committee’s final actions could help change that.
Literature once filled in archival gaps by saying the unsayable. Now a younger generation is devising new modes of telling the story and finding new stories to tell.
The New York Times Book Review @nytimesbooks (December 25, 2022):
In the historian Sarah Gristwood’s “The Tudors in Love,” for both monarchs and courtiers the stakes are higher than romance.
A selection of recently published books.
From Bloomsbury to the Billboard Hot 100, these audiobooks will hook you based on story alone.
The first issue of LRB volume 45 is now online, featuring Alan Bennett’s diary for 2022, @_jamesmeek on flooding, Anne Enright on Toni Morrison, Jenny Turner @neepmail on Colette, @xlorentzen on Cormac McCarthy and a cover by @Jon_McN.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
James Meek on housebuilding in the aftermath of the 2013 floods
The Times Literary Supplement @TheTLS (December 23-30, 2022) features @pgodfreysmith on deer and birds; @LaurenElkin on Sophie Calle; @natsegnit on Craig Brown; a new poem by @glynofwelwyn ; reflections on the BBC at 100; @BorisDralyuk on A. E. Stallings; @irinibus on gifts – and more.
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