Inside Artforum Magazine – NOVEMBER 2022:
NEW YORK
- Jan Avgikos on “New York: 1962–1964”
- Lauren O’Neill-Butler on Louise Bourgeois
- Zack Hatfield on Sturtevant
Arts Preview: Artforum Magazine – November 2022
Tag Archives: Reviews
Preview: The Burlington Magazine – Nov 2022
The Parthenon sculptures
It is now forty years since Melina Mercouri, the Greek Minister for Culture from 1981 to 1989, famous also as a film star and singer, addressed UNESCO’s World Conference on Cultural Policies to draw international attention to the campaign with which she would be identified until her death in 1994, the repatriation to Athens of the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum. ‘We are not asking for the return of a painting or a statue’, she said: ‘We are asking for the return of a portion of a unique monument, the privileged symbol of a whole culture’.
The Painters of Pompeii
As images, ancient Roman wall paintings command attention for their bold compositions, vibrant and saturated colours, convincing naturalism and the fantastical mythologies they depict. As objects they also captivate for the dramatic circumstances surrounding their near- destruction, the miracle (or rarity) of their survival and the alchemical nature of lime plaster and pigment.
Books: Literary Review Magazine – Nov 2022
Inside the Literary Review – November 2022:
A Tale of Two Cities
London: The Great Transformation 1860–1920
Think of the Live Models!
The Artist’s Studio: A Cultural History
THE STATE WE’RE IN
Was Lockdown Lawful? – Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why It Matters
Damned Statistics – Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers
Books: The Top Ten Best Reviews Of October 2022
PHOTO: HARPER
Abominations: Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction
By Lionel Shriver | Harper
With a restless imagination and an instinct to take on progressive orthodoxies, the novelist and essayist Lionel Shriver brings her “smart, plain-spoken and unpredictable” style to subjects that many writers prefer to shy away from. Review by Meghan Cox Gurdon.
PHOTO: LIBRARY OF AMERICA
Bruce Catton: The Army of the Potomac Trilogy
Edited by Gary W. Gallagher | Library of America
In a trilogy of narratives that “broke the mold” in Civil War history, Bruce Catton told the story of the Eastern theater with an eye to the sacrifices and sufferings of the ordinary soldiers who fought and died on both sides. Review by Harold Holzer.
PHOTO: HARPER
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
By Jonathan Freedland | Harper
Walter Rosenberg did not make it easy for the Nazi-allied regime in his native Slovakia to deport him—along with thousands of other Slovak Jews—to extermination camps like Auschwitz. But once he wound up there, he was determined to get out and spread the word of the ongoing genocide. Review by Diane Cole.
PHOTO: KNOPF
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
By Paul Newman | Knopf
A long-awaited, posthumously published memoir from the star of “Cool Hand Luke,” “The Verdict” and other classics reveals the inner world of a hard-working actor who “breathed in insecurity and exhaled doubt.” Review by Michael O’Donnell.
PHOTO: DOUBLEDAY
The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series
By Tyler Kepner | Doubleday
What was for many years the center of the American sports calendar has lost some of its grip on the collective imagination. But a journey through October Classics past proves that the magic of the World Series still has a potent charm. Review by David M. Shribman.
Advertisement – Scroll to Continue
PHOTO: KNOPF
Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
By Neil Baldwin | Knopf
The pioneering figure of modern dance was a daring innovator, a technical perfectionist and a preternaturally gifted performer. While she transformed the way a generation of dancers thought about movement, she looked for ways to claim her art firmly as an American one. Review by Hamilton Cain.
PHOTO: ABRAMS PRESS
The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting
By Steve Hendricks | Abrams Press
Fasting has a long history of use as a spiritual aid—a ritual of purification and turning away from indulgence—and as a tool for protest. But emerging science suggests that its positive effects on physical health can no longer be overlooked. Review by Matthew Rees.
PHOTO: LIBRARY OF AMERICA
The Ray Bradbury Collection
Edited by Jonathan R. Eller | Library of America
Ray Bradbury’s unique science fiction owed more to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s darkly symbolic stories than to H.G. Wells’s rationalist visions. On a Mars that held curious correspondences to the Midwestern country of Bradbury’s youth, fathers and sons negotiated the strange spaces between them. Review by Brad Leithauser.
PHOTO: LITTLE, BROWN
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
By Stacy Schiff | Little, Brown
The “stage manager” of the American Revolution has resisted attempts by historians to pin down the details of his life. Stacy Schiff finds a potential key to Samuel Adams’s enigmatic character in the financial tumult of his family’s business. Review by Mark G. Spencer.
PHOTO: PANTHEON
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of Empire
By Joseph Sassoon | Pantheon
The business empire of the Sassoon dynasty began in Bombay, where the family of Iraqi Jews had fled to escape persecution, and flourished in the opium trade with China. The “Rothschilds of Asia” kept a low profile—and when the tides of fortune turned against them, their once-global enterprise became a distant memory. Review by Norman Lebrecht.
Previews: Foreign Affairs Magazine – Nov/Dec 2022
Inside Foreign Affairs November/December 2022 issue:
The World According to Xi Jinping
What China’s Ideologue in Chief Really Believes
Russia’s Dangerous Decline
The Kremlin Won’t Go Down Without a Fight
The Sources of Russian Misconduct
A Diplomat Defects From the Kremlin
Books: The New York Times Book Review – Oct 30, 2022
In Barbara Kingsolver’s New Novel, an Appalachian David Copperfield
“Demon Copperhead” reimagines Dickens’s story in a modern-day rural America contending with poverty and opioid addiction.
A Literary Caper Across the Dining Rooms of Belfast and New York
“The Lemon” is the satirical debut by a team of three authors writing under the pseudonym S.E. Boyd.
Emily Dickinson, at Home in Her ‘Full-Color Life’
The poet’s house museum in Amherst, Mass., gets a vibrant, historically correct makeover, underlining that she was not just a reclusive woman in white.
Views: The New York Times Magazine – Oct 30, 2022
Beyond Catastrophe – A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View
There’s plenty of bad news. But thanks to real progress, we’re headed toward a less apocalyptic future.
The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame
This is what success looks like in the creator economy: Sometimes you have to beg millions of fans for mercy.
Preview: New Scientist Magazine – Oct 29, 2022
Previews: The Economist Magazine – Oct 29, 2022
Rishi Sunak’s promise of stability is a low bar for Britain
Reasons to be cheerful are scant
Will Iran’s women win?
Their uprising could be the beginning of the end of Iran’s theocracy
India’s next green revolution
The country’s clean-energy push shows a way to escape the coal addiction
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Oct 27, 2022
Research Highlights
- This dinosaur looked like an ostrich but was as big as an elephant – Beasts with small heads and long legs roved an ancient supercontinent that included North America and most of Asia
- Women physicists miss out on ‘first-mover advantage’ – A study of more than a century’s worth of papers helps to explain why women physicists get fewer citations.
- How to smuggle a drug into cells: add a lipid ‘tail = ’Molecules equipped with a lipid streamer of just the right length can wriggle through a cell’s defensive membrane.
- Cyclones’ inner lives revealed by invisible particlesMeasurements of elementary particles called muons provide insight into the structure of swirling storms.
Boomers Daily 