Weekend Reading List
Morality and museums, public vulgarity and celebrity poets: the best things we've read this week
Morality and museums, public vulgarity and celebrity poets: the best things we've read this week
- ‘It’s easy to objectify a subject — but also really easy to simply invite them to speak.’ Miranda July discusses her ten favourite books.
- At the New York Times, art critic Holland Cotter aims to coax morality back into museums.
- How do you become a famous poet? Arielle Greenberg considers the media’s obsession with Eileen Myles.
- Philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that public vulgarity is Donald Trump’s biggest asset.
- Over at BOMB magazine, Scott Esposito interviews novelist Álvaro Enrigue about Latin American literature, Caravaggio and the role of art history in his work.
- TANK Magazine hosts flash fiction by poet, sculptor and performance artist Brian Catling.
- Reinaldo Laddaga considers the fascist soldiers and avant-garde artists who came together to create a radical new city in wartime Italy.
- Do the clothes make the woman? A new exhibition tries to recover Proust’s most fashionable muse.
- Hannah Ellis-Peterson goes in search of the spirit of rebellion in the work of young artists.
- Remembering the late Doreen Massey: social scientist, political geographer and one-time collaborator with filmmaker Patrick Keiller.
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