Weekend Reading List
From the Jannis Kounellis work that nobody wanted to Andrew Motion's defence of sane poets: what to read this weekend
From the Jannis Kounellis work that nobody wanted to Andrew Motion's defence of sane poets: what to read this weekend
- ‘Look, Again’: As Wolfgang Tillmans’s major retrospective opens at Tate Modern, London, we look back to his 2008 interview with Dominic Eichler
- ‘What We Do Is Secret’: Jamie Sutcliffe on the renewed significance of Arthur Evans’s long out of print Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture (1978)
- Collier Schorr on the late Jannis Kounellis’s installation Untitled (Platzverfuhrung) (1992), a sole lynching post that was destroyed by a community in southern Germany
- From Procopius’s attempts to smear Emperor Justinian in the sixth century to the tragic fallout from the Bowling Green Massacre, Robert Darnton traces the long history of ‘fake news’
- Zadie Smith in conversation with George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo (recently profiled by Patrick Langley for frieze)
- Why are ‘doomed poets’ considered the only good ones? Andrew Motion makes a case for the sane ones
- Natasha Maire Llorens on La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, and the relationship between visitor and institution
- From the new issue of The White Review, the genre-jumping Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue talks Trump, John Wayne movies, and dinosaur taming
- In the latest frieze video, Evan Moffitt visits Eric Wesley (and his pet crow) at his new home, a disused Taco Bell in Middle America
- This week’s frieze reviews:
Alice Tippit, Kimmerich, Berlin
Beau Geste Press, CAPC, Bordeaux
Olga Balema, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Laura Oldfield Ford, The Showroom, London
Miguel Ángel Cárdenas, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Michael Andrews, Gagosian, London
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