BY Paul Clinton in Culture Digest | 08 APR 16

Weekend Reading List

Ta Nehisi Coates on race in comics and Donald Trump on contemporary art: what to read this weekend

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BY Paul Clinton in Culture Digest | 08 APR 16

  • ‘This is not an empty, academic exercise’ – Andrew Blackley on the work of Park McArthur

  • Over at Vice, Ta Nehisi Coates talks about race in comics and writing for Black Panther

  • It’s a conspiracy! Gregory Woods on how networks of gay artists transformed 20th century culture

  • The Paris Review has turned Lydia Davis’s short story ‘Odd Behaviour’ into a comic – which is a fairly odd thing to do

  • How are capitalist realisms made and how might they be undone? 

  • Where have we heard the term ‘degenerate art’ before? Donald Trump and the arts

  • ‘I always think that people who say that books change their lives don’t read much.’ Simon Critchley on his 10 favourite books

  • What can Joseph Beuys tell us about Hillary Clinton’s presidential chances? Read Terry Castle in the London Review of Books to find out

Paul Clinton is a writer, curator and editor based in London, UK. He is a lecturer in curating at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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