Culture Digest

Recent releases demonstrate that dubstep is finally lightening up

Literary highlights of 2009, a poetry scandal, the Man Booker International Prize, artists’ writings and a new study on Robert Ryman

Re-branding débâcles, online fonts, the closure of Gourmet magazine, the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus and a new film

Unemployment, the London Olympics, new galleries in Metz and Rome, the Shanghai World Expo and contrasting spa designs

The best motion pictures and moving images of 2009

The highs and lows of 2009, including nostalgia, Alarm Will Sound and Terry Riley; Throbbing Gristle, Luke Fowler, and ‘Lust for Life’ 

Charlotte Klonk (Yale University Press, 2009)

David Bennewith (ed.) (Clouds, Jan van Eyck Academie and Colophon, Auckland and Maastricht, 2009)

Jim O’Rourke (Drag City, 2009)

Evangelista (Constellation, 2009)

Bernard Szajner (LTM Recordings, 2009)

Sophie Richard (Ridinghouse, London, 2009)

Paul Smith (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2009)

David Leatherbarrow (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009)

Susan Stenger (Forma Productions, 2009)

Anchiskhati Choir (Soul Jazz Records/World Audio Foundation, 2009)

Steven Shaviro (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2009) / Graham Harman (Re.Press, Melbourne, 2009)

Giorgio Agamben, trans. David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford University Press, 2009)

The Invisible Committee (Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, 2009)

Warp Records, 2009