In Something Close to Music, a recent posthumous collection of his scattered art criticism (plus poems and playlists), John Ashbery writes of the work of the late Icelandic painter Louisa Matthíasdóttir…
Archive for April, 2023
“A Handshake Is Available Upon Request”: Severance and the Uneasiness of Sparsity
The offices of biotech company Lumon are empty. Hallways and rooms are bare, though not totally insipid. Once exiting the corridors, workers’ units bear a splash of colour — green…
An Introduction to “Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, Aesthetics”
Are we all minimalist now? In early 2019, U.S. news organizations reported a surge of clothing and other donations to charity shops, a surge they called the Marie Kondo effect.1…
