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Jed Perl

Duane Michals

Jed Perl

Jed Perl’s latest book is Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts. (November 2023)

Picasso’s Transformations

Picasso’s Transformations

Pablo Picasso reconceived everything he touched, but fifty years after his death his transformative art has been eclipsed by Andy Warhol's art of appropriation and replication.

Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, September 14, 2023–January 14, 2024

Picasso in Fontainebleau

an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, October 8, 2023–February 17, 2024

It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby

an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, June 2–September 24, 2023

Picasso and the Spanish Classics

an exhibition at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, New York City, November 2, 2023–February 4, 2024

Andy Warhol: Thirty Are Better Than One

an exhibition at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, New York City, May 10–July 30, 2023

Looking at Picasso

by Pepe Karmel

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

by Claire Dederer

Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America

by Hugh Eakin

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November 2, 2023 issue

Going to Extremes

Going to Extremes

For Matisse art was a perpetual emergency, a matter of testing boundaries, breaking through.

Matisse: The Red Studio

an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, May 1–September 10, 2022; and SMK–National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, October 13, 2022–February 26, 2023

Matisse in the 1930s

an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 20, 2022–January 29, 2023; the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, March 1–May 29, 2023; and the Musée Matisse Nice, June 23–September 24, 2023

February 9, 2023 issue

See More, Think More

See More, Think More

The art historian Leo Steinberg tried in his writings to reconcile a passion that was inarguably subjective with a desire for something like objectivity.

Michelangelo’s Sculpture: Selected Essays

by Leo Steinberg, edited by Sheila Schwartz

Michelangelo’s Painting: Selected Essays

by Leo Steinberg, edited by Sheila Schwartz

Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays

by Leo Steinberg, edited by Sheila Schwartz

After Michelangelo, Past Picasso: Leo Steinberg’s Library of Prints

an exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, February 7–May 9, 2021

May 13, 2021 issue

Spirits of San Francisco

Spirits of San Francisco

The Householders: Robert Duncan and Jess

by Tara McDowell

Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus

by Lisa Jarnot, with a foreword by Michael Davidson

Collected Essays and Other Prose

by Robert Duncan, edited and with an introduction by James Maynard

The Collected Early Poems and Plays

by Robert Duncan, edited and with an introduction by Peter Quartermain

The Collected Later Poems and Plays

by Robert Duncan, edited and with an introduction by Peter Quartermain

The H.D. Book

by Robert Duncan, edited and with an introduction by Michael Boughn and Victor Coleman

An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle

by Michael Duncan and Christopher Wagstaff

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March 26, 2020 issue

Made in Mexico

Made in Mexico

In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury

an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 6, 2019–January 12, 2020

January 16, 2020 issue

Hell-Bent Idealists

Hell-Bent Idealists

Mathias Goeritz: Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico

by Jennifer Josten

Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus

by John R. Blakinger

October 10, 2019 issue

Yearning for the Absolute

Yearning for the Absolute

Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern

an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, March 17–June 15, 2019

The Young and Evil

an exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery, New York City, February 21–April 13, 2019

May 9, 2019 issue

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