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11
Aug

Bruce Conner and the Making of a Community

by Anastasia Aukeman, author of Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association About sixteen years ago, as the artist Bruce Conner and I were leaving his favorite restaurant …

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09
Aug

The Oysters in the Spire

We are excited about the forthcoming publication of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, the final volume in our trilogy of atlases by Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, and a host of …

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03
Aug

Uncovering Agnes Martin

For years, seeing Agnes Martin’s celebrated paintings required a pilgrimage. In the mid-1970s, a visit to Martin’s home and studio on a remote mesa in Cuba, New Mexico was not for the …

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02
Aug

Avant-Garde Art in Japan and Brazil

Rio de Janeiro’s Paço Imperial is currently hosting an unusual retrospective of Japanese postwar art, ‘The Emergence of The Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art In Japan 1950-1970‘. Curator Pedro Erber is the author of Breaching the Frame: The …

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19
Jun

Get your Solnit During our Summer Sale

Our summer sale is the perfect time to pick up the Atlas series from Rebecca Solnit. You can order the first two atlases, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas for 40% …

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06
May

Topical, Not Timeless

This story, written by Erica Ciccarone, first appeared on the Chapter 16 website on April 25, 2016 and is cross-posted here with their kind permission. Rhodes College professor David McCarthy writes a history …

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