The William H. Gass Reader

By Jacob Singer

JUL-AUG 2019 | Books

Gass toiled over diction, cadence of free modification, and the emergent properties of prose style. The William H. Gass Reader is a collection of crumbs that will draw you into a labyrinth of letters that will transform your understanding of language

Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Grey Collection

By Vivian Li

NOV 2019 | ArtSeen

Modernisms focuses on the period of the 1960s and 1970s when Grey traveled and assembled her collection of approximately 700 works from the Middle East and Asia (114 of which are on view), after which she established the Grey Art Gallery at New York University.

The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader

By Megan N. Liberty

APRIL 2020 | Art Books

Including a full facsimile reproduction of Madeline Gins’s out-of-print 1969 novel WORD RAIN, as well as previously unpublished essays and poems, this collection illustrates Gins’s ability to capture the embodied experience of reading and celebrates her mastery as an experimental writer.

Judy Chicago: Los Angeles

By Olivia Gauthier

OCT 2019 | ArtSeen

What Judy Chicago: Los Angeles truly showcases is how Chicago grappled early on with her place in a male dominated discourse. We see the methods through which she challenged and defied normative conventions, working to define a practice that would push the dialogue of contemporary art forward in the direction of feminist interests.