Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera

By Benjamin Clifford

FEB 2019 | ArtSeen

The title of the Met’s new ongoing installation, Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera, suggests a revisionist take on the history of abstraction since World War II. However, the show is drawn almost entirely from the permanent collection, which is simply not broad enough in this area to fulfill such an ambitious promise.

Art Books Dispatches from the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair

SEPT 2019 | Art Books

My conversation with Devers underscored the importance of collecting as a means of rectifying history. “It seems like a nostalgic pursuit, but the more energy in the market around certain books, the more likely it gets onto syllabus and back into print.”

Enghelab Street, A Revolution through Books: Iran 1979 – 1983

By Carol Nisar

DEC 19-JAN 20 | Art Books

Amassed by the artist Hannah Darabi, this oversized photobook casts a broadly curated lens on the sociopolitical turmoil induced by Iran’s Islamic revolution through a look at the Tehran’s underground publishing scene. Including personal recollections, first-hand accounts from publishers and photographers, and invaluable photographic documentation of the books and the city, Darabi and researcher Chowra Makaremi reconstruct this important moment in Iran’s history.

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By Andrei Codrescu

JUL-AUG 2019 | Poetry

Andrei Codrescu’s (www.codrescu.com) recent books are No Time Like Now: New Poems (Pitt Poetry), The Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn (Princeton University Press), and his translations of Lucian Blaga, In Praise of Sleep (Black Widow Press). He lives in Brooklyn.