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Speaking American
The varying temperaments of British and American storytelling. Lower Basswood Falls, Superior National Forest, July 1961. In 1890, a thirty-seven-year-old Scot named James F. Muirhead arrived in...
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The Designed Landscape: An Interview with Carol Betsch
Carol Betsch, View from Mountain Avenue, below Washington Tower, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005. “100 Years of Design on the Land,” a photography show opening here in New York this...
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Hey, I Got You This Meaningless First Edition, and Other News
From The Boy Next Door. Feeling anxious? Depressed? Full of foreboding? Use fiction to overmaster your fears, and experience instant results. “In my books I get to create anxiety on my own terms. I can...
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The Picasso of Golf Course Designers, and Other News
Juan Gris, Portrait of Pablo Picasso, 1912. On James Merrill, whose work “exists in part to reverse our bias against trivia”: “His work is replete with the transfigured commonplace, bits of the world...
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The Return of the Glass Delusion, and Other News
Zoja Trofimiuk, Despair, 2012. Chris Burden—who spent five days in a school locker, hammered a metal stud into his sternum, and had himself shot in the arm by a rifle from fifteen feet, all in the name...
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Where They Live
Guy Laramée, via This Is ColossalThe French Canadian artist Guy Laramée, whom we’ve featured before on the Daily, has a new series of book sculptures, “Onde Elles Moran”—“Where They Live.” Laramée...
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On the Fjords
Fritz Grebe, Blick in den sommerlichen Hardanger Fjord, 1881.About an hour into the boat ride, I went below deck to buy two cups of hot chocolate. It was chilly and I hadn’t dressed warmly enough, but...
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I Just Paint
Billy Childish’s sincere, deeply unselfconscious paintings.Billy Childish, Nude Reclining, 2015, oil and charcoal on linen, 72" x 120". Courtesy Lehmann MaupinPunk rock icon, poet, novelist,...
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Paradise Fire
Ghost Forest, Eatonville, Washington, August 2015, 2015, archival pigment print, 48" x 61". Courtesy of the artist and Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles.David Benjamin Sherry’s exhibition “Paradise Fire” is...
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Time Speeds Up
Amy Bennett’s exhibition “Time Speeds Up” is showing in New York at Ameringer McEnery Yohe through October 8. Bennett, who works in Beacon, New York, paints her landscapes after dioramas she’s...
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Jungle Love
Why we keep looking for lost jungle cities. An illustration of Colonel Percy Fawcett doing battle with a giant anaconda, from the cover of Exploration Fawcett. Dry, desolate landscapes tend to...
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Eight Views of Paradise Interrupted
“Eight Views of Paradise Interrupted,” an exhibition of paintings by Jennifer Wen Ma, is at Sandra Gering Gallery through July 28. Ma, who splits her time between New York and Beijing, paints with ink...
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Hey, I Got You This Meaningless First Edition, and Other News
From The Boy Next Door. Feeling anxious? Depressed? Full of foreboding? Use fiction to overmaster your fears, and experience instant results. “In my books I get to create anxiety on my own terms. I can...
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The Picasso of Golf Course Designers, and Other News
Juan Gris, Portrait of Pablo Picasso, 1912. On James Merrill, whose work “exists in part to reverse our bias against trivia”: “His work is replete with the transfigured commonplace, bits of the world...
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The Return of the Glass Delusion, and Other News
Zoja Trofimiuk, Despair, 2012. Chris Burden—who spent five days in a school locker, hammered a metal stud into his sternum, and had himself shot in the arm by a rifle from fifteen feet, all in the name...
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Where They Live
Guy Laramée, via This Is Colossal The French Canadian artist Guy Laramée, whom we’ve featured before on the Daily, has a new series of book sculptures, “Onde Elles Moran”—“Where They Live.” Laramée...
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On the Fjords
Fritz Grebe, Blick in den sommerlichen Hardanger Fjord, 1881. About an hour into the boat ride, I went below deck to buy two cups of hot chocolate. It was chilly and I hadn’t dressed warmly enough, but...
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I Just Paint
Billy Childish’s sincere, deeply unselfconscious paintings. Billy Childish, Nude Reclining, 2015, oil and charcoal on linen, 72″ x 120″. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin Punk rock icon, poet, novelist,...
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Paradise Fire
Ghost Forest, Eatonville, Washington, August 2015, 2015, archival pigment print, 48″ x 61″. Courtesy of the artist and Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles. David Benjamin Sherry’s exhibition “Paradise Fire”...
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Time Speeds Up
Amy Bennett’s exhibition “Time Speeds Up” is showing in New York at Ameringer McEnery Yohe through October 8. Bennett, who works in Beacon, New York, paints her landscapes after dioramas she’s...
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