All of This, My Dear Sir, Is Surrealism: On Mark Polizzotti’s “Why Surrealism Matters”
Anna Levett reviews Mark Polizzotti’s “Why Surrealism Matters.”
Anna Levett reviews Mark Polizzotti’s “Why Surrealism Matters.”
The Lost Codex of Moctezuma (2024), oil on linen, 56 x 76 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches; Installation view, Raul Guerrero: Terra Incógnita , April 25 – June 8, 2024, David Kordansky Gallery, New York. Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle. Images courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery.
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Madeleine Crum reviews Colombe Schneck’s “Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories.”
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Andrew Graybill reviews Robert Aquinas McNally’s “Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness.”
Tiffany Troy interviews poet Morgan Parker about her debut book of essays, “You Get What You Pay For.”
Justin Wigard reviews Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Angel of Indian Lake.”
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Dylan Adamson positions the discourses around Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” within the director’s larger body of work.
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