Books: How to Make Museums “Better for More People”

This week, peruse the spaces of some of Detroit's most celebrated musical luminaries. Lauren Moya For

Books Jun 21, 2021 • View in browser

This week, peruse the spaces of some of Detroit’s most celebrated musical luminaries. Lauren Moya Ford walks us through Electronic Landscapes, a new photo book that “grants us rare access to these creative and domestic spaces where intimacy, experimentation, and innovation intertwine.”In the realm of other hallowed spaces, I sat down with writer and curator Laura Raicovich to discuss the state of museums. Her new book, Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, makes a brilliant case for a more responsive model of museums. Happy reading.— Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

Laura Raicovich on How to Make Museums “Better for More People” Hyperallergic talks to the curator, writer, and former museum director about her new book “Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest.” Dessane Lopez Cassell

Detroit’s Electronic Music Scene, Seen Through Its Black Creators “Electronic Landscapes” takes the reader into the storied record shops and cozy home studios of Detroit’s most important musicians. Lauren Moya Ford

A Deep, Feminist Dive Into Autotheory Lauren Fournier considers what it means, in the bell hooks sense, to bring everyday life to theory. Rea McNamara

Poetry

Nathaniel Mackey's Epic Poem Memories appear and disappear in a meditative work that feels as if it could stop at any moment or continue on forever. J. Peter Moore

Poetry at the Intersection of Art and Twitter The poems in Ken Babstock’s “Swivelmount” convey a sense that the whole truth of reality is tantalizingly just beyond one’s grasp. Mark Scroggins

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