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“A book about artists shouldn’t be so formulaic,” she explained. “I can do whatever the fuck I want.”
So says writer, sociologist, and curator Marin Kosut about her new book Art Monster: On the Impossibility of New York. What started out as a scholarly text on the NYC art scene bloomed into “an exploration of how aspiring artists in the city endure in the face of late-stage capitalism, gentrification, and the fractured realities created by technology and social media.” And once she finished that, she blew it all up. Kosut discussed the process in an engrossing interview with Mary Karmelek for Hyperallergic.
What else do we have for you? Alice Procter visited the New-York Historical Society to review an exhibition by Beatrice Glow, the museum’s artist-in-residence, and had mixed feelings. Meanwhile, even further uptown, new artworks are sprouting at the Harlem Sculpture Gardens. | |
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| | | Defying scholarly conventions, Marin Kosut’s latest book takes a searingly honest look at the “impossibility of New York” and the barriers artists face. | Mary Karmelek |
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| | | | “[Glow’s] ability to bring attention to the more outlandish moments in New York’s colonial history is refreshing, and the prints and photographs from the NYHS collections displayed here are well chosen and interpreted. On the whole, it’s a clever show, but one that takes on a vast and messy history with a touch that is sometimes too light.” |
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