Weekend: Dona Nelson, Robert Grosvenor, David Novros, Doug Aitken

When the poet Ed Roberson writes, “we might not be fast enough / to outdistance events,” he has the l

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When the poet Ed Roberson writes, “we might not be fast enough / to outdistance events,” he has the looming climate catastrophe in mind. But climate isn’t his only concern. “Roberson is ever alert to affinities between the small and the vast, the fleeting and the cosmic,” James Gibbons tells us in his review of the poet’s new collection, Asked What Has Changed, which also casts a restless eye on the city of Chicago, African American history, viniculture, and random deaths in the street.After an exhausting year of vast, if unwelcome, events, more than 2.6 million people worldwide and 530,000 in the US have been unable to outdistance the pandemic. This week we marked the anniversary of plague year; we also began to come to grips with the anxiety of its ending, émigrés from a scarred present blinking at an unimagined future.— Thomas Micchelli, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend

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Lured by Two Contemporary Masters Long after I left Robert Grosvenor and David Novros at Paula Cooper, certain works floated up in my memory, calling me to return. John Yau

The Intoxicating Tilda Swinton Masters Almodóvar Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film, The Human Voice, offers heady pathos and sumptuous visuals in equal excess. Eileen G'Sell

The City as Seen From a Hi-Rise Window Ed Roberson’s poems express a troubled awareness of the earth’s exhaustion. James Gibbons

SPONSORED A New Book From Yale University Press and SFMOMA Illustrates the Enduring Resonance of Joan Mitchell Joan Mitchell tells the complete story of this brilliant artist — her life, her work, and her myriad influences on art, literature, and music.

Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections “Something in this painting seemed to change over the course of 2020.” Stephen Maine

Doug Aitken’s Cities of Loss Aitken’s exhibition Flags and Debris is informed by a dialectic of embodiment and absence. Natalie Haddad

Dona Nelson Stands Alone The dizzying effect of Nelson’s two-sided paintings brings to mind the sensory overload of living in a city. John Yau

Required Reading This week, the most Googled artists around the world, the Pentagon’s role in Marvel movies, and more. Hrag Vartanian

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