Weekend: Yayoi Kusama, Zac Skinner, Kent Johnson, and more

The gargoyles are gathering around the edges of the frame, hatching their schemes for a previously un

Nov 21, 2020 • View in browser

The gargoyles are gathering around the edges of the frame, hatching their schemes for a previously unimaginable seizure of power. What seemed, only two short, liberating weeks ago, to be the end of the story, was instead the opening of yet another chapter in this squalid, cynical saga.Jon Curley, in this weekend’s issue, calls poet Kent Johnson “not a bleeding heart but a brooding heart, a blaring heart, a red heart, the circulating red of a replenishing radicalism.” We’re going to need plenty of replenishment in the days to come.As we press forward, Hyperallergic remains the independent voice you need. Please consider supporting our work and becoming a member today.— Thomas Micchelli, Co-Editor, Hyperallergic Weekend

Yayoi Kusama’s Self-Portrait as a Young Provocateur “Kusama: The Graphic Novel” is an ode to the power of art, which, on multiple occasions, saved her. Angelica Frey

Zac Skinner’s Survivalist Sculptures Skinner imagines the jury-rigged technology that would enable survival in the wake of apocalyptic climate disaster. Louis Bury

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Poems About the Business of Being a Poet Kent Johnson skewers the silliness of the swarming poetry world. Jon Curley

Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections “We’re all now isolated in our pods but still very susceptible to the outside noise of the world: I am guilty of this.” Stephen Maine

Beer with a Painter: Suzan Frecon The content is the paint. Jennifer Samet

Required Reading This week, David Adjaye’s new Presidential library in South Africa, talking to artist Derek Fordjour, the guest book to the Alcatraz occupation, the decline of cable news, Octavia E. Butler’s literary life in Los Angeles, and more. Hrag Vartanian

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