Yevgeniya Traps
By Yevgeniya Traps
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Culture Why Louise Bourgeois Is My New Personal Role Model
Well, itâs decided: When I grow up I want to be Louise Bourgeois. Oh, fine, I know, I am full grown, but then Bourgeois did live to be 98, so itâs somewhat relative. Not that the longevity is in and of itself impressive. Itâs what she did with all that time, the use she putâŠ
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Culture Is Nathan Englanderâs New Spy Novel Really About Ariel Sharon?
Dinner at the Center of the Earth By Nathan Englander Knopf, 272 pages, $26.95 In âA Horse Walks Into a Bar,â David Grossmanâs Man Booker Prize-winning novel, Dovaleh Greenstein stages, under the pretext of a standup comedy set, a moral reckoning, a public wrestling match with his demons, which of necessity are also, in part,âŠ
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Art To Diane Arbus, Every Portrait Was A Self Portrait
AT first glance, Diane Arbusâs parks look like our parks â and yet they stand apart from them. What might a Martian learn about us from this, people sometimes ask of a text. Arbusâs photos would tell a Martian little: They rather look as though they may have been made by one. âIn the Park,ââŠ
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Art Monsters, Monsters And More Monsters In a Thrilling Graphic Tale
Last night, trying, excitedly, to summarize âMy Favorite Thing Is Monsters,â Emil Ferrisâs debut graphic novel â or at least Part 1 of it â for my husband, I hit upon an obstacle: The book, which takes the form of a spiral-bound, three-hole-punch sketchbook/detective case study, kept by 10-year-old Chicagoan Karen Reyes, is kind of,âŠ
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Culture Is The Controversial Whitney Biennial Just A Bunch of Bologna?
It has now been nearly two weeks since I visited the Whitney Biennial (delayed a year by the 2016 relocation of the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, from the Marcel Breuer building on 75th and Madison to the Renzo Piano-designed space in the Meatpacking District, at the foot of the HighâŠ
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Culture Daphne Merkin Reports From the Front Lines of Depression
In âThe Depressed Person,â David Foster Wallace, no stranger to depression, posits that the pain wrought by âthe impossibility of sharing or articulatingâ the condition of being depressed âwas itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.â The story details the depressed personâs âclumsy attempts to describe at leastâŠ
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Culture How The Crumbs Have Kept Their 46-Year Love Affair Alive
âHeâs the straight man, Iâm the pratfall,âAline Kominsky-Crumb said by way of explaining the dynamics of the collaborative comics she has been making with her husband, Robert Crumb, for well over 40 years. Oh, but that much was clear from the start of my time with Kominsky-Crumb. Having ostensibly been told that I was toâŠ
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49 Reasons Why 2016 Wasnât as Bad as You Think Diane Arbus
Arthur Lubowâs biography of Diane Arbus, which claims that Arbus carried on a lifelong sexual relationship with her brother, appeared a month before âIn the Beginning,â an exhibit of Arbusâs early photographs, opened at the Met Breuer. I submit that the images on display â uncanny but deeply human, curious and impartial, full of lustâŠ
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