The Outwardness of Art: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes

By Jonah Goldman Kay

JUNE 2020 | Art Books

A new collection edited by Thomas Evans focuses on Stokes’s formative writing on outwardness and early essays and unpublished writings on ballet from the 1930s. Evans’s selection of writings, including several essays on popular culture, reveal the writer’s prescient genre-bending approach.

Stephen Antonakos: Late Light Gold Works 2010–2013

By Mary Ann Caws

DEC 19-JAN 20 | ArtSeen

This past Friday the 13th of December, in the dismal rain, was a deliciously gilded day for anyone who went to Chelsea to contemplate the undismal sheen of these “late light gold works.” Created late in the life of Stephen Antonakos, and luminous, all these radiant outpourings and inpourings of a sun inside a mind shine forth.

Gustav Metzger’s Writings

By Joseph Nechvatal

APRIL 2020 | Art Books

Including versions of his Auto-Destructive Art Manifesto, the moral content of this collection is unashamed melancholic rage at the state of the world. Metzger’s writings, at times naïve, can still mess with heads in right-wing America.

Simone Fattal: Works and Days

By Valentina Di Liscia

JUL-AUG 2019 | ArtSeen

The sculptures in Simone Fattal’s exhibition Works and Days at MoMA PS1 appear freshly dusted off from an archaeological dig, artifacts or parts thereof wrested from history. The retrospective, curated by Ruba Katrib, is the artist’s first in the United States and presents more than 200 works including paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from the last five decades of Fattal’s production.