Jarrett Earnest

Mark Polizzotti on André Breton, Translation, and Surrealism

Episode 7 of Private Life

Richard Hell on Godlike and Poetry as a Way of Life

Episode 5 of Private Life

Joyce Carol Oates on True Crime, Her Improbable Life, and Joan Didion

Episode 3 of Private Life

Darryl Pinckney on Memoir, Friendship, and Elizabeth Hardwick

Episode 1 of Private Life

‘I Am the Heir to Delacroix’

Jack Whitten’s brilliantly restless innovation is a rigorous interrogation and a surging expansion of what painting can do.

Art to Sit On

For the past forty years people have enjoyed chairs, tables, and benches in public places across North America without realizing they are part of Scott Burton’s radical artistic vision.

Tom’s Men

Tom of Finland’s work has transformed from midcentury gay pornography to twenty-first-century art, but its troubling dimensions, as well as the ways it has creatively shaped the desires of a diverse range of queer people, cannot be ignored.

Art Is a Drug

General Idea’s art was poised on a razor’s edge between complicity and critique; it is an inescapable precedent for thinking about artistic production in the twenty-first century.

Dimensions of Devotion

“Art is a social phenomenon. It is a knot that exists between people.”

A Proliferation of Beauties

The critic Dave Hickey almost single-handedly remade the practice of writing about art in the 1980s and 1990s, even as he provoked outrage in the institutional art world.

Landscapes of the Imagination

Jesse Murry’s abstract seascapes enabled him to explore the inner world of the mind while infusing his art with his life as a gay Black man.