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Book of the Day | Night Fever: Designing Club Culture 1960-Today

THE METROPOLITANMay 23, 2018

Featuring film stills and vintage photographs, posters, flyers and fashion, Night Fever takes the reader on a fascinating journey through a world of glamour, subculture and the search for the night that never ends.

2018Book

Trip | How Tao Lin (Maybe) Found Meaning In A Mushroom

THE METROPOLITANMay 14, 2018

Book Review | Lin’s interest in McKenna was partially driven by his interests regarding the interrogation of reality and, more germanely, his recovery and cessation in the use of drugs ~ by Dan B. Jones

2018BookReviews

Books | Art & Vinyl Explores the Importance of Art in Music

THE METROPOLITANApril 23, 2018

With reproductions of more than 200 LPs from the mid-20th century to the present, Art & Vinyl traces the trajectory of how the record album has been considered by artists as material for a work of art.

2018Book

Jill Freedman: Resurrection City, 1968

THE METROPOLITANFebruary 8, 2018

Published in 1970, Jill Freedman’s Old News: Resurrection City documents the culmination of the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968, organized by Martin Luther King, Jr.

2018Book

How A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Changed My Life

THE METROPOLITANFebruary 1, 2018

Or, as Zippy the Pinhead once said, “Reality is a sandwich I didn’t order"

BookEssayFilm

Orwell: The Wild Man

THE METROPOLITANJanuary 31, 2018

By Andrea Chalupa “If you look into your mind, which are you, Don Quixote or Sancho Panza? Almost certainly you are both. There is one part of you that wish... Read More...

2018BookEssayFeature

Jack Pierson: The Hungry Years

THE METROPOLITANNovember 6, 2017

The ’80s photographs of Boston School veteran Jack Pierson are at once melancholy and joyous, erotic and slyly witty

2017BookThe Arts

I Went To The Toronto Art Book Fair

THE METROPOLITANJuly 17, 2017

Crossing the Canadian border has proven to be one of Abigail Lynch's least favorite obligations, right up there with waiting in the checkout line at Meijer. But, she and her "equally degenerative looking compatriots" do so to bring us a report on print in Toronto.

2017BookEssayTravel

BOOK | Rania Matar: L’Enfant-Femme

THE METROPOLITANJanuary 31, 2017

Poignant portraits of pre-teen girls from both the Middle East and the U.S. exploring their complex feelings about looking and being looked at by Rania Matar

2017BookJanuaryThe Arts

BOOK | Mark Peterson: Political Theatre

THE METROPOLITANJanuary 20, 2017

Mark Peterson's 2016 Presidential election photos expose the warts and weirdness of democracy gone awry

BlogBookField NotesJanuaryThe Arts

books: louise dahl wolfe

anthony brancaleoneMay 1, 2016

Pioneering mid-century photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe shines a light on one of the most influential but overlooked fashion photographers of the 20th century

2016BookMay

Private Collection: A History of Erotic Photography, 1850-1940

THE METROPOLITANApril 6, 2016

"There were no rules. It is the revolutionary newness of these images which makes them as exciting as their subjects."

2016AprilBookThe Arts