You haven’t heard from me in so long because I’ve been writing (belatedly) an endless (one might say immersive) review of Anne Imhof’s performance DOOM, which I promise will be better than all of the other DOOM reviews you’ve already read. In the meantime, here’s a short reading list.
Some suggested essays after DOOM: Laura McLean-Ferris’ “Declarations of Dependence,” Arlene Croce’s “Discussing the Undiscussable,” Benjamin Buchloh’s “Rock Paper Scissors,” and Annette Michelson’s “Where is Your Rupture?: Mass Culture and Gesamtkunstwerk.”
Near the end of her life, Annette Michelson told Artforum that one of her great regrets was never writing about the filmmaker Robert Breer. I, too, wish she had written about Breer, because there’s a dearth of material on his work, and he’s a great artist to look at on a rainy day. Here’s what she said: “He was a painter, and thus had a very sophisticated visual sense. He had also grown up with a feeling f…
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