I’m working and thinking about the mid-(twentieth)-century
Robert Slifkin, The New Monuments and the End of Man: U.S. Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945-1975
Noah Tsika, Traumatic Imprints: Cinema, Military Psychiatry, and the Aftermath of War
Allan Bérubé, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II
Black Mountain College, M.C. Richards / Centering: Art + Life – 100 Years
Maggie Nelson, Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara
A batch of letters, interviews and documents from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives
Artworks – looking at the Nasher Collection a lot, remotely:
Arp, Torso with Buds (I know…)
Nancy Grossman, Untitled, Head Sculpture (very tough and very protected)
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (what is it, really?)
Isamu Noguchi, Gregory (Effigy) (nomadic art that can be taken apart at a moment’s notice)
Henri Matisse, Standing Nude, Arms on Head (the back view of it, especially)
And for pure distraction & to keep my sanity, such as it is:
Podcasts: ‘How Did This Get Made / You Must Remember This’ (among others)
Streaming: ‘Schitt’s Creek’ (for Moira’s vocabulary especially); ‘The Good Place’ (for Chidi’s stressed “What?” which is perfect for life right now); Samir Nosrat’s ‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’ (so comforting)
Anything involving John Mulaney (like 30 Rock, so well-written that it bears repeatedly listening)