Rovings

december 2023 edition.

Sounds

• Peter And Zoë Stampfel, Ass In The Air
• D.L. Menard and the Louisiana Aces, The Back Door And Other Cajun Classics
• David Byrne Radio Presents: Flamenco Every Which Way
• People’s Picks: Sarah Davachi, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, December 2023
• Sally Timms and Jon Langford, “Horses”
• Palace Bros., “Horses”
• Various Artists, The Soul of Congo: Treasures of the Ngoma label (1948-1963)
• Framework: Seasonal, Issue #15, Autumn 2023
• Greg Allen, “‘She was a pure creator.’ The art world rediscovers Surrealist painter Leonor Fini,” NPR, 9 December 2023
• Anthony Brooks, “Ace of Cups rock band proves it’s never too late for a comeback,” WBUR, 21 December 2023
• Curator Helen Molesworth Looks Back on 30 Years of Art Writing, ArtNet podcast, 3 November 2023
• A Grain of Wheat, BBC Sounds, Drama on 4
• The Santiago Boys: The Tech World That May Have Been
• Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz, “The Year of the Doll,” New Yorker Critics at Large Podcast, 21 December 2023

Words

• Raymond Foye, “Portrait of a Room,” Brooklyn Rail, March 2023
• Parul Sehgal, “What We Learn from the Lives of Critics.” New Yorker, 4 December 2023 (H/t Eli Sugarman)
• Tavares Cebola and John Eligon, “Using Dance to Tell the Story of Mozambique’s Struggles,” New York Times, 15 December 2023
• Jonathan Ira Levy, “The Evolution of Modern Political Power,” Project Syndicate, 27 October 2023
• Chris Yogerst, “Endless Culture Wars: On Kliph Nesteroff’s ‘Outrageous,’” LARB, 1 December 2023
• Carson Mell, Saguaro
• Carson Mell, Cherry on Top
• Ira Berlin, Russian Thinkers
• The Editors, “In Plain Site,” E-Flux, 3 December 2023
• Daniel Mason, North Woods
• Stephen Winick, “Song Hunting in the Appalachians with Karpeles and Cowell: In the Footsteps of Cecil Sharp Part 1,” 4 December 2023
• Alex Traub, “Her Sculptures Were Ignored for 33 Years. Then She Got a New Roommate: Hanna Eshel did not succeed in the New York art world. Her only reliable exhibit space was her own loft. But a musician in search of a home changed that,” New York Times, 29 December 2023
• Juilee Decker, ed., Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials
• David B. Allison, Controversial Monuments and Memorials: A Guide for Community Leaders
• Sanford Levinson, Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies: Twentieth Anniversary Edition with New Preface and Afterword
• Laura A. Macaluso, ed., Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World
• Harriet Senie, Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11
• Scott A. Sandage, “A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory, 1939-1963.” Journal of American History 80, 1 (1993): 135–67
• W.J.T. Mitchell, “Always Anachronize,” Brooklyn Rail, October 2023
• Forrest Hylton, “Latin America’s Resurgent Right,” LRB Blog, 7 December 2023
• Tyler Austin Harper, “The Humanities Have Sown the Seeds of Their Own Destruction: If the humanities have become more political over the past decade, it is the result of pressure to prove that they are ‘useful,'” The Atlantic, 19 December 2023
• Editors of Art News, “The Defining Exhibitions of 2023,” Art News, 21 December 2023
• Sonia Hernández, “Recovering Histories of Gendered State Violence,” Process: A blog for American History, 19 December 2023
• Will Hodge, “Can’t Look Away: Musicians, Writers, and More Reflect on 30 Years of Uncle Tupelo’s ‘No Depression’,” No Depression, 22 June 2020
• Melissa Eddy, “A New Place to Learn Civics: The Workplace,” New York Times, 29 October 2023
• Lucy Sante, “How Bob Dylan Blurred the Boundaries Between Literature and Popular Music: Lucy Sante on the Poetic Evolution of Mid-Century America’s Folkloric Bard,” Lithub, 24 October 2023
• Zachary Clary, “The Real History Behind Netflix’s ‘Rustin’ Movie,” Smithsonian Magazine, 2 November 2023
• Andrea Roberts, Danielle Purifoy, and Maia L. Butler, “Stewarding Black Worlds,” Places Magazine, October 2023
• Ross Barkan, “Has the Socialist Moment Already Come and Gone?: Bernie and AOC helped build a formidable movement. Since Biden took office, we’ve seen its reach—and its limits,” New Republic, 3 August 2023
• Inti Figgis-Vizueta, “Out of Context #3: Finding Tradition in New Music,” I Care If You Listen, 25 March 2020
• Tim Adams, “‘All these bulletproof songs, one after another’: remembering Tom Waits’s extraordinary mid-career trilogy,” Guardian, 20 August 2023
• John Szwed, “How the Folkloric Sounds of Rural America Reached the Mainstream,” LitHub, 23 August 2023
• Bethany Bell, “Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’: Homeplace Making in Black Memory and Imagination,” Perspectives, 26 July 2023 Part 1; “Rhiannon Giddens’s ‘Build a House’: Homeplace Making in Black Memory and Imagination,” Perspectives, 24 August 2023
• Catherine L. Fisk, “What’s at Stake in the Hollywood Writers’ Strike: Streaming has given the studios one more way to exploit writers—and the writers are pushing back,” American Prospect, 28 July 2023
• Randy Laist, “Gen Z and the Humanities: Post-pandemic cohorts of incoming students may have unique reasons for being drawn to the humanities,” Inside Higher Ed, 30 August 2023
• Binyamin Appelbaum, “The Big City Where Housing Is Still Affordable,” New York Times, 11 September 2023
• Toril Moi , “Reciprocal Otherness: Simone de Beauvoir on freedom and difference,” The Point, 21 September 2023
• Will Hermes, “The Year Lou Reed Gave Up on Music: Between quitting the Velvet Underground and writing “Walk on the Wild Side,” the singer endured a long stretch of doubt, frustration and failure,” New York Times, 22 September 2023
• Peter J. Verovšek and Javier Burdman, “Between Habermas and Lyotard: Rethinking the Contrast between Modernity and Postmodernity,” Theory, Culture & Society, 23 September 2023
• Ben Railton, “Considering History: The Foundational Fight for American Labor Unions,” The Saturday Evening Post, 2 September 2023
• Lorna Finlayson, “The Sycophant,” NLR Sidecar, 21 September 2023
• Francis Mulhern, “In the Academic Counting-House,” New Left Review 123, 22 June 2020): 115–32
• John Merrick, “To the Edge,” The Point Blog, 28 September 2023
• David Klion, “Liberties: A Magazine in Revolt Against the New,” The Nation, 2 October 2023
• Ian Penman, “The Stubborn Mysteries of Lou Reed: A new biography offers an inconclusive portrait of the rock-and-roll shape-shifter,” New Yorker, 16 October 2023
• Kiana Knight, “Black Actresses as Symbols of Resistance to Brazilian Racial Democracy,” Black Perspectives, 16 October 2023
• Hannah Gold, “Lou Reed Didn’t Want to Be King: A new biography tries to pin the rocker down,” Yale Review, 16 October 2023
• Fred Block, “The Habitation Economy,” Dissent, 15 December 2023
• Martha Schwendener, “Yoko Ono and the Women of Fluxus Changed the Rules in Art and Life: A show at the Japan Society focuses on four innovators who created a blueprint for a new society with postcards, scissors, chess sets and instructions,” New York Times, 27 October 2023
• Jason Lee Oakes, “The Banjo at the Crossroads: Smithsonian Year of Music Object of the Day, August 27,” Smithsonian Music, August 2019
• Betsy Golden Kellem, “The Nineteenth-Century Banjo: Derived from an instrument brought to America by enslaved Africans, the banjo experienced a surge of popularity during the New Woman movement of the late 1800s,” JSTOR Daily, 29 November 2023
• Adam Bradley, “Black Folk Musicians Are Reclaiming the Genre: In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be,” New York Times, 12 November 2023
• Patrick Iber, “The End of Milton Friedman’s Reign: The Chicago school ruled supreme over economics—until recently,” New Republic, 13 November 2023
• Daniel Callcut, “Bernard Williams, Moral Relativism and the Culture Wars.” Aeon, 20 October 2023
• David Bentley Hart, “Three Cheers for Socialism: Christian Love & Political Practice,” Commonweal, 24 February 2020
• Thad Williamson, “Democracy in the Real World,” Boston Review, 7 December 2023
• David Marchese, “David Byrne Isn’t Himself. Or Any Self, Really,” New York Times, 10 December 2023
• Cory Doctorow, “Housing Is a Labor Issue,” Pluralistic, 13 December 2023.
• Zoe Parker, “Why Labor Unions Should Join the Housing Fight,” LPE Project, 12 December 2023
• Samuel Moyn, “Critical Theory’s Generational Predicament,” Constellations, 14 December 2023
• Leo Robson, “Jameson after Post Critique,” New Left Review 144 (14 December 2023): 111–32
• Michel, Lincoln, Matt Ford, Matt Ford, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, Jonathan W. Gray, Jonathan W. Gray, et al. “The Year That A.I. Came for Culture,” New Republic, 20 December 2023
• Ami Bouhassane and Richard Calvocoressi, “Lee Miller and Friends,” Gagosian Quarterly, Winter 2023

“Walls”

• Mark Bradford, Picket’s Charge @ Hirshhorn Museum
• Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 @ Hessel Museum of Art
• Annie Morris, Permanent Moments @ Timothy Taylor
• Ilse D’Hollander, A Harmony Parallel to Nature @ Sean Kelly Los Angeles
• Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s @ Walker Arts Center
• Dawoud Bey, Elegy @ VMFA
• Leticia Pardo, Wounded Territory @ Comfort Station
• Faith Ringgold, American People @ MCA Chicago
• Leslie Martinez, The Fault of Formation @ MoMA PS1
• Alex Katz @ Gladstone Gallery
• A Matter of Discovery: The Art of Luis Perelman @ Neuberger Museum of Art
• Betye Saar, Drifting Toward Twilight @ The Huntington
• An-My Lê, Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières @ MoMA
• Cicatriz @ Davis Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• Cooking Cleaning Caring: Care Work in the Arts since 1960 @ Josef Albers Museum
• Cloth as Land: HMong Indigeneity @ John Michael Kohler Arts Center
• Paul McCartney, Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm @ Chrysler Museum of Art
• Mike Kelley, Nonmemory @ Hauser & Wirth
• Enchantments: Bottled Devotionals of Divine Feminine Spirits by Hilma’s Ghost @ The Aldrich
• RETROaction @ Hauser & Wirth
• Barbara Chase-Riboud, The Three Josephines @ Hauser & Wirth
• Lygia Clark and Franz Erhard Walther, Action as Sculpture @ Villa Franz Erhard Walther
• Self-Determination: A Global Perspective @ IMMA — Irish Museum of Modern Art
• Gillian Laub, Southern Rites @ Eastman Museum
• Gregory Halpern, 19 winters/7 springs @ Eastman Museum
• Inventing Objects: Jay DeFeo’s Photographic Work @ Paula Cooper Gallery
• David Novros, Wall Paintings @ Paula Cooper Gallery
• Michael Rakowitz, The Monument, The Monster, and The Maquette @ Jane Lombard Gallery
• Humane Ecology: Eight Positions @ The Clark
• Exemplary Modern: Sophie Taeuber-Arp with Contemporary Artists @ Hauser & Wirth
• Julian Schnabel, Bouquet of Mistakes @ Pace Gallery
• John Lees: Krazy Paradise @ Betty Cuningham Gallery
• William Kentridge, Oh To Believe in Another World @ Marian Goodman
• Dewey Crumpler, Post Atlantic @ Andrew Kreps Gallery
• John Zurier, On the Back of a Mirror @ Peter Blum Gallery
• Jane South, Halfway Off @ Spencer Brownstone Gallery
• Keiran Brennan Hinton, A Break in the Clouds @ Charles Moffett
• Jane Wilson, Atmospheres @ DC Moore Gallery
• Vaughn Spann, Trilogy @ Almine Rech
• Laura Anderson Barbata, Singing Leaf @ Marlbarough Gallery
• Maki Na Kamura @ Michael Werner Gallery
• Don Van Vliet, Standing on One Hand @ Michael Werner Gallery
• Katy Moran, How to Paint Like an Athlete @ Sperone Westwater
• Dala Nasser, Adonis River @ The Renaissance Society
• Adriana Furlong, Hundreds Do Things @ Island Gallery
• Manet/Degas @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Modern-ish: Yonia Fain and the Art History of Yiddishland @ James Gallery CUNY Graduate Center
• Connected Diaspora: U.S. Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media @ Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College
• Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus @ Japan Society
• Ezra Tessler, Where the Stress Falls @ A.D.
• Erika Verzutti, New Moons @ Hessel Museum of Art
• Karlo Kacharava, Sentimental Traveller @ SMAK
• Constance Tenvik, Finding Shelter Under a Giant’s Tongue @ Harawik
• Arghavan Khosravi, True to Self @ Rachel Uffner
• Red @ LA Louver
• Seeing Is Believing: Lee Miller and Friends @ Gagosian
• Brice Marden, Let the Painting Make You @ Gagosian
• Duane Linklater, dressing @ Bortolami Gallery
• Katherine Bradford, Arms and the Sea @ Canada Gallery New York
• Diana Al-Hadid, Women, Bronze, and Dangerous Things @ Kasmin Gallery
• Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Secrets @ Andrew Kreps Gallery
• Roberto Gil de Montes, Reverence in Blue @ Kurimanzutto New York
• Terry Allen, Juarez: Now and Then @ LA Louver
• Tales of Brave Ulysses: Al Loving, Howardena Pindell, Alan Shields, and Richard Van Buren @ Garth Greenan Gallery

“Stages”

• Marx for Cats: A conversation with Leigh Claire La Berge and Jodi Dean @ Intellectual Public’s, CUNY Graduate Center, 4 December 2023
• Phill Niblock 90th Birthday Winter Solstice: 24 Hours of Music and Film @ Roulette, 21 December 2023
• Jonathan Levy, Instability and Inequality: American Capitalism after the Volcker Shock of 1980 @ Nelson A Rockefeller Center, Dartmouth College, 9 February 2019
• Eric Zolov, The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties @ Washington History Seminar, 27 September 2021
• A World Transformed?: Reassessing 1968 and the Global Sixties @ NYUAD Institute, 9 October 2018
• The Curator and the Historian: Helen Molesworth and Paul Schimmel @ Pew Center for the Arts, 19 March 2013
• Nancy Fraser @ Verso Books Interview Series, 11 July 2023
• Adjoa Armah, These Seasons: Atlantic Marginalia @ Swiss Institute, 13 December 2023
• Cultural Criticism as an Act of Care @ Luminary and Sixty Inches From Center, 30 November 2013
• History Behind the Headlines: Approaches to Teaching Israel–Palestine @ AHA Online, 7 December 2023
• Reckoning with Slavery in US Intellectual History and in the University @ Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center, 13 December 2023
• David Blight on James Weldon Johnson: Mondays @ Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 7 June 2021
• Heather Cox Richardson, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America @ CSPAN Books/Politics and Prose Bookstore/Sidwell Friends School, 11 October 2023
• Search Engines—Octavia Butler AI, Other Radical Possibilities of Technology: Beth Coleman in Conversation with Lisa Nakamura and André Brock @ DISCO Studies Network/Digital Studies Network, University of Michigan, 4 December 2023
• Chris Strachwitz Memorial @ Freight and Salvage, 17 September 2023
• Is There God After Prince? Peter Coviello and Gus Stadler @ Popular Music Books Series, 5 December 2023

Screens

• Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
• Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
• Sky Hopinka, Dislocation Blues
• Jonathas de Andrade, Olho da Rua (Out Loud)
• Cydnii Wilde Harris, Cotton: The Fabric of Genocide
• Carnegie Mellon Project Overview for the Mississippi John Hurt Foundation
• Slow Horses, Season 3
• Operation Finale
• Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
• Inventing David Geffen
• Lawmen: Bass Reeves