Howard Hampton on Ian Penman on Rainer Werner Fassbinder—read it and weep artforum.com/books/rainer-w…

On June Gibbons’s incredible novel of estrangement, written when she was 16 and at last reissued by Strange Attractor, for this week’s 4Columns: 4columns.org/hatfield-zack/…

RIP to this genius. Hung his Hugo Boss Award in the Gugg along with some paintings. Hans Peter Feldmann, y’all.

The one and only Moze Halperin (Moze Jagger Halperin) on Succession and its discontents artforum.com/film/on-succes…

Comedic performer Dynasty Handbag’s “Titanic Depression,” like the unfolding Titan fiasco, enacts a psychoanalytic insight: that the Real can never be retrieved but rather must be traumatically repeated. artforum.com/performance/dy…

in artforum my review of Onyeka Igwe’s “A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver)” MoMA PS1 3 stunning videos dancing with the 1929 Aba Women’s War • anti-colonial resistance • challenging archival visual control • choreographies of liberation artforum.com/film/onyeka-ig…

Robert Smithson died 50 years ago today so I’ll reshare my review of his first biography, which is bewildering but kind of brilliant (Smithson would’ve hated it). artforum.com/books/resurrec…

“Here is the funny fate of the historic European avant-garde, caught somewhere between devaluation and deference, at once a liability and a lure.” The Artforum review of Hannah Gadsby’s “Pablo-matic”—by the redoubtable Joseph Henry—is in: artforum.com/slant/the-unfu…

Dolly Parton on Dave Hickey, 2023: "He was beyond compare. I liked him, I loved him, and yes, I had a crush on him, too."

Leo season

Want to read some brilliant prose? Try this: artforum.com/film/a-never-w…

On Seth Price for the new artforum artforum.com/print/reviews/…

artforum sent me on a mission to the all trans girl strip club 💵 artforum.com/diary/inside-n…

I’ve resigned as senior editor of Artforum dot com. David Velasco’s firing is unacceptable and bodes ominously for the future of the magazine. I’m sad it’s come to this but deeply grateful for the extraordinary writers, artists & colleagues I’ve worked with over the past 6 years.

Yesterday I resigned as a senior editor of Artforum.com. The firing of David Velasco violates everything I had cherished about the magazine and makes my work there untenable. I’m devastated by this outcome and will deeply miss my talented colleagues and contributors.

Searing words by the novelist Atef Abou Seif

Behind the paywall (for now), here is the n+1 editors on the new, staggering era of war imagery inaugurated by Israel's genocide on Gaza, from AI-illustrated hasbara to Palestinians begging for their lives on IG to IDF war-crime TikTok: nplusonemag.com/issue-47/the-i…

On Jenny Holzer’s Guggenheim show, for New York Review of Architecture: nyra.nyc/articles/spira…