NYC! Please join three writers of Five Stories for Philip Guston—Audrey Wollen, Thessaly (王正谊) La Force, and Christopher Alessandrini—tomorrow for a launch event at Karma's bookstore, 136 East 3rd Street. There will be drinks, and there will be (short) readings. 6-8PM. bookstore.karmakarma.org/projects/five-…

London! Unfortunately this launch event tomorrow at Hauser & Wirth is at capacity, but please consider buying our beautiful book at the gallery or at the Tate bookstore. Also, you can order it from Printed Matter, Inc. (printedmatter.org/catalog/64305/) & Karma (bookstore.karmakarma.org/product/five-s…). 🖌️🖍️🖊️

And lo, it was launched.

We are looking to hire a Publishing Assistant to join our growing team in Deptford, south-east London. Deadline: 4 March. More details in The Bookseller: jobs.thebookseller.com/job/fitzcarral…

Fantastic opportunity for "planetarity"-minded essay writers.

‘Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography’ by writer and curator Lou Stoppard 💫 Order your copy via bit.ly/3T2kHx4 📸 Dolorès Marat, Janine Niepce, Clarisse Hahn, Mika Ninagawa and Daido Moriyama

“Part of an extremely interesting generation of artists which includes Cindy Sherman and Sally Mann...” Francesca Woodman’s posthumous path to A-lister theartnewspaper.com/2024/03/13/fra…

New from Sally Rooney: "Our Government can bask in the moral glow of condemning the bombers, while preserving a cosy relationship with those supplying the bombs." irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

“I know a road” — from Alice Oswald’s first collection ⁦Faber Books⁩, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996)

⁦@KimletGordon⁩ at Koko last night.

Arshile Gorky’s “Untitled (Nighttime, Enigma, and Nostalgia: Encorché) c. 1932 & “Untitled (Sunset in Central Park)” 1931 Hauser & Wirth

A very abbreviated interview with Gary and some memories of him newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

"TBT" reading: Hal Foster and Ben Lerner in 2016 on the critical dimension of contempt, hatred as a reading/compositional strategy, perceived betrayal by art, and Trump as a post-semantic linguist (poet?!). frieze.com/article/hating

I wrote about Rachel Cusk, for Sidecar: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

I profiled Somaya Critchlow, who is, I think, one of the UK’s most ambitious and thoughtful young artists, for the FT Weekend Magazine. It’s a piece about art and power, and art and politics (a slightly loaded topic in the Twitter/clickbait discourse this week) ft.com/content/1a9a2e…

Very happy to share the cover of Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World. It tells the 4000 year history of the disease and its stigma, and the remarkable stories of those affected past and present. Three months to go, but you can preorder (in bio) now!

Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World is published today. It tells the 4000 year history of the disease and its stigma, and the remarkable lives of those affected past and present. I am very proud of it, and beyond thankful to those who told their story.