Andrew McKenna (Loyola): Art and Incarnation: Oscillating Views. From American Arts Quarterly, James F. Cooper on sculptors of the American Renaissance: Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French; and on the legacy of Philippe de Montebello. Brick Master: Is it possible to create art out of Legos? Cave painting: An article on video games as art. For decades Baghdad was the cultural capital of the Arab world; war changed all that and it is only now that the Iraqi art scene is slowly blossoming again. From Artforum, Mira Schor on her new book A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life. Between play and politics: Marie-Laure Ryan on dysfunctionality in digital art. The Weak Universalism: In these times, we know that everything can be an artwork. What makes a film become cult? A review essay on German art’s current enhanced status. Coaxing the soul of America back to life: Roger Kennedy on how the New Deal sustained, and was sustained by, artists. A review of The Conman: How One Man Fooled the Modern Art Establishment by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo. Tyler Cowen reviews the letters of Vincent Van Gogh. The rise in pseudo-intellectual nonsense is the result of a growing art world, not necessarily a function of the art market. Attack of the Hipsters: A review of The Pop Revolution by Alice Goldfarb. American colleagues urge their friends who are interested in architecture to get to Havana soon, “before it changes”; but to suggest that change in Cuba is something to be dreaded seems insensitive at best. A review of Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art by Andrew Stewart. A review of Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity by Ben-Ami Scharfstein. Dalia Judovitz on her book Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company.
