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Feb 21, 2024 | artforum.com | Jonathan Anderson |Bradford Nordeen |Travis Jeppesen |DiaryThe FOG

Joseph Masheck's latest book views modernism through a sacred lensFaith in Art: Religion, Aesthetics, and Early Abstraction, by Joseph Masheck, London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 240 pages. As editor in chief of Artforum from 1977 to 1980, Joseph Masheck published a series of five articles tracing ways that twentieth-century abstraction remained subtly rooted in Christian conceptualities and antetypes.

Feb 16, 2024 | artforum.com | Bradford Nordeen |Travis Jeppesen |DiaryThe FOG |Andrew Berardini

Harmony Korine’s masculinity melodramaThe new Harmony Korine joint, AGGRO DR1FT, concerns itself with light. On the one hand, it’s lite on plot, which follows gifted Miami-based assassin BO (Jordi Mollà) on a kill order to take down Zion, played by rapper Travis Scott. But after an unexpected bro-down on Zion’s stripper-strewn yacht, BO veers off assignment and chooses to take aim at the demonic crime lord, whose megalomaniacal thirsts sparked this hit in the first place.

Feb 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Ara Osterweil |Travis Jeppesen |DiaryThe FOG |Andrew Berardini

On the art of MarisolI FIRST HEARD about Marisol from a fellow painter who had started exhibiting his work in the 1960s. We were sitting at Puffy’s Tavern in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood shortly after the turn of the millennium. This used to be a real artists’ bar. Marisol hung out here all the time, he said, pronouncing her name with the reverence usually reserved for that other icon of Pop art, Marilyn Monroe. Who was Marisol (1930–2016) and why had I never heard of her?

Jan 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Travis Jeppesen |DiaryThe FOG |Andrew Berardini |James Cahill

THE LATEST INCARNATION of Made in L.A. borrowed its title from a sentence once uttered by the legendary local assemblage artist Noah Purifoy: “Creativity can be an act of living, a way of life, and a formula for doing the right thing.” In an era of political grandstanding and melodramatic acts of virtue signaling that often seem ready-made for some future parodist of this era, “Acts of Living,” as both a title and an overarching exhibition concept, is almost startling in its restraint and...