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Feb 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Dean Rader |Slantthe Politics |Michael Corris |Kaya Genç

“Drawing the Line: Michelangelo to Asawa”AS I MOVED THROUGH “Drawing the Line: Michelangelo to Asawa” at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, I kept thinking about the instant before creation. For me, a poet who writes longhand, there is always a miraculous moment when pencil touches paper, in advance of any mark, when everything seems possible and nothing is known. I’ve heard it can be similar for some artists: the untouched paper an invitation to venture into the exhilarating space of making.

Feb 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Elizabeth Mangini |Slantthe Politics |Michael Corris |Kaya Genç

DIRECTION. INVISIBLE. DETAIL. Each of these words is the complete title of one of Giovanni Anselmo’s signature artworks, and each is testament to the radical aims of his meticulous practice. Anselmo was an integral figure of Arte Povera, a curatorial concept of the late 1960s that described a dozen or so Italian artists who largely eschewed representation in order to create situations of perceptual experience. Anselmo’s work bridged sculpture and conceptualism with razor-sharp precision and dry wit.

Jan 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Anna Ostoya |Slantthe Politics |Michael Corris |Kaya Genç

Isabelle Graw’s On the Benefits of FriendshipOn the Benefits of Friendship, by Isabelle Graw, Sternberg Press, 2023. 128 pages. IS TRUE FRIENDSHIP POSSIBLE in the art world? It’s a question rarely asked out loud in an industry famously riddled with self-interest, opportunism, and backstabbing. It also serves as the launching point for Isabelle Graw’s On the Benefits of Friendship, the author’s second piece of autofiction and her first since 2020’s In Another World.

Jan 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Kaya GençPlus icon |Kaya Genç |Slantthe Politics |Michael Corris

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry GrassesNURI BILGE CEYLAN loves scoundrels of an artistic bent. There is no other way to explain the preponderance of louts, misanthropes, and creeps who have populated the films made over his three-decade career. Take the autofictional Clouds of May (1999), whose conniving protagonist, a fledgling director, employs family members to film his debut in his native Thracian town.