José María Pérez Fernández and Edward Wilson-Lee— A few days ago, a subsecretary in the newly-installed Italian government led by Mario Draghi tweeted out to followers an inspiring message which showed the continuing relevance of the great poet Dante to our present day: “Chi si ferma è perduto, mille anni
Terry Eagleton— Over half a century ago, in an excellent little book entitled Communications, Raymond Williams outlined a socialist plan for the arts and media which rejected state control of its content on the one hand and the sovereignty of the profit motive on the other. Instead, the active contributors
Jack O’Malley— The recently-released John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume Two documents the artist’s work and development of technique in the decade following his infamous “Cremation Project,” encompassing Baldessari’s continued photo-based works in the 70s to, in the 80s, the first of what became an iconic Baldessari image: overlaying the faces