Born in 1960, Glenn Ligon is an artist living and working in New York. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Throughou...
I have often felt uneasy about William S. Burroughs’s romance with guns. A central figure of the Beat generation, Burroughs (1914–1997) was born in St. Louis and resided in various locations ...
Two years after his death at the age of 101 on Christmas Day 2021, Wayne Thiebaud was given a major exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland. The neatly simple steel-and-glass ar...
This essay performs a haptic reading of “The Whiteness of the Whale” chapter in Melville’s Moby-Dick. Following Ishmael’s way of “squeezing cases” and touching upon epistemological is...
Philosophical approaches to nineteenth-century American literature have in recent years trended heavily in the direction of the various posthumanisms that have come to shape much of the landscape...
La pandémie de Covid-19 a frappé New York de plein fouet. De mémoire, la ville qui ne dort jamais n’avait été aussi silencieuse. Nombreux commentateurs la considéraient alors comme morte ...
Conçue en étroite collaboration avec l’agence Magnum Photos, la rétrospective consacrée à Elliott Erwitt au Musée Maillol a rencontré un large succès, encore confirmé par la prolongati...
Professor Joshua B. Nelson, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a native Oklahoman, is an associate professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, whose work focuses on American Indian lite...
When choreographer Cathy Marston sought to translate Ethan Frome into dance, it was the “elemental feel” of the novella that inspired her quest for finding ways of dancing “New Englandly,�...
Ingrid Gantner, « Keïona de la House of Revlon, performance de voguing à la Fondation des Etats-Unis », Paris, 10 juin 2021. Every edited dossier of an academic journal is a long time in...