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Essays
Making It Well
Randy Kennedy on an artists’ project honoring half a century of CalArts, including scholarship fundraising editions by Henry Taylor, Barbara T. Smith, Allen Ruppersberg and many more.
Essays
How To Peel an Orange
Art critic Waldemar Januszczak recalls a poignantly fruitful afternoon in Chelsea, New York.
Books
A Few Good Books
From Bernadette Mayer to Gordon Parks, a highly subjective list of the best in art and literary publishing in 2020.
Essays
How To Peel an Orange
Art critic Waldemar Januszczak recalls a poignantly fruitful afternoon in Chelsea, New York.
Books
A Few Good Books
From Bernadette Mayer to Gordon Parks, a highly subjective list of the best in art and literary publishing in 2020.
Diary
The Radar: Dagny Corcoran
In this week’s installment of The Radar, renowned Los Angeles art bookseller Dagny Corcoran takes us back to 1950,...
Conversations
The Art of Sustenance
For the cover story of the inaugural issue of ‘Ursula’ magazine in 2018, Linda Goode Bryant—gallery founder,...
Books
‘Island Zombie: Iceland Writings’ by Roni Horn
On the occasion of Horn’s latest publication, a collection of the artist’s writings about a lifelong love of...
Conversations
The Location of the Self
Novelist Ottessa Moshfegh and painter Avery Singer meet for the first time via Zoom for a discussion about the limits of form, the clarity of sobriety, the puzzle of consciousness, and the joys of solitude.
Essays
The Making of Simone Leigh’s Brick House
Simone Leigh’s sculpture, the inaugural High Line Plinth Commission, was first unveiled in June 2019 on New York...
Films
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Modern Master
From Dada to Geometric Abstraction, Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s radical approach to abstraction makes her one of the most...
Essays
The Making of Simone Leigh’s Brick House
Simone Leigh’s sculpture, the inaugural High Line Plinth Commission, was first unveiled in June 2019 on New York...
Films
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Modern Master
From Dada to Geometric Abstraction, Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s radical approach to abstraction makes her one of the most...
Films
Mary Heilmann: Highway, Oceans, Daydreams
On the occasion of her exhibition ‘Highway, Oceans, Daydreams’ at our Southampton gallery, Heilmann talks about her...
Diary
The Radar: Hou Hanru
Introducing a new Ursula feature, which will regularly bring you uncommon cultural recommendations—the brand-new and...
Essays
I AM THE OBJECT: Jack Whitten’s work of the 1990s
In 2015, Jack Whitten composed a statement that he titled ‘Beyond Abstraction.’ He meant ‘abstraction’ as a mode of...
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