Yevgeniya Traps
By Yevgeniya Traps
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Culture Why Louise Bourgeois Is My New Personal Role Model
Well, it’s decided: When I grow up I want to be Louise Bourgeois. Oh, fine, I know, I am full grown, but then Bourgeois did live to be 98, so it’s somewhat relative. Not that the longevity is in and of itself impressive. It’s what she did with all that time, the use she put…
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Culture Is Nathan Englander’s New Spy Novel Really About Ariel Sharon?
Dinner at the Center of the Earth By Nathan Englander Knopf, 272 pages, $26.95 In “A Horse Walks Into a Bar,” David Grossman’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel, Dovaleh Greenstein stages, under the pretext of a standup comedy set, a moral reckoning, a public wrestling match with his demons, which of necessity are also, in part,…
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Art To Diane Arbus, Every Portrait Was A Self Portrait
AT first glance, Diane Arbus’s parks look like our parks — and yet they stand apart from them. What might a Martian learn about us from this, people sometimes ask of a text. Arbus’s photos would tell a Martian little: They rather look as though they may have been made by one. ‘In the Park,”…
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Art Monsters, Monsters And More Monsters In a Thrilling Graphic Tale
Last night, trying, excitedly, to summarize “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters,” Emil Ferris’s debut graphic novel — or at least Part 1 of it — for my husband, I hit upon an obstacle: The book, which takes the form of a spiral-bound, three-hole-punch sketchbook/detective case study, kept by 10-year-old Chicagoan Karen Reyes, is kind of,…
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Culture Is The Controversial Whitney Biennial Just A Bunch of Bologna?
It has now been nearly two weeks since I visited the Whitney Biennial (delayed a year by the 2016 relocation of the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, from the Marcel Breuer building on 75th and Madison to the Renzo Piano-designed space in the Meatpacking District, at the foot of the High…
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Culture Daphne Merkin Reports From the Front Lines of Depression
In “The Depressed Person,” David Foster Wallace, no stranger to depression, posits that the pain wrought by “the impossibility of sharing or articulating” the condition of being depressed “was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.” The story details the depressed person’s “clumsy attempts to describe at least…
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Culture How The Crumbs Have Kept Their 46-Year Love Affair Alive
‘He’s the straight man, I’m the pratfall,”Aline Kominsky-Crumb said by way of explaining the dynamics of the collaborative comics she has been making with her husband, Robert Crumb, for well over 40 years. Oh, but that much was clear from the start of my time with Kominsky-Crumb. Having ostensibly been told that I was to…
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49 Reasons Why 2016 Wasn't as Bad as You Think Diane Arbus
Arthur Lubow’s biography of Diane Arbus, which claims that Arbus carried on a lifelong sexual relationship with her brother, appeared a month before “In the Beginning,” an exhibit of Arbus’s early photographs, opened at the Met Breuer. I submit that the images on display — uncanny but deeply human, curious and impartial, full of lust…
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