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Aaron and Alan Hicks, The Lions Den, produced in an open edition, is one of the examples of the Black Romantic aesthetic. It’s near impossible to keep up with everything that comes rocketing at you through the newsfeed each day—let alone everything that was published about art in the last four weeks. So here’s my attempt, at the end of the month, to crack open the virtual magazine rack, read a bunch, and sift for ideas I think are worth debating or holding on to. If there’s something ...

Read an excerpt from the new book "More Art in the Public Eye." December 24, 2020 Staged between the cubicle-like glass partitions of Brookfield Place’s atrium, in downtown Manhattan, Ernesto Pujol’s performance 9-5 (2015) paid homage to city office workers; writing silently for 8 hours a day, performers’ meditative gesture evoked the repetitiousness of all labor and created a literature of pedestrian life in the city. © Nisa Ojalvo 2015. A mohawk-topped black man defiantly marches forw...