Gertrude Stein’s American Lectures and the Joy of the New Infinity Nets, Polka Dots and Ironic Selfies: Inside Yayoi Kusama’s Retrospective at Stedelijk J’Adore les Boosters: Trouble on the Streets of Paris Protest Art in a Time of Protest: On Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer in Paris

Opinion Gertrude Stein’s American Lectures and the Joy of the New After three decades in Paris, Gertrude Stein returned to the US in 1934 to deliver a lecture tour on art and writing. As a new edition of those lectures hits bookstores, Matthew Holman asks what Stein can still teach us about appreciating the novel in art.

Opinion Infinity Nets, Polka Dots and Ironic Selfies: Inside Yayoi Kusama’s Retrospective at Stedelijk Yayoi Kusama’s practice foregrounded “obliteration”, but is that what the long lines of visitors at her retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum are seeking? Erin Maglaque joined the queue.

Opinion / Diary J’Adore les Boosters: Trouble on the Streets of Paris Art Basel Paris may have shuttered early, but there was still plenty going on away from the Grand Palais last weekend if you knew where to look, as Olamiju Fajemisin shares in a new diary.

Opinion Protest Art in a Time of Protest: On Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer in Paris Both of these American artists, currently showing in Paris, use text to examine ideas of power and protest. What can their work tell us when viewed in the context of the messy reality of demonstration?

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