Writing

Lindsay Choi looks at two works by the artist that invite her audience to mutual exchange
 

When lockdown hit London, the artist Issy Wood used her blog as a regimented daily exercise: an attempt to describe the experience of a time when ‘every day is precious but of no consequence’

An exhibition at Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, explores writing’s role in embodiment and spiritual grounding

‘He created rhythmic patterns that sounded, in your mind or on his voice, both adamantine and feline at once’

‘Nelson is wilful and demanding, forever frustrated by the gap between expression and vision, as are all great artists’

How monolingualism is the carbon monoxide of culture

Found first in the pages of NME, an homage to the critic who brought an antic traduction of high French theory to the study of contemporary pop

What's so great about authenticity?

Remembering Umberto Eco (1932–2016)

Man Booker Prize winner László Krasznahorkai goes to China in search of sorrow and destruction in his latest book

Literature versus art history

Jesse Ball is an author, poet, artist and lucid dreaming instructor based in Chicago. Ross Simonini talked to him about his new novel, The Curfew, ‘writing as a performance’, and the importance of both clarity and deception in story-telling

Why a growing number of artists are turning away from image-making to writing and performance

A new, expanded edition of Lawrence Weschler’s classic, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin is a cause for celebration

'What writing has most influenced the way you think about art?' Writers, artists and curators reveal the often surprising literary influences – from Theodor W. Adorno to Lester Bangs, Gertrude Stein and P.G. Wodehouse – that have shaped their thinking.