Esopus 25: Spring 2018

Esopus Foundation Ltd., Brooklyn, 2018. Softcover, 256 pp. Profusely illustrated art journal presented with minimal editorial framework and no advertising. Edited by Tod Lippy. This issue includes artist's projects by Noriko Ambe, Paolo Arao, Tina Barney, John Edmonds, Elizabeth Ferry and Anish Kapoor; reflections by Francine Prose on an early Renaissance painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (including a poem by Zbigniew Herbert), new installments of the regular series "Guarded Opinions," "Modern Artifacts" and "Public Access" (with never-before-seen items from the Vladimir Nabokov papers in the New York Public Library's Berg Collection); materials reproduced from the Ludlow Santo Domingo collection of psychedelia at Harvard University; lyrics and art by Lonnie Holley; and a CD compilation featuring musicians Andrew Silberman (The Antlers), Will Oldham, Katie von Schleicher and others, who have created a series of new songs inspired by jokes. In fine condition.