Out of Practice: Ten issues Of Even, 2015-18

"Even" was founded in New York in 2015 as a new source for criticism by a young global generation of writers and artists. This anthology collects more than thirty of "Even"'s best essays on the cultural themes that define our time. Rebecca Ann Siegel Jason Farago I. NEW INSTITUTIONS The Louvre Abu who is it for? Kanishk Tharoor In Beijing, Malevich meets the censors. Philip Tinari London museums’ boys of summer. Huw Lemmey A black museum after a black presidency. Lauretta Charlton The thieves of beauty. James McAuley In Palestine, a museum without art. Anna Altman II. PAINTING AFTER PIXELS Oil on canvas meets image on screen. Andrianna Campbell K.J. all black everything. Thomas Chatterton Williams Florine Stettheimer and her daughters. Matthew J. Abrams Abstraction and the bliss of introverts. Zoë Lescaze III. DESIGN FOR LIVING “What’s that jacket, Margiela?” Daniel Penny Rei Kawakubo’s marriage advice. Judith Thurman In LA with Thomas Mann’s broker. Ben Eastham Decorating advice from Donald Trump. Thomas de Monchaux Hudson Yards and mixed-use New York. Jacob Moore Premixed a crime against Mies. Kyle Chayka IV. AREA STUDIES Xi’s four paths forward. Jacob Dreyer Brussels and the beauty of bureaucracy. Niklaus Nuspliger Up all night on Angola’s dance floors. Chloé Buire Korea’s gangster cinema, and president. Michelle Cho Brazil in the final hour. Silas Martí V. OFFLINE NETWORKS Spotify in the eighteenth century. Deirdre Loughridge Google shifts from Chrome to condos. Linda Besner Anne Imhof’s ice bucket challenge. Laura McLean-Ferris French just another meme. Travis Diehl The Museum of Ice Cream, our future. Rob Horning (...)