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\"Iris\"<\/a>

Iris Apfel, in Iris<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The_Hidden_World_Jim_Shaw_0002_Layer_2_1024x1024\"<\/a>The artist\u00a0Jim Shaw began collecting printed media\u00a0when he was still a teenager, and his extensive archive, which serves as a primary source of inspiration for his paintings, was recently\u00a0published as The Hidden World<\/a><\/em>. The small\u00a0book is made to resemble a bible: the edges of the pages are stained red,\u00a0and\u00a0the black cover bears only the gold-embossed title. The\u00a0roughly five hundred images are presented without captions or commentary and\u00a0were originally produced for pedagogical religious\u00a0purposes: Freemason, fundamentalist Christian, Mormon, Rosicrucianism, Jehovah\u2019s Witness, Opus Dei,\u00a0Branch Davidian, and much more. \u201cThe Hidden World\u201d was shown as an exhibition a few years ago, but in book form, the same images don\u2019t have the\u00a0feel of\u00a0artworks. If it\u2019s a book, you can read it\u2014whether the pages are filled with words or pictures. The unbridged\u00a0sequences between various brands of faith create a strange narrative: from, say, Left Behind<\/em> pop culture to\u00a0beatific Christendom,\u00a0homemade cultism to\u00a0UFO-related arcana. A Bill Mauldin\u00a0cartoon featuring\u00a0the grim reaper at work sits\u00a0across the page from a book cover that reads \u201cGood News to Make You Happy.\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s a creepy book, especially if you aren\u2019t a member of any of these clubs, but it also testifies to how\u00a0deeply people want to believe. \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to attend the New York premiere of Albert Maysles\u2019s<\/a> last documentary, Iris<\/a><\/em>. As one might expect, the film offers no shortage of celebration for the buoyant and idiosyncratic style of Iris Apfel; well into her nineties, she\u2019s still very much a commanding force in the world of fashion. But what interested me more than Iris\u2019s style were the glimpses into the relationship between the \u201cRare Bird of Fashion\u201d and Maysles himself, whose presence, more often than not, manifests only as a voice from behind his camera. To me, the film was an endearing look at two aging artists brought together by the longevity of their art\u2014and, more largely, a tribute to their indefatigable grace. \u2014Stephen Hiltner<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"hammerbookcover\"<\/a>From a distance, I\u2019d always cast a cool eye on James Merrill\u2019s epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover<\/em><\/a>\u2014his famous experiments with Ouija boards struck me as superstitious gimmickry, a rich boy\u2019s attempt to swath himself in the aura of Yeatsian occultism. Well, file that under \u201cmoronic snap judgment.\u201d Langdon Hammer\u2019s new biography, James Merrill: Life and Art<\/a><\/em>, has shown me the light. Merrill, who led a truly singular life, came to the Ouija board not for some self-serious dalliance with the afterworld but to buttress his playful, skeptical, fecund approach to poetics; as Hammer writes, he \u201crenewed poetry\u2019s ancient task of soliciting speech from the gods. He activated a source of inspiration existing in language itself.\u201d And I hadn\u2019t known that the poet and his partner, David Jackson, used the board in 1955 to commune with Wallace Stevens, who had just died and who expanded their sexual vocabulary from a higher plane: \u201c\u2018Do you not know the lovely prologue kissing of nostrils, tongue in nostril and on rims?\u2019 He described scenes of sex at court with Ethiopian slaves, dogs, oils, multiple positions and partners, and a tiger licking sweets from the genitals of the orgiasts.\u201d \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stefan Zweig is one of those writers who mastered the art of memory\u2014reading his short stories<\/a> on prewar Vienna feels like walking into a sepia photograph. \u201cMendel the Bibliophile\u201d definitely has that effect. The misfit book peddler Jakob Mendel, endowed with an encyclopedic memory, is typical of the vanished Vienna Zweig is always mourning in his work: a breeding ground for intellectuals where old books are cherished like secular relics, a comfortable, stimulating cocoon, doomed to splinter during the war. The tenderness of its nostalgia makes\u00a0\u201cMendel\u201d a gem. \u2014Charlotte Groult<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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