Nancy Princenthal is a New York-based writer whose Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames and Hudson) received the 2016 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. She is also the author of Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s and Hannah Wilke, and her essays have appeared in monographs on Doris Salcedo, Alfredo Jaar, Willie Cole and Gary Simmons, among many others. A former Senior Editor at Art in America, she has also written for the New York Times, Hyperallergic and elsewhere, and taught at Princeton University, Yale University, Bard College, the School of Visual Arts and the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU.
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Art and Science: The Two Cultures Converging
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the... read more! »
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Fail Again, Fail Better
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett Why do NY Mets fans stay true to their team, season after losing season? The answer may have to do with the kind of delirious joy they experience when that special year comes around and they finally win the World Series. But... read more! »