1. New institutions -- The Louvre Abu Dhabi: 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 Gurlitts: thieves of beauty / James McAuley -- In Palestine, a museum without art / Anna Altman -- 2. Painting after pixels -- Oil on canvas meets image on screen / Andrianna Campbell -- K.J. Marshall: all black everything / Thomas Chatterton Williams -- Florine Stettheimer and her daughters / Matthew J. Abrams -- Abstraction and the bliss of introverts / Zoë Lescaze -- 3. 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 martinis: a crime against Mies / Kyle Chayka -- 4. Area studies -- Xi's China: four paths forward / Jacob Dreyer -- Brussels and the beauty of bureaucracy / Niklaus Nusplinger -- Up all night on Angola's dance floors / Chloé Buire -- Korea's gangster cinema, and president / Michelle Chuo -- Brazil in the final hour / Silas Martí -- 5. 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 theory: just another meme / Travis Diehl -- The Museum of Ice Cream, our future / Rob Horning -- 6. Global rights -- Women's art in the age of the pussy grabber / Allison Hewitt Ward -- Goose-stepping with Taylor Swift / Zachary Woolfe -- Japan goes back to war / Andrew Maerkle -- Turkey's writers: newsroom to courtroom / Suzy Hansen -- Rebuilding Syria, ready or not / Frederick Deknatel -- Land art for a new climate / Annie Godfrey Larmon
Summary:
"Even was founded in New York in 2015 as a new source for criticsm by a young, global generation of writers and artists. The anthology Out of practice collects more than thirty of Even's best essays on the cultural themes that define our time"--Page 4 of cover.
