JOSEPHINE HALVORSON: As I Went Walking By Hearne Pardee.

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: Gates of Paradise By Jessica Holmes.

ELIZABETH MURRAY: Painting in the ’80s By William Corwin.

RICHARD SERRA: Sculpture and Drawings By Benjamin Clifford.

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon By Rindon Johnson.

Walter De Maria and The Lightning Field at Forty: Art as Symbiosis By Jason Rosenfeld.

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN: Kinetic Painting By Hovey Brock.

The Enigma of Arrival: On Gonzalo Fonseca’s Timeless Vista By Phong Bui.

CARROLL DUNHAM & DAVID SALLE with Cornelius Tittel.

RONA PONDICK & ROBERT FEINTUCH with Phong Bui.

THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART Dorine, Barbara, Kathy By Karen Archey.

DONNA HARAWAY with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve.

General Idea in Perspective By Mark Bloch.

Where everything is what it is.A message from Phong Bui Publisher and Artistic Director Art I did not want to go back to my world, where there aren’t any what ifs to help me escape reality. I devoured this book in a couple of days, and every time I turned the page was a bittersweet moment: I was so completely invested in the story but I knew the sooner I got ahead, the sooner the whole thing would be over. But it was Alderman who created this world, and her vision has endless depth. In the hands of another writer, this story could’ve become another empowerment cliché full of empty platitudes, and faux feminism. What if I could go anywhere I wanted? What if I never felt fear? I know that what ifs are pointless and yet-how sweet that vision of paradise seemed. I wanted to believe this power was really there all along, and that after I finished reading the book I would be able to shock the world around me. Thinking about the men’s rights activist of our real world, versus the men’s rights activist of this parallel world where a matriarchy is threatening to take hold, I felt the electricity running through my arms, I imagined how I could harness it. In fact, I was struck by how many times I forgot I was reading a work of fiction. In Alderman’s hands, this world seems both strangely familiar and totally alien. We follow three women and one man as they make their way through this new world. As power literally shifts from the hands of men to the hands of women, power structures around the world are threatened and the world become a dangerous and unstable place. Soon it is revealed that all women have this power-they just have to harness it. The Power has a simple premise: young girls around the world suddenly realize that they have the ability to send electric currents through their fingers, jolts that can injure or even kill others.

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