Two years ago Penguin Australia hired a new editor from the UK. Since he got the job, Ben Ball has turned the business of literary advances on its head. And the other publishers aren’t happy about it…
Tag: 04.22.07
Feminist Art In The Air
Feminist art is the most important art movement since World War II, writes Blake Gopnik. “More than any other 20th-century movement, feminism pushed back against the art-for-art’s-sake attitudes of modernist abstraction. It pushed instead for work that talked about crucial issues in the world outside. Ever since feminism, in all areas of artmaking, the message has mattered as much as the medium.” WaPo produces a section of stories…