Out Of Practice: Ten Issues Of Even, 2015-18

"Even" was founded in New York in 2015 as a new source for criticism by a young global generation of writers and artists. This anthology collects more than thirty of "Even"'s best essays on the cultural themes that define our time.

Foreword: Rebecca Ann Siegel
Introduction: Jason Farago

I. 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

II. 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

III. 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

IV. AREA STUDIES

Xi’s China: four paths forward.
Jacob Dreyer

Brussels and the beauty of bureaucracy.
Niklaus Nuspliger

Up all night on Angola’s dance floors.
Chloé Buire

Korea’s gangster cinema, and president.
Michelle Cho

Brazil in the final hour.
Silas Martí

V. 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

VI. 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