John Wyver writes: Happy Birthday, America! I think. At least that’s the title of a delightful small exhibition at London’s Mayor Gallery, which includes the artwork in the header above. It’s Billy Apple’s ‘The Presidential Suite: Johnson & Humphrey at L.B.J. Barbecue, 1964’, Xerography and paint on linen. • An extended apprenticeship: a lovely piece of writing by Farran Smith Nehme about the director John Sturges at Columbia between 1946 and 1949, originally published in the Locarno Film Festival’s 2024 book The Lady With the Torch: Columbia Pictures 1929 – 1959, and just reprinted online. • What are Frederick Church’s stunning landscapes trying to tell us: a fine essay about the 19th century landscape painter by Susan Tallman for The Atlantic [gift link]. • A dose of Duchamp: Hal Foster is among my favourites of the regulars for LRB, and this [£; limited free access] is his fine review of the Marcel Duchamp retrospective currently at MoMA. • Search Isotype designs…: one of the…
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