The New Yorker - USA (2021-01-18)

THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 39 awfully cute—a bit like miniature bad- gers. But when I asked around I learned that quoll-spott ...

40 THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 PROFILES STRUCTURE AND FLOW How El Anatsui broke the seal on contemporary art. BY JULIANLUCAS ...

THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 41 Nsukka, Nigeria. “Life is a way of one being shuffled,” Anatsui said. “And I’ve always wanted m ...

had been cut from newsprint plates. I leaned in to read the tiny headlines and trademarks: “Liquor Headmaster,” “Plans for safe ...

THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 43 ago, he visited Anselm Kiefer’s studio near Paris, where the German artist invited him to ride ...

44 THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 expanding the significance of everyday objects without effacing their origins. “I let the mat ...

THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 45 all in some way or other. We had entered a completely new arena.” Major collections that had pr ...

46 THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 in Africa, we had Tower of Babel syn- drome,” he recalled discovering. He was similarly fasci ...

THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 47 households found new life as “On Their Fateful Journey Nowhere,” a procession of migrants with ...

an El Anatsui bottle-cap sculpture on demand, but Nigerians and Ghana- ians must travel thousands of miles. The landscape may be ...

THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 49 pation with the elements. In Mar- rakech, on the fringes of the Sahara, one large sculpture spe ...

50 THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 PHOTOGRAPH BY CHASE MIDDLETON FICTION ...

THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 51 D r. Cole eased his car from his garage, then stopped, out of habit, to watch in his rearview m ...

52 THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 happy returns, if I’m not too late. Your mother tells me you had a wonderful birthday party. ...

THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 53 couldn’t see their faces or even their reddish fur, but he always had the im- pression that the ...

54 THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 own party frock. She reappeared in a dress that was a mass of swirling red blooms on white, a ...

THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 55 you got over it. “Blushing like a girl.” Or boy. But he knew that he himself could still go pin ...

56 THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 THE CRITICS BOOKS STARTING FRESH The value of learning to do things you’ll never do well. BY ...

THENEWYORKER,JANUARY18, 2021 57 The joys—and occasional embarrassments—of being a novice could be an antidote to the strain of ...

collect art, and subsidize archeologi- cal expeditions. Frederick II of Prussia dissed the dilettanti as “lovers of the arts and ...