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Anahid Nersessian: At the UCLA Encampment, 23 May 2024

... On​ 25 April, a large group of students at the University of California, Los Angeles, set up an encampment on the main quadrangle of their campus. Flanked on all sides by plywood barricades, the Palestine Solidarity Encampment included smaller tents for sleeping as well as larger enclosures for food, first aid, electronics (phone chargers, batteries), musical instruments and art supplies ...

Nothing like a Teacup

Anahid Nersessian: In Meret Oppenheim’s Shoes, 4 May 2023

My Album: From Childhood to 1943 
by Meret Oppenheim, translated by Lisa Wenger and Martina Corgnati.
Scheidegger & Spiess, 324 pp., £42, September 2022, 978 3 03942 093 3
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The Loveliest Vowel Empties 
by Meret Oppenheim, translated by Kathleen Heil.
World Poetry Books, 128 pp., £18, February, 978 1 954218 08 6
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... Meret Oppenheim​ ’s Ma Gouvernante, a pair of white leather pumps trussed up like a Sunday roast and served on a silver platter, is an allegory of other-womanhood. In 1933, three years before she exhibited Ma Gouvernante at her first solo show, Oppenheim began an affair with Max Ernst. She was 20, studying art in Paris; he was 44. His wife, the painter Marie-Berthe Aurenche, was 29 ...

Hooted from the Stage

Susan Eilenberg: Living with Keats, 25 January 2024

Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph 
by Lucasta Miller.
Vintage, 357 pp., £12.99, April 2023, 978 1 5291 1090 6
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Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse 
by Anahid Nersessian.
Verso, 136 pp., £12.99, November 2022, 978 1 80429 034 7
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... dominates the book, but everything is treated with deep care and admirably intelligent judgment.Anahid Nersessian’s Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse presents itself as not for specialists and not for beginners. She describes it as a Barthesian love story, a set of ‘intimate, often idiosyncratic responses’ to the odes, which she says her ...

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