11+ hour, 21+ min ago (305+ words) Early in Siesbye's life in Denmark, she maintained an epistolary friendship with Edip Cansever, among the foremost poets of modern Turkey. Cansever's letters to Siesbye, which were published in 2021, are moody, erotic, and playful'full of yearning and of reproach. A terrible longing takes over. Everywhere, you, all at once'and a slow anger begins. Toward whom? Toward longing, the melancholy of distances, the oppression of helplessness, toward it all' After an editor encouraged her to publish the letters,Siesbye agreed with some hesitation. They become less fervent, more brooding, around the time that she meets David. After the epistolary friendship ended, Cansever destroyed all of Siesbye's letters. And yet she also calls herself a worker. Is that, I asked her, not a contradiction? "Why should it be a contradiction? I've never called myself an artist. You need to be a really…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago (277+ words) On The New Yorker Radio Hour, the curator Thelma Golden discusses the unique institution, which is reopening to the public after a seven-year building project. The curator Thelma Golden is a major presence in New York City's cultural life, having mounted era-defining exhibitions such as "Black Male" and "Freestyle" early on in her career. Golden is the Ford Foundation director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, an institution, founded in 1968, that is dedicated to contemporary artists of the African diaspora. But, for a significant portion of her tenure, this singular museum has been closed to the public. Golden led the initiative to create a new, purpose-built home'requiring the demolition of an old building and reconstruction on the same site. To mark its reopening, David Remnick tours the new space with Golden, discussing some key works and the…...