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IS TRUE FRIENDSHIP POSSIBLE in the art world? It’s a question rarely asked out loud in an industry famously riddled with self-interest, opportunism, and backstabbing. It also serves as the launching point for Isabelle Graw’s On the Benefits of Friendship, the author’s second piece of autofiction and her first since 2020’s In Another World.
Sad news to report, Kenneth Anger, the Magus of American cinema has died, aged 96. He’d been living for some time in an assisted living facility in Southern California.
His art representatives at the Sprüth Magers gallery sent out the following press release:
With deep sadness, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers, along with the entire gallery team, mourn the passing of the visionary filmmaker, artist, and author Kenneth Anger (1927–2023).
Through his kaleidoscopic films, which combine sumptuous visuals, popular music soundtracks, and a focus on queer themes and narratives, Anger laid the groundwork for the avant-garde art scenes.
IN THE SUMMER OF 2022, Susanne Pfeffer, director of Frankfurt’s Museum für Moderne Kunst, deinstalled the institution’s storied collection in anticipation of an upcoming exhibition. Titled simply “Rosemarie Trockel,” the comprehensive retrospective would occupy the entirety of Hans Hollein’s postmodern masterwork.1 Next, Pfeffer addressed the inherently disorienting character of the architect’s labyrinthine design. Spurning a strictly chronological layout and didactic forms of institutional guidance on the walls, she would invest her audience with an unaccustomed degree of agency. As visitors