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This detail of Juergen Teller's 2014 portrait of Joan Didion for the Céline Spring Summer 2015 Campaign is from Joan Didion: What She Means' — Back in Stock at last!⁠ ⁠ In Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer and curator Hilton Als creates a mosaic that explores Didion's life and work and the feeling each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics.⁠ ⁠ The book includes more than 50 artists ranging from Brice Marden and Ed Ruscha to Betye Saar, Vija Clemins and many others, with works in all mediums including painting, ephemera, photography, sculpture, video and film. Also included are three previously uncollected texts by Didion: “In Praise of Unhung Wreaths and Love” (1969); a much-excerpted 1975 commencement address at UC Riverside; and “The Year of Hoping for Stage Magic” (2007).⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Image credit:⁠ @juergenteller_ (German, b. 1964), Joan Didion, Céline Campaign Spring Summer 2015, New York (Uncropped), 2014. Archival pigment print. 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist and @lehmannmaupin⁠ ⁠ Published by @delmonico_books & @hammer_museum ⁠ Edited by @hilton.als & @cornelia.butler ⁠ Introduction by @annie.hammer ⁠ Text by Hilton Als, Joan Didion.⁠ ⁠ #joandidion #joandidionwhatshemeans #hiltonals #conniebutler ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2z7PluVaI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Today, New Yorkers got good news. The @nypl has acquired the joint archive of Joan Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, including manuscripts, photographs, letters, dinner party guest lists and other personal items.⁠ ⁠ May we also mention that @hilton.als & @cornelia.butler have curated a remarkable exploration of Didion's life — recently on view @hammer_museum en route to @pamm — with hot yellow clothbound exhibition catalog, 'Joan Didion: What She Means,' copublished by @delmonico_books and available NOW!⁠ ⁠ Introduction by @annie.hammer ⁠ Text by Hilton Als, Joan Didion.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #joandidion #joandidionwhatshemeans #hiltonals #conniebutler ⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-D2TsJUG9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"Didion was able to exercise her interest not only in images but also in how to connect them to storytelling and specifically to the stories that show the underbelly of dreams, which is to say the limitations of life, and death, in this America." —Hilton Als⁠ ⁠ Pictured here, spreads from 'Joan Didion: What She Means,' published by @delmonico_books & @hammer_museum ⁠ ⁠ In this gorgeous clothbound hardcover, Als creates a mosaic that explores Didion's life and work and the feeling each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics.⁠ ⁠ Arranged chronologically, the book highlights Didion's fascination with the two coasts that made her. As a Westerner transplanted to New York, Didion was able to look at her native land, its mores and fixed rules of behavior, with the loving and critical eyes of a daughter who got out and went back. (Didion and her late husband moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1964, where they worked as highly successful screenwriters, producing scripts for 1971's The Panic in Needle Park and 1976's A Star Is Born, among other works, before returning to New York 20 years later.) And from her New York perch, Didion was able to observe the political scene more closely, writing trenchant pieces about Clinton, El Salvador and most searingly the Central Park Five. The book includes more than 50 artists ranging from Brice Marden and Ed Ruscha to Betye Saar, Vija Clemins and many others, with works in all mediums including painting, ephemera, photography, sculpture, video and film. Also included are three previously uncollected texts by Didion: “In Praise of Unhung Wreaths and Love” (1969); a much-excerpted 1975 commencement address at UC Riverside; and “The Year of Hoping for Stage Magic” (2007).⁠ ⁠ Edited by @hilton.als & @cornelia.butler ⁠ Introduction by @annie.hammer ⁠ Text by Hilton Als, Joan Didion.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #joandidion #joandidionwhatshemeans #hiltonals #conniebutler ⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/ClE0ajcpJRR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Joan Didion lovers, rejoice! 'Joan Didion: What She Means' is coming soon.⁠ ⁠ "A sense of place was a hallmark of Joan Didion’s writing, and her subjects included California, where she was born, and New York, where she lived for decades (returning after she famously left). An exhibition opening at the @hammer_museum in Los Angeles next week aims to capture her writing’s geographic sweep.⁠ ⁠ The exhibition, which Didion blessed before her death last year, features materials curated by the New Yorker critic @hilton.als — a friend of Didion’s. 'She talks about loving that kind of drift, that feeling of drifting,' Als told The Times’s Adam Nagourney."⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Exhibition catalog releasing November 2022 from @delmonico_books⁠ ⁠ #joandidion #joandidionwhatshemeans #joandidionhammer #hiltonals https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjad47xsXis/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=