After viewing Nan Goldin’s pair of slideshows, “Memory Lost” and “Sirens,” at Marian Goodman Gallery in 2019, Moderna Museet chief curator Fredrik Liew thought, She’s a filmmaker. READ ON

Are you finding yourself in need of some meaningless work? Something deliberately unproductive? Wallace Stevens wrote of the “nothing that is not there and the nothing that is,” and the latter category is your sweet spot. A friend of mine, an undergrad when he paid a visit to The New York Review of Books, used the word “conceptual” and was told by Barbara Epstein, the Review’s co-editor, “Never use that word outside Morningside Heights.” That was a long time ago. Now you can use it anywhere, especially in Houston, where “Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work” has just opened at the Menil Collection. READ ON