Briefly Noted Book Reviews “The Impeachers,” “Leaving the Witness,” “Patsy,” and “Life of David Hockney.” 5:00 A.M. Harald Szeemann’s Revolutionary Curating A re-creation of the auteur’s most personal show, madly grand and deadpan daft, essentializes a strange glamour that has leaked from the art world into culture at large. 5:00 A.M. The Art of Aphorism Why are these fragments of wisdom—empirical or mystical, funny or profound—such an enduring form? 5:00 A.M. How Picasso’s Muse Became a Master Françoise Gilot was the artist’s lover and pupil. Then she wanted more. 5:00 A.M. “The Farewell” Mixes Mourning and Revelry When a merry grandmother welcomes her family to Changchun for a wedding, she’s the only one who doesn’t know that she’s dying. July 12, 2019 Briefly Noted Book Reviews “Ghosts of Gold Mountain,” “Don’t Read Poetry,” “Beyond Babylon,” and “Harbart.” July 1, 2019 How Posters Became Art It’s a story of the collective dreams that circulate in society, connecting the Lamborghini Countach to Paris in 1968. July 1, 2019 Off-Kilter Humor on “Los Espookys” and “Alternatino” The surreal, absurdist aesthetics of the silly and satisfying new series can be loose and healthily illogical, with plenty of big laughs. July 1, 2019 Rudyard Kipling in America What happened to the great defender of Empire when he settled in the States? July 1, 2019 Basquiat’s Memorial to a Young Artist Killed by Police Distraught over the death of the graffiti artist Michael Stewart, he repeated, “It could have been me.” July 1, 2019