THE END OF AN ERA
By Theodore HammIn early October, after eleven years, two months and a handful of days in the same apartment, I moved out of Williamsburg. Perhaps you missed this somewhat-less-than-momentous news, but in my world, it was the stuff of banner headlines.
From A Fine Old Conflict
By Jessica MitfordIn the following excerpt from her memoir A Fine Old Conflict (1977), Jessica Mitford describes her life in postwar Oakland, where she and her husband Bob Treuhaft raised a family and became active in left-wing politics.
Art In Conversation
HELMUT FEDERLE In Conversation with John Yau and Chris Martin
Just a day before the opening of his new exhibit, Scratching Away at the Surface (Peter Blum, 99 Wooster Street, October 29th, 2009January 2, 2010) Helmut Federle welcomes Art Editor John Yau and painter Chris Martin at the gallery to talk about his life and work.
Art In Conversation
CARROLL DUNHAM In Conversation with Phong Bui
Just a few days before his new exhibit at Gladstone Gallery on 24th Street in Chelsea (October 30th December 5th, 2009), the painter Carroll Dunham paid a visit to Art International Radio to talk about his life and recent body of work.
Art In Conversation
BARRY SCHWABSKY In Conversation with Joan Waltemath
Barry Schwabsky is an American art critic and poet living in London. His books include The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (Cambridge University Press), Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting (Phaidon Press), Opera: Poems 1981-2002 (Meritage Press), and Book Left Open in the Rain (The Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions). He writes regularly for Artforum and The Nation, among others.
Express In Conversation
RANA HUSSEINI with Robert S. Eshelman
By Robert S. EshelmanIn Murder in the Name of Honor (Oneworld), Jordanian journalist Rana Husseini describes how she became a leading voice against so-called honor killings, first, investigating the issue for the Jordan Times newspaper and, then, helping to found a grassroots movement seeking to end the practice.
NOISE OF ART
By Tessa DeCarloAlmost a century after Marcel Duchamps nude headed down her staircase, contemporary art is still able to provoke surprise, anxiety, and angerand not just in the hearts of Hilton Kramer and Rudolph Giuliani.
ALL AROUND BUT NEVER NEAR
By David ShirleyI first heard Mary Margaret OHaras extraordinary voice in 1992.
ANNIE FREUD with Marek Bartelik
Annie Freud was born in London in 1948 and graduated in English and European Literature at the University of Warwick. She is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud, maternal granddaughter of sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, and the great grand daughter of Sigmund Freud.
RERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel
By Jonathan BaumbachThey come during the night, two men in stocking feet, and lift me out of bed while I am still, for all they know, asleep, and carry me between them down a narrow hallway that seems to go on forever.
ArtSeen
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Urban Sensitivity: Seven Contemporary Japanese Artists
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Axell's Paradise: Last works (1971-1972) before she vanished
– By John Yau -
Elizabeth Murray
– By Terry R. Myers -
Swantje Hielscher: A New World
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Regina José Galindo
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield
– By Natalie Haddad -
Next Wave Art
– By Shane McAdams -
Sharon Horvath: Parts of a World
– By Ben La Rocco -
Riccardo Vecchio: Recent Paintings
– By Cora Fisher -
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Rakuko Naito: Permutation-Variant-Structure
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Sally Mann: Proud Flesh
– By Lyle Rexer -
paperpatterncolorculture
– By Emily Warner -
Sandow Birk: American Qur'an
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Saul Leiter: Paintings
– By Roger Van Voorhees -
Tauba Auerbach: Here and Now/And Nowhere
– By Kara L. Rooney -
Letter from BERLIN
– By David Rhodes -
Letter from LONDON
– By Sherman Sam
Table of Contents
Local
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THE END OF AN ERA
– By Theodore Hamm -
PLAYING THE PART
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
Of Pigeons and Podcasts, Or, My Safari on the 7
– By Minna Ninova
Express
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From A Fine Old Conflict
– By Jessica Mitford -
Intro to The War Before
– By Laura Whitehorn -
The War at the End of the World
– By Rehan Ansari -
RANA HUSSEINI with Robert S. Eshelman
– By Robert S. Eshelman -
How Most of the World Lives: The End of Poverty?
– By Williams Cole -
A Different Sort of Blowback
– By Forrest Hylton -
A Look on the Bright Side
– By Michael Sandlin -
The Man in Black and Red
– By Margaret Eby -
On the Anti-Fascist Front
– By Nisa Qazi -
A Theory of Everything
– By Paul Hiebert -
Tears of a Clown
– By Christopher Michel -
By the Numbers
– By Katie Rolnick -
Letter to the Editor
– By Raphael Rubinstein
Art
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HELMUT FEDERLE In Conversation with John Yau and Chris Martin
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CARROLL DUNHAM In Conversation with Phong Bui
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A Tribute to Charles Seliger (1926-2009)
– By James Siena and Robert C. Morgan -
A Tribute to Suzanne Fiol (1960-2009)
– By Gilbert Hsiao -
A Tribute to Nancy Spero (1926-2009)
– By Robert Storr and Clayton Eshleman -
Carl Plansky In Memorial (1951-2009)
– By Bill Jensen -
BARRY SCHWABSKY In Conversation with Joan Waltemath
ArtSeen
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Urban Sensitivity: Seven Contemporary Japanese Artists
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
Axell's Paradise: Last works (1971-1972) before she vanished
– By John Yau -
Elizabeth Murray
– By Terry R. Myers -
Swantje Hielscher: A New World
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Regina José Galindo
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield
– By Natalie Haddad -
Next Wave Art
– By Shane McAdams -
Sharon Horvath: Parts of a World
– By Ben La Rocco -
Riccardo Vecchio: Recent Paintings
– By Cora Fisher -
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Rakuko Naito: Permutation-Variant-Structure
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Sally Mann: Proud Flesh
– By Lyle Rexer -
paperpatterncolorculture
– By Emily Warner -
Sandow Birk: American Qur'an
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Saul Leiter: Paintings
– By Roger Van Voorhees -
Tauba Auerbach: Here and Now/And Nowhere
– By Kara L. Rooney -
Letter from BERLIN
– By David Rhodes -
Letter from LONDON
– By Sherman Sam
Books
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Chase to the Cut: DAVID FARLEY with Anne Pelletier
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POETRY: The Poet of Post-modern Life
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FICTION: Bildungsroman and Belonging
– By Michelle AuBuchon -
NONFICTION: After the Wall
– By Matthew Jakubowski -
FICTION: Lest We Forget
– By Brock Kingsley -
FICTION: Coming to America
– By Bruce Seymour -
NONFICTION: The Highest Branch?
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RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
TOKENS
– By Polly Rosenwaike, Raina Lipsitz, and Julia Powers
Music
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I Dub New York
– By Dominic Umile -
THROUGH THE PAST STARKLY
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Grunge Before Grunge
– By Todd Simmons -
Gentle Beauty Spilled
– By Tsaurah Litzky -
ALL AROUND BUT NEVER NEAR
– By David Shirley -
Des Roar Unleashes Mad Things
– By Megan Martin
Dance
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NEW WORK, HISTORICAL PAIRING: Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainier with MJ Thompson
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Faint Impressions of Three New Ballets
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HIGH CONCEPT; DEEP IMPACT: Balletto Teatro Di Torino's Primo Toccare
– By Dalia Ratnikas -
Space and Cyberspace: URSULA ENDLICHER'S Internet in the Round
– By Mary Love Hodges -
DOUGLAS DUNN: Sky Eye and Cleave at Danspace, St. Mark's Church
– By Roger Van Voorhees -
WILLIAM FORSYTHE'S Decreation at BAM
– By Thom Donovan -
The Balletomane, Slaked: EIDOLONS DECOLOGY
– By David St.-Lascaux
Film
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Heaviosity vs. Fun
– By David N. Meyer -
NOISE OF ART
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Thinking Contextually in the Existential Whodunit
– By Sean Glass -
Heavy on Politics, Light on Fun
– By Julia Sirmons -
No Shadows to Hide In
– By Ethan Spigland
Theater
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The Personal Historical: Roger Guenveur Smith
– By Kathryn Walat -
Downtown Epic: TAYLOR MAC'S The Lily's Revenge
– By Linda Leseman -
LEMON ANDERSEN: From Public Enemy to Public Theater
– By Kyle Thomas Smith -
Scalping History: JULIA JARCHO with Richard Maxwell
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STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS with Michael Benjamin
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TWO FOR THE TIME: Reviving Susan Glaspell in New York
– By Alexis Clements
Fiction
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The River by Night
– By Ronald De Feo -
from The Case for My Father
– By Alice Feiring -
from Kali's Day
– By Bonny Finberg -
RERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel
– By Jonathan Baumbach -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
AS FEDERMAN USED TO SAY
– By Ted Pelton -
Shitty Mickey
– By John Reed and Michele Witchipoo -
from Classified
– By Fran Gordon
Poetry
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ANNIE FREUD with Marek Bartelik
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FOR JONAS, BY WAY OF MAGRITTE
– By Vyt Bakaitis -
DELIBERATE PROOF
– By Vyt Bakaitis -
Unlike the Trees
– By Frank Sherlock