Perspectives on the Quake
By Jacques Africot and Toni CelaAt 4:53 p.m. on Tuesday, January 12th, I was attending a class at the Jacmel branch of the UNASMOH (Université Américaine des Sciences Modernes dHaiti) when the Earthquake hit.
Express From The Editor
A More Decent Republic
By Theodore HammJust in case we forgot, during the State of the Union address President Obama reminded his audience three times that as Americans, we are nothing if not a decent people.
Remembering Max: A Story of Love and Marriage
By Litia PertaOn the morning Max died, sun flooded the apartment I grew up in. The front door had been unlocked for days to ease the ins and outs of hospice nurses, and of my uncle, who had come to be with us. I let myself in and found my father in the room that had once been mine.
Art In Conversation
SUPERFLEX with PHONG BUI
Just a few hours before the January 22 opening reception of their exhibit Flooded McDonalds at Peter Blum Chelsea, which will be on view till March 22, 2010, Jakob Fenger and Bjørnstjerne Christiansen paid a visit to Art International Radio to talk to Publisher Phong Bui about their lives and work.
Art In Conversation
WILLIBALD SAUERLÄNDER with SASHA SUDA
In two successive afternoons in late October, 2009, New York-based art historian Sasha Suda came to visit the world renowned scholar of art history Willibald Sauerländer at his home in Munich to talk about his life and work.
Art In Conversation
ELISA SIGHICELLI with JOHN YAU
On occasion of the artists new exhibit The Party Is Over, which will remain on view at Gagosian Gallery on Madison Avenue till March 6, 2010, Elisa Sighicelli paid a visit to the home of Art Editor John Yau to talk about her new body of work and more.
Art In Conversation
E.V. Day with William Corbett
E.V. Day is a New York-based installation artist and sculptor whose work explores themes of feminism and sexuality, while reflecting upon popular culture. Day received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 1995, and she began her dynamic Exploding Couture series in 1999.
Art In Conversation
RICHARD BAKER with JOHN YAU
A week before the opening reception of a new body of paintings at Tibor De Nagy Gallery, Richard Baker welcomed Art Editor John Yau to his DUMBO studio to view the works, and to talk about the painters work.
WHAT BARBARISM IS?
By Robert Hullot-KentorWhat interests us in the thought and writings of T. W. Adorno cannot interest us. Where it touches us most closely in the urgency of the moment, it misses the mark entirely. When it cuts to the quick, nothing is felt. This is easily demonstrated. For wherever we open Adornos writings, whichever volume we turn to, the topic is the barbaric and barbarism.
Culturemart Preview: LAURA PETERSON AND JOHARI MAYFIELD
By L.J. SunshineEach time the HERE Arts Center door opened on January 12, another down-swaddled body squeezed inside the tiny lobby, and we got a blast of frosty air.
"The Magical Point of Contact of Man with Nature": WADADA LEO SMITH, SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS (CUNEIFORM RECORDS)
By David ShirleyIn the ongoing struggle between theory and performance in avant-garde music, theory has increasingly assumed the upper hand.
from THE ABYSS OF HUMAN ILLUSION
By Gilbert SorrentinoMundane things, pitiful in their mundane assertiveness, their sad isolation. Kraft French dressing, glowing weirdly orange through its glass bottle, a green glass bowl of green salad, a bottle of Worcestershire sauce, its paper wrapper still on.
ArtSeen
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A Brief Look Into Institutional Celebration
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FRANK LOBDELL: Figure Drawings
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STANLEY WHITNEY: Untitled '10
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PHILIP GUSTON: Small Oils on Panel 1969-1973
– By Thomas Micchelli -
ART AND POLITICS IN IRAN
– By Robert C. Morgan -
New Mirrors: Painting in a Transparent World
– By Sharon L. Butler -
BORDERLINE BAD
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
The Difference Between Jerry Saltz's America and Mine
– By John Yau -
STUART SHERMAN: Nothing Up My Sleeve
– By Jen Schwarting -
JOSEPH BEUYS: We Are the Revolution
– By Valery Oisteanu -
OMER FAST
– By Shane McAdams -
TIM EBNER
– By Terry R. Myers -
AGNES DENES: Philosophy in the Land II
– By Kara L. Rooney -
SYLVIA SLEIGH
– By Carrie Moyer -
DENYSE THOMASOS: The Divide: New Paintings
– By Cora Fisher -
Letter from LONDON: RICHARD WRIGHT: Turner Prize 09
– By Joseph Nechvatal -
FRANCES BARTH: Scale, Economy and Unnamable Color
– By Joan Waltemath -
CARLOS RUNCIE TANAKA: FRAGMENTO
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
PEARLSTEIN/HELD: Five Decades
– By Phong Bui
Table of Contents
Local
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Little Shop of Horrors
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HANNE TIERNEY: Promoting Theater Without Actors
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MoCADA Show Takes On the G-Word
– By Theodore Hamm -
Perspectives on the Quake
– By Jacques Africot and Toni Cela
Express
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Viewing Tibet
– By Williams Cole -
Learning from Vancouver: Matt Hern with Theodore Hamm
– By Theodore Hamm -
A More Decent Republic
– By Theodore Hamm -
Remembering Max: A Story of Love and Marriage
– By Litia Perta -
WE SIT LIKE HOT STONES (The Performance of Grief)
– By Kristin Prevallet -
Cutting Off the Cable
– By Williams Cole -
PRIVATE COLLECTION
– By Bernardo Fernández -
THE SMACK WARS
– By Hirsh Sawhney -
In Defense of Yellow Journalism
– By Margaret Eby -
A Hearty Spread
– By Riddhi Shah -
A Frustrating Mess
– By Kaitlin Bell -
Drawing Trouble
– By Christopher Michel -
Recreating Russell
– By Christopher Michel
Art
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E.V. Day with William Corbett
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SUPERFLEX with PHONG BUI
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WILLIBALD SAUERLÄNDER with SASHA SUDA
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ELISA SIGHICELLI with JOHN YAU
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RICHARD BAKER with JOHN YAU
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Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)
– By Mark Dagley -
WHAT BARBARISM IS?
– By Robert Hullot-Kentor
ArtSeen
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A Brief Look Into Institutional Celebration
– By William Powhida -
FRANK LOBDELL: Figure Drawings
– By John Yau -
STANLEY WHITNEY: Untitled '10
– By Craig Olson -
PHILIP GUSTON: Small Oils on Panel 1969-1973
– By Thomas Micchelli -
ART AND POLITICS IN IRAN
– By Robert C. Morgan -
New Mirrors: Painting in a Transparent World
– By Sharon L. Butler -
BORDERLINE BAD
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
The Difference Between Jerry Saltz's America and Mine
– By John Yau -
STUART SHERMAN: Nothing Up My Sleeve
– By Jen Schwarting -
JOSEPH BEUYS: We Are the Revolution
– By Valery Oisteanu -
OMER FAST
– By Shane McAdams -
TIM EBNER
– By Terry R. Myers -
AGNES DENES: Philosophy in the Land II
– By Kara L. Rooney -
SYLVIA SLEIGH
– By Carrie Moyer -
DENYSE THOMASOS: The Divide: New Paintings
– By Cora Fisher -
Letter from LONDON: RICHARD WRIGHT: Turner Prize 09
– By Joseph Nechvatal -
FRANCES BARTH: Scale, Economy and Unnamable Color
– By Joan Waltemath -
CARLOS RUNCIE TANAKA: FRAGMENTO
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
PEARLSTEIN/HELD: Five Decades
– By Phong Bui
Books
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Poetry: INVENTION OF THE LOVELORN
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THE UNBEARABLE BADNESS OF WRITING
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INTERDISCIPLINARY: PREDICTIONS PRETEXT
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Fiction: STAIRS AND FLOURISHES
– By John Madera -
Poetry: DIS/ADVANTAGED
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Fiction: JEHOVAH JERK
– By Christopher Vola -
PAUL AUSTER: INVISIBLE
– By Raina Lipsitz -
RAPID TRANSIT
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
TOKENS
– By Dawn Raffel, Suzanne Reisman, Dawn Raffel, Vanessa Neumann, Peter Morris, and Tatiaana L. Laine
Music
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Revival Times at Union Pool
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"The Magical Point of Contact of Man with Nature": WADADA LEO SMITH, SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS (CUNEIFORM RECORDS)
– By David Shirley -
Boy Meets Girl: LINDSTRØM & CHRISTABELLE, REAL LIFE IS NO COOL (SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND) CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, IRM (BECAUSE)
– By Kate Silver -
Some Kinds of Love: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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Low Art and High Drama at the Met
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Jazz in New Places: THE JOHN ESCREET PROJECT/TAYLOR HASKINS & RECOMBINATION AT DROM
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OUTTAKES
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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MEN, MEN, MEN: Dancing For a Cause
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Everyone In This Room Is In This Fucking Dance: MIGUEL GUTIERREZS WHEN YOU RISE UP
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Contemporary Dance, For Real: AMERICAN REALNESS
– By Evan Namerow -
East Meets East Meets West: A MODERN DANCE MASHUP
– By David St.-Lascaux -
Culturemart Preview: LAURA PETERSON AND JOHARI MAYFIELD
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ART COMES TO LIFE AT DANCE NEW AMSTERDAMS GALLERY
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SPOTLIGHT ON THE TANK
– By Mary Love Hodges
Film
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"They'll Get Better At It As They Go Along:" The 11 Best Films of 2009
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Female Trouble
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WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE
– By Julia Sirmons -
Bringing Back Brooklyn
– By Rachel Balik
Theater
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ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP WITH CATHERINE FILLOUX
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FUTUREROCK: PASS KONTROLS NEW HOPE CITY
– By Eliza Bent -
IBSENS BURRITO: SOUNDING AT HERE
– By Anna Gutto
Fiction
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from THE ABYSS OF HUMAN ILLUSION
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Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
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The Perfect Faceless Fish
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Three Prose Poems
– By Garrett Caples -
So Could They Shroud Crows
– By Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle -
View of the Domain Saint-Joseph (Cézanne)
– By Sylvia Gorelick