I was a Brooklyn Townie
By Dave MandlI’m from Brooklyn. I mean, I’m really from Brooklyn. I was actually born here.
The Torture of Bradley Manning
By Chase MadarThe punitive confinement of Bradley Manning, far from being an obscene anomaly, has been monotonously consistent with American laws and customs.
WTF, AMERICA!
By Paul McLeanThe whole loan and interest game is rigged the world over, we discover. Then, the corporate media does its best to blackout the story, you know, the one about the biggest fraud case in history.
A Life of Reflection & Invention
GORE VIDAL (1925-2012)
By Jonah Raskin
The following interview with Gore Vidal—who died on July 31, 2012, and who was a consistent thorn in the side of America’s plutocrats and their politicians—took place in 1985. That’s a long time ago, I realize, but after all these years it still seems timely.
Art In Conversation
NANCY DAVIDSON with Kate Gilmore
On the occasion of her first solo exhibition at Betty Cuningham Gallery, Dustup (September 6 – October 6, 2012), Nancy Davidson sat down with Kate Gilmore to discuss her sculpture and video, taking over spaces, bulbous parts, color!, the Wild West, and unruly women.
Art In Conversation
GARY STEPHAN with Phong Bui
A few weeks before the opening reception of his exhibit The Story of What Happens (August 26 – October 6, 2012) at devening projects + editions in Chicago, Rail Publisher Phong Bui paid a visit to the painter Gary Stephan’s Canal Street loft/studio where they resumed their ongoing conversation about Cézanne, painting, and everything.
Art In Conversation
GILLIAN WEARING with William Corwin
A retrospective of Gillian Wearing’s work ran from March 28 – June 17 at London’s Whitechapel Gallery and following quickly on its heels will be an exhibition at K20 Kunsthallsammlung NRW in Dusseldorf (September 8 – January 6, 2013). William Corwin sat down with Wearing at her East London studio to quiz her about various projects in her past and present, particularly her 2010 feature film Self-Made.
French Disconnection
By Ryan WenzelThe last two years have been kind to local ballet lovers with no budget for international travel, bringing companies to the city from across the globe. In 2011, the Royal Danish Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, and the National Ballet of Cuba were among the foreign ensembles to dance on our biggest stages.
Theater In Dialogue
Alone in the Interstices with Craig Lucas
By Winter MillerBefore he was a powerhouse playwright hyphenate, Craig Lucas was a chorus boy in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. In 1981, with director Norman René, he conceived of a libretto consisting only of stage directions with songs from Sondheim’s trunk to create Marry Me A Little, a story of two people alone on a Saturday night, yearning for connection, just a floor apart.
The Great Ape
By Christopher SorrentinoThe Great Ape lumbered through the four rooms of the apartment, halting in the living room in the course of one of his many circuits of his dwelling.
Cage at 100
By George GrellaIf you surveyed the concert programs of orchestras, opera companies, and chamber music ensembles across the country, then sorted the statistics, you would think that the center of gravity in classical music was slowly rotating through Central Europe—with occasional vacations to France, Italy, and Russia—as it did from the early 18th to early 20th centuries.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
What You See
By Bill BerksonCan you say it or write it? Or, formally speaking, in what respect is seeing transferable to speech and/or writing? As Baudelaire would put it, the question grabs us by the throat.
ArtSeen
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VIVIEN BITTENCOURT
– By Ron Horning
In the Arms of Time -
JOSEF ALBERS in America: Painting on Paper
– By Charles Schultz -
CHARLES LONG Pet Sounds
– By Desiree Gonzalez -
JEAN-BAPTISTE-SIMÉON CHARDIN “Chardin’s Visor”
– By John Elderfield -
Some Shorter Lines for MARTIN PURYEAR
– By David Levi Strauss -
Paving Paradise Part II
– By James Kalm -
CHRISTOPHER KURTZ Longhand
– By Robert C. Morgan -
ALEXIS MYRE Orchid Petal and Small Twig of the Upper Hemisphere: “Ojo de Dios”
– By Anne Waldman -
A Panorama Considered as a Conversation (or the Other Way Around)
– By Carter Ratcliff -
EUGEN SCHÖNEBECK, “Saxon Landscape” (1964)
– By Robert Storr
Eugen Schönebeck 1957 – 1967 -
Seeing Blindness
– By David Carrier
NICOLAS POUSSIN, “Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun” -
NICOLAS POUSSIN, “The Abduction of the Sabine Women,” (1633-34)
– By Nathlie Provosty -
JANET CARDIFF and GEORGE BURES MILLER The Murder of Crows
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MARSDEN HARTLEY Soliloquy in Dogtown
– By Vincent Katz -
The Nobody in a Field of Abstraction
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
OTTO DIX, “Wounded Solider” -
On the Drawing Cases at Musée Gustave-Moreau, Paris
– By Jarrett Earnest -
“The Poetics of Wattage, after Alighiero e Boetti”
– By Raphael Rubinstein
ALIGHIERO BOETTI Game Plan -
TAUBA AUERBACH, “How to Spell the Alphabet”
– By Diana Seo Hyung Lee
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language -
Standing Still and Walking in Kassel
– By Terry R. Myers
dOCUMENTA (13) -
On MICHAEL BERRYHILL’s “Sensitive Parlour Ghost”
– By Phong Bui
Incidental Western -
Put Neon, Bright Light
– By Jeff Sanford
JAMES TURRELL, “Milk Run” -
RAOUL DE KEYSER To Walk
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ANDRÉ BRETON, PAUL ÉLUARD & SUSANNE MUZARD: 33 Collages
– By Valery Oisteanu
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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What You See
– By Bill Berkson
Local
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The Dirty Business of Cleaning Cars
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
The Changing Face Of Park 51
– By Sabine Heinlein -
I was a Brooklyn Townie
– By Dave Mandl -
Bucking Brooklyn’s Machine LINCOLN RESTLER with Williams Cole
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CITYNOTES
– By Theodore Hamm
Express
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SLOUCHING TIGER: A Letter from Ireland
– By Michael Heaney -
WTF, AMERICA!
– By Paul McLean -
The Torture of Bradley Manning
– By Chase Madar -
A Life of Reflection & Invention GORE VIDAL (1925-2012)
– By Jonah Raskin -
Walden in a Wired World
– By R. H. Lossin -
Out of Africa
– By Allen Wilcox -
City at War
– By David Rosen -
Cheat Sheet
– By Max Neumeyer -
In Defense of the Difficult
– By Orli Van Mourik
Art
ArtSeen
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VIVIEN BITTENCOURT In the Arms of Time
– By Ron Horning -
JOSEF ALBERS in America: Painting on Paper
– By Charles Schultz -
CHARLES LONG Pet Sounds
– By Desiree Gonzalez -
JEAN-BAPTISTE-SIMÉON CHARDIN “Chardin’s Visor”
– By John Elderfield -
Some Shorter Lines for MARTIN PURYEAR
– By David Levi Strauss -
Paving Paradise Part II
– By James Kalm -
CHRISTOPHER KURTZ Longhand
– By Robert C. Morgan -
ALEXIS MYRE Orchid Petal and Small Twig of the Upper Hemisphere: “Ojo de Dios”
– By Anne Waldman -
A Panorama Considered as a Conversation (or the Other Way Around)
– By Carter Ratcliff -
EUGEN SCHÖNEBECK, “Saxon Landscape” (1964) Eugen Schönebeck 1957 – 1967
– By Robert Storr -
Seeing Blindness NICOLAS POUSSIN, “Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun”
– By David Carrier -
NICOLAS POUSSIN, “The Abduction of the Sabine Women,” (1633-34)
– By Nathlie Provosty -
JANET CARDIFF and GEORGE BURES MILLER The Murder of Crows
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MARSDEN HARTLEY Soliloquy in Dogtown
– By Vincent Katz -
The Nobody in a Field of Abstraction OTTO DIX, “Wounded Solider”
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve -
On the Drawing Cases at Musée Gustave-Moreau, Paris
– By Jarrett Earnest -
“The Poetics of Wattage, after Alighiero e Boetti” ALIGHIERO BOETTI Game Plan
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
TAUBA AUERBACH, “How to Spell the Alphabet” Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
– By Diana Seo Hyung Lee -
Standing Still and Walking in Kassel dOCUMENTA (13)
– By Terry R. Myers -
On MICHAEL BERRYHILL’s “Sensitive Parlour Ghost” Incidental Western
– By Phong Bui -
Put Neon, Bright Light JAMES TURRELL, “Milk Run”
– By Jeff Sanford -
RAOUL DE KEYSER To Walk
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ANDRÉ BRETON, PAUL ÉLUARD & SUSANNE MUZARD: 33 Collages
– By Valery Oisteanu
Books
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POETRY Making Panic
– By Jeremy Benson -
FICTION Going Off the Deep End
– By Bernard Lumpkin -
BENJAMIN TAYLOR In Conversation with Adam Fitzgerald
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PETER M. WHEELWRIGHT with Scott Cheshire
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JOHNNY TEMPLE with Justin Courter
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CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER with Mandy Keifetz
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FICTION A Double Life
– By Paul Charles Griffin -
ART Deep in the Heart of Art
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
FICTION Alices Through the Looking Glass
– By Jesse Tangen-Mills -
CRITICISM Dyer About Tarkovsky About Desire
– By Mary Hanlon -
POETRY Ethos, Ethics
– By Matt Reeck
Music
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Cage at 100
– By George Grella -
Time and Materials
– By KK Kozik -
Everything but the Girl
– By Kate Silver -
Who’s Keeping Score?
– By Kurt Gottschalk -
FOUNTAINS AND FIREWORKS The New York Philharmonic’s Concerts in the Parks
– By David St.-Lascaux -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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JONAH BOKAER with Nancy Dalva
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French Disconnection
– By Ryan Wenzel -
Writing About That
– By Siobhan Burke
Film
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VOLUMES AND PRESSURES DEBORAH STRATMAN with Aily Nash
– By Aily Nash -
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH DEATH David France’s How To Survive a Plague
– By Steve Macfarlane -
BOILING BLOOD Giallo Fever! at Anthology Film Archives
– By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa -
HALLUCINATIONS OF THE REAL Hybridity and Experimentation at the 2012 Festival del Film Locarno
– By Leo Goldsmith
Theater
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Alone in the Interstices with Craig Lucas
– By Winter Miller -
Welcome to the Fearless Indie Theater Universe. Population? Growing Strong Episode Two: London-Town, UK!
– By Crystal Skillman -
Ball Slapping on a Pile of Trash with Charlotte Miller
– By John Michael DiResta
Fiction
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The Great Ape
– By Christopher Sorrentino -
The Stars at Midday
– By Peter Button -
Interregnum
– By Bishakh Som -
Goodbye Again
– By Nick Abadzis -
Suspect Device—The Newspaper Comic
– By Josh Bayer -
Cries for Help
– By Gary Sullivan -
Jam Dream
– By Scott Teplin -
Graphica Verité
– By T. Motley
Poetry
Art Books
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LOUISE BOURGEOIS: The Return of the Repressed
– By Courtney Fiske -
Journalism and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
– By Bill Kartalopoulos -
Unfolded
– By Sandeep Bhuller
