A Relic Reborn
By John D'Antonio and Michael RandazzoEighty-five-year-old Mighty Wurlitzer Organ to Be Showcased at LIU Brooklyn Screening of 1925 Silent Classic The Phantom of the Opera.
CITYNOTES
Party No More
By Theodore Hamm
The Chicago teachers’ strike illustrated the depth of the Democrats’ commitment to education “reform,” which by any measure is designed to undermine the power of teachers’ unions.
THE FRIDAY OF RAGE: The March to Tahrir Square
By Nagat Ali, Translated from the Arabic by Gretchen McCulloughI woke up on the morning of January 28 a little before Friday prayers.
Express In Conversation
AN AUSTRALIAN WRITER IN BROOKLYN
ANNA FUNDER with Bec Zajac
The author of the internationally acclaimed nonfiction work Stasiland turns to fiction in order to dramatize the real stories of anti-Nazi activists.
Art In Conversation
In Conversation with PETER LAMBORN WILSON
Prior to the opening reception of the writer/artist's new show at 1:1 gallery, (Vanishing Art & Hoodoo Metaphysics, September 23 – October 20) a group of students the Art Criticism and Writing M.F.A. program at the School of Visual Arts drove upstate to speak with Peter Lamborn Wilson.
Art In Conversation
LOUISE FISHMAN with Sharon Butler
Sharon Butler sat down with Louise Fishman to discuss her two current exhibitions: Five Decades, a 50-year retrospective at Tilton Gallery (September 5 – October 13), and Louise Fishman, at Cheim & Read (September 13 – October 27).
Art In Conversation
ABCs for/of RICHARD TUTTLE
An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 1 “A-G”
Dear Richard, Phong has been in touch about me doing an email interview with you. I’ve just come from your current show at Pace (Systems VIII-XII September 07 - October 13). I like the idea of compiling an interview-collage-glossary of sorts. I think it will be fun.
Gardens Beyond Eden: Bio-aesthetics, Eco-Futurism, and Dystopia at dOCUMENTA (13)
By T.J. DemosdOCUMENTA (13) betrays a (non)position of uncommitted pluralism, a tendency familiar in the liberal milieu of contemporary art, happy to allude to crises and emergencies but take no clear stand in relation to them.
A Profile of SHIRIN NESHAT
By Michele Gerber KleinAnnina Nosei said of Shirin Neshat’s work, that “her ground as an artist: emotional-cultural and political is clear.” I always felt this to be an apt distillation of what makes the now-iconic inscribed photographs so accessibly compelling—or compellingly accessible, as the case may be.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
The Debate Society Takes Bushwick
By Amy Rose Marsh
It was a dark and stormy night in Brooklyn. Clichéd, yes, but when I sat down for an outdoor dinner and drinks with two-thirds of the Debate Society, it literally was.
What if the D.J. were the NGO?
By Emily GogolakAs a self-described ethnomusicologist, Clayton Jace studies the ways different cultures use digital technology in their music. As a world-famous D.J., he has made a name for himself through the way he uses the digital in his own music.
Four
By Ann LauterbachAnn Lauterbach is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Or To Begin Again, a finalist for the National Book Award in 2009. She is also the author of the prose books, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience, and The Given & The Chosen.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
BROOKLYN EARTH: Two or Three Things I Learned (from Meyer Schapiro)
By David ShapiroArt is not primarily about, nor is art not about, nor is it only about aboutness. It is an experience like love.
ArtSeen
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Twelve Works
– By Tsibi Geva -
Just Call Me Al
– By Benjamin Hollander -
A Studio Visit in Four Parts
– By Ammiel Alcalay -
ELLEN GRONEMEYER Affentheater
– By Charles Schultz -
LUISA RABBIA Coming and Going
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Anecdotal Response to a Kossoff Motif
– By Joseph Masheck -
QUAY BROTHERS On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve -
Shaping the Structure of Painting
– By Robert C. Morgan
CHARLES HINMAN -
THOMAS MICCHELLI Portfolio x Appunti
– By James Kalm -
LOUISE FISHMAN
– By Jonathan Goodman -
RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER Voice Array
– By Chloé Rossetti -
Lecture for Chicago
– By Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and Rebecca Norton -
Three Poems
– By Miguel Hernández, translated by Don Share -
His Artificial Lover Sings a Wordless Song
– By Michael Palmer -
Andrew MacNair, First Egg Chapel
– By Andrew MacNair -
BERNADETTE CORPORATION 2000 Wasted Years
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
FRANK MOORE Toxic Beauty
– By Valery Oisteanu -
CAROL RAMA Spazio anche più che tempo
– By David Rhodes -
TOBA KHEDOORI
– By William Corwin -
On the Ghost of a Boy Returning to Newark
– By Alex Duensing
(For children of mixed backgrounds everywhere.) -
Two Poems
– By Joanna Fuhrman -
Earthly Delights
– By Joseph Lease -
Removing Barriers Mobilizes Resources
– By David Gersten -
Herbie Vogel
– By Lucio Pozzi
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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BROOKLYN EARTH: Two or Three Things I Learned (from Meyer Schapiro)
– By David Shapiro
Local
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In the Archives of Interference
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
The Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual
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CITYNOTES Party No More
– By Theodore Hamm -
A Relic Reborn
– By John D'Antonio and Michael Randazzo
Express
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THE FRIDAY OF RAGE: The March to Tahrir Square
– By Nagat Ali, Translated from the Arabic by Gretchen McCullough -
A Literary Life, Perused
– By Corey Eastwood -
AN AUSTRALIAN WRITER IN BROOKLYN ANNA FUNDER with Bec Zajac
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AMONG THE THUGS TABISH KHAIR with Seb Doubinsky
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Of Many Minds
– By Kathy Smundak -
Everything Under the Sun
– By Liam Buell -
Portrait of the Artist
– By Christopher Michel -
Once Upon a Lifetime…
– By Geoffrey Young
Art
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LOUISE FISHMAN with Sharon Butler
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S-Stutterer
– By Bill Beckley -
ABCs for/of RICHARD TUTTLE An epistolary interview with Jarrett Earnest, pt. 1 “A-G”
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In Conversation with PETER LAMBORN WILSON
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Gardens Beyond Eden: Bio-aesthetics, Eco-Futurism, and Dystopia at dOCUMENTA (13)
– By T.J. Demos -
A Profile of SHIRIN NESHAT
– By Michele Gerber Klein
ArtSeen
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Twelve Works
– By Tsibi Geva -
Just Call Me Al
– By Benjamin Hollander -
A Studio Visit in Four Parts
– By Ammiel Alcalay -
ELLEN GRONEMEYER Affentheater
– By Charles Schultz -
LUISA RABBIA Coming and Going
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Anecdotal Response to a Kossoff Motif
– By Joseph Masheck -
QUAY BROTHERS On Deciphering the Pharmacist’s Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve -
Shaping the Structure of Painting CHARLES HINMAN
– By Robert C. Morgan -
THOMAS MICCHELLI Portfolio x Appunti
– By James Kalm -
LOUISE FISHMAN
– By Jonathan Goodman -
RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER Voice Array
– By Chloé Rossetti -
Lecture for Chicago
– By Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and Rebecca Norton -
Three Poems
– By Miguel Hernández, translated by Don Share -
His Artificial Lover Sings a Wordless Song
– By Michael Palmer -
Andrew MacNair, First Egg Chapel
– By Andrew MacNair -
BERNADETTE CORPORATION 2000 Wasted Years
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
FRANK MOORE Toxic Beauty
– By Valery Oisteanu -
CAROL RAMA Spazio anche più che tempo
– By David Rhodes -
TOBA KHEDOORI
– By William Corwin -
On the Ghost of a Boy Returning to Newark (For children of mixed backgrounds everywhere.)
– By Alex Duensing -
Two Poems
– By Joanna Fuhrman -
Earthly Delights
– By Joseph Lease -
Removing Barriers Mobilizes Resources
– By David Gersten -
Herbie Vogel
– By Lucio Pozzi
Books
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At the End the Baby Disappears
– By Laura Jean Moore -
The Multifarious Am
– By Dean Kostos -
Life-Size
– By Luis Jaramillo -
Kafka’s Closest Twin Brother
– By Andrea Scrima -
JOHN SUMMERS and CHRIS LEHMANN with John Cotter
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Rapid Transit
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
THE EDITORS OF ELECTRIC LITERATURE with Aspen Matis and Justin Matis
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The Art of Nietzsche
– By Joseph Nechvatal -
Tangled Up in Rue
– By Jim Feast -
MATTHEW VOLLMER with Weston Cutter
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MAUREEN McLANE with Adam Fitzgerald
Music
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Brooklyn is Burning
– By George Grella -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
What if the D.J. were the NGO?
– By Emily Gogolak -
Network Potential
– By Andrew Cappetta -
“HAND ME A FLAG…” Maynard and the Musties
– By Tsaurah Litzky
Dance
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DOUGLAS DUNN in conversation with Nancy Dalva
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Modern Antiquity
– By Ryan Wenzel -
Inner Child
– By Garnet Henderson
Film
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ARCADIAN RHYTHMS: On Ben Rivers’s Two Years at Sea
– By Rachael Rakes -
CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE Leos Carax’s Holy Motors
– By Leo Goldsmith -
“WINNING A (HI)STORY OUT OF PLACES” Christian Petzold’s Barbara
– By Christina Gerhardt -
STILL LIFE David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
– By Paul Felten
Theater
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THERE WILL BE BLOOD The Debate Society Takes Bushwick
– By Amy Rose Marsh -
In A Small Room With An Unpredictable Person: Filling Up on The Pumpkin Pie Show with Mac Rogers
– By Mac Rogers -
Trimming the Fat Samuel D. Hunter with Tommy Smith
– By Tommy Smith
Fiction
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2 Stories
– By Lewis Warsh -
When did I type this
– By Blake Butler -
The Third House
– By J. A. Tyler -
Homeless
– By Leah Hayes -
For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo
– By Munira al-Fadhel | Translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins -
One Year For a Dog Equals Seven Years For a Person
– By Sergi Pàmies | Translated from the Catalan by Julie Wark -
Arrow Schmitt!!!
– By Arryan Decatur -
New England
– By Matthew Thurber -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
Bliss
– By Suzanne Scanlon
Poetry
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Four
– By Ann Lauterbach -
from When Jazz was the Capital of Alaska
– By Chris Pusateri -
Notes on the Construction of Ghost Costumes
– By Ken L. Walker
Art Books
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PAINTER’S JOURNAL
– By John Ganz -
DENISE GREEN: AN ARTIST’S ODYSSEY
– By Juliet Helmke -
SILENCE
– By Ricky D'Ambrose
