Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Art Criticism Today
– By Irving Sandler
Local
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Brooklyn Eagle, July 14, 1897 DELUGE FROM SEA AND SKY RAIN AND HIGH TIDES CAUSE DAMAGE ON THE ISLAND. GRAIN AND HAY CROPS INJURED.
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AFTER SANDY, the People’s Relief Grows in Coney
– By Williams Cole -
The Brown Girl of Bed-Stuy’s Brownstones
– By Ron Howell -
In the Beginning, All Need the Word
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
When the Drumming Stops
– By Steve Wishnia
Express
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The Brooklyn Rail’s Player-of-the-Year, 2012
– By Theodore Hamm -
My Wounded Constitution
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
A VIEW FROM THE EAST PANKAJ MISHRA with Hirsh Sawhney
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Reading Eugene Genovese in the Age of Occupy
– By Stuart Schrader -
Searching for the “I” in History
– By Abby Margulies -
His Mother’s Son
– By Greg Ryan -
Twentieth-Century Blues
– By Kathy Smundak -
America’s First Foodie
– By Orli Van Mourik
Art
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Herbie Vogel
– By Lucio Pozzi -
Time is an Emotional Muscle BARBARA HAMMER with Jarrett Earnest
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BIRDHEAD with Charles Schultz
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A letter from JOSEPH CORNELL to DOROTHEA TANNING
– By Robert Kelly -
ALICE CHANNER with Barry Schwabsky
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Living a Revolution
– By Ariella Azoulay -
Figuring It Out: Bard’s Low-Residency M.F.A. Program
– By Steel Stillman
ArtSeen
-
The Diagnostic Essay
– By Alex Bacon -
Everything That Matters
– By Daniel Baird -
“Is There a Crisis in Art Criticism?”* Response from Marek Bartelik
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Dress Trope
– By Bill Berkson -
Responses for Irving Sandler (A Later Seizure), November 21
– By Bill Berkson -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Robert Berlind -
Dear Irving
– By Phong Bui -
How it Appears
– By Jarrett Earnest -
Post-Critical
– By Hal Foster -
If Picasso Is So Sexy, Why Is No One On TV Talking About Art?
– By Christopher French -
The Incredible Shrinking Art Critic
– By Eleanor Heartney -
Irving:
– By Dave Hickey -
Popcorn Manifesto
– By David Humphrey -
Critical Acts
– By Richard Kalina -
The Four Corners of Painting
– By Richard Kalina -
Three Crises
– By Pepe Karmel -
The Persistence of Art Criticism
– By Vincent Katz -
A Fork in the Linguistic Road
– By Max Kozloff -
Dear Irving
– By David Levi Strauss -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Kim Levin -
The End of Reading
– By Jonathan T.D. Neil -
What’s So Important About Criticism?
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Jed Perl -
Middlebrow? Smile When You Say That
– By Peter Plagens -
Performance Anxiety
– By Nancy Princenthal -
Thanks for the Memory
– By Barbara Rose -
Renewable Energy for Criticism
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
What’s Lost is What I Want
– By Ed Schad -
Criticism and Self-Criticism
– By Barry Schwabsky -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Martha Schwendener -
Ars Critica
– By Robert Storr -
Art Criticism & Social Media
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
The World Out There
– By Amei Wallach -
Crit Lit
– By Lilly Wei -
A Good Painting is Better and More Interesting Than a Stick in the Eye
– By Stephen Westfall -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Karen Wilkin -
Quarterdeck Reflections
– By Alexi Worth -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Christian Viveros-Faune -
EYEWITNESS: Reflections on Richard Artschwager’s “Untitled,” 1971
– By Michael Torlen -
BERNINI: Sculpting in Clay
– By Brandt Junceau -
TOM BURCKHARDT Pretty Little Liars
– By Corina Larkin -
Devin Powers, Paintings
– By Jonathan Goodman -
FERDINAND HODLER View to Infinity
– By Chloé Rossetti -
The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MICHAL ROVNER Topography
– By Robert C. Morgan -
JOSEF SUDEK The Legacy of a Deeper Vision
– By David Carrier -
PICASSO Black and White
– By Valery Oisteanu -
ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972
– By William Corwin
Books
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A Compelling, If Foggy Debut
– By Rayyan Al-Shawaf -
A Second Birth
– By Larissa Zimberoff -
Against the Law
– By Gabriel Don -
Pain on Both Sides
– By Kenan Trebincevic -
JOSHUA HENKIN with Hirsh Sawhney
-
BLAKE BUTLER, VANESSA PLACE, and CHRISTOPHER HIGGS with S. Tremaine Nelson
-
DEBRA DIBLASI and SAM WITT of Jaded Ibis Press with Liz Axelrod
-
On the Road Again
– By Jim Feast -
Against a narcotic culture whose primary desire is stupefaction Andrea Scrima talks to Rainer J. Hanshe, founder of Contra Mundum Press
-
On Board with The Atavist
– By Christopher Carbone
Music
-
BAM Next Wave, Part I
– By George Grella -
World Music in the Cradle of (Someone’s) Democracy
– By George Sempepos -
Hell, Set to Music
– By David St.-Lascaux -
“WE TALK REAL FUNNY DOWN HERE” Randy Newman’s “Birmingham” as Ironic Southern Anthem
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Reading and Listening with Listener
– By Nicolle Elizabeth
Dance
-
Bring in Da Boise
– By Ryan Wenzel -
ELIZABETH STREB: An Introduction
– By Nancy Dalva -
KYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel
Film
-
Plus ça devient vieux, Plus ça devient bête The European Bourgeoisie in Michael Haneke’s Amour
– By Jaap Verheul -
NIHIL UNBOUND Rick Alverson’s The Comedy
– By Jason LaRivière -
RETURNING THE FOURTH WALL Reenactment as Recursion at CPH:DOX
– By Rachael Rakes -
A HOLLIS FRAMPTON ODYSSEY
– By Leo Goldsmith -
FACES Middle of Nowhere and Nothing But A Man
– By Katie Rogin -
THE OUTER LIMITS First Look at Museum of the Moving Image
– By Leo Goldsmith
Theater
-
When Machines Fail: Paula Vogel and A Civil War Christmas
– By Jessica Dickey -
Madness and Martyrdom in La Divina Caricatura LEE BREUER with Kyoung H. Park
-
Uptown to the Grand Canyon and Onward to the Sea SETH NUMRICH with Libby Woodbridge
-
Jesus in India: Finding Out Who We Are with Lloyd Suh
– By Matthew Paul Olmos
Fiction
-
When the Time Comes
– By Josef Winkler -
Excerpted from CITY OF ANGELS: or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, A NOVEL
– By Christa Wolf, translated from the German by Damion Searls -
Arrowschmitt!!!
– By Arryan Decatur -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
New England
– By Matthew Thurber -
Extracts from the 65th Anniversary Edition of Raymond Queneau's Exercises In Style
– By Raymond Queneau, Harry Mathews, Shane Jones, and Chris Clarke
Poetry
-
Two
– By Allan M. Jalon -
The Answers to the Questions
– By Robert Hershon -
Three
– By Sandra Simonds -
Four
– By Jim Behrle
Art Books
-
Another Language
– By Adam Bell -
Rookie Yearbook One
– By Maura M. Lynch
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
-
Art Criticism Today
– By Irving Sandler
Local
-
Brooklyn Eagle, July 14, 1897 DELUGE FROM SEA AND SKY RAIN AND HIGH TIDES CAUSE DAMAGE ON THE ISLAND. GRAIN AND HAY CROPS INJURED.
-
AFTER SANDY, the People’s Relief Grows in Coney
– By Williams Cole -
The Brown Girl of Bed-Stuy’s Brownstones
– By Ron Howell -
In the Beginning, All Need the Word
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
When the Drumming Stops
– By Steve Wishnia
Express
-
The Brooklyn Rail’s Player-of-the-Year, 2012
– By Theodore Hamm -
My Wounded Constitution
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
A VIEW FROM THE EAST PANKAJ MISHRA with Hirsh Sawhney
-
Reading Eugene Genovese in the Age of Occupy
– By Stuart Schrader -
Searching for the “I” in History
– By Abby Margulies -
His Mother’s Son
– By Greg Ryan -
Twentieth-Century Blues
– By Kathy Smundak -
America’s First Foodie
– By Orli Van Mourik
Art
-
Herbie Vogel
– By Lucio Pozzi -
Time is an Emotional Muscle BARBARA HAMMER with Jarrett Earnest
-
BIRDHEAD with Charles Schultz
-
A letter from JOSEPH CORNELL to DOROTHEA TANNING
– By Robert Kelly -
ALICE CHANNER with Barry Schwabsky
-
Living a Revolution
– By Ariella Azoulay -
Figuring It Out: Bard’s Low-Residency M.F.A. Program
– By Steel Stillman
ArtSeen
-
The Diagnostic Essay
– By Alex Bacon -
Everything That Matters
– By Daniel Baird -
“Is There a Crisis in Art Criticism?”* Response from Marek Bartelik
-
Dress Trope
– By Bill Berkson -
Responses for Irving Sandler (A Later Seizure), November 21
– By Bill Berkson -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Robert Berlind -
Dear Irving
– By Phong Bui -
How it Appears
– By Jarrett Earnest -
Post-Critical
– By Hal Foster -
If Picasso Is So Sexy, Why Is No One On TV Talking About Art?
– By Christopher French -
The Incredible Shrinking Art Critic
– By Eleanor Heartney -
Irving:
– By Dave Hickey -
Popcorn Manifesto
– By David Humphrey -
Critical Acts
– By Richard Kalina -
The Four Corners of Painting
– By Richard Kalina -
Three Crises
– By Pepe Karmel -
The Persistence of Art Criticism
– By Vincent Katz -
A Fork in the Linguistic Road
– By Max Kozloff -
Dear Irving
– By David Levi Strauss -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Kim Levin -
The End of Reading
– By Jonathan T.D. Neil -
What’s So Important About Criticism?
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Jed Perl -
Middlebrow? Smile When You Say That
– By Peter Plagens -
Performance Anxiety
– By Nancy Princenthal -
Thanks for the Memory
– By Barbara Rose -
Renewable Energy for Criticism
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
What’s Lost is What I Want
– By Ed Schad -
Criticism and Self-Criticism
– By Barry Schwabsky -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Martha Schwendener -
Ars Critica
– By Robert Storr -
Art Criticism & Social Media
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
The World Out There
– By Amei Wallach -
Crit Lit
– By Lilly Wei -
A Good Painting is Better and More Interesting Than a Stick in the Eye
– By Stephen Westfall -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Karen Wilkin -
Quarterdeck Reflections
– By Alexi Worth -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Christian Viveros-Faune -
EYEWITNESS: Reflections on Richard Artschwager’s “Untitled,” 1971
– By Michael Torlen -
BERNINI: Sculpting in Clay
– By Brandt Junceau -
TOM BURCKHARDT Pretty Little Liars
– By Corina Larkin -
Devin Powers, Paintings
– By Jonathan Goodman -
FERDINAND HODLER View to Infinity
– By Chloé Rossetti -
The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MICHAL ROVNER Topography
– By Robert C. Morgan -
JOSEF SUDEK The Legacy of a Deeper Vision
– By David Carrier -
PICASSO Black and White
– By Valery Oisteanu -
ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972
– By William Corwin
Books
-
A Compelling, If Foggy Debut
– By Rayyan Al-Shawaf -
A Second Birth
– By Larissa Zimberoff -
Against the Law
– By Gabriel Don -
Pain on Both Sides
– By Kenan Trebincevic -
JOSHUA HENKIN with Hirsh Sawhney
-
BLAKE BUTLER, VANESSA PLACE, and CHRISTOPHER HIGGS with S. Tremaine Nelson
-
DEBRA DIBLASI and SAM WITT of Jaded Ibis Press with Liz Axelrod
-
On the Road Again
– By Jim Feast -
Against a narcotic culture whose primary desire is stupefaction Andrea Scrima talks to Rainer J. Hanshe, founder of Contra Mundum Press
-
On Board with The Atavist
– By Christopher Carbone
Music
-
BAM Next Wave, Part I
– By George Grella -
World Music in the Cradle of (Someone’s) Democracy
– By George Sempepos -
Hell, Set to Music
– By David St.-Lascaux -
“WE TALK REAL FUNNY DOWN HERE” Randy Newman’s “Birmingham” as Ironic Southern Anthem
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Reading and Listening with Listener
– By Nicolle Elizabeth
Dance
-
Bring in Da Boise
– By Ryan Wenzel -
ELIZABETH STREB: An Introduction
– By Nancy Dalva -
KYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel
Film
-
Plus ça devient vieux, Plus ça devient bête The European Bourgeoisie in Michael Haneke’s Amour
– By Jaap Verheul -
NIHIL UNBOUND Rick Alverson’s The Comedy
– By Jason LaRivière -
RETURNING THE FOURTH WALL Reenactment as Recursion at CPH:DOX
– By Rachael Rakes -
A HOLLIS FRAMPTON ODYSSEY
– By Leo Goldsmith -
FACES Middle of Nowhere and Nothing But A Man
– By Katie Rogin -
THE OUTER LIMITS First Look at Museum of the Moving Image
– By Leo Goldsmith
Theater
-
When Machines Fail: Paula Vogel and A Civil War Christmas
– By Jessica Dickey -
Madness and Martyrdom in La Divina Caricatura LEE BREUER with Kyoung H. Park
-
Uptown to the Grand Canyon and Onward to the Sea SETH NUMRICH with Libby Woodbridge
-
Jesus in India: Finding Out Who We Are with Lloyd Suh
– By Matthew Paul Olmos
Fiction
-
When the Time Comes
– By Josef Winkler -
Excerpted from CITY OF ANGELS: or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, A NOVEL
– By Christa Wolf, translated from the German by Damion Searls -
Arrowschmitt!!!
– By Arryan Decatur -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
New England
– By Matthew Thurber -
Extracts from the 65th Anniversary Edition of Raymond Queneau's Exercises In Style
– By Raymond Queneau, Harry Mathews, Shane Jones, and Chris Clarke
Poetry
-
Two
– By Allan M. Jalon -
The Answers to the Questions
– By Robert Hershon -
Three
– By Sandra Simonds -
Four
– By Jim Behrle
Art Books
-
Another Language
– By Adam Bell -
Rookie Yearbook One
– By Maura M. Lynch
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