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Local In Conversation
AMONG THE STRONGEST
ROBIN NAGLE with Gabriel Thompson
Irate drivers, garbage juice, urinating dogs, and super storms are just some of the challenges faced by our sanitation army, who are more than twice as likely to die on the job as police.
Express In Conversation
Israel/Palestine and the Re-education of Sarah Schulman
By Bec ZajacEver since her trailblazing work in the 80s chronicling the AIDS crisis, Sarah Schulman has covered a lot of ground.
Art In Conversation
RICHARD NONAS with Alex Bacon
In conjunction with Richard Nonass show at James Fuentes (Richard Nonas, March 8 April 21, 2013), the sculptor met with Alex Bacon to discuss his complex and imaginative theories of art and aesthetics, and their relation to his unique formation as an anthropologist.
Art In Conversation
ALEX KATZ with David Salle
Artists David Salle and Alex Katz have been friends for well over 30 years. In that time they have had hundreds of conversations about the art of painting and the history of the avant-garde.
Art In Conversation
RONA PONDICK with Phong Bui
On the occasion of her forthcoming exhibit of sculptures and drawings at Sonnabend Gallery (Rona Pondick, March 23 April 27, 2013) sculptor Rona Pondick welcomed publisher Phong Bui to her East Village studio to discuss her life, work, and more.
Three Notes on the Behavioral Turn
By Judith RodenbeckThis young century has seen the rise of an art genre devoted to a particular kind of performative repetition: the redo.
Film In Conversation
ITS ALRIGHT, WILLIAMSBURG
(IM ONLY BLEEDING)
SU FRIEDRICH with Cynthia Lugo
Gut Renovation chronicles the rapid transformation of Williamsburg as well as Friedrichs memories of a place she can no longer call home.
from Situations: Events and Spells
By Mercedes Roffé, translated from the Spanish by Judith FilcMercedes Roffé is one of Argentinas leading poets. In 1998 she founded Ediciones Pen Press, a successful indie press dedicated to the publication of contemporary poetry from around the world.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
Prolixity and Painting
By Nancy PrincenthalVerbal language has, arguably, gotten the jump on visuality.
ArtSeen
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CHARLES LUTZ BABEL (Brillo Stockholm Type)
– By Michael Straus -
BERNARD FRIZE Winter Diary
– By Terry R. Myers -
The Color Bars of Francis Alÿs
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Drawing Surrealism
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Beyond Thinking
– By Karen Schiff -
It looks like words have won...
– By Michelle Grabner -
Centaurs and Microbes
– By David Humphrey -
Talk/Show: Language and the Resistant Artwork
– By Richard Kalina -
Visual Intelligence
– By Mira Schor -
Words are Limited
– By Carrie Moyer -
This Is How We Do It
– By Stephen Westfall -
Notes on Looking, Thinking, and then Writing
– By Robert Berlind -
DOUG ARGUE Artspeak and The Art of Translation
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
Breathing Room
– By Susan Bee -
Discourse ≠ Art
– By Stephen Maine -
Arguing Art
– By Dennis Kardon -
DAVID SHRIGLEY Signs
– By Noah Dillon -
Prolixity and Art
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve -
SABINE HORNIG Transparent Things
– By Paula Burleigh -
Looking/Reading/Writing
– By David Carrier -
Sense and Unsensibility
– By Tom McGlynn -
The Medium Has No Message
– By R. H. Lossin -
A.R. PENCK New Paintings
– By Jonathan Goodman -
SÉBASTIEN CLICHE, SYLVIE COTTON, CHELSEA KNIGHT, and MARK TRIBE Brooklyn/Montreal Exchange
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
CORA COHEN The Responsibility of Forms
– By Nora Griffin -
TOMMY MINTZ Mind the Gap/Mine the Gaps
– By William Corwin -
TREVOR PAGLEN
– By Desi Gonzalez -
LARRY POONS New Paintings
– By Robert C. Morgan -
PAUL LAFFOLEY and SUZANNE TREISTER
– By Ann McCoy
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Prolixity and Painting
– By Nancy Princenthal
Local
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What Queerocracy Looks Like
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
A Groundswell of Teachers Wants More
– By Ari Paul -
AMONG THE STRONGEST ROBIN NAGLE with Gabriel Thompson
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Seaside Stories
– By Saskia Kahn and Lindsey Catherine Cornum
Express
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CASE NO: 1
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
Israel/Palestine and the Re-education of Sarah Schulman
– By Bec Zajac -
The Bankruptcy of Doom and Gloom
– By Robert S. Eshelman -
New Look for Rail Books
– By Theodore Hamm -
ART, MUSIC, MONEY PHOEBE LEGERE with Vienna Boa
Art
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Three Notes on the Behavioral Turn
– By Judith Rodenbeck -
ALEX KATZ with David Salle
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RICHARD NONAS with Alex Bacon
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RONA PONDICK with Phong Bui
ArtSeen
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CHARLES LUTZ BABEL (Brillo Stockholm Type)
– By Michael Straus -
BERNARD FRIZE Winter Diary
– By Terry R. Myers -
The Color Bars of Francis Alÿs
– -
Drawing Surrealism
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Beyond Thinking
– By Karen Schiff -
It looks like words have won...
– By Michelle Grabner -
Centaurs and Microbes
– By David Humphrey -
Talk/Show: Language and the Resistant Artwork
– By Richard Kalina -
Visual Intelligence
– By Mira Schor -
Words are Limited
– By Carrie Moyer -
This Is How We Do It
– By Stephen Westfall -
Notes on Looking, Thinking, and then Writing
– By Robert Berlind -
DOUG ARGUE Artspeak and The Art of Translation
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
Breathing Room
– By Susan Bee -
Discourse ≠ Art
– By Stephen Maine -
Arguing Art
– By Dennis Kardon -
DAVID SHRIGLEY Signs
– By Noah Dillon -
Prolixity and Art
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve -
SABINE HORNIG Transparent Things
– By Paula Burleigh -
Looking/Reading/Writing
– By David Carrier -
Sense and Unsensibility
– By Tom McGlynn -
The Medium Has No Message
– By R. H. Lossin -
A.R. PENCK New Paintings
– By Jonathan Goodman -
SÉBASTIEN CLICHE, SYLVIE COTTON, CHELSEA KNIGHT, and MARK TRIBE Brooklyn/Montreal Exchange
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
CORA COHEN The Responsibility of Forms
– By Nora Griffin -
TOMMY MINTZ Mind the Gap/Mine the Gaps
– By William Corwin -
TREVOR PAGLEN
– By Desi Gonzalez -
LARRY POONS New Paintings
– By Robert C. Morgan -
PAUL LAFFOLEY and SUZANNE TREISTER
– By Ann McCoy
Books
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Lessons in Empathy
– By Geoffrey Young -
LAUREN GROFF with Matthew Daddona
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Men Being Played
– By Weston Cutter -
Technoir at Light Speed
– By Ben Pfeiffer -
Where Food is Family
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Wandering Beauty
– By Tony Leuzzi -
A Wide Open Mind
– By Christopher Michel
Music
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A Chance Meeting of Words and Music
– By David St.-Lascaux -
AMPLIFY 2013: rotation
– By Christopher Nelson -
A Great and Joyful Noise
– By Jose Padua -
Decoding Lez Zeppelin
– By Allyson Polsky McCabe -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Still Tragic, Still Political, Still Swoon-Worthy
– By Joanna McNaney Stein
Dance
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Protective Frost
– By Siobhan Burke -
Viscera
– By Cassie Peterson -
RASHAUN MITCHELL with Nancy Dalva
Film
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ITS ALRIGHT, WILLIAMSBURG (IM ONLY BLEEDING) SU FRIEDRICH with Cynthia Lugo
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The Many Hindrances of STEPHEN DWOSKIN
– By Max Nelson -
ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA Cristian Mungius Beyond the Hills
– By Ricky D'Ambrose -
NOTHINGS HAPPIER THAN HAPPINESS Pablo Larraíns NO
– By José Miguel Palacios -
FROM A DARK ROOM SANDRA GIBSON AND LUIS RECODER with Genevieve Yue
Theater
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Red Wigs and Lettuce Passing Through the Heart with Dalia Basiouny
– By Catherine Filloux -
Lesser America Takes On A Tragic Chimp
– By Ken Urban -
Miranda Huba's Candy Tastes Nice Puts Virginity on the Auction Block.
– By Gary Winter
Fiction
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from The Collected Writings of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne
– By Michael Martone -
I Would Be Remiss If I Did Not Mention That I Have Nothing To Offer You In Return Whatsoever
– By Nicolle Elizabeth -
When the Time Comes
– By Josef Winkler -
ZOMB
– By Matt Seneca -
Catscan
– By Molly Roth -
Arrowschmitt!!!
– By Arryan Decatur -
Tears Don't Dry
– By Leah Hayes -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
from the story collection The Man Who Walked on Air & other tales of innocence
– By Alain Arias-Misson
Poetry
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Five
– By Maxine Chernoff -
from Situations: Events and Spells
– By Mercedes Roffé, translated from the Spanish by Judith Filc -
At Hell Gate
– By Brandon Downing
Art Books
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Summer of Hate
– By Wendy Vogel -
Hesitating Beauty
– By Talia Bloch