JOAN WALTEMATH: The Dinwoodies, 2005-8: graphite drawings on mylar
By Kara L. RooneyThe Dinwoodies, a series of Joan Waltemath's mylar drawings made between 2005 and 2008, is currently on view at Schema Projects in Bushwick. This is the first time the work has been shown, and it is Waltemath’s first New York solo exhibition in over a decade.
Barclays Center: Brooklyn’s “Community Arena”?
By Norman OderAfter one year, the arena is a marquee venue, but not the promised home for civic events.
The Political Education of Young Wilhelm
By Theodore HammWhat radical ideas were in circulation during Bill de Blasio's Sandinista days?
How to Spot a Junkie
By Christopher KetchamI recognize this smile: it’s that of the abuser, the fiend, or the crack addict.
Art Books In Conversation
BEN DAVIS with Wendy Vogel
Brooklyn-based writer Ben Davis sat down with Art Books contributor Wendy Vogel on a Sunday morning at the Rail Headquarters to discuss his book 9.5 Theses on Art and Class (Haymarket, 2013)
Skeletal Improvisations and Thrilling Crescendos of Madness: Spy Music Fest 2013
By Christopher NelsonThe third annual Spy Fest, organized by Brooklyn’s intrepid Northern Spy record label, took place over the weekend of September 6–8. Northern Spy was founded in 2010 by Tom Abbs and Adam Downey, each of whom spent years working at ESP-Disk.
Musical Realism: Matt Porterfield’s I Used to Be Darker
By Paul FeltenThe best narrative fiction films have at their center the war between two necessary and contradictory impulses: the impulse to observe and the impulse to declaim.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Readers
By Phong BuiOver three months ago, the Dedalus Foundation invited me to curate a two-month show (October 20 – December 15) at Industry City—its new satellite space in Sunset Park—to commemorate Hurricane Sandy’s one-year anniversary.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
Vulnerability and its Vicissitudes
By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveI am interested in experiences with art that have made you fragile, made you question fundamental beliefs about your self, the world, or art in general; moments when the art before you made you question the very discourse you have learned in order to evaluate art in the first place.
Critics Page
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August 26, 2013
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Metaphor and the Feeling of Fact
– By Steven Henry Madoff -
My Sad Little Tree
– By Judith Rodenbeck -
Wall of Water
– By Chloé Rossetti -
On the Aesthetic of Vulnerability
– By Mark Dery -
Soft Body
– By Claire Pentecost -
Poems
– By Tom McGlynn -
Radical Vulnerability
– By Jerry Saltz -
Crushes on Art
– By Jarrett Earnest -
Dear Thyrza
– By Bill Berkson -
BEAUTIFUL VIOLATION
– By Alana Shilling
Art and the Predicament of Emotional Exposure -
The Hobgoblins of Bad Art
– By Daniel Kunitz -
On Vulnerability
– By Tim Rollins -
Art in the Age of Vulnerability
– By Ann McCoy -
I’m Not Sure When It Happened
– By David Ross -
Mind Fuck Building
– By Madeline Schwartzman -
The Wisdom of Insecurity
– By Taney Roniger -
Right Now the Future is Dark
– By Michael Taussig
ArtSeen
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Survey: Modern Iranian Art
– By Bansie Vasvani -
JOAN WALTEMATH: The Dinwoodies, 2005-8: graphite drawings on mylar
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The Importance of Being Bruce High Quality
– By Jeremy Butman -
BARBARA TAKENAGA New Paintings
– By Robert Berlind -
EBERHARD HAVEKOST Titel
– By Terry R. Myers -
CHARLINE VON HEYL
– By Corina Larkin -
BARRY MCGEE
– By Jonathan Goodman -
ALDO TAMBELLINI We Are the Primitives of a New Era
– By Kara L. Rooney -
Flower Garden
– By Michael Pepi -
GLORIOUS MADNESS
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff
Art, Improbability, and Jean Dubuffet’s Excursions en no man’s space -
SOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE
– By Paula Burleigh
A rough guide to Hell -
MATTHEW DAY JACKSON
– By Alexander Shulan
Something Ancient, Something New, Something Stolen, Something Blue -
SONYA BLESOFSKY Renovation
– By Darren Jones -
Julian Pretto Gallery
– By Pac Pobric
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Vulnerability and its Vicissitudes
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Publisher's Message
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Dear Readers
– By Phong Bui
Local
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Barclays Center: Brooklyn’s “Community Arena”?
– By Norman Oder -
The Political Education of Young Wilhelm
– By Theodore Hamm -
Seaside Stories
– By Saskia Kahn -
Orthodox Women Rabbis? Maybe.
– By Laila Caron -
Walls That Outlast Sandy
– By Eleanor J. Bader
Express
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Inside Moral Mondays
– By Alex Kotch -
How to Spot a Junkie
– By Christopher Ketcham -
An Ode to “Famous” Seamus Heaney
– By Williams Cole -
A Pack of Damn Lies
– By Matt Igoe -
Breaking Bad vs. Badly Broken
– By Johannah Rodgers -
The End of Vermont Yankee
– By Jeff Unsicker
Art
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David Novros: Death, Ownership, and Public Art Against the Text “Art is Immortal”
– By Alan Dugan -
REMEMBERING Stephen Antonakos (1926 – 2013)
– By Cordy Ryman, Merrill Wagner , and Nathan Kernan -
ALEXIS ROCKMAN with Jonathan T. D. Neil
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ATLAS OF INTIMACY JILL MAGID with Jarrett Earnest
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Protecting Artists and Galleries in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy: A Checklist for Artist-Gallery Contracts
– By Judd Grossman and Michael Straus -
JEFFREY DEITCH with David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro
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VULNERABILITY AS CRITICAL SELF-KNOWLEDGE ERNESTO PUJOL with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
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WHAT IS ART? Elbow to Elbow
– By Bill Jensen NYC, 2007-2012 -
JOSHUA ABELOW with Jason Stopa
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Warhol and Rauschenberg Foundations Urge the Court in the Richard Prince Case to Take a Broad View of Appropriation Art
– By Michael Straus
ArtSeen
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Survey: Modern Iranian Art
– By Bansie Vasvani -
JOAN WALTEMATH: The Dinwoodies, 2005-8: graphite drawings on mylar
– By Kara L. Rooney -
The Importance of Being Bruce High Quality
– By Jeremy Butman -
BARBARA TAKENAGA New Paintings
– By Robert Berlind -
EBERHARD HAVEKOST Titel
– By Terry R. Myers -
CHARLINE VON HEYL
– By Corina Larkin -
BARRY MCGEE
– By Jonathan Goodman -
ALDO TAMBELLINI We Are the Primitives of a New Era
– By Kara L. Rooney -
Flower Garden
– By Michael Pepi -
GLORIOUS MADNESS Art, Improbability, and Jean Dubuffet’s Excursions en no man’s space
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
SOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE A rough guide to Hell
– By Paula Burleigh -
MATTHEW DAY JACKSON Something Ancient, Something New, Something Stolen, Something Blue
– By Alexander Shulan -
SONYA BLESOFSKY Renovation
– By Darren Jones -
Julian Pretto Gallery
– By Pac Pobric
Critics Page
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August 26, 2013
– By Yvonne Rainer -
Metaphor and the Feeling of Fact
– By Steven Henry Madoff -
My Sad Little Tree
– By Judith Rodenbeck -
Wall of Water
– By Chloé Rossetti -
On the Aesthetic of Vulnerability
– By Mark Dery -
Soft Body
– By Claire Pentecost -
Poems
– By Tom McGlynn -
Radical Vulnerability
– By Jerry Saltz -
Crushes on Art
– By Jarrett Earnest -
Dear Thyrza
– By Bill Berkson -
BEAUTIFUL VIOLATION Art and the Predicament of Emotional Exposure
– By Alana Shilling -
The Hobgoblins of Bad Art
– By Daniel Kunitz -
On Vulnerability
– By Tim Rollins -
Art in the Age of Vulnerability
– By Ann McCoy -
I’m Not Sure When It Happened
– By David Ross -
Mind Fuck Building
– By Madeline Schwartzman -
The Wisdom of Insecurity
– By Taney Roniger -
Right Now the Future is Dark
– By Michael Taussig
Books
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The Chase Goes On
– By Katharina Smundak -
Landscape With Yellow Birds: The Selected Poems of José Ángel Valente
– By Pablo Medina -
The Worst Story Ever Told
– By Christopher Michel -
Sibum in Nighttown
– By John Domini -
Tallying a Life
– By Amy Cavanaugh -
Maternity Mythos
– By Carmen Giménez Smith -
All Too Human
– By Scott Cheshire -
The Sum of Things
– By Jeremy Polacek -
Bryson, Inc
– By Allen Guy Wilcox
Music
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Skeletal Improvisations and Thrilling Crescendos of Madness: Spy Music Fest 2013
– By Christopher Nelson -
Fractured Visuals: Oneohtrix Point Never's R Plus Seven
– By Andrew Cappetta -
A SOCIAL ORGANIZATION A Decade of ISSUE Project Room
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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Only Disconnect
– By Ryan Wenzel -
So This Dance Walks Into a Museum...
– By Brian Schaefer
Film
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Musical Realism: Matt Porterfield’s I Used to Be Darker
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PAWEŁ WOJTASIK, TOBY LEE, AND ERNST KAREL with Chi-hui Yang Single Stream at the Museum of the Moving Image
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Change You Can Believe In Shaka King’s Newlyweeds and Neil Drumming’s Big Words
– By Brandon Harris -
Formal Logic Materials and Methods at the 2013 Festival del film Locarno
– By Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith -
Upside Down Cameras and Other Wonders Ernie Gehr’s Signal—Germany on the Air and Side/Walk/Shuttle at Light Industry, October 8
– By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
Theater
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Visions of Taylor Mac Good Person of Szechwan Hits the Public
– By Diana Stahl -
ROSEMARY MOORE with Lizzie Olesker Side Street and the Dead Possible
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The Very Very Very Best City in the Entire World In The Downtown Loop with Ben Gassman
– By Paul Ketchum -
A Gender Bending Roadtrip Deep into the Heartland: The TEAM’s RoosevElvis
– By Sherri Eden Barber
Fiction
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SOS
– By Mu Xin | Translated from the Chinese by Toming Jun Liu -
For the Voice, For the Fragile Echo A NOVELLA IN 3 PARTS, 3 of 3.
– By Munira al-Fadhel | Translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins -
Six Enclosures from Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge
– By Renee Gladman -
[Untitled Summer Journal Project #10 Revisited]
– By Joshua Cohen -
When the Time Comes
– By Josef Winkler -
from The Autobiography of a Corpse
– By Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull with Nikolai Formozov, out now from the New York Review of Books -
Mrs. Meurt
– By Jeremy M. Davies -
Crazy Train
– By Molly Roth -
Arrowschmidtt!!!
– By Arryan Decatur -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
Lao Area
– By Clement Baloup
Poetry
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The Vargas-Vargas Affair
– By Joe Pan -
from The Summer Flood Came Home
– By Stefania Irene Marthakis -
Two
– By Ted Dodson
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