Celebrate the New Dark Age
By David GeersToday is not a time for monuments; it is a time for ruins. What front page of a newspaper is not splashed with images of social collapse, disaster, and grief that transfix us with their mournful beauty and fill us with lurid fascination?
BATS Step Up to the Plate
By Eleanor J. BaderThey call themselves BATS, an acronym for Badass Teachers, and they’re mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
Books In Conversation
EROS AND PLAY
ELIZABETH ROBINSON with Tony Leuzzi
Some poets seize and refine a particular aesthetic until their procedures can take them no further. Others are more searching and allow specific projects or concepts to determine changes in their approach from book to book.
A Pack of Damn Lies
By Matt IgoeEveryone on the roof of the HQ stopped talking to watch Dolan and me, two old friends, reunite. The Iraqis and the Americans reacted nearly identically, lending a warm smile to our reunion and watching unabashedly, drawing energy from it and solace and maybe a recollection of meeting their own long last pal, somewhere unexpected, far from home.
Art Books In Conversation
DAVE HICKEY with Charles Schultz
Dave Hickey recently published Pirates and Farmers: Essays on the Frontiers of Art (Ridinghouse, 2013), a collection of essays on taste and 20th-century art. The book is threaded with personal tales of insouciance and the opinions of a man who has decided he’s through with the art world, but will never be done with art.
BEING THE IMAGINABLE
RUTH MALECZECH: A tribute
By Mallory Catlett, Martha Elliot, Karen Houppert, Melanie Joseph, Theodora Skipitares, Joe Stackell, and Nick Westrate
When iconic actress, director, and Mabou Mines co-founder Ruth Maleczech passed away last month, she left an expansive legacy of fierce artistic expression. Some fellow artists have spent a lifetime in her company, some have only witnessed her work from the outside, but for each of the contributors to this tribute, she was a touchstone—a living beacon leading onward by way of her fearless creative spirit, sharp insight (and tongue), and her many gifts of time, talent, and mentorship to fellow artists.
Notes on Daredevils
By Rachael Rakes“Scale is an idea all of its own.” Daredevils is artist, poet, and performer Stephanie Barber’s first feature-length film, and this expanded space becomes a repository for ideas for and about art, and for observations on interaction and interrelation. Here, the excitement of ideas, and of seeing, functions like the rising and falling of serotonin levels, moments of ecstasy leading to inevitably painful ends. Moments bend within that split second when happiness turns into melancholy on contact with the intellect.
Books In Conversation
DOCTORS DRIVING CABS
AMIN (A.X) AHMAD with Charlene Allen
I met Amin Ahmad at a fiction-writing workshop at The New School in New York City, where he quickly rose to stardom. Filled with nervous beginners, the class was hungry for guidance and validation.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Readers
By Phong BuiI will never forget the evening of Monday October 29, 2012. The night before was the reception for my exhibition, Work According to the Rail, Part I (After the Flood), at Showroom Gallery in the Lower East Side. Upon returning to Greenpoint, my wife the painter Nathlie Provosty and I, along with Cy Morgan, the sculptor and former Rail Distribution Manager, went to a local Mexican restaurant for dinner, the only place open.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
What Richard Pryor Didn’t Know
By Amei WallachIn 1926, John Grierson coined the word “documentary” to describe the “documentary value” of Moana, the second film by Robert Flaherty, who is considered the inventor of the form, at least in the English language.
Critics Page
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CHRISTO with Jarrett Earnest
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Painting Pollock
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
BREAKING THE FRAME
– By Joyce Beckenstein
Space, Time, and a Body of Work -
KIMSOOJA
– By David Ebony
Works and Process -
With Her Back to the World and Her Face to the Camera
– By Nancy Princenthal -
THE MET-GETTY PROGRAM FOR ART ON FILM
NADINE COVERT with Susan Delson -
Getting Away With It
– By Gregory Zinman -
PICASSO’S MYSTERY: Art and Cinema
– By Angela Dalle Vacche
ArtSeen
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ALEX KATZ Small Paintings 1987–2013
– By Robert Berlind -
Painting at 56 Bogart
– By Ben La Rocco -
ANNE TRUITT Threshold: Works from the 1970s
– By Jonathan Goodman -
JOHN O’CONNOR The Machine and the Ghost
– By Brian Chidester -
TONY COX Shapes of Shade
– By Charles Schultz -
WILLIAM ANASTASI Sound Works, 1963–2013
– By William Corwin -
CHRIS BURDEN Extreme Measures
– By Alexander Shulan -
DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE Drawing Which Makes Itself
– By Matthew Farina -
NALINI MALANI In Search of Vanished Blood
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
Sculpture after Artschwager
– By Michael Pepi -
JOAN WALTEMATH
– By Kara L. Rooney
The Dinwoodies, 2005-08: graphite drawings on mylar -
MAGRITTE The Mystery of the Ordinary 1926–1938
– By Valery Oisteanu -
New Jersey as Non-Site
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
Street Art Brazil
– By Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier -
MATTHEW CRAVEN Oblivious Path
– By Pac Pobric -
TONY FEHER
– By Rupert Goldsworthy
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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What Richard Pryor Didn’t Know
– By Amei Wallach
Publisher's Message
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Dear Readers
– By Phong Bui
Local
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The Brooklyn Mayor
– By Williams Cole -
BATS Step Up to the Plate
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
Will James Challenge De Blasio on Atlantic Yards?
– By Norman Oder -
Seaside Stories
– By Saskia Kahn -
UrbanGlass Remakes a Brooklyn Landmark
– By Michael Randazzo and Chip Brenner
Express
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POST-OCCUPIED Art, Free Speech, and the 1%
– By Paul McLean -
A Pack of Damn Lies
– By Matt Igoe -
The Writin’ Irish
– By Williams Cole -
The Narco Cultura War Next Door: Shaul Schwarz with Williams Cole
Art
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Celebrate the New Dark Age
– By David Geers -
FRANKLIN EVANS with Greg Lindquist
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APPLYING PRESSURE CHRIS BURDEN with Jarrett Earnest
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NALINI MALANI with Ann McCoy
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REMEMBERING Arthur Danto (1924 – 2013)
– By Daniel Herwitz and Lydia Goehr
ArtSeen
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ALEX KATZ Small Paintings 1987–2013
– By Robert Berlind -
Painting at 56 Bogart
– By Ben La Rocco -
ANNE TRUITT Threshold: Works from the 1970s
– By Jonathan Goodman -
JOHN O’CONNOR The Machine and the Ghost
– By Brian Chidester -
TONY COX Shapes of Shade
– By Charles Schultz -
WILLIAM ANASTASI Sound Works, 1963–2013
– By William Corwin -
CHRIS BURDEN Extreme Measures
– By Alexander Shulan -
DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE Drawing Which Makes Itself
– By Matthew Farina -
NALINI MALANI In Search of Vanished Blood
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
Sculpture after Artschwager
– By Michael Pepi -
JOAN WALTEMATH The Dinwoodies, 2005-08: graphite drawings on mylar
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MAGRITTE The Mystery of the Ordinary 1926–1938
– By Valery Oisteanu -
New Jersey as Non-Site
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
Street Art Brazil
– By Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier -
MATTHEW CRAVEN Oblivious Path
– By Pac Pobric -
TONY FEHER
– By Rupert Goldsworthy
Critics Page
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CHRISTO with Jarrett Earnest
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Painting Pollock
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
BREAKING THE FRAME Space, Time, and a Body of Work
– By Joyce Beckenstein -
KIMSOOJA Works and Process
– By David Ebony -
With Her Back to the World and Her Face to the Camera
– By Nancy Princenthal -
THE MET-GETTY PROGRAM FOR ART ON FILM NADINE COVERT with Susan Delson
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Getting Away With It
– By Gregory Zinman -
PICASSO’S MYSTERY: Art and Cinema
– By Angela Dalle Vacche
Books
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You had me at ‘‘Goodbye’’
– By Leigh Kamping-Carder -
The Question of Being Human
– By Karissa Chen -
Lasting Memory
– By Geoffrey Young -
DOCTORS DRIVING CABS AMIN (A.X) AHMAD with Charlene Allen
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An Unmapped Life
– By Abby Margulies -
Writing on Writing
– By Orli van Mourik -
AUTOFORENSICS CRIS MAZZA with Kathleen Rooney
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EROS AND PLAY ELIZABETH ROBINSON with Tony Leuzzi
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Two by Scott McClanahan
– By Weston Cutter -
A Spider’s Mirror
– By Larissa Shmailo -
Ten Years in the Tub
– By Leslie Fierro -
Visitation Street
– By Andrew Cotto -
SAM CABOT with Andrew Cotto
Music
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NINE NOCTURNES Jandek’s The Song of Morgan
– By Christopher Nelson -
GG Allin Gets Trapped in America, Sends Word to the Empire
– By Margarita Shalina -
KT TUNSTALL: Travelling Light
– By KK Kozik -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
BRUCE MOLSKY with Stephen Ellis and David Ross
Dance
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Rehearsal Diary
– By Claudia La Rocco
Film
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OUT OF THE PRESENT Films of the Berlin School at MoMA
– By Jaimey Fisher -
JIA ZHANGKE with Zhou Xin
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Notes on Daredevils
– By Rachael Rakes -
A New Resistance: Far From Afghanistan
– By Laura Paul -
OF NOMADS AND MIGRANTS To Look Awry: Latin and Spanish Filmmakers Far From Home
– By José Miguel Palacios
Theater
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Notes from a Star-Struck Fan Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love
– By Hans Vermy -
The Past and Future Sunsets of Dominique Morisseau
– By Matthew Paul Olmos -
BEING THE IMAGINABLE RUTH MALECZECH: A tribute
– By Mallory Catlett, Martha Elliot, Karen Houppert, Melanie Joseph, Theodora Skipitares, Joe Stackell, and Nick Westrate -
Surfing the Coasts: L.A.’s IAMA Theatre Company Hits N.Y.C.
– By Addie Johnson Talbott
Fiction
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from Zugzwang
– By Eduard Màrquez, translated from the Catalan by Lawrence Venuti -
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
– By Jackie Wang -
A diary of mysterious difficulties...
– By Laura Raicovich -
Salt Lake City Congo
– By Laird Hunt -
from The Compleat Memoirrhoids
– By Steve Katz, out now on Starcherone Books -
the first 3 chapters from Manhattan Tropics
– By Guillermo Cotto-Thorner, translated from the Spanish by J. Bret Maney -
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley -
The Right Thing
– By Bishakh Som -
Coat Check Room
– By Keren Katz -
Among the Shadows
– By Marc-Antoine Mathieu
Poetry
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from Jaguar Harmonics [person woven of, of tesserae]
– By Anne Waldman -
Eleven
– By Rodney Koeneke -
Two
– By Eric Amling
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