THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
A Socialism of Creation
By Luis Camnitzer
About once every decade I decide to confront the issue of whether it’s possible to teach art or not. My immediate, passionate, and unexamined inclination is to say: yes, it’s possible.
Field Notes In Conversation
ART & ACTIVISM
People’s Climate Arts with Nato Thompson
Last month, Nato Thompson, Chief Curator of Creative Time, sat down with three members of the activist art collective People’s Climate Arts to discuss their work.
THEORY AND CRITIQUE:
The Raw and the Cooked
By Dave Hickey
Recently, a lot of people have been whining on about me being anti-academic. Not so. In fact, I am an academic. I read difficult books in difficult languages, I write difficult essays about difficult art. I taught school from age 50 to 70. So I am an academic by any definition. My problem is that I belong to the academic species but not to the art tribe of academics.
A Night of Philosophy in NYC, 04-24-2015 7 P.M. To 7 A.M.
By Mary Ann CawsIf philosophy takes in everything, it was all here on this night-morning. Of course, you might say to yourself, why just a night of philosophy, why not, perhaps, a day and a night, or several of each, or what about a life of it?
The Gut Wants What It Wants
By John DominiAmelia Gray’s Gutshot bristles in the best way. Just about every prick and sting compels you to seek more, to take up the next story—gingerly—and the next. Indeed, the author’s second set of short fiction represents an advance for her in its size alone.
COMPLEXITY, STRANGENESS, AND CHARM:
Noah Creshevsky’s Archives
By George Grella
You could say that Noah Creshevsky sits at the crossroads of the world. He lives in a comfortable apartment—where he keeps his composition studio—a short walk from Times Square, and his music and compositional career are an intersection for several important directions for music, old and new, high and low, traditional and technological.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiAs we give spring a robust welcome, the art world synchronously offers its own salutation. We have all been invited to drift, like Le Petit Prince, through the universe created by Alexander Calder’s fierce yet exuberant small-scale sculptures at Dominique Lévy. I found myself transfixed by the magic of each work.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
SURVIVING BECOMING
for Mac and Grace
By Charles Schultz
How do we become who we are? What experiences mold our character and how do those experiences alter the way we interact with artwork? For me the experiences that have been the most transformative happened suddenly: one I saw coming for nine months, the other I didn’t see coming at all.
Critics Page
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Threadsuns
– By Susan Bee -
FUNERAL POETRY: A Last-Ditch Effort
– By Mattie John Bamman -
Being One
– By Diane Schenandoah -
Gender Trauma & Abreaction
– By Wendy Vogel -
The Inferno Where We Live Every Day
– By Andrew Berardini -
Empathy, Loss and Painting
– By Greg Lindquist -
Extremes Redux Nearby or The The The
– By Nathlie Provosty -
Don Quixote Saved My Life
– By James English Leary -
Low Heaven
– By Susan Tallman -
Art And Trauma, or Run of the Mill Suffering
– By Corina Larkin -
In Memoriam
– By Joseph Akel -
ZHANG HONGTU with Charlie Schultz
ArtSeen
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HANS-CHRISTIAN LOTZ
– By Alexander Shulan -
WEIRD CABOOSE
– By Michael Pepi
2015 Triennial: Surround Audience -
ONLY CONNECT
– By Sue Scott
2015 Triennial: Surround Audience -
2015 Triennial: Surround Audience
– By Christopher Green -
NANCY HAYNES anomalies and non-sequiturs
– By Anna Tome -
WILLIAM POPE.L Trinket
– By Terry R. Myers -
Poussin et Dieu
– By David Carrier -
BILL JENSEN Transgressions
– By Hearne Pardee -
JOAN SEMMEL Across Five Decades
– By Joyce Beckenstein -
THOMAS NOZKOWSKI
– By David Rhodes -
JAMES SIENA New Sculpture
– By Tom McGlynn -
MATT DUCKLO Tomorrow is a Long Time
– By Taylor Dafoe -
BRENDA GOODMAN: New Work
– By Jonathan Goodman -
JOYCE KOZLOFF
– By Ann McCoy -
MARTHA WILSON Downtown
– By Kara L. Rooney -
RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, and HESAM RAHMANIAN I won’t wait for grey hairs and worldly cares to soften my views
– By Sara Roffino -
ARNE SVENSON: The Workers
– By Sara Christoph -
True Monotypes
– By Mary Proenza -
HISAKO KOBAYASHI Said in Silence
– By Jonathan Goodman -
JULIAN HATTON New Season
– By Hovey Brock -
MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN Infinite Possibility. Mirror Works and Drawings 1974 – 2014
– By Yasi Alipour -
BASQUIAT The Unknown Notebooks
– By Bradley Rubenstein -
LAURA LANCASTER A Stranger’s Dream
– By Molly Elizalde -
CLARE GRILL Touch’d Lustre
– By Nora Griffin -
JEAN PAGLIUSO Poultry and Raptor Suites
– By Phong Bui -
ABBY LEIGH Pause
– By Phong Bui -
RUTH HARDINGER The Basement Rocks
– By Elena Berriolo
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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SURVIVING BECOMING for Mac and Grace
– By Charles Schultz
Art
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Postcard Chat between Yves Berger and John Berger
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GLENN LOWRY with Joachim Pissarro, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, and David Carrier
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HANK WILLIS THOMAS with Allie Biswas
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THEORY AND CRITIQUE: The Raw and the Cooked
– By Dave Hickey -
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART A Socialism of Creation
– By Luis Camnitzer -
CHRIS LARSON with Phong Bui
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A Night of Philosophy in NYC, 04-24-2015 7 P.M. To 7 A.M.
– By Mary Ann Caws -
DEAN LEVIN with Alex Bacon
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DAVID SALLE with Hunter Braithwaite
ArtSeen
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HANS-CHRISTIAN LOTZ
– By Alexander Shulan -
WEIRD CABOOSE 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience
– By Michael Pepi -
ONLY CONNECT 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience
– By Sue Scott -
2015 Triennial: Surround Audience
– By Christopher Green -
NANCY HAYNES anomalies and non-sequiturs
– By Anna Tome -
WILLIAM POPE.L Trinket
– By Terry R. Myers -
Poussin et Dieu
– By David Carrier -
BILL JENSEN Transgressions
– By Hearne Pardee -
JOAN SEMMEL Across Five Decades
– By Joyce Beckenstein -
THOMAS NOZKOWSKI
– By David Rhodes -
JAMES SIENA New Sculpture
– By Tom McGlynn -
MATT DUCKLO Tomorrow is a Long Time
– By Taylor Dafoe -
BRENDA GOODMAN: New Work
– By Jonathan Goodman -
JOYCE KOZLOFF
– By Ann McCoy -
MARTHA WILSON Downtown
– By Kara L. Rooney -
RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, and HESAM RAHMANIAN I won’t wait for grey hairs and worldly cares to soften my views
– By Sara Roffino -
ARNE SVENSON: The Workers
– By Sara Christoph -
True Monotypes
– By Mary Proenza -
HISAKO KOBAYASHI Said in Silence
– By Jonathan Goodman -
JULIAN HATTON New Season
– By Hovey Brock -
MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN Infinite Possibility. Mirror Works and Drawings 1974 – 2014
– By Yasi Alipour -
BASQUIAT The Unknown Notebooks
– By Bradley Rubenstein -
LAURA LANCASTER A Stranger’s Dream
– By Molly Elizalde -
CLARE GRILL Touch’d Lustre
– By Nora Griffin -
JEAN PAGLIUSO Poultry and Raptor Suites
– By Phong Bui -
ABBY LEIGH Pause
– By Phong Bui -
RUTH HARDINGER The Basement Rocks
– By Elena Berriolo
Critics Page
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Threadsuns
– By Susan Bee -
FUNERAL POETRY: A Last-Ditch Effort
– By Mattie John Bamman -
Being One
– By Diane Schenandoah -
Gender Trauma & Abreaction
– By Wendy Vogel -
The Inferno Where We Live Every Day
– By Andrew Berardini -
Empathy, Loss and Painting
– By Greg Lindquist -
Extremes Redux Nearby or The The The
– By Nathlie Provosty -
Don Quixote Saved My Life
– By James English Leary -
Low Heaven
– By Susan Tallman -
Art And Trauma, or Run of the Mill Suffering
– By Corina Larkin -
In Memoriam
– By Joseph Akel -
ZHANG HONGTU with Charlie Schultz
Books
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IN THE GAPS BETWEEN THINGS ANDREA SCRIMA with Leora Skolkin-Smith
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The Gut Wants What It Wants
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DIVING INTO THE WRECK GREGORY SPATZ with Doug Dorst
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Human Divinity
– By Jack Finnegan -
City of Exception
– By Dustin Illingworth -
The Frontier’s Finale
– By Ashley P. Taylor -
The (Practical) Pursuit of Happiness
– By Hilary Reid -
On the Shores of Word and Image
– By Matt Finch
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella -
COMPLEXITY, STRANGENESS, AND CHARM: Noah Creshevsky’s Archives
– By George Grella -
10 LISTENS Forest Management’s Sharper Focus EP
– By Michael Durek -
CODED FOR TRANSPARENCY Tristan Perich’s Parallels
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
OUTTAKES
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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NOTES FROM ABOVE GROUND Rashaun Mitchell’s Light Years
– By Madison Mainwaring -
THE GILDED STAGE: FLEXN
– By Brian Schaefer -
NO SHARP EDGES: Katie Workum’s Black Lakes
– By Tara Sheena -
BUILDING AND UNBUILDING Part 2 of 2 on Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Streets
– By Siobhan Burke -
A KIND OF IMPOSSIBLE: Michelle Boulé's White
– By Cassie Peterson
Film
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PLEASURE IN DISSONANCE: Crossroads 2015
– By James Hansen -
FROM ABOVE: The First NYC Drone Film Festival
– By Anna Gurton-Wachter -
CINEMACHINERY: Show and Tell with Lary 7
– By Fabio Roberti -
Docs in Sight: Systemic Ills, Dark Fetishes, Drugs, and Guns at the Tribeca Film Festival
– By Williams Cole -
Windows, Mirrors, and Frames in Akram Zaatari’s 28 Nights and a Poem
– By M. T. Niagara -
GINA TELAROLI with Phil Coldiron
Theater
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Sitting in the Dark with Tiny Little Band STEFANIE ABEL HOROWITZ and JERRY LIEBLICH with Eryk Aughenbaugh
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Doing It Anyway: Micah Bucey and Judson Arts Wednesdays
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WE CAN BE SILENT NO MORE: YAËL FARBER with Jamie Maleszka
– By Jamie Maleszka
Fiction
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from Kid Coole
– By M. G. Stephens -
from Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden
– by Michael Joyce, out now from Starcherone Books -
from al-Majus (“The Fetishists”)
– by Ibrahim al-Koni, translated from the Arabic by William Hutchins -
Lorand Gaspar: The Autobiographical Introductory Essay
– translated from the French by Nancy Kline, to his forthcoming collection, Earth Absolute and Other Texts (Contramundum Press) -
Two Poems from Earth Absolute and Other Texts
– by Lorand Gaspar, translated from the French by Mary Ann Caws -
from Miransù
– by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann de Julio -
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
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Four
– By Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia -
Four
– By Allison Cobb -
Two
– By Danniel Schoonebeek -
Two
– By Camille Roy -
from THE BLOCK
– By Dan Machlin
Art Books
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LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Notion of Family
– By Holly Gavin -
Tony DeLap: Painting Sculpture & Works on Paper 1965 – 2013
– By Jessica Holmes
Field Notes
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Chicago, Babylon
– By Zaheer Kazmi -
ART & ACTIVISM People’s Climate Arts with Nato Thompson
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GERMANWINGS An Anthropological Fear
– By Jorge de la Barre
