RAILING OPINION
Dear Dave, Welcome Back
By Irving Sandler
Dear Dave, welcome back to art writing, if indeed your article was a signifier of that. I was troubled by your abandonment of us in the first place.
Baltimore’s “Fire Next Time”
By Curtis PriceOn April 27, 2015, Baltimore erupted into what was arguably the worst urban rioting in a major U.S. city since Los Angeles in 1992. Scores of buildings were looted and burned and at one point, so many buildings had been torched that the city ran out of fire equipment to put the fires out and had to summon surrounding county fire departments.
LEON GOLUB Riot
By Kara L. RooneyThe April 25 headline of the New York Times read, “Scenes of Chaos in Baltimore as Thousands Protest Freddie Gray’s Death.” The article goes on to describe how a largely peaceful protest, staged in the wake of this country’s third publicly documented murder of a black youth by police in less than a year, gave way to looting and riots in the streets of Baltimore.
The Beautiful in Between
By Madeline GresselA few pages into the poet and critic Maggie Nelson’s new book, The Argonauts, she quotes from Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet’s Dialogues II:“There are no longer binary machines: question-answer, masculine-feminine, man-animal, etc.
Film In Conversation
IRENE LUSZTIG with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
With her latest film, The Motherhood Archives (2013), Irene Lusztig engages with birth as a cultural phenomenon, a topic that sparks passionate beliefs, yet is rarely discussed critically or publicly.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Readers,
By Phong Bui“Venice excels in blackness and whiteness; water brings commerce between them. Italians excel in the use of black and white, white stone and interior darkness. Colour comes between, comes out of them, intensely yet gradually amassed, like a gondola between water and sky.”
Editor's Message Guest Critic
Art and Protest
By Matthew BiroCan art today be a form of protest? And, if so, what subjects, what issues, what transgressions or injustices, does it most vitally and persuasively critique? In many ways, the obvious answer to this question is “yes.”
Critics Page
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HYPOCRITICAL PROTEST
– By Donald Kuspit
Karl Marx at the Venice Biennale -
Nefertiti in a Gas Mask
– By Christiane Gruber -
Art as Protest
– By Alex Potts -
Execution, Huntsville Prison, 2013
– By Alec Soth -
Pills, Protest, and Piracy
– By John J. Corso -
When? Where? How?
– By Edward Dimendberg -
Detroit and the Art of Protest
– By Dora Apel -
THE PROTEST MARKET
– By Jennifer Nelson
after Audre Lorde’s “Power” -
Medellín
– By Corine Vermeulen -
“Good luck, Bauhaus and Berlin Comrades, and See You After the Revolution”
– By Elizabeth Otto -
Protest and Survive
– By Kathy Battista -
“To the Lynching!”
– By Carmenita Higginbotham
ArtSeen
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MARGARET EVANGELINE
– By Jonathan GoodmanAn Injured Armory -
From the Ruins…
– By Tom McGlynn -
Arthur Ou
– By David Carrier -
LEON GOLUB Riot
– By Kara L. Rooney -
Salon Style
– By Simone Krug -
Audubon’s Aviary: The Final Flight
– By Tom McGlynn
(Part III of the Complete Flock) -
BENJAMIN COTTAM
– By Jonathan Goodman -
June Leaf
– By Robert Berlind -
LISA YUSKAVAGE
– By Phong Bui -
RICHARD ESTES Painting New York City
– By David Carrier -
LAURA OWENS
– By Geoff Mak -
PIERRE OBANDO Like New
– By David Rhodes -
One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
– By Mary Proenza -
IDA APPLEBROOG The Ethics of Desire
– By Ashton Cooper -
EMILY MASON The Intuitive Print
– By Jessica Holmes -
RUSSELL TYLER Radiant Fields
– By Jason Stopa -
BRENT WADDEN
– By Maggie Barrett -
SARAH PETERS
– By Sara Christoph -
GILLIAN LAUB Southern Rites
– By Hilary Reid -
RICHARD SERRA Equal
– By Phong Bui -
BEVERLY BUCHANAN And You May Find Yourself...
– By Chloe Wilcox -
between a place and candy: new works in pattern + repetition + motif
– By Kate Liebman -
DAVID GOODMAN Apparatus
– By William Corwin -
SUSAN CIANCIOLO if God COMes to visit You, HOW will you know? (the great tetrahedral kite)
– By Liz Hirsch -
JOAN SNYDER Sub Rosa
– By Hovey Brock
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Art and Protest
– By Matthew Biro
Publisher's Message
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Dear Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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TANIA BRUGUERA with Lucia Hinojosa, Diego Gerard, and Dennise Abush
– By Lucía Hinojosa, Diego Gerard, and Dennise Abush -
RAILING OPINION Dear Dave, Welcome Back
– By Irving Sandler -
GUERRILLA GIRLS BROADBAND with Chloe Wyma
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MARY CORSE with Alex Bacon
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JESSICA DICKINSON with Danielle Mysliwiec
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BILL BERKSON with Jarrett Earnest
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ALEKSANDAR DURAVCEVIC with Phong Bui
ArtSeen
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MARGARET EVANGELINE An Injured Armory
– By Jonathan Goodman -
From the Ruins…
– By Tom McGlynn -
Arthur Ou
– By David Carrier -
LEON GOLUB Riot
– By Kara L. Rooney -
Salon Style
– By Simone Krug -
Audubon’s Aviary: The Final Flight (Part III of the Complete Flock)
– By Tom McGlynn -
BENJAMIN COTTAM
– By Jonathan Goodman -
June Leaf
– By Robert Berlind -
LISA YUSKAVAGE
– By Phong Bui -
RICHARD ESTES Painting New York City
– By David Carrier -
LAURA OWENS
– By Geoff Mak -
PIERRE OBANDO Like New
– By David Rhodes -
One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
– By Mary Proenza -
IDA APPLEBROOG The Ethics of Desire
– By Ashton Cooper -
EMILY MASON The Intuitive Print
– By Jessica Holmes -
RUSSELL TYLER Radiant Fields
– By Jason Stopa -
BRENT WADDEN
– By Maggie Barrett -
SARAH PETERS
– By Sara Christoph -
GILLIAN LAUB Southern Rites
– By Hilary Reid -
RICHARD SERRA Equal
– By Phong Bui -
BEVERLY BUCHANAN And You May Find Yourself...
– By Chloe Wilcox -
between a place and candy: new works in pattern + repetition + motif
– By Kate Liebman -
DAVID GOODMAN Apparatus
– By William Corwin -
SUSAN CIANCIOLO if God COMes to visit You, HOW will you know? (the great tetrahedral kite)
– By Liz Hirsch -
JOAN SNYDER Sub Rosa
– By Hovey Brock
Critics Page
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HYPOCRITICAL PROTEST Karl Marx at the Venice Biennale
– By Donald Kuspit -
Nefertiti in a Gas Mask
– By Christiane Gruber -
Art as Protest
– By Alex Potts -
Execution, Huntsville Prison, 2013
– By Alec Soth -
Pills, Protest, and Piracy
– By John J. Corso -
When? Where? How?
– By Edward Dimendberg -
Detroit and the Art of Protest
– By Dora Apel -
THE PROTEST MARKET after Audre Lorde’s “Power”
– By Jennifer Nelson -
Medellín
– By Corine Vermeulen -
“Good luck, Bauhaus and Berlin Comrades, and See You After the Revolution”
– By Elizabeth Otto -
Protest and Survive
– By Kathy Battista -
“To the Lynching!”
– By Carmenita Higginbotham
Books
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The Beautiful in Between
– By Madeline Gressel -
A Different Side of Terrorism
– By Katharina Smundak -
Class Rules
– By Jill Dehnert -
Required Reading
– By Johannah Rodgers -
A Portrait of the Critic as a Miraculating Agent
– By J. C. Hallman -
BIG BROTHER: ANDREW ERVIN with Owen King
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Spring’s Picks for Young Readers
– By Jordan B. Nielsen -
THE MONSTER IS ALWAYS LONELINESS: JEFFREY ROTTER with Bill Cheng
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Prosaic Hallucination
– By Brendan Garrison -
SHE WON'T BE RESCUED KATHLEEN OSSIP with Molly Rose Quinn
Music
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Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella -
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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ASCENDING TO FREEDOM Wadada Leo Smith
– By Daniel Gold -
Nick Cave's Great Gamble
– By Allyson Polsky McCabe -
Gothic Revival Revised
– By Scott Borchert -
Circuit des Yeux, In Plain Speech
– By Christopher Nelson -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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RESIDUE AND REORDERING
– RAKIYA A. ORANGE with Tara Aisha Willis -
CONJURING FUTURE JOY EMILY JOHNSON with Ivan Talijancic
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COMING HOME Milka Djordjevich + Chris Peck’s MASS at The Kitchen
– By Cassie Peterson -
LA SYLPHIDE AT THE NEW YORK CITY BALLET Romantic Ballet, Victorian Morals, and the Wisdom of Sondheim
– By Brian Schaefer -
Embodied Construction: Building a Home for Dance
– By Melissa Croushorn
Film
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IRENE LUSZTIG with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
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TURF WARS The 2015 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
– By Jesse Cumming -
JON DIERINGER with Carolyn Lazard
Theater
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And That’s How the Rent Gets Paid Paying Tribute to Jeff Weiss
– By Roger Babb -
Snow Globes & Global Politics: The Theatrical World of Kate E. Ryan
– By Kathryn Walat
Fiction
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from Kid Coole
– By M. G. Stephens -
from Trenton Makes
– By Tadzio Koelb -
Butter Eggs
– By Hannah Thurman -
from The Lifeless Sea
– By Jen Michalski -
Good Clean Sex
– By Chad Beverlin -
Katie Merz
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Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
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Why the Whale?
– by Adriano GonzΓΒ‘lez LeΓΒ³n, translated by Guillermo Parra -
from Philadelphia (Freedom Song)
– By Gina Myers -
gohst
– By Sara Deniz Akant -
The Dream’s Navel
– By Clayton Eshleman
Art Books
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Anthony McCall: Notebooks and Conversations
– By Jarrett Earnest
Field Notes
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Baltimore’s “Fire Next Time”
– By Curtis Price -
To Our Friends: Two Friendly Responses
– By Paul Mattick -
On The Invisible Committee’s To Our Friends
– By Ryan Richardson -
Anti-Terrorism and the Specter of The Invisible Committee
– By Serge Quadruppani -
Since the End of the Movement of the Squares: The Return of The Invisible Committee
– By Jason E. Smith
