Art In Conversation
MARK DION: Mourning is A Legitimate Mode of Thinking
By Thyrza Nichols GoodeveMark Dion is the elder statesman of critical nature studies—of art that thinks, specifically about nature as a projection and extension of man’s self-interest.
Art In Conversation
ANTONY GORMLEY with Allie Biswas
With sculpture as a primary medium, Gormley’s work explores the relationship of the human body to space and time, emphasizing the body as place rather than object.
Art In Conversation
INGRID ELLIOTT with Laila Pedro
Curator Ingrid Elliott collaborated with Galerie Lelong on Diálogos constructivistas en la vanguardia cubana [Constructivist Dialogues in the Cuban Vanguard], an exhibition that offers an alternative take on modern art in Cuba.
Irgin Sena: 21 fiftytwo (the day after)
By Tom McGlynnIrgin Sena’s work is substantial in its fragility: it explores the ephemerality of the representational structures and systems that constitute the foundations of our need to project significance, and perhaps narrative coherence, onto widely disparate signs.
How Do We Sleep When the Future Is Melting? Sarah Braman: You Are Everything
By ANTHONY HAWLEY
One of the first things greeting viewers in Sarah Braman’s stellar show at Mitchell-Innes and Nash is half of a white Toyota Celica. Rear fender kissing the ground, stick-straight antennae at a neat 45-degree angle, half a white car points skyward, ready for launch.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiLike clockwork, the last four days of every month become an intense period of collective concentration at the Rail.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
The Tactic
By Huey Copeland and Hannah Feldman
Of the numerous concepts that have emerged from Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life (1980), few have had more productive afterlives than his formulation of the tactic: “a way of operating,” of “making do” practiced by the urban masses he describes as “invisible.”
Critics Page
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How Photomontage Ended the Lebanese Civil War (1975-2016)
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Tactical Institutions
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The Kinds of Marks I Wish to Make:
– By Theaster Gates
On Inventing Ways of Working -
To Hold a We
– By Soyoung Yoon
ArtSeen
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Irgin Sena: 21 fiftytwo (the day after)
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How Do We Sleep When the Future Is Melting?
– By ANTHONY HAWLEYSarah Braman: You Are Everything
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NASREEN MOHAMEDI
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RAOUL DE KEYSER Drift
– By Stephen Truax -
Informed Painting
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FADE IN: INT. ART GALLERY – DAY
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NEÏL BELOUFA The Colonies
– By Terence Trouillot -
PER KIRKEBY Serial Thinking
– By David Rhodes -
Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains
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JUDITH BRAUN
– By Taney Roniger -
JOE BRADLEY Krasdale
– By Phong Bui -
BEAUFORD DELANEY
– By Joseph Nechvatal
Resonance of Form and Vibration of Color -
ELENA SISTO Afternoons
– By Hearne Pardee -
QIU XIAOFEI Double Pendulum
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible
– By Laila Pedro
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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The Tactic
– By Huey Copeland and Hannah Feldman
Art
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JOHN ASHBERY with Jarrett Earnest
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MARCIA HAFIF with Phong Bui
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Bill Jensen and David Hinton
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JOHN HOUCK with Charlie Schultz
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WILLIAM KENTRIDGE with Ann McCoy
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MARK DION: Mourning is A Legitimate Mode of Thinking
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve -
ANTONY GORMLEY with Allie Biswas
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INGRID ELLIOTT with Laila Pedro
ArtSeen
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Irgin Sena: 21 fiftytwo (the day after)
– By Tom McGlynn -
How Do We Sleep When the Future Is Melting? Sarah Braman: You Are Everything
– By ANTHONY HAWLEY -
NASREEN MOHAMEDI
– By David Carrier -
RAOUL DE KEYSER Drift
– By Stephen Truax -
Informed Painting
– By Tom McGlynn -
FADE IN: INT. ART GALLERY – DAY
– By Simone Krug -
NEÏL BELOUFA The Colonies
– By Terence Trouillot -
PER KIRKEBY Serial Thinking
– By David Rhodes -
Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains
– By Christopher Green -
JUDITH BRAUN
– By Taney Roniger -
JOE BRADLEY Krasdale
– By Phong Bui -
BEAUFORD DELANEY Resonance of Form and Vibration of Color
– By Joseph Nechvatal -
ELENA SISTO Afternoons
– By Hearne Pardee -
QIU XIAOFEI Double Pendulum
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible
– By Laila Pedro
Critics Page
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How Photomontage Ended the Lebanese Civil War (1975-2016)
– By Rasha Salti -
Tactical Institutions
– By Abdoumaliq Simone -
The Kinds of Marks I Wish to Make: On Inventing Ways of Working
– By Theaster Gates -
To Hold a We
– By Soyoung Yoon
Books
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RISING TO THE OCCASION: PETER STRAUB with Joseph Salvatore
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Death Sentences
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Far-Flung Correspondent
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The Gray Scale
– By Geoffrey Young -
Sweet Nothings
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A CLERK IN THE HOUSE OF POETRY from Bagging the Beats at Midnight, a bookstore memoir in progress
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SHE CORRECTED IN RED INK A New Literary Series for Women Writers Launches at Brooklyn’s BookCourt MICHELE FILGATE with Joseph Salvatore
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Poetry Journal RHINO Turns Forty RALPH HAMILTON with Chris Campanioni
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That Fine Line Between Goodness and Brutality LEE MARTIN with John Dufresne
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Reframing the Death of Art: CHRIS CAMPANIONI with Giancarlo Lombardi
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Catching up with the Lovable Losers
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BOY PROBLEMS ALEXANDRA NAUGHTON with Catch Business
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Open to the What-If
– By Weston Cutter
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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ALVIN CURRAN with Dan Joseph
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Diary of a Mad Composer
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Dois Amigos, Um Século De Musica: Multishow Live
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Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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A World Without a Center
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SCRIPTING MEMORY THROUGH VIRTUAL REALITY ALMEDA BEYNON and KEVAN LONEY
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Miami City Ballet Brings the Heat
– By Susan Yung
Film
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SHAMBHAVI KAUL with Jordan Cronk
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CONTINUING INTERFERENCE: Crossroads 2016
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QIU JIONGJIONG with Kang Kang
Theater
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Permanent Caterpillar: Was It a Dream?
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Studies in Chekhov: Revealing Process with WaxFactory’s PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!
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Bringing Kentucky Home: Leah Nanako Winkler
– By Susan Soon He Stanton
Fiction
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The Man Who Planted Trees
– by Jean Giono, translated from the French by Nirmal Dass -
Two
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from Kid Coole
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Daria, a Roma Woman's Journey
– By Rob Davis -
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
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Twelve
– By Biswamit Dwibedy -
Four
– By Michael Rothenberg -
Four
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Four
– By Allyson Paty -
Four
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from Descent
– By Lauren Russell
Verbatim
Art Books
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David Deitcher, Stone’s Throw
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Jonathan Griffin, On Fire
– By Sarah Cowan
Field Notes
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It’s Difficult to Say Exactly What, But Something is Happening A Social Movement Awakens in France
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Tax Havens in the Imperial Network
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Syria in Flames LEILA AL-SHAMI and ROBIN YASSIN-KASSAB with Ella Wind
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Black Representation After Ferguson
– By John Clegg
