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Co-Founder's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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JACK WHITTEN with Jarrett Earnest
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Hilton Als on Alice Neel
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EUGENE LEMAY with Phong Bui
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When the Dada Daddies Got Real; Or, How I Turned Picabia Inside Out
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The Death of John Berger
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DAVID SALLE with Jarrett Earnest
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CHRISTOPHER LE BRUN with Barbara Rose
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JAUME PLENSA with Laila Pedro
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“What Forms of Making Might Spin the Stories We Need to Lift Ourselves from the Distractions of the Immediate?” ANN HAMILTON with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
ArtSeen
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Gut Feeling Martha Friedman Dancing Around Things
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TM DAVY Horses
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Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975
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PETER CAMPUS
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Man-o Man-ifesto!
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Alice Neel, Collector of Souls
– By Jurriaan Benschop -
Vel Minimum
– By Tom McGlynn -
Marilyn Minter Pretty/Dirty
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Kader Attia Reason’s Oxymorons
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Dispatches
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Bhupen Khakhar You Can’t Please All
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A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
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A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
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Bearing Witness, Mendieta Now
– By Vanessa Thill -
Lenore Malen Scenes from Paradise
– By Ann McCoy -
Popped from Life (for E. M.)
– By Phong Bui -
Colonization of Space
– By Phong Bui
Books
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The Noise of the Rain
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Down with the Corpocratic Monoculture! Holly Tavel with Angela Woodward
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The Beasts in Me
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Exile on Main Street
– By Tadzio Koelb -
Relationships Require Fictions to Sustain Them: Jonathan Baumbach with Charles Shafaieh
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The Poet As Caretaker (having said too much having not gotten it all down)
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Picking at the Whole Notion of Story
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MAUREEN N. MCLANE with Alex Dueben
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Review of The Patriots
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The Parts That Were Mysterious Even to Me ROBERT KLOSS with Amber Sparks
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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Diary of a Mad Composer
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Legacy in Action: Pharoah Sanders
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Optimism, Restraint, and Repetition
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Dreaming Of A Not-White Winter Jazzfest
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Fusing Beauty with Anger The Liberation Music Orchestra
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Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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Suffusing Form with Activism
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Re-performing Images of Violence and Beauty
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Walking On Common Ground
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The Making of Modernities
– By Sariel Frankfurter
Film
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Even The Dead Will Not Be Safe Montage, History, and Cutting Art Museums
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“You’re the Nigger, Baby” James Baldwin on Film
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WOLFGANG STAEHLE Ludlow Street
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ACTION MOVIES “Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power”
– By Michael Joshua Rowin
Theater
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Two Playwrights of a Certain Age DAN FINGERMAN with Steven Carl McCasland
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We Are All Very Talky Tiny Little Band’s Your Hair Looked Great
– By Alexander Borinsky
Fiction
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Sand Fortress
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The Guest
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Manhattan Meets Dixie
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Chanel at the Bottom of the Ocean
– By Stephanie Ye -
Household Harmonizing
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inSerial: part five Delusions of Being Observed
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Tragic Strip
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Bigly's Wall
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LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 5: The Pre-Partum Mites (Acarophenax imaginaria)
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Upon waking an homage to Mierle Laderman Ukeles
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New Routes in Fiction A Talk with Akhil Sharma
– by Alec Niedenthal
Poetry
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Eight
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Ankara
– By Ethan Fugate -
from Shine
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Reckoning
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Five
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DRAFT (September 29, 2016)
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Six from Existing Models With Intrusive Noise
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Six
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Four
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Five
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HIST ODRES DE PARADISE (13 poems)
– By Brandon Shimoda
Verbatim
Art Books
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Art Systems and Hélio Oiticica
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Mark Neville, Fancy Pictures
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René Magritte: Selected Writings
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Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer
– By Phillip Griffith
Field Notes
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Editor’s Note
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Elephant Blues
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Standing with Syrians: An Open Letter to an Anti-Imperialist
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Passing Notes with Refugees
– By Ilana Simons
The Well
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Marie’s Crisis
– By Sara Christoph
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