Is Donald Trump a Fascist?
By Michael Mann“Fascist” is nowadays simply a term of abuse for people we do not like. It is without much meaning and is no longer even confined to abusing those on the far right whom we do not like.
How to find beauty in a sea of data
Korakrit Arunanondchai at C L E A R I N G
By Adriana Blidaru
An epilogue to a series that began in 2012, Korakrit Arunanondchai’s with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, boldly inhabits Bushwick’s C L E A R I N G gallery.
Dance In Conversation
Social Bodies:
Inside Work/Travail/Arbeid
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker with Gillian Jakab
Dance and visual art have a rich history of mutual influence and symbiotic exhibition. Dancers as visual art subjects have spanned the globe and the millennia—from Dehli to Dakar to Degas. “Dance-in-the-Museum,” as a concept and sub-genre, is probably not as old, but it’s older than you may think.
Books In Conversation
This Ever-Migrating Curse:
Hannah Lillith Assadi with Sean Madigan Hoen
You might call Hannah Lillith Assadi’s first novel, Sonora, a work of superstitious realism. Though the book’s events are grounded in reality and plausibility, its narrator, Ahlam, is a young woman of such elegiac, mystic perception that one comes away from her story as if awaking on a post-lysergic morning: memories feel slanted and opaque, scenes haunted and possibly dreamed.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiFilled with profound optimism, I can speak on behalf of my colleagues at the Rail and many of our friends and supporters when I say that we’re in complete solidarity in any fight against tyranny and ignorance, with the philosophy of nonviolent resistance.
Editor's Messsage
And What Shall I Love? Looking at Giorgio de Chirico
By Heather EwingIn 1969 a young artist in Turin named Giulio Paolini took as his personal motto the Latin inscription—itself a quotation from Nietzsche—at the foot of an early Giorgio de Chirico self-portrait: Et quid amabo nisi quod ænigma est [And What Shall I Love If Not the Enigma].
Critics Page
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Looking at Late de Chirico:
Matvey Levenstein, Stephen Ellis, and Lisa Yuskavage -
The Trouble with De Chirico:
– By Sophia Maxine Farmer
Verifalsi and the Study of Backdated Paintings -
Giulio Paolini on Giorgio de Chirico
– By Fabio Cafagna -
On Warhol’s “After de Chirico”
– By Neil Printz -
The Disquieting Muses
– By Sylvia Plath -
Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of the Hour (1910): The First Conceptual Work of Art
– By Paolo Baldacci -
The Anxious Journey
– By Michael Dumanis -
September Is
– By Mary Jo Bang -
The Disquieting Muses (from “Two De Chiricos”)
– By Mark Strand -
“Homeric Dawns”
– By Ara H. Merjian
Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical Interior (with Small Factory)
ArtSeen
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The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin
– By Rabia Ashfaque -
Art or Politics?
– By Jurriaan Benschop -
Ian Wilson
– By Mira Dayal -
Doug Wheeler PSAD Synthetic Desert
– By Hannah Sage Kay -
Lygia Pape A Multitude of Forms
– By Yasi Alipour -
Teresita Fernández Fire (America)
– By Lara Atallah -
Ian Cheng Emissaries
– By Charlene K. Lau -
Threads of Fire and Water and Gold
– By Laila Pedro -
Postcommodity Coyotaje
– By Jared Quinton -
Beatriz Santiago MUÑOZ A Universe of Fragile Mirrors
– By Sara Christoph -
Jimmie Durham At the Center of the World
– By Anthony Hawley -
Max Ernst Big Brother: Teaching Staff for a School of Murderers
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Stephen Irwin Check to see if still dead inside
– By Stephen Truax -
Lisa Alvarado Sound Talisman
– By Joe Bucciero -
Sean Scully Wall of Light Cubed
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C. – A.D. 220)
– By Hovey Brock -
Peder Balke: Painter of Northern Light
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Table of Contents
Co-Founder's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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And What Shall I Love? Looking at Giorgio de Chirico
– By Heather Ewing
Art
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Emma Sulkowicz with Kang Kang
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Helène Aylon with Ann McCoy
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Yuji Agematsu with Phong Bui
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Heide Hatry with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve and Laila Pedro
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The 2017 Whitney Biennial
– By Amy Ontiveros -
Thelma Golden with Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier
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Siri Hustvedt with Jarrett Earnest
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THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART Like a Glowing Worm
– By Katie Anania -
Salty/Fresh: Paula Wilson's House of Art
– By Rhonda Garelick
ArtSeen
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The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin
– By Rabia Ashfaque -
Art or Politics?
– By Jurriaan Benschop -
Ian Wilson
– By Mira Dayal -
Doug Wheeler PSAD Synthetic Desert
– By Hannah Sage Kay -
Lygia Pape A Multitude of Forms
– By Yasi Alipour -
Teresita Fernández Fire (America)
– By Lara Atallah -
Ian Cheng Emissaries
– By Charlene K. Lau -
Threads of Fire and Water and Gold
– By Laila Pedro -
Postcommodity Coyotaje
– By Jared Quinton -
Beatriz Santiago MUÑOZ A Universe of Fragile Mirrors
– By Sara Christoph -
Jimmie Durham At the Center of the World
– By Anthony Hawley -
Max Ernst Big Brother: Teaching Staff for a School of Murderers
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Stephen Irwin Check to see if still dead inside
– By Stephen Truax -
Lisa Alvarado Sound Talisman
– By Joe Bucciero -
Sean Scully Wall of Light Cubed
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C. – A.D. 220)
– By Hovey Brock -
Peder Balke: Painter of Northern Light
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Critics Page
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Looking at Late de Chirico: Matvey Levenstein, Stephen Ellis, and Lisa Yuskavage
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The Trouble with De Chirico: Verifalsi and the Study of Backdated Paintings
– By Sophia Maxine Farmer -
Giulio Paolini on Giorgio de Chirico
– By Fabio Cafagna -
On Warhol’s “After de Chirico”
– By Neil Printz -
The Disquieting Muses
– By Sylvia Plath -
Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of the Hour (1910): The First Conceptual Work of Art
– By Paolo Baldacci -
The Anxious Journey
– By Michael Dumanis -
September Is
– By Mary Jo Bang -
The Disquieting Muses (from “Two De Chiricos”)
– By Mark Strand -
“Homeric Dawns” Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical Interior (with Small Factory)
– By Ara H. Merjian
Books
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Deft, Eloquent, Shiversome, and Timely
– By Elizabeth Block -
This Ever-Migrating Curse: Hannah Lillith Assadi with Sean Madigan Hoen
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Emotional Tumult, Formal Play
– By Weston Cutter -
Knott Knowing
– By Tony Leuzzi -
Killers of the Flower Moon
– By Weston Cutter -
Saints & Sinners: JOSIP NOVAKOVICH with Coe Douglas
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Aperture for Glimpsing the Abyss: ALEXANDER BOLDIZAR with Kevin Winchester
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Not Another Holocaust Novel
– By Marina Petrova -
Inside the Museums, Infinity Goes Up On Trial
– By Bill Gatti -
Found Footage
– By Chris Campanioni
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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Sparse Melody and High-Class Noise: Phil Kline with Jim Jarmusch
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
From Watermelon to Lemonade Sobering Up with Beyoncé
– By Rachel Lyon -
Jeff Buckley’s Iconic Flame
– By Jane Gabriels -
Bitter Beats and Vitriol Sleaford Mods at Warsaw
– By Dan Joseph -
Originality and Derivation Sondre Lerche’s Pleasure
– By John Amen -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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Social Bodies: Inside Work/Travail/Arbeid Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker with Gillian Jakab
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Paul Taylor: Dance-Dramas and Icons
– By Susan Yung -
Town, Country, and the Schoolyard
– By Ryan Wenzel -
A Structured Life
– By Sariel Frankfurter -
Dramaturgy for Jerks
– By Willie Filkowski
Film
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Roger Beebe with Jordan Cronk
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End of Days Béla Tarr at the EYE Museum in Amsterdam
– By Nathan Dunne -
How to find beauty in a sea of data Korakrit Arunanondchai at C L E A R I N G
– By Adriana Blidaru -
Her Eternity On Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion
– By Paul Felten
Theater
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Raising a Collective Voice: Martín Zimmerman and Seven Spots on the Sun
– By Matthew Paul Olmos -
All Hail the Fever State: Buran Theatre at Ten Years
– By Sarah Matusek
Fiction
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Brown Seaweed Soup
– By Stacey Levine -
Four
– By Stephanie Gray -
Two
– By Matthew Jakubowski -
inSerial: part eight Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh -
LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 8: The Visual Damselfly (coenagrioniidae cinemata)
– By Sid Gershgoren -
from The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories
– by Osama Alomar, translated from the Arabic by Osama Alomar and C. J. Collins, out now from New Directions -
from My Vibe
– by Jeremy Sigler, out now from Spoonbill books -
New Routes in Fiction A talk with Jaroslav Kalfar
– by Alec Niedenthal -
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
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The Blood Barn
– By Carrie Lorig -
Visions and Miracles*
– By Tom Savage -
Seven
– By Noah Eli Gordon -
from Foreign Terms
– By Divya Victor -
Two
– By Ed Coletti -
Five
– By Linda Nochlin
Verbatim
Art Books
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The Estrangement Principle
– By Phillip Griffith -
Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface
– By Hannah Stamler
Field Notes
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Is Donald Trump a Fascist?
– By Michael Mann -
The New Deal Lives On in the City
– By Richard Walker -
Tycoons of Despair: Austerity, Aesthetics, and Sentimentality
– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
The Well
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The Fat Black Pussycat
– By Sara Christoph
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