Featured Articles
Is Donald Trump a Fascist?
by Michael MannField Notes
“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
Film
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.
INCONVERSATION
Social Bodies:
Inside Work/Travail/Arbeid
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker with Gillian Jakab
Dance
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.
INCONVERSATION
This Ever-Migrating Curse:
Hannah Lillith Assadi with Sean Madigan Hoen
Books
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.
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.
FROMTHEEDITOR
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].
CRITICSPAGE
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Looking at Late de Chirico:
Matvey Levenstein, Stephen Ellis, and Lisa Yuskavage -
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
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“Homeric Dawns”
Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical Interior (with Small Factory) by Ara H. Merjian
ARTSEEN
- 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 Yasaman 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
Art
- Emma Sulkowicz with Kang Kang
- Helène Aylon with Ann McCoy
- Yuji Agematsu with Phong Bui
- Heide Hatry with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve and Laila Pedro
- The 2017 Whitney Biennial by Amy Ontiveros
- Thelma Golden with Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier
- Siri Hustvedt with Jarrett Earnest
- 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
- 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 Yasaman 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
- Looking at Late de Chirico: Matvey Levenstein, Stephen Ellis, and Lisa Yuskavage
- 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
- Deft, Eloquent, Shiversome, and Timely by Elizabeth Block
- This Ever-Migrating Curse: Hannah Lillith Assadi with Sean Madigan Hoen
- 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
- Aperture for Glimpsing the Abyss: ALEXANDER BOLDIZAR with Kevin Winchester
- Not Another Holocaust Novel by Marina Petrova
- Inside the Museums, Infinity Goes Up On Trial by Bill Gatti
- Found Footage by Chris Campanioni
Music
- Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
- 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
- Social Bodies: Inside Work/Travail/Arbeid Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker with Gillian Jakab
- 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
- Roger Beebe with Jordan Cronk
- 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
- 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
- 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 T. Motley
Poetry
- 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
Art Books
- The Estrangement Principle by Phillip Griffith
- Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface by Hannah Stamler
Field Notes
- 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
Editor's Message
- And What Shall I Love? Looking at Giorgio de Chirico by Heather Ewing
The Well
- The Fat Black Pussycat by Sara Christoph
Co-Founder's Message
- Dear Friends and Readers, by Phong Bui
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