Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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The New Figurative & History Painting
– By Donald Kuspit
Co-Founder's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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Joan Jonas with Barry Schwabsky
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Walead Beshty with Amy Ontiveros
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Joan Davidson with Phong Bui
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A Space for Everything to Happen Franklin Sirmans with Laila Pedro
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Jerry Saltz with Jarrett Earnest
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David Brooks with Greg Lindquist
ArtSeen
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MIDTOWN
– By Rabia Ashfaque -
All the Threatened and Delicious Things Joining One Another
– By Magdalyn Asimakis -
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
– By Phillip Griffith -
The Longest Journey
– By Tim Barry -
When An Image Works, Words Don’t Need To
– By Will Fenstermaker -
MARTIN BOYCE Sleeping Chimneys. Dead Stars.
– By Stephen Truax -
Rachel Harrison Prasine
– By Jane Cavalier -
Florine Stettheimer Painting Poetry
– By Michelle Standley -
Ridley Howard Travel Pictures
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Myths of the Marble
– By Leah Gallant -
Making Space: Women Artists in Postwar Abstraction
– By Ann McCoy -
Robert Bordo Back Flip
– By David Rhodes -
Head Over Heels
– By Amy Deneson -
Tales of Transformation
– By Jurriaan Benschop -
Exhibition 1
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
A Fable of A Time Traveler
– By Phong Bui -
Luke Diiorio nine paintings
– By Alex Bacon -
Venice Biennial: At a Glance, 2017
– By Barbara London -
Tobias Pils
– By Ilka Scobie -
Roxy Paine Farewell Transmission
– By Hovey Brock -
Alex Katz Subway Drawings
– By Tom McGlynn
Critics Page
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The Day’s Outrage: Fearless Girl and Open Casket
– By BRIAN WINKENWEDER -
Response to James Cooper
– By Mark Van Proyen -
Temporal Nomads: The Scandal of Postmodern History Painting
– By Robert R. Shane -
The Issue of History Painting
– By Jacob Collins -
Contemporary History Painting
– By Adam Miller -
History Painting and the Problem with Art Education
– By Robert Zeller
Books
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Cultural Currency: LISA KO with Nicole Treska
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Defiant Duality
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KALEIDOSCOPIC: MELISSA FEBOS with Ryan Berg
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Different Routes to Rarified Air
– By John Domini -
Leaps of Faith
– By David Varno -
STACEY LEVINE with Kristy Eldredge
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Refusing Removal
– By Nicole Treska -
Defacing the Palimpsest: Don DeLillo, New York Antagonist
– By John Domini -
Mai Der Vang with Alex Dueben
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Fat Beautiful Stinking Bookmarks: Joseph Scapellato with James Tadd Adcox
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The Women in the Band
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
Bibliotherapy
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
Family Bonds
– By Matt Grant -
Getting Portland
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
In the Green Chair, Talking Alternative Lives: PAUL AUSTER with J.T. Price
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Modes of Stylish Knowing
– By J.T. Price
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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Brooklyn Rail Spring Mix
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Relexifying the Canon of Black Music Nicholas Payton with Vilde Aaslid
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Continuous Variable Harmonics
– By MV Carbon -
Say Goodbye to Reality Nicholas Smith (I Cut People) with Matthew Ackerman
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Loony Tunes
– By Richard Klin -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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Titicut Follies: A Stark Documentary Transformed into Dance
– By Susan Yung -
Hitting Her Stride
– By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone -
The Slow Burn: Hilary Easton’s Radiator
– By Jen George -
“I’m gay,” she never said.
– By Clare Croft
Film
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Looking for Lumia: Thomas Wilfred’s Forgotten Art of Light
– By Swagato Chakravorty -
Intelligence Porn
– By Sarah Mendelsohn -
Screening the Regions: An Incomplete Philippine Cinema
– By Paul Grant -
Content Is King
– By Will Fenstermaker -
A Prophet Against Empire: Jerry Tartaglia’s Escape from Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
– By David Bruin -
Seems Like Just Yesterday Revisiting the 80s and 90s at The Tribeca Film Festival
– By Williams Cole
Theater
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(NOT) Water: Sheila Callaghan, Daniella Topol, and the Slow-Building Wave of Collaboration
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Parity, Politics, and Survival: WiTFESTNYC 2017
– By Martha Steketee
Fiction
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The World Without People Who Ruin It and Make It Ugly
– by Patricio Pron, translated from the Spanish by Kathleen Heil -
Extract from Autopsy of a Father
– by Pascale Kramer -
inSerial: part nine Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh -
New Routes in Fiction A talk with Colm Tóibín
– by Alec Niedenthal -
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley -
Watching TV with Steven Freund
– By Tom Daly -
LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 9: The Transfinite Direwolf (Canis infinitis)
– By Sid Gershgoren
Poetry
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Regression,
– By Gabe Kruis -
Six
– By Shannon Tharp -
Two
– by Diana Morán, translated by Ash Ponders -
Four for Joanne Kyger
– By Mike Cavuto
Verbatim
Art Books
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Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
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Kate Zambreno with T. Clutch Fleischmann
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Agnes Martin: Night Sea
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Activestills: Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel
– By Maria Quinata -
Blurred Library: Essays on Artists’ Books
– By Megan N. Liberty -
Social Medium: Artists Writing; 2000 – 2015
– By Tim Barry
Field Notes
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Notes on a bad photo of a sick society, or, What does democracy looks like?
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Dutch Treat: The General Election of March 2017 and the Populist Vote
– By Nick Vos -
Field Notes from the Anthropocene: Living in the Back Loop
– By Stephanie Wakefield -
Why Conservatives Are Panicking Over a Short Story About Communism
– By Chad Kautzer -
Peter James Hudson with John Clegg
The Well
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Bar LunÀtico
– By Juliet Helmke
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