Critics Page Guest Critic
Introduction: Toby Kamps with Anne Doran
The life and career of Walter Hopps is legendary. His obituary in The Washington Post described him as a “sort of a gonzo museum director—elusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules.”
Art In Conversation
GUY GOODWIN with Phong Bui
On the occasion of Guy’s recent show, Grotto Relief at Brennan & Griffin (May 13–June 18, 2017), we enjoyed a long-overdue conversation on the exhibition’s last day, in front of an audience comprised mostly of artists.
Art In Conversation
MIGUEL LUCIANO with Media Farzin and Charles Schultz
With the Puerto Rican debt crisis as well as the controversy over legendary political activist Oscar López Rivera’s participation in the Puerto Rican parade as backdrop, we took the opportunity to discuss Luciano’s long engagement with Puerto Rican politics and history, his love of creatively refurbished bicycles, and how the two intersect in Ride or Die, Luciano’s solo exhibition of commissioned work, which was on view at Brooklyn’s BRIC gallery this past spring.
Art of the Cover-Up:
Gerhard Richter's Decke
By Rob Halpern
Strung-out between abstract dematerialization and post-minimalist figuration, Decke absorbs the photograph and disfigures its referent. Working over its own rendered image corrosively, Richter’s paint becomes a cover, a screen, a veil.
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
After Deadpan
By Marika Takanishi Knowles
The French model of painting seemed prescient, because of its insistence that history and passion go hand in hand. Immediately following the election, I looked to French painting as a school of affect, a repository of figures whose emotions provided a series of lessons in how to behave as a historical agent and how to respond to historical events.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong Bui“A utopia is not a portrait of the real world, of the actual political or social order. It exists at no moment of time and at no point in space; it is “nowhere.” But just such a conception of a nowhere has stood the test and proved its strength in the development of the modern world.”
Critics Page
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Introduction: Toby Kamps with Anne Doran
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On Walter Hopps
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On Walter Hopps
– By Sarah C. Bancroft -
El Bandido
– By George Herms -
Smoking Walter
– By Nancy Kienholz -
On Walter Hopps
– By Susan Davidson -
On Walter Hopps
– By Neil Printz -
On Walter Hopps
– By David Salle -
On Walter Hopps
– By Don Quaintance -
On Walter Hopps
– By Michael McCall
ArtSeen
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CAROL RAMA: Antibodies
– By Sadie Rebecca Starnes -
WILLIAM POPE.L: Proto-Skin Set
– By Alan Gilbert -
LEO VILLAREAL
– By Taney Roniger -
VINCENZO AGNETTI: Territories
– By Jonathan Goodman -
CLIFFORD ROSS: Wood Waves
– By Hovey Brock -
Garden Dwellers
– By Alexandra Hammond -
Unto each other, a new thing
– By Colin Edgington -
VOICE=SURVIVAL
– By JESSE BANDLER FIRESTONE -
THE 57TH VENICE BIENNALE: Viva arte Viva
– By David Carrier -
JO NIGOGHOSSIAN: Exotica
– By Phong Bui -
JO SPENCE: Memory Cards
– By Nicole Miller -
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ: French Bashing
– By Seth Cameron -
DOCUMENTA 14
– By Timothy Francis Barry -
Works on Water
– By Nicole Miller -
DAVID MICHALEK: SlowDancing/TrioA
– By Vered Engelhard -
ALEXANDER CALDER: Hypermobility
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
ALI BANISADR: Trust in the Future
– By Jessica Holmes -
MARTIN ROTH: In May 2017 I cultivated a piece of land in Midtown Manhattan nurtured by tweets
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Artists Rising
– By Kathy Brew -
SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD: Summer and Winter
– By David Rhodes -
Disappearing, Inc.
– By Tom McGlynn -
The Uptown Triennial
– By Magdalyn Asimakis -
ROBERT MANGOLD: Paintings and Works on Paper 2013–2017
– By David Rhodes -
MATISSE/DIEBENKORN
– By Hearne Pardee -
PHILIP PEARLSTEIN: Facing You
– By Jonathan Goodman -
MARINELLA SENATORE: Piazza Universale/Social Stages
– By Yasi Alipour -
MARKUS LÜPERTZ: New Paintings
– By Hovey Brock -
RICO GATSON: Icons 2007-2017
– By William Corwin -
IVANA BAŠIĆ: Through the Hum of Black Velvet Sleep
– By William Corwin -
CORDY RYMAN: Freefall
– By Colin Edgington -
KATE HARDING: Uphill Downhill Conversation, (Sister)
– By Alexandra Hammond -
MERRILL WAGNER: Works from the 70s
– By Will Fenstermaker -
CHANTAL JOFFE
– By David Carrier -
KAARI UPSON: Good Thing You Are Not Alone
– By Rabia Ashfaque -
Future Library
– By Lucía Hinojosa
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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GUY GOODWIN with Phong Bui
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MIGUEL LUCIANO with Media Farzin and Charles Schultz
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MOLLY NESBIT with Jarrett Earnest
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Art of the Cover-Up: Gerhard Richter's Decke
– By Rob Halpern -
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART After Deadpan
– By Marika Takanishi Knowles
ArtSeen
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CAROL RAMA: Antibodies
– By Sadie Rebecca Starnes -
WILLIAM POPE.L: Proto-Skin Set
– By Alan Gilbert -
LEO VILLAREAL
– By Taney Roniger -
VINCENZO AGNETTI: Territories
– By Jonathan Goodman -
CLIFFORD ROSS: Wood Waves
– By Hovey Brock -
Garden Dwellers
– By Alexandra Hammond -
Unto each other, a new thing
– By Colin Edgington -
VOICE=SURVIVAL
– By JESSE BANDLER FIRESTONE -
THE 57TH VENICE BIENNALE: Viva arte Viva
– By David Carrier -
JO NIGOGHOSSIAN: Exotica
– By Phong Bui -
JO SPENCE: Memory Cards
– By Nicole Miller -
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ: French Bashing
– By Seth Cameron -
DOCUMENTA 14
– By Timothy Francis Barry -
Works on Water
– By Nicole Miller -
DAVID MICHALEK: SlowDancing/TrioA
– By Vered Engelhard -
ALEXANDER CALDER: Hypermobility
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
ALI BANISADR: Trust in the Future
– By Jessica Holmes -
MARTIN ROTH: In May 2017 I cultivated a piece of land in Midtown Manhattan nurtured by tweets
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Artists Rising
– By Kathy Brew -
SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD: Summer and Winter
– By David Rhodes -
Disappearing, Inc.
– By Tom McGlynn -
The Uptown Triennial
– By Magdalyn Asimakis -
ROBERT MANGOLD: Paintings and Works on Paper 2013–2017
– By David Rhodes -
MATISSE/DIEBENKORN
– By Hearne Pardee -
PHILIP PEARLSTEIN: Facing You
– By Jonathan Goodman -
MARINELLA SENATORE: Piazza Universale/Social Stages
– By Yasi Alipour -
MARKUS LÜPERTZ: New Paintings
– By Hovey Brock -
RICO GATSON: Icons 2007-2017
– By William Corwin -
IVANA BAŠIĆ: Through the Hum of Black Velvet Sleep
– By William Corwin -
CORDY RYMAN: Freefall
– By Colin Edgington -
KATE HARDING: Uphill Downhill Conversation, (Sister)
– By Alexandra Hammond -
MERRILL WAGNER: Works from the 70s
– By Will Fenstermaker -
CHANTAL JOFFE
– By David Carrier -
KAARI UPSON: Good Thing You Are Not Alone
– By Rabia Ashfaque -
Future Library
– By Lucía Hinojosa
Critics Page
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Introduction: Toby Kamps with Anne Doran
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On Walter Hopps
– By Terrell James -
On Walter Hopps
– By Sarah C. Bancroft -
El Bandido
– By George Herms -
Smoking Walter
– By Nancy Kienholz -
On Walter Hopps
– By Susan Davidson -
On Walter Hopps
– By Neil Printz -
On Walter Hopps
– By David Salle -
On Walter Hopps
– By Don Quaintance -
On Walter Hopps
– By Michael McCall
Books
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Modern Humans Are Probably Easier to Unwrap: JEFF VANDERMEER with Jacob Blumenfeld
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Bed-Stuy's Many Faces of Gentrification: BRIAN PLATZER with Liz von Klemperer
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The Revealing Science of Prog: DAVID WEIGEL with Rick Moody
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Her Body, Herself: Hunger by Roxane Gay
– By Matt Grant -
Changing Climate
– By Christine Mi -
Giving Voice to What's Unsaid: FRED MARCHANT with Olivia Kate Cerrone
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God in the Machine
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Through the Viewfinder: PAMELA RYDER with Peter Markus
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Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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MATT HART with Weston Cutter
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MAILE MELOY with Weston Cutter
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Deb Olin Unferth's Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
Julia Fierro's The Gypsy Moth Summer
– By Christine Sang -
Maile Meloy's Do Not Become Alarmed
– By Weston Cutter
Music
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The Emergence of A New Black Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Text
– By Cisco Bradley -
Art of Darkness: Wrekmeister Harmonies
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
Make Your Pointe: Visible Cloaks' Reassemblage
– By Mik Pointe -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Listings
– By The Editors
Dance
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Small Steps
– By Erica Getto -
Empowerment Waltz: Patricia Noworol's TREMENDOUS
– By Ivan Talijancic -
Whipped Cream, With a Cherry on Top
– By Susan Yung -
Dancing to the Historical Record
– By Gillian Jakab -
Dance Caribbean Collective's Third Year
– By Susanna Sloat -
A Little Misery Out There
– By Erica Getto
Film
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Known Quantities: Cannes 2017
– By James Lattimer -
ERMEK SHINARBAEV with Tanner Tafelski
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Risk/Reward: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
– By Almudena Escobar López -
Rites of Passage: John Trengove’s The Wound
– By Cindy Govender
Theater
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MARTIN DENTON with Chris Harcum
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Shaping the Room: Christina Anderson and Paula Vogel on Teaching, Theatre, and Making a Life
Fiction
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Returning to the Problem
– By Eugene Lim -
The Bar
– By Strawberry Saroyan -
from The Waste Pickers
– By Sausan Jamil Hasan, translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins -
inSerial: part ten Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh -
Lost and Found Animals Part 10: The Tennessee Wallgroper: Murafactor Fictifioriana
– By Sid Gershgoren -
We Are Fox!
– By Tom Motley -
New Routes in Fiction: David Szalay with Alec Niedenthal
Poetry
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Three
– By Noah Falck -
Vito
– By Anne Waldman -
from LEGEND OF THE WINTER TRIP
– By Pansy Maurer-Alvarez -
from Exercises for the Hard at Work
– By Matt Reeck -
Three
– By Emily Skillings
Verbatim
Art Books
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Adam Bartos and Colin MacCabe, Studio: Remembering Chris Marker
– By Sadie Rebecca Starnes -
E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera, Eds., Blacktino Queer Performance
– By Timothy Francis Barry -
Jennifer L. Shaw, Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun
– By Phillip Griffith
Field Notes
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Letter to My Neighbor Who Took Part in the Colonial War
– By Jorge Valadas -
On Being a Good Ally: The Handmaid's Tale And the Specter of Fascism
– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch -
The New Deal in New York, Revisited
– By Nicholas Gamso -
Richard Walker Replies
– By Richard Walker
