Art In Conversation
MICHAEL ARMITAGE with Toby Kamps
London-based artist Michael Armitage speaks with Toby Kamps about growing up in Kenya, historical and mythological influences, and how his unique choice of canvas transformed his painting practice.
Art In Conversation
DAWOUD BEY with Lyle Rexer
Dawoud Bey speaks with Lyle Rexer about his life, influences, and deep thinking around portraiture and landscape photography.
Art In Conversation
TORKWASE DYSON with Robert R. Shane
Torkwase Dyson speaks with Robert R. Shane about her relationship to distance, environmental sustainability, and how Black American history influences her artwork.
MAX HOLLEIN with Phong H. Bui
Max Hollein, director of the Metropolitan Museum, speaks with Rail publisher Phong H. Bui about the future of the Met, the people that shaped Hollein's development, and what it was like to grow up in a home where artists and bohemians were frequent guests.
Art In Conversation
TONY OURSLER with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
Tony Oursler speaks with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve about the evolution of his video art practice, his family history, and multiple personality disorder.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong Bui“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Editor's Message
World on Fire
By Elizabeth BishopAn intertextual installation of joy to uplift the heartbeat that keeps us alive. Installation as party as mode of survival counteracting narratives of bodily shame and poverty porn, of “marginalized” people living only in suffering. COVID-19 civil disunity, writing through quarantine in NYC.
Critics Page
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Pandemic Poetics: An Eulogy and Manifesto in an AntiBlack World
– By Gwendolyn Baxley and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz -
Black Joy Is Not Canceled
– By Damaris Dunn -
On Confinement
– By Nicole Hamilton -
On Circular Economy
– By Regina Anderson -
Anti-Racism at the Borderlands of Whiteness
– By Nassim Zerriffi -
Peace by Understanding
– By Elizabeth Bishop and Carolyn Eanes -
The Real Virus
– By Henry Beltrán Pérez -
From Beirut, Borikén, and Brooklyn with Love
– By Meghan McDermott -
The Discord
– By Ioanna Opidee -
Am I Dying, Mister?
– By The Lost Child of Emma Goldman and Bernie Sanders
ArtSeen
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Summer McCorkle: des abends
– By Ann C. Collins -
Isaac Aden: Vespers and Auroras
– By David Carrier -
(Nothing but) Flowers
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
George Ortman: Against Abstraction
– By David Rhodes -
erotics: towards a poetics of the liminal
– By Lucia Hinojosa -
Our World is Burning
– By Olivia Gilmore -
Don Voisine: Time Out
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Torkwase Dyson: Studies for Bird and Lava
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Jennie C. Jones: Passing Tones and Broken Chords
– By Adriana Furlong -
Rute Merk: SS20
– By William Corwin -
Hélio Oiticica: Dance in My Experience
– By Bruna Shapira -
Artist Stories from the Pandemic
– By Joyce Beckenstein -
Jeffrey Gibson: Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House
– By Susan Breyer -
Artemisia
– By David Carrier -
Banksy: A Visual Protest
– By David Carrier -
An Alternative Canon: Art Dealers Collecting Outsider Art
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Susan Philipsz: Muffled Drums/The Unquiet Grave
– By Nicholas Heskes -
Frank Jones: 114591
– By Nicholas Heskes -
The Institute of Queer Ecology: Metamorphosis
– By Alex A. Jones -
The Game of Life - Emergence in Generative Art
– By Charlotte Kent -
Philip Guston: What Endures
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Jorinde Voigt
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Scott Benzel: Mindless Pleasures
– By Yxta Maya Murray -
Maureen Catbagan
– By Amber Jamilla Musser -
Barkley L. Hendricks: In the Paint
– By Lee Ann Norman -
Ashley Garrett: Aegis
– By Robert R. Shane -
Ari Marcopoulos: Fast Breaks
– By Robert Slifkin -
Nancy Shaver, Max Goldfarb & Sterrett Smith: fastness, slowness and Monstrous Beauty
– By Simon Wu -
Clotilde Jiménez: The Contest
– By Simon Wu -
Andrew Sendor: InstaCOVID Drawings
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
Susan Philipsz: Sleep Close and Fast
– By Patrick J. Reed
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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World on Fire
– By Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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MICHAEL ARMITAGE with Toby Kamps
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DAWOUD BEY with Lyle Rexer
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TORKWASE DYSON with Robert R. Shane
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MAX HOLLEIN with Phong H. Bui
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TONY OURSLER with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
ArtSeen
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Summer McCorkle: des abends
– By Ann C. Collins -
Isaac Aden: Vespers and Auroras
– By David Carrier -
(Nothing but) Flowers
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
George Ortman: Against Abstraction
– By David Rhodes -
erotics: towards a poetics of the liminal
– By Lucia Hinojosa -
Our World is Burning
– By Olivia Gilmore -
Don Voisine: Time Out
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Torkwase Dyson: Studies for Bird and Lava
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Jennie C. Jones: Passing Tones and Broken Chords
– By Adriana Furlong -
Rute Merk: SS20
– By William Corwin -
Hélio Oiticica: Dance in My Experience
– By Bruna Shapira -
Artist Stories from the Pandemic
– By Joyce Beckenstein -
Jeffrey Gibson: Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House
– By Susan Breyer -
Artemisia
– By David Carrier -
Banksy: A Visual Protest
– By David Carrier -
An Alternative Canon: Art Dealers Collecting Outsider Art
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Susan Philipsz: Muffled Drums/The Unquiet Grave
– By Nicholas Heskes -
Frank Jones: 114591
– By Nicholas Heskes -
The Institute of Queer Ecology: Metamorphosis
– By Alex A. Jones -
The Game of Life - Emergence in Generative Art
– By Charlotte Kent -
Philip Guston: What Endures
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Jorinde Voigt
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Scott Benzel: Mindless Pleasures
– By Yxta Maya Murray -
Maureen Catbagan
– By Amber Jamilla Musser -
Barkley L. Hendricks: In the Paint
– By Lee Ann Norman -
Ashley Garrett: Aegis
– By Robert R. Shane -
Ari Marcopoulos: Fast Breaks
– By Robert Slifkin -
Nancy Shaver, Max Goldfarb & Sterrett Smith: fastness, slowness and Monstrous Beauty
– By Simon Wu -
Clotilde Jiménez: The Contest
– By Simon Wu -
Andrew Sendor: InstaCOVID Drawings
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
Susan Philipsz: Sleep Close and Fast
– By Patrick J. Reed
Critics Page
-
Pandemic Poetics: An Eulogy and Manifesto in an AntiBlack World
– By Gwendolyn Baxley and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz -
Black Joy Is Not Canceled
– By Damaris Dunn -
On Confinement
– By Nicole Hamilton -
On Circular Economy
– By Regina Anderson -
Anti-Racism at the Borderlands of Whiteness
– By Nassim Zerriffi -
Peace by Understanding
– By Elizabeth Bishop and Carolyn Eanes -
The Real Virus
– By Henry Beltrán Pérez -
From Beirut, Borikén, and Brooklyn with Love
– By Meghan McDermott -
The Discord
– By Ioanna Opidee -
Am I Dying, Mister?
– By The Lost Child of Emma Goldman and Bernie Sanders
Books
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Vincent Katz’s Broadway for Paul
– By Greg Masters -
Buttercream & Symbiosis: Joon Oluchi Lee's Neotenica
– By June Daowen Lei -
Emily Hashimoto's A World Between
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
Sulaiman Addonia's Silence Is My Mother Tongue
– By John Domini -
Transcendent Kingdom
– By Joseph Peschel -
The Bass Rock
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
Elena Ferrante's The Lying Life of Adults
– By John Domini -
Red Pill
– By Joseph Peschel -
THERESIA ENZENSBERGER with Elvia Wilk
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KATHLEEN ROONEY with Robert Puccinelli
– By Robert Puccinelli -
JESSICA GROSS with David Burr Gerrard
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Statement of Record: A Conversation with StatORec Editors Andrea Scrima and David Winner in conversation with Rebecca Chace
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Benjamin Taylor's Here We Are
– By David Burr Gerrard -
Steven Belletto's The Beats: A Literary History
– By Regina Weinreich -
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
– By Carissa Chesanek -
Neeli Cherkovski's Hang On To The Yangtze River
– By Iván Argüelles
Music
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Zillions of Things Become One Thing: CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX with Marcus Boon
– By Marcus Boon -
Citadelic: Astridpark, Gent, Belgium, 18th July 2020
– By Martin Longley -
Electro-vodou
– By Adolf Alzuphar -
Listening In: All the Way Live
– By Scott Gutterman -
AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE with George Grella
Dance
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The Grand Union: Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance
– By Aileen Dowling -
Finding Dis/orientation in Alexa West’s Triple Expo
– By Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin -
CHARMAIN WARREN and NORA CHIPAUMIRE with Gillian Jakab
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“It's Our Time Now”: The Aesthetics of Horror in Jordan Peele’s Us
– By Luke Williams
Film
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A Rich and Revitalizing Legacy: Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance
– By Esmé Hogeveen -
AMY SEIMETZ with Madeline Whittle
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MARTHA COLBURN and PAT O’NEILL with Marius Hrdy
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Object of Reverence: Natalie Erika James’s Relic
– By Gina Telaroli
Theater
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NEW Black Mutual Aid Carves a Path for What Support Can Be in a Revolution
– By Marcus Scott -
Brick by Brick by Buchheister
– By Charles Quittner -
As the World Slowly Reopens, Theaters Remain Closed, Leaving Furloughed Employees Uncertain About Their Futures
– By Joey Sims
Fiction
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Clearance
– By María José Navia and Lily Meyer -
Brother and Sister
– By Alix Hawley
Poetry
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four
– By Peter Gizzi -
three
– By Guillermo Filice Castro -
three
– By Barry Schwabsky -
six
– By Courtney Bush -
four
– By Joanna Fuhrman -
five
– By Hannah Emerson -
four
– By David Brazil -
from Migrainer
– By Sarah Sala
Art Books
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Andrei Monastyrski’s Elementary Poetry
– By Nolan Kelly -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s wild wild Wild West / Haunting of the Seahorse
– By Megan N. Liberty -
Moyra Davey’s Index Cards
– By David Richardson -
Lisa Hanawalt’s I Want You
– By Wyatt Sarafin -
Hundertwasser For Future
– By Lily Majteles
In Memoriam
Special Report
Field Notes
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The Rent is Too Damn High
– By Nathan Eisenberg and Richard Hunsinger -
Corona Crisis Governmentality
– By Bini Adamczak -
What’s the Use of a University?
– By Samuel Feldblum and John Schmidt -
Against the Wall
– By Hovey Brock -
Save CUNY
– By Carol Lang -
My Rosenberg COVID-19 Mask
– By Eric Gabriel Lehman -
The Spiral
– By Phil A. Neel
The Miraculous
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16. (Tribeca)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
17. (The East Village, the Subway)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
18. (Chelsea)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
19. (The East Village, Queens)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
20. (Canal Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
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