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Editor's Message

Critics Page

From March to May
– By Tatiana Trouvé
Suspended Time
– By Andrea Segre
Out of (This) Time — Brief Notes from “Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles”
– By Luca Buvoli
Tempo e Relazione (Time and Relation)*
– By Paolo Fresu
The Expanded Moment of Being
– By Farzia Fallah
Patience
– By Arjun Appadurai
In a Perpetual Now
– By Rosa Barba
LUDOVICO EINAUDI with Francesca Pietropaolo
– By Ludovico Einaudi
Histories of Place, Architecture, and Underrepresented Communities: For a Complete City
– By Elisa Silva
A Time of One’s Own: The Struggle Against One-sided Narratives of History
– By Malala Andrialavidrazana
The Museum as Multi-dimensional Compass in Time and Geography
– By Gus Casely-Hayford

ArtSeen

Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Wong Ping: Your Silent Neighbor
– By Louis Block
Robert Rauschenberg: Channel Surfing
– By Kate Liebman
Matvey Levenstein
– By Christian Kleinbub
Paul Thek: Interior / Landscape
– By Katy Diamond Hamer
Martine Syms: Loot Sweets
– By Madeleine Seidel
Mike Goodlett: Desire Itself
– By Alexandra Drexelius
Tacita Dean: The Dante Project • One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting • Pan Amicus • Significant Form • Monet Hates Me
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Wandamba yalungka.../Winds change direction...
– By Jillian Russo
Gina Werfel: In Context
– By Jonathan Goodman
Get Lifted! The Art of the Ecstatic
– By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla Musser
Donna Moylan: Take Shelter
– By Lenore Malen
Fritz Vogt Drawings: A Sense of Place
– By Lyle Rexer
Estefania Velez Rodriguez: Time’s Passage is probably an Illusion
– By Robert R. Shane
Jennifer Wen Ma: An Inward Sea
– By William Corwin
Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946–1964
– By Benjamin Clifford
Cai Guo-Qiang: Odyssey and Homecoming
– By Jacob Dreyer
The New Woman Behind the Camera
– By Lyle Rexer
The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570
– By Christian Kleinbub
Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête
– By Elizabeth Buhe
A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art
– By Choghakate Kazarian
Prélude
– By Joel Kuennen
Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter
– By Natasha Kurchanova
Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas
– By Robert C. Morgan
Cézanne Drawing
– By David Rhodes
Eamon DeFabbia-Kane: ABERRATION
– By Bat-Ami Rivlin
Ibrahim Ahmed: It Will Always Come Back to You
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities
– By Pepe Karmel
Paula Rego
– By William Davie
Carrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times
– By Margaret Ewing
Fehras Publishing Practices: Borrowed Faces: Future Recall
– By Maximiliane Leuschner
Dawn Clements: Living Large: A Survey
– By Tom McGlynn
Samantha Nye: My Heart’s in a Whirl
– By Ksenia Soboleva
Cerith Wyn Evans: Aspen Drift
– By Louis Block
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted
– By Hannah Sage Kay

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

How Long Is Now?
– By Francesca Pietropaolo

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Wong Ping: Your Silent Neighbor
– By Louis Block
Robert Rauschenberg: Channel Surfing
– By Kate Liebman
Matvey Levenstein
– By Christian Kleinbub
Paul Thek: Interior / Landscape
– By Katy Diamond Hamer
Martine Syms: Loot Sweets
– By Madeleine Seidel
Mike Goodlett: Desire Itself
– By Alexandra Drexelius
Tacita Dean: The Dante Project • One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting • Pan Amicus • Significant Form • Monet Hates Me
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Wandamba yalungka.../Winds change direction...
– By Jillian Russo
Gina Werfel: In Context
– By Jonathan Goodman
Get Lifted! The Art of the Ecstatic
– By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla Musser
Donna Moylan: Take Shelter
– By Lenore Malen
Fritz Vogt Drawings: A Sense of Place
– By Lyle Rexer
Estefania Velez Rodriguez: Time’s Passage is probably an Illusion
– By Robert R. Shane
Jennifer Wen Ma: An Inward Sea
– By William Corwin
Fotoclubismo: Brazilian Modernist Photography, 1946–1964
– By Benjamin Clifford
Cai Guo-Qiang: Odyssey and Homecoming
– By Jacob Dreyer
The New Woman Behind the Camera
– By Lyle Rexer
The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570
– By Christian Kleinbub
Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête
– By Elizabeth Buhe
A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art
– By Choghakate Kazarian
Prélude
– By Joel Kuennen
Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter
– By Natasha Kurchanova
Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas
– By Robert C. Morgan
Cézanne Drawing
– By David Rhodes
Eamon DeFabbia-Kane: ABERRATION
– By Bat-Ami Rivlin
Ibrahim Ahmed: It Will Always Come Back to You
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities
– By Pepe Karmel
Paula Rego
– By William Davie
Carrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times
– By Margaret Ewing
Fehras Publishing Practices: Borrowed Faces: Future Recall
– By Maximiliane Leuschner
Dawn Clements: Living Large: A Survey
– By Tom McGlynn
Samantha Nye: My Heart’s in a Whirl
– By Ksenia Soboleva
Cerith Wyn Evans: Aspen Drift
– By Louis Block
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted
– By Hannah Sage Kay

Critics Page

From March to May
– By Tatiana Trouvé
Suspended Time
– By Andrea Segre
Out of (This) Time — Brief Notes from “Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles”
– By Luca Buvoli
Tempo e Relazione (Time and Relation)*
– By Paolo Fresu
The Expanded Moment of Being
– By Farzia Fallah
Patience
– By Arjun Appadurai
In a Perpetual Now
– By Rosa Barba
LUDOVICO EINAUDI with Francesca Pietropaolo
– By Ludovico Einaudi
Histories of Place, Architecture, and Underrepresented Communities: For a Complete City
– By Elisa Silva
A Time of One’s Own: The Struggle Against One-sided Narratives of History
– By Malala Andrialavidrazana
The Museum as Multi-dimensional Compass in Time and Geography
– By Gus Casely-Hayford

Books

The Feeling and Fear of Inevitability
– By Jordan A. Rothacker
Diane Seuss with Tony Leuzzi
Megan Milks and Sally Rooney
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom
– By Lauren Stroh
Lauren Groff’s Matrix
– By Joseph Peschel
Heather McGhee’s The Sum of Us
– By Harry Feder
Paul Vangelisti’s Liquid Prisoner
– By Neeli Cherkovski
Richard Powers’s Bewilderment
– By John Domini
Sarah Matthes’s Town Crier
– By Kate Liebman
Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties
– By James W. Fuerst

Music

Year of Demoon (My Life Inside 2020)
– By Darius Jones
Music, Reemerging
– By Martin Longley
Sound and Vision
– By Scott Gutterman
Where Are We?
– By George Grella

Dance

From Imagination to Flesh: Richard Move with Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
On an Edwin Denby NYC Traffic Sonnet
– By Kirby Olson
The Beach-as-Stage: Moriah Evans’s REPOSE Demands Your Attention
– By Candice Thompson

Film

Janicza Bravo’s Zola
– By Ayanna Dozier
Cannes 2021: Tomorrow Now and Then
– By James Lattimer
Christine Sloan Stoddard with Regina Beach
Lizzie Borden with Steve Erickson

Theater

“We’ll Be Emerging Until We’re Fifty”
– By Francisco Mendoza
Theater is Refreshing With The Watering Hole
– By Judith C. Lovell

Fiction

from Waiting for the Waters to Rise
– by Maryse Condé, translated from the French by Richard Philcox
from Sensation Machines
– By Adam Wilson

Poetry

An Unbecoming
– By Andrea Abi-Karam
six
– By John Latta
three
– By Tongo Eisen-Martin

Art Books

A Joe Brainard Show in a Book
– By Megan N. Liberty
Alex Majoli’s Opera Aperta
– By Sarah Moroz
Nour Bishouty’s 1—130: Selected Works Ghassan Bishouty b. 1941 Safad, Palestine — d. 2004 Amman, Jordan
– By Daniella Sanader
Wei Weng’s Eat A Chili/吃辣椒
– By Claire Voon
Alex Katz
– By Tom McGlynn
Motor City Underground: Leni Sinclair Photographs 1963–1978
– By Nolan Kelly

In Memoriam

Field Notes

Stirred Up
– By Paul Mattick
The State of the Plague
Elizabeth Hinton’s America on Fire
– By Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti

The Miraculous

66. (Brownsville, Midtown Manhattan, Tribeca)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
67. (Harrison Street, Tribeca)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
68. (60 Hudson Street, Tribeca)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
69. (Lower West Side)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
70. (Corner Lispenard & Church Streets, North Tower of the World Trade Center)
– By Raphael Rubinstein

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