Art In Conversation
Ahmed Alsoudani with Ann C. Collins
Ahmed Alsoudanis work carries memories of trauma and the loneliness of exile. His distinctive vocabulary throws viewers into spaces roiling with the complications of being as shapes and colors struggle to co-exist. Settling in to look at his work, I find that the initial shock of his imagery softens as the familiarity of his forms elicits a feeling I can only describe as a deep empathy, a recognition of our collective state.
Art In Conversation
Ashley Bickerton with Dan Cameron
Ever since bursting onto the scene during the East Villages so-called Neo-Geo wave during the last half of the 1980s, Ashley Bickerton has tended to be the odd man out relative to the generation with which he is invariably compared. Although his early works were eye-popping and futuristically slick, Bickerton wasnt especially interested in theories of appropriation or simulation, nor was he seduced by the doctrine of banality.
Art In Conversation
Baseera Khan with Lee Ann Norman
Baseera Khan works across media from painting and photography to installation, performance, and sculpture to explore the tensions inherent in living in a capitalist society. Through explorations of materialincluding their own bodyKhan makes plain how notions of economy, labor, goods and services, and art itself often serve as rich sites for exploring our accumulated histories, experiences, and individual and collective traumas. Their current exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum invites us to imagine alternate sites that allow us to refuse empire and resist domination, so we might discover a feeling of liberation instead of exploitation.
Art In Conversation
Jeff Wall with Barry Schwabsky
Since the late 1970s, Jeff Wall has become renowned for his staged photographssometimes fantastical, sometimes so factually convincing as to be what hes called near documentary. He currently has two exhibitions on view, one of them being a surveyhis largest US show since his 2007 MoMA surveyat Glenstone Museum, in Potomac, MD; the other at Gagosian in Beverly Hills. Having written an essay for the catalogue of the show at Glenstone, I realized Id ended up with more questions than I started with, so I asked a few of them in a Zoom conversation with the artist ahead of his show in California.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiWhat have we all learned in the last five years as weve been getting through a slow recovery process from two profound ruptures: one being the pandemic that has taken thus far over 800,000 lives in the US and 5.6 million worldwide, and the other being the near collapse of our democracy that led to the infamous Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, which most of us would agree was a result of post Cold-War complacency in Washington.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
Printmaking: Intentions and Aspirations
By Ruth FineThis project developed from a conversation between Phong Bui and myself about art in the United States since what has long been referred to as the mid-20th century Print Renaissance, and my belief in the critica impact of printmaking on artists work in other media.
Critics Page
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On Caledonia Curry
– By Miranda Metcalf -
Printing in the desert and listening to radio preachers
– By Martha Tuttle -
Frottage, Takuhon, and the Gyotaku Methods
– By Marie Lorenz -
Planar Vessels
– By Kenturah Davis -
Growth Rings: Exploring the Natural World Through Print
– By Gustavo Garcia -
The Proof in the Print
– By Brie Ruais -
It is all an Adventure
– By Cicely Carew -
The Print Matrix Has You
– By Michael Menchaca -
The need to combine
– By Sandra C. Fernandez
ArtSeen
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Simon Hantaï: Les blancs de la couleur, la couleur du blanc
– By Louis Block -
Looking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual
– By Ksenia Soboleva -
Dominic Chambers: Soft Shadows
– By Folasade Ologundudu -
Tess Bilhartz: Follow Me Down
– By Clare Gemima -
Shawanda Corbett: To the Fields of Lilac
– By Elizabeth Buhe -
no one is tall to heaven
– By Jacob Bromberg
no one is large to the land -
Chris Martin
– By Charles Schultz -
Snow Day
– By David Whelan -
Surrealist Collaboration: Poetry, Art, Literature, Ingenuity and Life Itself
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Beverly Semmes: POT PEEK
– By Susan Harris -
Jasper Johns: Painted Bronze
– By Paul Hayes Tucker -
Art of the Cuban Revolution
– By Billie Anania -
Martín Ramírez: Memory Portals
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Alec Soth: A Pound of Pictures
– By Jean Dykstra -
Bill Jensen: Stillness/
– By David RhodesFlowing -
Haroon Mirza: For a Dyson Sphere
– By David Rhodes -
Rackstraw Downes: Drawings
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Liz Larner: Don't put it back like it was
– By Bryan Martin -
Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw
– By George Kan -
Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Camille Pissarro: The Studio of Modernism
– By Natalia Gierowska -
Jeff Koons: Lost in America
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
The Hare with Amber Eyes
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Helène Aylon & Colette Lumiere
– By Norman L Kleeblatt -
Angela Davis: Seize the Time
– By Jillian Russo -
Wild Horses
– By Claire Phillips -
Bernard Frize: Come to Me Again
– By David Rhodes -
Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw
– By Lyle Rexer -
Holly Coulis: Eyes and Yous
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Lands End
– By Constance Lewallen -
No Tears: In Conversation with Horace Pippin
– By Amanda Gluibizzi -
Witch Hunt
– By Olivia Gauthier -
Jane Freilicher & Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions
– By David Carrier -
Darren Bader: The American Express Holiday Show
– By Hunter Braithwaite -
John Willenbecher: Works from the 1960s
– By Mark Bloch -
Carl Andre
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Adam Pendleton: Who is Queen?
– By Folasade Ologundudu -
Raymond Saunders
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright -
Chris Martin
– By William Corwin -
Marcus Jahmal: Mining
– By Jessica Holmes -
Georg Baselitz: Drawings
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Shikō Munakata: A Way of Seeing
– By David Carrier -
Ragnar Kjartansson
– By Valerie Mindlin -
Maria Nordman: At the Start
– By Ann McCoy
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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Printmaking: Intentions and Aspirations
– By Ruth Fine
Art
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Ahmed Alsoudani with Ann C. Collins
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Ashley Bickerton with Dan Cameron
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Baseera Khan with Lee Ann Norman
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Jeff Wall with Barry Schwabsky
ArtSeen
-
Simon Hantaï: Les blancs de la couleur, la couleur du blanc
– By Louis Block -
Looking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual
– By Ksenia Soboleva -
Dominic Chambers: Soft Shadows
– By Folasade Ologundudu -
Tess Bilhartz: Follow Me Down
– By Clare Gemima -
Shawanda Corbett: To the Fields of Lilac
– By Elizabeth Buhe -
no one is tall to heaven no one is large to the land
– By Jacob Bromberg -
Chris Martin
– By Charles Schultz -
Snow Day
– By David Whelan -
Surrealist Collaboration: Poetry, Art, Literature, Ingenuity and Life Itself
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Beverly Semmes: POT PEEK
– By Susan Harris -
Jasper Johns: Painted Bronze
– By Paul Hayes Tucker -
Art of the Cuban Revolution
– By Billie Anania -
Martín Ramírez: Memory Portals
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Alec Soth: A Pound of Pictures
– By Jean Dykstra -
Bill Jensen: Stillness/Flowing
– By David Rhodes -
Haroon Mirza: For a Dyson Sphere
– By David Rhodes -
Rackstraw Downes: Drawings
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Liz Larner: Don't put it back like it was
– By Bryan Martin -
Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw
– By George Kan -
Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Camille Pissarro: The Studio of Modernism
– By Natalia Gierowska -
Jeff Koons: Lost in America
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
The Hare with Amber Eyes
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Helène Aylon & Colette Lumiere
– By Norman L Kleeblatt -
Angela Davis: Seize the Time
– By Jillian Russo -
Wild Horses
– By Claire Phillips -
Bernard Frize: Come to Me Again
– By David Rhodes -
Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw
– By Lyle Rexer -
Holly Coulis: Eyes and Yous
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Lands End
– By Constance Lewallen -
No Tears: In Conversation with Horace Pippin
– By Amanda Gluibizzi -
Witch Hunt
– By Olivia Gauthier -
Jane Freilicher & Thomas Nozkowski: True Fictions
– By David Carrier -
Darren Bader: The American Express Holiday Show
– By Hunter Braithwaite -
John Willenbecher: Works from the 1960s
– By Mark Bloch -
Carl Andre
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Adam Pendleton: Who is Queen?
– By Folasade Ologundudu -
Raymond Saunders
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright -
Chris Martin
– By William Corwin -
Marcus Jahmal: Mining
– By Jessica Holmes -
Georg Baselitz: Drawings
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Shikō Munakata: A Way of Seeing
– By David Carrier -
Ragnar Kjartansson
– By Valerie Mindlin -
Maria Nordman: At the Start
– By Ann McCoy
Critics Page
-
On Caledonia Curry
– By Miranda Metcalf -
Printing in the desert and listening to radio preachers
– By Martha Tuttle -
Frottage, Takuhon, and the Gyotaku Methods
– By Marie Lorenz -
Planar Vessels
– By Kenturah Davis -
Growth Rings: Exploring the Natural World Through Print
– By Gustavo Garcia -
The Proof in the Print
– By Brie Ruais -
It is all an Adventure
– By Cicely Carew -
The Print Matrix Has You
– By Michael Menchaca -
The need to combine
– By Sandra C. Fernandez
Books
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Marlon James with John Domini
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Natalia Ginzburg’s Voices in the Evening
– By Zach Davidson -
Claudia Durastanti’s Strangers I Know
– By Joseph Peschel -
Ben Okri & Mónica Ojeda
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
John McWhorter’s Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
– By Rod Kessler -
Wayne Koestenbaum with Tony Leuzzi
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Ned Denny’s B (After Dante)
– By John McEwen -
Marino Magliani's A Window to Zeewijk
– By John Domini -
Jami Attenbergs I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
– By Carissa Chesanek -
Rachel Rear with Ian MacAllen
– By Ian MacAllen
Music
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Once, We Had a King
– By Melvin Gibbs -
We Jazz Records and its Many-Headed Helsinki Hydras
– By Martin Longley -
Kevin C. Karnes’s Sounds Beyond: Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground
– By Parker Allen -
Polymathic Possibilities
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
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How to Commune
– By Candice Thompson -
m i c c a and the Landscape of Grief
– By Hallie Chametzky
Film
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bell hooks’s Heartbreak Church
– By Ayanna Dozier -
Sean Baker’s Red Rocket
– By Mark Labowskie -
Aaron Baker’s The Baseball Film
– By Laura Valenza -
Anti-Banality Union with Andreas Petrossiants
Theater
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Georg Büchner and the Missing Language
– By Sam Kahn -
Placenta in my Freezer: A New Mother’s Unexpected Case for Craft
– By Emily Kitchens
Fiction
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Kids
– By Tassity Johnson -
from Last Resort
– By Andrew Lipstein
Poetry
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Love Simulator / Scam Likely
– By Jim Behrle -
five
– By Guillermo Filice Castro -
four
– by Rene Ricard, translated from the Spanish by Lauren Stroh -
three
– By Jan Freeman -
Wound-first Into the Future,1 part I
– By Jeremy Hoevenaar
Art Books
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Hoda Afshar’s Speak The Wind
– By Maymanah Farhat -
Martha Wilson’s Journals
– By Francesca Valentini -
Aenne Biermann: Up Close and Personal
– By Karen Chernick -
Troy Montes-Michie’s Rock of Eye
– By Megan N. Liberty -
Arthur Jafa: Revue Cahiers dArt
– By Sarah Moroz
In Memoriam
Field Notes
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Sticker Shock
– By Paul Mattick -
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
– By Jasper Bernes -
Land Grab
– By Michaela Keil -
No Evictions! Not Now, Not Ever
– By Comrade X, for Brooklyn Eviction Defense
The Miraculous
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86. The South Bronx
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
87. East Village, SoHo, Midtown
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
88. A Hotel (now demolished) at Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
89. 2 Fifth Avenue
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
90. 2 Fifth Avenue, 131 West 15th Street, 200 and 220 West 21st Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein