Art In Conversation
JO BAER with Amanda Gluibizzi
Artist Jo Baer speaks with Rail ArtSeen editor Amanda Gluibizzi about her two exhibitions at Pace Gallery, The Risen and Originals, playing with space, and how she wants her work shown.
Art In Conversation
THEASTER GATES with Phong H. Bui
Rail publisher Phong H. Bui speaks to Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates on the occasion of Black Vessel at Gagosian, his first solo show in New York.
Art In Conversation
BRAD KAHLHAMER with Susan Harris
Brad Kahlhamer speaks with Susan Harris about how he got his start in the art world, his working relationship with the Heard Museum, and his multi-discipline practice.
Art In Conversation
JIM MELCHERT with Constance Lewallen
Jim Melchert is one of the leading figures in the San Francisco Bay Area artistic community, noted for his openness to experimentation and his encouragement of that in others. While championing the new with particular emphasis on conceptualism and clay, he also set standards of integrity and grace among artists, like a patrician hippie.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiWe’re more committed than ever to keep the Rail free, independent, and above all relevant. Please join us to celebrate our 20th-year anniversary throughout next year in 2021.
Editor's Message
Notes from a Sunken Third Place
By Jasmine WahiFor this issue, I sought the company of colleagues/friends with whom I’ve had numerous discussions on what is holding this nation back—not just in the Trump era, but as a whole. It is no secret that we are also at the cusp of a new digital era that reinforces binary thinking.
Critics Page
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3 poems
– By K. Desireé Milwood -
The Project as Institution and Individual
– By Tiana Webb Evans -
Freedom Dreaming
– By Rujeko Hockley -
“We Are Our Own Monuments”: Dispatch from Philly
– By Paul M. Farber -
Impossible (2020)
– By Chantal Fischzang and Rebecca P. Jampol -
Liar’s Pie #3
– By Kambui Olujimi -
/Ten notes to decolonize vision
– By Jaret Vadera
/Ten notes to my younger self
/Ten notes to a younger artist
/Ten notes to remember -
Go Forth
– By Kaneza Schaal -
Intersectional Nomad
– By Shoshanna Weinberger -
Jason Elizondo with David Antonio Cruz
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Sutured Futures: Composite Bodies and Queer Futurity
– By Cat Dawson -
…and you called it entertainment. / Black Girl was shot.
– By Jasmine Mans
ArtSeen
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Cauleen Smith: Mutualities
– By Sasha Panaram -
Meg Lipke
– By Tom McGlynn -
Alienation ?
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Otto Piene: Rasterbilder / Ceramics
– By Tom McGlynn -
MORE TIME LESS
– By Sophia Ma -
ART CLUB2000: Selected Works 1992–1999
– By Sam Korman -
Luther Hampton
– By Earnestine Jenkins -
TITAN
– By Bruna Shapira -
Hulda Guzmán: my flora, my fauna
– By Will Fenstermaker -
Wassef Boutros-Ghali: A Retrospective
– By Kaleem Hawa -
Jack Whitten: I AM THE OBJECT
– By Dan Cameron -
Frank Auerbach: Selected Works, 1978–2016
– By Tom McGlynn -
Ronnie Landfield: Concurrence
– By Tom McGlynn -
Yuji Agematsu: Times Square Times (Kodak All-Stars)
– By Peter Brock -
James Luna: Take a Picture with a Real Indian
– By Susan Harris -
Philip Mueller: Last Days of Soft Machine
– By Nadine Khalil -
James Hyde: Public Sculpture
– By Hovey Brock -
Genesis Belanger: Through the Eye of a Needle
– By Holly Bushman -
Michelangelo Pistoletto
– By Ann C. Collins -
Astrid Kajsa Nylander: minijobs
– By Ann C. Collins -
John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance
– By Jean Dykstra -
Julie Mehretu: about the space of half an hour
– By William Corwin -
Tom Sachs: Handmade Paintings
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Ariana Papademetropoulos: Unweave a Rainbow
– By Kathleen Hefty -
Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch
– By Adriana Furlong -
Mary Mattingly: Pipelines and Permafrost
– By Charlotte Kent -
The Archive to Come
– By Charlotte Kent -
Joseph Holtzman: Six Recent Paintings
– By Gilles Heno-Coe -
Vivian Springford
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
RosTA
– By Olivia Gilmore -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash
– By Amber Jamilla Musser -
Luigi Ghirri: The Idea of Building
– By David Rhodes -
Luisa Rabbia: From Mitosis to Rainbow
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Tschabalala Self: Cotton Mouth
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
Mark Mulroney and Soyeon Shin
– By Nina Wolpow -
Theaster Gates: Black Vessel
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Alexis Rockman: Lost Cargo: Watercolors
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer
– By Alex Bacon
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Notes from a Sunken Third Place
– By Jasmine Wahi
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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JO BAER with Amanda Gluibizzi
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BRAD KAHLHAMER with Susan Harris
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THEASTER GATES with Phong H. Bui
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JIM MELCHERT with Constance Lewallen
ArtSeen
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Cauleen Smith: Mutualities
– By Sasha Panaram -
Meg Lipke
– By Tom McGlynn -
Alienation ?
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Otto Piene: Rasterbilder / Ceramics
– By Tom McGlynn -
MORE TIME LESS
– By Sophia Ma -
ART CLUB2000: Selected Works 1992–1999
– By Sam Korman -
Luther Hampton
– By Earnestine Jenkins -
TITAN
– By Bruna Shapira -
Hulda Guzmán: my flora, my fauna
– By Will Fenstermaker -
Wassef Boutros-Ghali: A Retrospective
– By Kaleem Hawa -
Jack Whitten: I AM THE OBJECT
– By Dan Cameron -
Frank Auerbach: Selected Works, 1978–2016
– By Tom McGlynn -
Ronnie Landfield: Concurrence
– By Tom McGlynn -
Yuji Agematsu: Times Square Times (Kodak All-Stars)
– By Peter Brock -
James Luna: Take a Picture with a Real Indian
– By Susan Harris -
Philip Mueller: Last Days of Soft Machine
– By Nadine Khalil -
James Hyde: Public Sculpture
– By Hovey Brock -
Genesis Belanger: Through the Eye of a Needle
– By Holly Bushman -
Michelangelo Pistoletto
– By Ann C. Collins -
Astrid Kajsa Nylander: minijobs
– By Ann C. Collins -
John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance
– By Jean Dykstra -
Julie Mehretu: about the space of half an hour
– By William Corwin -
Tom Sachs: Handmade Paintings
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Ariana Papademetropoulos: Unweave a Rainbow
– By Kathleen Hefty -
Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch
– By Adriana Furlong -
Mary Mattingly: Pipelines and Permafrost
– By Charlotte Kent -
The Archive to Come
– By Charlotte Kent -
Joseph Holtzman: Six Recent Paintings
– By Gilles Heno-Coe -
Vivian Springford
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
RosTA
– By Olivia Gilmore -
Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash
– By Amber Jamilla Musser -
Luigi Ghirri: The Idea of Building
– By David Rhodes -
Luisa Rabbia: From Mitosis to Rainbow
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Tschabalala Self: Cotton Mouth
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
Mark Mulroney and Soyeon Shin
– By Nina Wolpow -
Theaster Gates: Black Vessel
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Alexis Rockman: Lost Cargo: Watercolors
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer
– By Alex Bacon
Critics Page
-
3 poems
– By K. Desireé Milwood -
The Project as Institution and Individual
– By Tiana Webb Evans -
Freedom Dreaming
– By Rujeko Hockley -
“We Are Our Own Monuments”: Dispatch from Philly
– By Paul M. Farber -
Impossible (2020)
– By Chantal Fischzang and Rebecca P. Jampol -
Liar’s Pie #3
– By Kambui Olujimi -
/Ten notes to decolonize vision /Ten notes to my younger self /Ten notes to a younger artist /Ten notes to remember
– By Jaret Vadera -
Go Forth
– By Kaneza Schaal -
Intersectional Nomad
– By Shoshanna Weinberger -
Jason Elizondo with David Antonio Cruz
-
Sutured Futures: Composite Bodies and Queer Futurity
– By Cat Dawson -
…and you called it entertainment. / Black Girl was shot.
– By Jasmine Mans
Books
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In Conversation: SUSAN SHAPIRO with Stephanie Siu
– By Stephanie Siu -
Scholastique Mukasonga’s Igifu
– By John Domini -
PANKAJ MISHRA with Pac Pobric
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Vincent Van Gogh: A Life in Letters
– By Joshua Sperling -
Jonathan Lethem’s The Arrest
– By Joseph Peschel -
Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism
– By William Stroud -
Kevin Carey’s Murder in the Marsh
– By Carissa Chesanek
Music
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Opera in Our New World
– By George Grella -
Listening In: The Art of Intuitive Engineering
– By Scott Gutterman -
The Free Musketeers
– By Martin Longley -
Ann O’Aro
– By Adolf Alzuphar
Dance
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The Many Face(t)s of Michael Clark
– By Maximiliane Leuschner -
Living Through History: ABSCONDED #EjectionDay2020
– By Noa Weiss -
JANESSA CLARK with Ivan Talijancic
Film
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Destination Out: Cinematic Illumination, More Than Cinema and Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia
– By Steve Macfarlane -
Modes of Resistance: Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2020
– By Marius Hrdy -
Citizen Ghost: David Fincher's Mank
– By Madeleine Seidel
Theater
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I Want You in My Zoom
– By Eliza Bent -
The Jerk Comes Full Circle: Reflections on Developing, Dramaturging, and Directing Fake Friends’ Cinematic and Theatrical Feat
– By Rory Pelsue, Cat Rodríguez, and Ariel Sibert -
How the Flea Become the Fled
– By Joey Sims
Fiction
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Editor’s Note
– By Will Chancellor -
from Divorcing
– By Susan Taubes -
from The Boiled in Between
– By Helen Marten
Poetry
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Lewis Warsh: Part of His History
– By Steve Clay -
Brooklyn 2020
– By Steven Taylor -
five
– By Jennifer Soong -
six
– By Rae Armantrout -
two
– By Robert Hershon -
from The Songs of Raimbaut D’Aurenga
– by Raimbaut D’Aurenga, translated from the Occitan by Brandon Brown -
seven
– By Pat Nolan -
from Except for This Unseen Thread
– by Ra’ad Abdulqadir, translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem -
from Tec Alliance
– By Roberto Harrison
Art Books
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Ray Johnson and William S. Wilson: Frog Pond Splash
– By Mark Bloch -
Renee Gladman’s One Long Black Sentence
– By Megan N. Liberty -
Karlheinz Weinberger’s Photographs: Together & Alone
– By Sarah Moroz -
Son Ni’s The Well-Tempered Us
– By Jordan Spencer -
HANNAH WHITAKER with Naomi Elias
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20 Best Art Books of 2020
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ArTonic
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Full Circle: The Holt/Smithson Foundation
– By Alan Gilbert
Field Notes
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How Could It Get Worse?
– By John W. W. Zeiser -
The American Crisis: A Trans-Atlantic View
– By Charles Reeve -
“Won’t somebody please think of the children?”
– By David Schmidt
The Miraculous
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31. (27 Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
32. (A six-story building on Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
33. (10 Cooper Square, 5 Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
34. (27 Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
35. (48 Cooper Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
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