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Publisher and Artistic Director:: Phong H. Bui

Managing Editor:: Charles Schultz
Managing Directors:: Louis Block, Jorja Rae Willis
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Advertising Director:: Kathleen Cullen
Production Editor:: Tyhe Cooper
Director of Programs:: Chloe Stagaman
Programs Associates:: Carolyn Ferrucci, Elinor Krichmar
Social Media Manager:: Elizabeth Lothian
Assistant to Publisher & Curatorial Assistant:: Cal McKeever
Installation Manager:: Cy Morgan
Production Assistants:: Joel Danilewitz, Madison Ford, Patrick Hill

Art Editors:: Benjamin Clifford, Amanda Gluibizzi, Lee Ann Norman, Jessica Holmes
Film Editors:: Laura Jane Valenza, Edward Charles Mendez
Music Editor:: George Grella
Dance Editor:: Gillian Jakab
Theater Editor:: Billy McEntee
Books Editor:: Joseph Salvatore
Art Books Editor:: Megan N. Liberty
Poetry Editor:: Anselm Berrigan
Fiction Editors:: Maisy Card, Will Chancellor
Field Notes Editor:: Paul Mattick
ArTonic Editor:: Jessica Holmes
Irving Sandler Essay Editor:: Alexander Nagel

Consulting Editors:: Elizabeth C. Baker, Mary Ann Caws, Douglas Dreishpoon, Raymond Foye, Susan Harris, Joseph Masheck, Alexander Nagel, Joachim Pissarro, Barbara Rose*, Richard Shiff, Katy Siegel, Robert Storr, David Levi Strauss, and Irving Sandler*
Editors-at-Large:: David Anfam, Matthew Biro, Dore Bowen, David Carrier, Dan Cameron, William Corbett*, Bryan Doerries, Charles Duncan, Jonathan Fineberg, Alan Gilbert, Eleanor Heartney, Joan Kee, Toby Kamps, Choghakate Kazarian, Charlotte Kent, Constance Lewallen*, Barbara London, Barbara MacAdam, Alfred Mac Adam, Ann McCoy, Tom McGlynn, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Terry R. Myers, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Francesca Pietropaolo, Maura Reilly, Jason Rosenfeld, David Rhodes, Raphael Rubinstein, Rev. Donna Schaper, Barry Schwabsky, Charles Shafaieh, Phyllis Tuchman, Amei Wallach, Joan Waltemath, and Andrew Woolbright

*in memoriam

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Art

ArtSeen

Wardell Milan: Bluets & 2 Years of Magical Thinking
By Joel Danilewitz
Arthur Dove: Sensations of Light
By Irene Lyla Lee
Eva Lundsager: Ovation
By Hovey Brock
Alexandra Metcalf: Vol.18
By Barry Schwabsky
Lydia Dona
By William Corwin
Jan-Ole Schiemann: New Paintings
By Andrew Paul Woolbright
Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers
By Charles Moore
Andrea Marie Breiling: Swallowtail
By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Lisa Corinne Davis: You Are Here?
By Barbara A. MacAdam
Leah Ke Yi Zheng
By Hindley Wang
Beverly Fishman: Something For the Pain
By Jason Stopa
Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation
By Phong Bui
The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps
By Sandra Zalman
Kyle Dunn: Night Pictures
By Amber Jamilla Musser
King Cobra: White Meat
By Amber Jamilla Musser
Man Ray’s Paris Portraits: 1921–1939
By Mary Ann Caws
Melissa Brown: Windows and Bars
By Riad Miah
Exposé·es
By Norman L Kleeblatt
Aura Rosenberg: What is Psychedelic
By Joanna Seifter
George Condo: Humanoids
By Charles Moore
T. Venkanna: Looking for Peace
By Pia Singh
Ernst Caramelle: actual size
By David Rhodes
Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov: Snake Changing Skin
By Ksenia Soboleva
Murray Hochman: New Dimensions
By Robert C. Morgan
Mark Bradford: You Don't Have to Tell Me Twice
By Jason Drill
Sung Tieu: Infra-Specter
By Helena Haimes
الفكرة ذكرى / A thought is a memory
By Sahar Khraibani
Angela China: Girl on the Grass
By Jessica Holmes
Louise Bonnet and Adam Silverman: Entanglements
By Suzanne Hudson
Roxa Smith: No Vacancy
By D. Dominick Lombardi
Elisabeth Kley: A Seat in the Boat of the Sun
By Barbara A. MacAdam
THE ÖMEN: Albert Oehlen paintings and Paul McCarthy sculptures
By Andrew Paul Woolbright
R.I.P. Germain: Jesus Died for Us, We Will Die for Dudus!
By Alicia Gladston
Of Mythic Worlds
By Cassie Packard
Michael Madrigali: Big City Nights
By Barbarita Polster
Pierre Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing
By David Rhodes
Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time
By Rebecca Schiffman
Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid
By Phyllis Tuchman
Lois Dodd: Natural Order
By David Whelan
Gego: Measuring Infinity
By Jenny Wu
Ficre Ghebreyesus: I Believe We Are Lost
By Ann C. Collins
Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter
By Christian K. Kleinbub
Anselm Reyle: Rainbow in the Dark
By William Corwin
Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
By Megan N. Liberty
Dan Graham
By Marc Mayer
Simone Leigh
By Saul Ostrow
Enrique Chagoya: Borderless
By Hearne Pardee
Kern Samuel: Paining
By Louis Block
Amy Lincoln: Radiant Spectrum
By Bryan Martin

1x1

On Harriet Feigenbaum
By Alex A. Jones

Critics Page

A Word or Two on Art and Technology
Guest Critic: Charlotte Kent
Neutral
By Magda Sawon
Aesthetics
By Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan
Touch
By Yayoi Shionoiri, Sarah Conley Odenkirk , and Megan Noh
Display
By Merel van Helsdingen
Ancestral
By Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
Metaverse
By Margaret Wertheim
Worldbuilding
By Clara Che Wei Peh
Incubators
By Bilyana Palankasova and Sarah Cook
Innovation
By Ruth Catlow and Penny Rafferty
Public
By Kay Watson
Community
By Kanon
Complex
By Doreen A. Ríos

Books

Chloe N. Clark with Allison Wyss
Daniel Allen Cox with Greg Marshall
Tezer Özlü’s Cold Nights of Childhood
By Bekah Waalkes
Han Kang’s Greek Lessons
By Cat Woods
Camille T. Dungy’s Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
By Victoria Richards
Olympus on Earth: Daniel H. Turtel’s The Family Morfawitz
By Jordan A. Rothacker
Mario Fortunato’s South
By John Domini
Matthew Cheney’s The Last Vanishing Man: And Other Stories
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Tom Lin with Blake Sanz
Sophie Mackintosh’s Cursed Bread
By Yvonne C. Garrett
Michael Magee’s Close to Home
By Tom Deignan
Raphael Rubinstein’s The Turn To Provisionality in Contemporary Art: Negative Work
By Tom McGlynn

Music

Amarcord Hal
By Scott Gutterman
Charles Curtis, Alan Licht, and Dean Roberts
By Martin Longley
Caterina Barbieri and Eli Keszler
By Vanessa Ague
Kerry O’Brien and William Robin’s On Minimalism
By George Grella

Dance

Alone, Yet Inseparable
By Susan Yung
We Are in Catastrophe
By Candice Thompson
The Forced Abundance of Justin Peck
By Eve Bromberg
The Depths to Which She is Capable
By Rennie McDougall
Intimacy from a Distance
By Susan Yung

Film

Digital Recall: The New Cinema of Memory
By Alex Bliziotis and Sasha Karsavina
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By Forrest Cardamenis
Su Friedrich’s Today
By Jasmine Liu
Rites of Passage: The Films of Shinji Somai
By Bingham Bryant

Theater

Diane Exavier with Shamira Ibrahim
Monsoon Wedding Makes Its Way to Brooklyn
By Allison Considine
IndieSpace Gives the New York Theater Scene Exactly What It Needs
By Lauren Emily Whalen
Embracing Mist: The Questions, Not Answers, Grey House Proposes
By Billy McEntee

Fiction

from Austral
By Carlos Fonseca, trans. Megan McDowell

Poetry

They Go Down to the Field
By Joel Newberger
three
By Emily Lee Luan
Twelve Poems Beginning with A, B, C
By Charles Bernstein
from “All this is a continuation of the lie, but . . . if I remain consistent, it comes close to the truth”
By Alina Stefanescu
seven
By LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
HER SHORT FILM WITH VAN GOGH’S EAR
By Emmalea Russo
Three Ballads
By Yuri Andrukhovych, trans. John Hennessy and Ostap Kin
four
By Maik Yohansen, trans. Eugene Ostashevsky
six
By Mykhail Semenko trans. Eugene Ostashevsky
I. and I
By Rodger Kamenetz

Art Books

Kevin Beasley’s A View of a Landscape
By John P. Hastings
Tamar Ettun’s Texts from Lilit
By Nick Bennett
Patrick D. Pagnano’s Empire Roller Disco
By Naomi Elias
Morgan Ashcom’s Open
By Sarah Moroz
Hannah Godfrey’s Critical Fictions
By Emily Doucet

In Memoriam

A Tribute to Brian O’Doherty
Edited by Brenda Moore-McCann

Field Notes

The Jina Rebellion
By Assareh Assa
A Weaponized Immigrant: Yasha Levine with Will McDonald
No Politics But Class Politics: A Review
By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

Art and Technology

A Language Cairn: Artists on Their Practice
By Charlotte Kent