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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:: Louis Block
Director of Programs:: Chloe Stagaman
Editorial Associate:: Jorja Rae Willis
Programs Associates:: Carolyn Ferrucci, Elinor Krichmar, Raevan Aliyah Senior
Social Media Manager:: Elizabeth Lothian
Assistant to Publisher & Curatorial Assistant:: Cal McKeever
Installation Manager:: Cy Morgan
Editorial Assistant:: Tyhe Cooper
Production Assistants:: Joel Danilewitz, Maia Seigel

Art Editors:: Benjamin Clifford, Amanda Gluibizzi, Sara Roffino, Anna Tome
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

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, Charlotte Kent, 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, Harry Philbrick, Francesca Pietropaolo, Maura Reilly, Taney Roniger, Jason Rosenfeld, David Rhodes, Raphael Rubinstein, Rev. Donna Schaper, Barry Schwabsky, Phyllis Tuchman, Amei Wallach, and Joan Waltemath

*in memoriam

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NOV 2022

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Art

ArtSeen

Ran Hwang: Becoming Again
By Robert C. Morgan
Kamrooz Aram: Elusive Ornament
By Dina A. Ramadan
Zac Hacmon: Mia
By Emireth Herrera Valdés
Robert C. Morgan: The Loggia Paintings: Early and Recent Work
By Raphy Sarkissian
Merrill Wagner
By Joan Waltemath
Ann McCoy, Paulina Peavy, and Olga Spiegel
By Christine Davis
Howardena Pindell: A New Language
By Maximiliane Leuschner
Beatriz Milhazes: Mistura Sagrada
By David Ebony
Robert C. Morgan: The Loggia Paintings: Early and Recent Work
By Jonathan Goodman
Xaviera Simmons: Crisis Makes a Book Club
By William Corwin
Hekate’s Grove: Elizabeth Insogna, Karen Heagle, Kay Turner
By Ksenia Soboleva
Grant Wallace: Over the Psychic Radio
By Alex A. Jones
Federico Solmi: Joie De Vivre
By Mark Bloch
Francine Tint: Life in Action
By David Ebony
Ursula von Rydingsvard: LUBA
By Amanda Gluibizzi
Fiona Rae
By Barbara A. MacAdam
Angel Otero: Swimming Where Time Was
By Andrew Paul Woolbright
Tirtzah Bassel: Canon in Drag
By Christopher T. Richards
Carol Saft: The Cynnie Paintings
By Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Alex Katz: Gathering
By Tom McGlynn
Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered
By Wendy Blake
The 58th Carnegie International: Is it morning for you yet?
By David Carrier
Henrike Naumann: Re-Education
By Annabel Keenan
Beyond Caravaggio: A New Account of Neapolitan Painting
By David Carrier
Preetika Rajgariah: Servicing Self
By KK Kozik
Cy Twombly
By Jonathan T.D. Neil
IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY
By Amelia Saul
Oscar Murillo: A Storm Is Blowing From Paradise
By Osman Can Yerebakan
David Novros: Paintings
By David Rhodes
Dean Fleming: Fourth Dimension
By Tom McGlynn
Wild Strawberries
By Jonathan Goodman
Ron Gorchov: Watercolors 1968–1980
By Andrew Paul Woolbright
Rodrigo Valenzuela: New Works for a Post Worker’s World
By Robert R. Shane
Gabriel Orozco: Diario de Plantas
By Hearne Pardee
Niki de Saint Phalle
By Alice Godwin
Bayne Peterson: Mirage
By Amanda Gluibizzi
Josephine Pryde: The Vibrating Slab and Club Med
By Alexandra Drexelius
Emily Mae Smith: Heretic Lace
By William Corwin
Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings & Structures
By Alfred Mac Adam
EJ Hauser at WINDOW
By Louis Block
Randy Wray: Travelogue
By Andrew Paul Woolbright

Critics Page

Balance of Stories
Guest Critic: Emmanuel Iduma
Fashionably Late
By Yemisi Aribisala
The Smell of Bread Forms a Map of a Life
By Joshua Segun-Lean
A Solid Image, A Sunlit Path
By Joseph Omoh Ndukwu
Who Shall I Say is Calling?
By Kemi Falodun
Tall House
By Sabo Kpade
Whom did he love?
By Immaculata Abba
Landing in Bioko
By Yinka Elujoba
beauty begrudged refuses to pose again
By Ọlákìítán Adéolá
A Reimagination of the Bimbia Slave Port
By Sada Malumfashi
Like a Mask Dancing
By IfeOluwa Nihinlola

Books

Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris
By Andrew Ervin
Mary Ann Caws’s Mina Loy: Apology of Genius
By Charlotte Kent
In Search of The Third Bird: Exemplary Essays from The Proceedings of ESTAR(SER) 2001–2021
By Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos
Michael Seidenberg’s Unsolicited Advice for the End Times
By J.T. Price
Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid
By Alta Ifland
Ted Conover with J.C. Hallman
By J. C. Hallman
Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song
By Raymond Foye

Music

Kamikaze Jones with Jennifer Vanilla
By Kamikaze Jones
The Propulsive Sound of Nader Khalil
By Cassidy McFadzean
Sly & The Family Drone: Disturbing Sonics in Birmingham, England
By Martin Longley
Promise of Glory
By Scott Gutterman

Dance

PROPHET: The Order of the Lyricist
By Amanda Chen
Accumulation
By Gillian Jakab
VESSEL: Seeing Double
By Noa Weiss and Nora Raine Thompson
Half a Dozen Fresh Baked Dances
By Hallie Chametzky

Film

Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg
By Dan Schindel
Andrew Dominik’s Blonde
By Brianna Di Monda
Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave
By Jawni Han
Kevin Smith’s Clerks III
By Edward Mendez
The 60th New York Film Festival
By Laura Valenza

Theater

That’s Just, Like, Your Interpretation
By Dan O'Neil
At JACK’s Radical Acts, Experimentation—and Failure—are Most Welcome
By Lily Goldberg
A Song for the Strivers in Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
By Billy McEntee

Fiction

from A Cat at the End of the World
By Robert Perišić and Vesna Maric
from Blood Red
By Gabriela Ponce and Sarah Booker

Poetry

two
By Chia-Lun Chang
seven
By Ari Lisner
twenty-nine
By Mike Topp
nine
By Betsy Fagin
Like Being In Your Head Not Mine
By Bianca Stone

Art Books

Maria Lassnig: The Biography
By Karen Chernick
Baldwin Lee
By Sarah Moroz
Bettina
By Noa Wesley
Visible: Text + Image
By Jenny Wu
Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
By Wyatt Sarafin

Special Report

Culture as Strategy for Survival
By Nina Mdivani

Field Notes

Women, Life, Freedom
By Arash Azizi
The Story of No One From Sri Lanka
By Indrajit Samarajiva
Michael Kazin’s What It Took To Win
By Charlie Post
Lancaster, So Much to Answer For
By S. Prasad

The Miraculous

26. 1965, Los Angeles
By Raphael Rubinstein
27. October 17, 1961, a train platform in Dartford, England
By Raphael Rubinstein
28. 1970, the London Underground
By Raphael Rubinstein
29. 1965, Los Angeles
By Raphael Rubinstein
30. 1945, Paris
By Raphael Rubinstein

Art and Technology

Painting, Protest and the Plural Potential of Web3
By Charlotte Kent