Brooklyn Eagle, July 14, 1897
DELUGE FROM SEA AND SKY
RAIN AND HIGH TIDES CAUSE DAMAGE ON THE ISLAND. GRAIN AND HAY CROPS INJURED.
Shelter Houses and Bathing Pavilions Inundated at Coney Island––Yachts Drag Their Anchors in Gravesend Bay Brighton Beach Track Escapes. Streets Along the Shore front Flooded.
The Brown Girl of Bed-Stuy’s Brownstones
By Ron HowellFor me, Bedford-Stuyvesant is a Mecca, always calling me back, demanding of me a style and commitment that, try as I might, I never fully give her.
My Wounded Constitution
By Jason Flores-WilliamsI have memories of who I once was, but they are beginning to fade from me. I hear words like lawyer and writer and they fall from me like dead fruit.
Art In Conversation
BIRDHEAD with Charles Schultz
Song Tao and Ji Weiyu go by the moniker Birdhead. Known widely in China and Europe, Birdhead’s first major exposure in the United States came this fall when they were included in MoMA’s annual New Photography exhibition (October 3, 2012 – February 4, 2013).
Art In Conversation
ALICE CHANNER with Barry Schwabsky
The day after the opening of British artist Alice Channer’s current exhibition at Lisa Cooley Gallery (Cold Blood, through December 23), Barry Schwabsky met her at the gallery and they decided to take a stroll while discussing the show and its background in her two educations.
Art In Conversation
Time is an Emotional Muscle
BARBARA HAMMER with Jarrett Earnest
Experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer has made lyrical, confessional, and often deeply erotic films about her life as a lesbian artist since the early 1970s. She performed Witness: Palestine as part of PS1’s Pier Paolo Pasolini: Intellettuale on Sunday, December 16.
Figuring It Out: Bard’s Low-Residency M.F.A. Program
By Steel StillmanThere is one quality that Bard has inherited directly from Black Mountain: the anti-authoritarianism manifest in its resistance to formal instruction.
A letter from JOSEPH CORNELL to DOROTHEA TANNING
By Robert KellyThe sculptor Claire Woolner, in a letter to me from California, quoted from a letter that Dorothea Tanning had written to Joseph Cornell on March 3, 1948. In the letter, she spoke of feelings of revulsion towards most things, wondering how Cornell avoided such.
Living a Revolution
By Ariella AzoulayWhen I started my research on the revolutions of the 18th century a few years ago, I was guided by the intuition that revolution is not an event but a special type of language—replete with its own syllables, sentences, sounds, images, movements, gestures, silences, intervals, etc.
When the Time Comes
By Josef WinklerA TRANSLATION OF Wenn es soweit istBY ADRIAN WEST The bone stock, said the ninety-year-old man with the grey- flecked moustache and the trimmed eyebrows, was brewed in the village by a little man who lived in miserable circumstances.
Plus ça devient vieux, Plus ça devient bête
The European Bourgeoisie in Michael Haneke’s Amour
By Jaap Verheul
Austrian-German filmmaker Michael Haneke is often considered the most “European” of directors.
Bring in Da Boise
By Ryan WenzelLike generations of choreographers, Trey McIntyre has set ballets to scores by Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Stravinsky. Yet the McIntyre that New York audiences have gotten to know in 2012 is not afraid to embrace more colloquial music.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
Art Criticism Today
By Irving SandlerSince the 1990s, growing numbers of art critics have come to believe that the art market had infiltrated every sector of the art world and had devalued art criticism’s role in shaping the art world consensus. As one art writer said, he feels like a piano player in a whorehouse.
ArtSeen
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The Diagnostic Essay
– By Alex Bacon -
Everything That Matters
– By Daniel Baird -
“Is There a Crisis in Art Criticism?”*
Response from Marek Bartelik -
Dress Trope
– By Bill Berkson -
Responses for Irving Sandler (A Later Seizure), November 21
– By Bill Berkson -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Robert Berlind -
Dear Irving
– By Phong Bui -
How it Appears
– By Jarrett Earnest -
Post-Critical
– By Hal Foster -
If Picasso Is So Sexy, Why Is No One On TV Talking About Art?
– By Christopher French -
The Incredible Shrinking Art Critic
– By Eleanor Heartney -
Irving:
– By Dave Hickey -
Popcorn Manifesto
– By David Humphrey -
Critical Acts
– By Richard Kalina -
The Four Corners of Painting
– By Richard Kalina -
Three Crises
– By Pepe Karmel -
The Persistence of Art Criticism
– By Vincent Katz -
A Fork in the Linguistic Road
– By Max Kozloff -
Dear Irving
– By David Levi Strauss -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Kim Levin -
The End of Reading
– By Jonathan T.D. Neil -
What’s So Important About Criticism?
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Jed Perl -
Middlebrow? Smile When You Say That
– By Peter Plagens -
Performance Anxiety
– By Nancy Princenthal -
Thanks for the Memory
– By Barbara Rose -
Renewable Energy for Criticism
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
What’s Lost is What I Want
– By Ed Schad -
Criticism and Self-Criticism
– By Barry Schwabsky -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Martha Schwendener -
Ars Critica
– By Robert Storr -
Art Criticism & Social Media
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
The World Out There
– By Amei Wallach -
Crit Lit
– By Lilly Wei -
A Good Painting is Better and More Interesting Than a Stick in the Eye
– By Stephen Westfall -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Karen Wilkin -
Quarterdeck Reflections
– By Alexi Worth -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Christian Viveros-Faune -
EYEWITNESS: Reflections on Richard Artschwager’s “Untitled,” 1971
– By Michael Torlen -
BERNINI: Sculpting in Clay
– By Brandt Junceau -
TOM BURCKHARDT Pretty Little Liars
– By Corina Larkin -
Devin Powers, Paintings
– By Jonathan Goodman -
FERDINAND HODLER View to Infinity
– By Chloé Rossetti -
The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MICHAL ROVNER Topography
– By Robert C. Morgan -
JOSEF SUDEK The Legacy of a Deeper Vision
– By David Carrier -
PICASSO Black and White
– By Valery Oisteanu -
ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972
– By William Corwin
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Art Criticism Today
– By Irving Sandler
Local
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Brooklyn Eagle, July 14, 1897 DELUGE FROM SEA AND SKY RAIN AND HIGH TIDES CAUSE DAMAGE ON THE ISLAND. GRAIN AND HAY CROPS INJURED.
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AFTER SANDY, the People’s Relief Grows in Coney
– By Williams Cole -
The Brown Girl of Bed-Stuy’s Brownstones
– By Ron Howell -
In the Beginning, All Need the Word
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
When the Drumming Stops
– By Steve Wishnia
Express
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The Brooklyn Rail’s Player-of-the-Year, 2012
– By Theodore Hamm -
My Wounded Constitution
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
A VIEW FROM THE EAST PANKAJ MISHRA with Hirsh Sawhney
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Reading Eugene Genovese in the Age of Occupy
– By Stuart Schrader -
Searching for the “I” in History
– By Abby Margulies -
His Mother’s Son
– By Greg Ryan -
Twentieth-Century Blues
– By Kathy Smundak -
America’s First Foodie
– By Orli Van Mourik
Art
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Herbie Vogel
– By Lucio Pozzi -
Time is an Emotional Muscle BARBARA HAMMER with Jarrett Earnest
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BIRDHEAD with Charles Schultz
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A letter from JOSEPH CORNELL to DOROTHEA TANNING
– By Robert Kelly -
ALICE CHANNER with Barry Schwabsky
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Living a Revolution
– By Ariella Azoulay -
Figuring It Out: Bard’s Low-Residency M.F.A. Program
– By Steel Stillman
ArtSeen
-
The Diagnostic Essay
– By Alex Bacon -
Everything That Matters
– By Daniel Baird -
“Is There a Crisis in Art Criticism?”* Response from Marek Bartelik
-
Dress Trope
– By Bill Berkson -
Responses for Irving Sandler (A Later Seizure), November 21
– By Bill Berkson -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Robert Berlind -
Dear Irving
– By Phong Bui -
How it Appears
– By Jarrett Earnest -
Post-Critical
– By Hal Foster -
If Picasso Is So Sexy, Why Is No One On TV Talking About Art?
– By Christopher French -
The Incredible Shrinking Art Critic
– By Eleanor Heartney -
Irving:
– By Dave Hickey -
Popcorn Manifesto
– By David Humphrey -
Critical Acts
– By Richard Kalina -
The Four Corners of Painting
– By Richard Kalina -
Three Crises
– By Pepe Karmel -
The Persistence of Art Criticism
– By Vincent Katz -
A Fork in the Linguistic Road
– By Max Kozloff -
Dear Irving
– By David Levi Strauss -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Kim Levin -
The End of Reading
– By Jonathan T.D. Neil -
What’s So Important About Criticism?
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Jed Perl -
Middlebrow? Smile When You Say That
– By Peter Plagens -
Performance Anxiety
– By Nancy Princenthal -
Thanks for the Memory
– By Barbara Rose -
Renewable Energy for Criticism
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
What’s Lost is What I Want
– By Ed Schad -
Criticism and Self-Criticism
– By Barry Schwabsky -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Martha Schwendener -
Ars Critica
– By Robert Storr -
Art Criticism & Social Media
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
The World Out There
– By Amei Wallach -
Crit Lit
– By Lilly Wei -
A Good Painting is Better and More Interesting Than a Stick in the Eye
– By Stephen Westfall -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Karen Wilkin -
Quarterdeck Reflections
– By Alexi Worth -
Re: Art Criticism Today
– By Christian Viveros-Faune -
EYEWITNESS: Reflections on Richard Artschwager’s “Untitled,” 1971
– By Michael Torlen -
BERNINI: Sculpting in Clay
– By Brandt Junceau -
TOM BURCKHARDT Pretty Little Liars
– By Corina Larkin -
Devin Powers, Paintings
– By Jonathan Goodman -
FERDINAND HODLER View to Infinity
– By Chloé Rossetti -
The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MICHAL ROVNER Topography
– By Robert C. Morgan -
JOSEF SUDEK The Legacy of a Deeper Vision
– By David Carrier -
PICASSO Black and White
– By Valery Oisteanu -
ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972
– By William Corwin
Books
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A Compelling, If Foggy Debut
– By Rayyan Al-Shawaf -
A Second Birth
– By Larissa Zimberoff -
Against the Law
– By Gabriel Don -
Pain on Both Sides
– By Kenan Trebincevic -
JOSHUA HENKIN with Hirsh Sawhney
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BLAKE BUTLER, VANESSA PLACE, and CHRISTOPHER HIGGS with S. Tremaine Nelson
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DEBRA DIBLASI and SAM WITT of Jaded Ibis Press with Liz Axelrod
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On the Road Again
– By Jim Feast -
Against a narcotic culture whose primary desire is stupefaction Andrea Scrima talks to Rainer J. Hanshe, founder of Contra Mundum Press
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On Board with The Atavist
– By Christopher Carbone
Music
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BAM Next Wave, Part I
– By George Grella -
World Music in the Cradle of (Someone’s) Democracy
– By George Sempepos -
Hell, Set to Music
– By David St.-Lascaux -
“WE TALK REAL FUNNY DOWN HERE” Randy Newman’s “Birmingham” as Ironic Southern Anthem
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Reading and Listening with Listener
– By Nicolle Elizabeth
Dance
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Bring in Da Boise
– By Ryan Wenzel -
ELIZABETH STREB: An Introduction
– By Nancy Dalva -
KYLE ABRAHAM with Ryan Wenzel
Film
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Plus ça devient vieux, Plus ça devient bête The European Bourgeoisie in Michael Haneke’s Amour
– By Jaap Verheul -
NIHIL UNBOUND Rick Alverson’s The Comedy
– By Jason LaRivière -
RETURNING THE FOURTH WALL Reenactment as Recursion at CPH:DOX
– By Rachael Rakes -
A HOLLIS FRAMPTON ODYSSEY
– By Leo Goldsmith -
FACES Middle of Nowhere and Nothing But A Man
– By Katie Rogin -
THE OUTER LIMITS First Look at Museum of the Moving Image
– By Leo Goldsmith
Theater
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When Machines Fail: Paula Vogel and A Civil War Christmas
– By Jessica Dickey -
Madness and Martyrdom in La Divina Caricatura LEE BREUER with Kyoung H. Park
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Uptown to the Grand Canyon and Onward to the Sea SETH NUMRICH with Libby Woodbridge
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Jesus in India: Finding Out Who We Are with Lloyd Suh
– By Matthew Paul Olmos
Fiction
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When the Time Comes
– By Josef Winkler -
Excerpted from CITY OF ANGELS: or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud, A NOVEL
– By Christa Wolf, translated from the German by Damion Searls -
Arrowschmitt!!!
– By Arryan Decatur -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
New England
– By Matthew Thurber -
Extracts from the 65th Anniversary Edition of Raymond Queneau's Exercises In Style
– By Raymond Queneau, Harry Mathews, Shane Jones, and Chris Clarke
Poetry
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Two
– By Allan M. Jalon -
The Answers to the Questions
– By Robert Hershon -
Three
– By Sandra Simonds -
Four
– By Jim Behrle
Art Books
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Another Language
– By Adam Bell -
Rookie Yearbook One
– By Maura M. Lynch
