BRUCE CONNER It’s All True
By Matthew BiroIt’s taken a long time for Bruce Conner (1933 – 2008), the polymath San Francisco artist who was a major force in the development of both found-object sculpture and experimental film in the United States, to be given a major retrospective.
Labor Costs and the Life of the Mind
By Samuel FeldblumOn August 23, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided that graduate student workers at private universities may unionize and bargain collectively. The ruling ended a twenty-month wait for Columbia graduate students, who had petitioned the NLRB in late 2014.
Flick
by Raymond Roussel, translated from the French by Fedra RodrÃÂguez HinojosaThe verses of the double in the piece of the Shark in Red Pumps were written by me. All this is to say that an issue of particular importance drew me that very evening into the spectacle of my friends Waffle and Torch.
Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
By Alexandra FowleIn 2005, Andrea Fraser wrote that, whether one’s name is attached to an institution or not, anyone associated with the art world is, by default, a participant in the institution; her statement amounted to an invocation to participate in repairing a broken system.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiHaving just commemorated the fifteen-year anniversary of 9/11, we are reminded to consider the psychology of violence: it amplifies a feeling of safety by remaining distant, until it strikes.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
We Pluck this Flower Safely:
James Baldwin and the Present, Nettle Danger
By Rich Blint
I am confounded when the elementary assertion that race and its afterlives persist in America as a clinical matter and pathological affair is read as outrageous charge and treasonous indictment.
Critics Page
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“A House Built on Bondage Cannot Stand”
– By Chris Winks -
Each of Us Contains the Other:
– By Claudia Roth Pierpont
James Baldwin’s Steadfast Morality -
The General is in the House
– By Patricia Spears Jones -
Courting the End of the World:
– By James T. Roane
Heeding James Baldwin’s Invitation to take up a Dangerous Morality -
The Victory Not Yet Won
– By John Keene -
“Love is a Growing Up”
– By Erica Hunt -
The Seer: James Baldwin and the (Death) Mask in Immarginations
– By Tracie Morris
ArtSeen
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Mall and Mosque: Authority Appraised and Approved
– By Mira Dayal
SOPHIA AL-MARIA Black Friday -
BRUCE CONNER It’s All True
– By Matthew Biro -
TARYN SIMON An Occupation of Loss
– By David A. Willis -
MATTHEW BARNEY Facility of Decline
– By Darragh McNicholas -
VICTOR BURGIN
– By Phillip Griffith -
LYNDA BENGLIS
– By David Rhodes -
PETER SHIRE
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Take Me (I’m Yours)
– By Hannah Sage Kay -
KYLE STAVER
– By Kate Liebman -
BRADLEY WALKER TOMLIN A Retrospective
– By Joyce Beckenstein -
Occupy Peace
– By Phong Bui -
DONALD MOFFETT Any Fallow Field
– By Phong Bui
Table of Contents
Co-Founder's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
Art
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MIERLE LADERMAN UKELES with Maya Harakawa
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MELEKO MOKGOSI with Allie Biswas
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ANDREA ZITTEL with Laila Pedro
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historical snapshot Interview with Salvador Allende
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DOUGLAS CRIMP with Jarrett Earnest
ArtSeen
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Mall and Mosque: Authority Appraised and Approved SOPHIA AL-MARIA Black Friday
– By Mira Dayal -
BRUCE CONNER It’s All True
– By Matthew Biro -
TARYN SIMON An Occupation of Loss
– By David A. Willis -
MATTHEW BARNEY Facility of Decline
– By Darragh McNicholas -
VICTOR BURGIN
– By Phillip Griffith -
LYNDA BENGLIS
– By David Rhodes -
PETER SHIRE
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Take Me (I’m Yours)
– By Hannah Sage Kay -
KYLE STAVER
– By Kate Liebman -
BRADLEY WALKER TOMLIN A Retrospective
– By Joyce Beckenstein -
Occupy Peace
– By Phong Bui -
DONALD MOFFETT Any Fallow Field
– By Phong Bui
Critics Page
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“A House Built on Bondage Cannot Stand”
– By Chris Winks -
Each of Us Contains the Other: James Baldwin’s Steadfast Morality
– By Claudia Roth Pierpont -
The General is in the House
– By Patricia Spears Jones -
Courting the End of the World: Heeding James Baldwin’s Invitation to take up a Dangerous Morality
– By James T. Roane -
The Victory Not Yet Won
– By John Keene -
“Love is a Growing Up”
– By Erica Hunt -
The Seer: James Baldwin and the (Death) Mask in Immarginations
– By Tracie Morris
Books
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Writing Outside Time
– By Joshua Alvarez -
Kafka’s Konundrum: Narcissism, Self-Surveillance, and Unreality
– By Christine Cheon -
Little Moments CHARLES BOCK in conversation with Joseph Salvatore
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Melissa Yancy’s Exacting, Precise World
– By Weston Cutter -
There’s No Place Like Time, or The Art of Trash Diaries, Curiosity Cabinets, & Determined Noticing LANCE and ANDI OLSEN in conversation with Renée E. D’Aoust
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Deep Monstrosity
– By Weston Cutter -
Selling Our Cities
– By Artie Niederhoffer -
From the Ground Up
– By Hilary Reid -
All the Furious Living and all the Furious Dying
– By Tony Leuzzi -
Down on the Cutting Room Floor
– By John Madera -
NOTHING IN, NOTHING OUT T.C. BOYLE with Catherine LaSota
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Medical Cultures
– By Brian O'Doherty -
Day In, Day Out
– By Sara Roffino
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella -
Read the Label
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
Trust in the Label(s)
– By George Grella -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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Family as a Battlefield nora chipaumire at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
– By Ivan Talijancic -
STEVEN MELENDEZ with Gillian Jakab
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I Want to Tell You Some Things
– By Erica Getto -
Grand, Pleasurable, and Accessible
– By Susan Yung
Film
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TRINH T. MINH-HA with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa & Patricia Alvarez
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HERE’S TO THE CRAZY ONES Bertrand Bonello’s Nocturama
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DO YOUR OWN STYLE: On John Wilson
– By Dan Sullivan -
RED AGAIN On Owen Hatherley’s The Chaplin Machine
– By Celluloid Liberation Front
Theater
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THE REST I MAKE UP: MARÍA IRENE FORNÉS Michelle Memran with Katie Pearl
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THE SOL PROJECT JACOB PADRÓN with John Michael DiResta
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FACING JUDGEMENT DAY Doomocracy Comes to the Brooklyn Army Terminal
– By Andi Stover -
Sounding Like Qui Nguyen: Vietgone
– By Trista Baldwin
Fiction
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Flick
– by Raymond Roussel, translated from the French by Fedra RodrÃÂguez Hinojosa -
inSerial: parts one & two Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh -
an extract from Martutene
– by Ramon Saizabitoria, translated from the Basque by Aritz Branton. Out now from Hispabooks Publishing. -
LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 2: The Oilbird: Negrisis Giganticus
– By Sid Gershgoren -
an extract from Memoirs of a Polar Bear
– by Yoko Tawada, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky. Out next month from NEW DIRECTIONS. -
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
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Dropout Poem
– By Camilo Roldán -
Four
– By Joanna Fuhrman -
Four
– By Bianca Stone -
from Maybe the Sweet Honey Pours
– By Paolo Javier -
Four
– By Jessica Fiorini
Verbatim
Art Books
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Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
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Bruce Davidson: Survey
– By Zack Hatfield
Special Report
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SPECIAL REPORT Dispatches from the Campaign
– By David Levi Strauss
Field Notes
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The Republicans Have Been Trumped
– By Charlie Post -
Labor Costs and the Life of the Mind
– By Samuel Feldblum -
We Are Not in Possession of Power; We Are in Possession of the Government: The Long Goodbye of Social Democracy in Latin America
– By Matthew Whitley -
Seizing Freedom: DAVID ROEDIGER with Peter St. Clair
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On Time and a Half, Learning Disabilities, Secondary Gain, and the Business of Mental Health
– By Jose A. Tapia
The Well
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Rosemary’s Greenpoint Tavern
– By Sara Christoph
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