Suffusing Form with Activism
By Susan YungDance can be rewarding for its simple humanity and kineticism, particularly in the hands (and feet, and legs, and torsos) of accomplished companies like the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which had its annual month-long run in December.
Bearing Witness, Mendieta Now
By Vanessa ThillDeath is palpable in Ana Mendieta’s work, as a body undergoes elemental transformation. Grave-like pits, gushing blood, and gunpowder silhouettes operate on a symbolic and primordial level, but it’s important to note that some of her earliest work was a direct response to the rape and murder of a nursing student on her college campus in 1973 at University of Iowa.
The Death of John Berger
By David Levi StraussJohn Berger died just as the United States of America was crossing over from the triumph of neoliberalism to the final melding of corporate power with state power that defines fascism.
Passing Notes with Refugees
By Ilana SimonsThe Iranian refugees in Calais sewed their mouths shut and went on a twenty-five-day hunger strike, after authorities destroyed the tents they were living in while they waited for asylum.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiThe day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, my partner and I, together with art-world friends and family, filled two buses that took us to the historic Women’s March in Washington, D.C. We all knew in our gut that this event would be remembered with great significance.
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Gut Feeling
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Martha Friedman Dancing Around Things -
TM DAVY Horses
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Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975
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PETER CAMPUS
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Man-o Man-ifesto!
– By Alexandra Juhasz -
Alice Neel, Collector of Souls
– By Jurriaan Benschop -
Vel Minimum
– By Tom McGlynn -
Marilyn Minter Pretty/Dirty
– By Hannah Stamler -
Kader Attia Reason’s Oxymorons
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Dispatches
– By Samuel Feldblum -
Bhupen Khakhar You Can’t Please All
– By Michelle Standley -
A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
– By Mary Ann Caws -
A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
– By Hovey Brock -
Bearing Witness, Mendieta Now
– By Vanessa Thill -
Lenore Malen Scenes from Paradise
– By Ann McCoy -
Popped from Life (for E. M.)
– By Phong Bui -
Colonization of Space
– By Phong Bui
Table of Contents
Co-Founder's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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JACK WHITTEN with Jarrett Earnest
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Hilton Als on Alice Neel
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EUGENE LEMAY with Phong Bui
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When the Dada Daddies Got Real; Or, How I Turned Picabia Inside Out
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The Death of John Berger
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DAVID SALLE with Jarrett Earnest
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CHRISTOPHER LE BRUN with Barbara Rose
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JAUME PLENSA with Laila Pedro
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“What Forms of Making Might Spin the Stories We Need to Lift Ourselves from the Distractions of the Immediate?” ANN HAMILTON with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
ArtSeen
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Gut Feeling Martha Friedman Dancing Around Things
– By Erin Sweeny -
TM DAVY Horses
– By Stephen Truax -
Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975
– By David Rhodes -
PETER CAMPUS
– By Hearne Pardee -
Man-o Man-ifesto!
– By Alexandra Juhasz -
Alice Neel, Collector of Souls
– By Jurriaan Benschop -
Vel Minimum
– By Tom McGlynn -
Marilyn Minter Pretty/Dirty
– By Hannah Stamler -
Kader Attia Reason’s Oxymorons
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
Dispatches
– By Samuel Feldblum -
Bhupen Khakhar You Can’t Please All
– By Michelle Standley -
A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
– By Mary Ann Caws -
A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
– By Hovey Brock -
Bearing Witness, Mendieta Now
– By Vanessa Thill -
Lenore Malen Scenes from Paradise
– By Ann McCoy -
Popped from Life (for E. M.)
– By Phong Bui -
Colonization of Space
– By Phong Bui
Books
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The Noise of the Rain
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Down with the Corpocratic Monoculture! Holly Tavel with Angela Woodward
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The Beasts in Me
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Exile on Main Street
– By Tadzio Koelb -
Relationships Require Fictions to Sustain Them: Jonathan Baumbach with Charles Shafaieh
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The Poet As Caretaker (having said too much having not gotten it all down)
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Picking at the Whole Notion of Story
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MAUREEN N. MCLANE with Alex Dueben
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Review of The Patriots
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The Parts That Were Mysterious Even to Me ROBERT KLOSS with Amber Sparks
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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Diary of a Mad Composer
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Legacy in Action: Pharoah Sanders
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Optimism, Restraint, and Repetition
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
Dreaming Of A Not-White Winter Jazzfest
– By Daniel Gold -
Fusing Beauty with Anger The Liberation Music Orchestra
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Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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Suffusing Form with Activism
– By Susan Yung -
Re-performing Images of Violence and Beauty
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Walking On Common Ground
– By Erica Getto -
The Making of Modernities
– By Sariel Frankfurter
Film
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Even The Dead Will Not Be Safe Montage, History, and Cutting Art Museums
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“You’re the Nigger, Baby” James Baldwin on Film
– By Rich Blint -
WOLFGANG STAEHLE Ludlow Street
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ACTION MOVIES “Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power”
– By Michael Joshua Rowin
Theater
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Two Playwrights of a Certain Age DAN FINGERMAN with Steven Carl McCasland
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We Are All Very Talky Tiny Little Band’s Your Hair Looked Great
– By Alexander Borinsky
Fiction
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Sand Fortress
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The Guest
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Manhattan Meets Dixie
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Chanel at the Bottom of the Ocean
– By Stephanie Ye -
Household Harmonizing
– By Dorin Schumacher -
inSerial: part five Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh -
Tragic Strip
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Bigly's Wall
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LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 5: The Pre-Partum Mites (Acarophenax imaginaria)
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Upon waking an homage to Mierle Laderman Ukeles
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New Routes in Fiction A Talk with Akhil Sharma
– by Alec Niedenthal
Poetry
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Eight
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Ankara
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from Shine
– By Dale Martin Smith -
Reckoning
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Five
– By Elaine Equi -
DRAFT (September 29, 2016)
– By Anna Moschovakis -
Six from Existing Models With Intrusive Noise
– By Jeremy Hoevenaar -
Six
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Four
– By Laura Henriksen -
Five
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HIST ODRES DE PARADISE (13 poems)
– By Brandon Shimoda
Verbatim
Art Books
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Art Systems and Hélio Oiticica
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Mark Neville, Fancy Pictures
– By Adam Bell -
René Magritte: Selected Writings
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Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer
– By Phillip Griffith
Field Notes
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Editor’s Note
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Elephant Blues
– By Pavlos Roufos -
Standing with Syrians: An Open Letter to an Anti-Imperialist
– By Philip Rizk -
Passing Notes with Refugees
– By Ilana Simons
The Well
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Marie’s Crisis
– By Sara Christoph
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