Art In Conversation
Jennie C. Jones with Ann C. Collins
Perception comes gradually, when the mind is quieted enough for awareness to seep in, and even then, it is never fixed. Mingling visual and aural work, lineage and legacy, Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics infuses the Guggenheim Museum with minimalist abstractions and tonal callings. The first Black woman to have a solo exhibition in Frank Lloyd Wrights iconic rotunda, Jones throws open long-held narratives of art history, expanding the tracings of inspiration and influence to include both Black and female histories. Mining a vein of work in which paintings stand as sculptures, music is rendered in graphic statements, and color becomes a source of light, Joness work throws us off balance, requires us to shift and reposition ourselves in response to her slow reveals. As her gentle harmonics roll down from the oculus, the space itself seems to sway and expand.
Art In Conversation
Faith Ringgold with Tschabalala Self
Faith Ringgold is an important artist who is currently the focus of two exhibitions in New York City. Her show at the New Museum, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari, and Madeline Weisburg, surveys her impressive six decade career, while the exhibition at ACA highlights the artists work in print mediums. On the occasion of these exhibitions, Tschabalala Self spoke with Faith Ringgold about growing up in Harlem, the roles of activism and writing in an artists practice, and the importance of seeing art from all cultures and places. Ringgolds long time friend and gallerist, Dorian Bergen, joined Ringgold for the conversation.
Art In Conversation
Meg Webster with Julie Reiss
Meg Websters concerns for the natural world have defined her career as an artist. She creates sculptures made of salt, earth, sand, grass, and other natural materials, and large-scale installations that provide an opportunity for interacting with nature and better understanding its processes. During the installation of her current exhibition at the Judd Foundation, she sat down with Julie Reiss to discuss the shifting meaning of her artworks, their dialogue with minimalism, and their timeliness.
Art In Conversation
Koho Yamamoto with Amanda Millet-Sorsa
We discuss the life and work of Japanese American artist Koho Yamamoto through several conversations over sushi and tea in her apartment above Bar Pitti on 6th Avenue in Greenwich Village, in anticipation of her centennial birthday in April 2022. After seeing the artists first big show at the Noguchi Museum, Koho Yamamoto: Under a Dark Moon (May 2021), I started as her student to learn Japanese calligraphy. Though she is a dedicated teacher of traditional sumi-e subjects and has taught for over fifty years, her own work stems from the ideas and thoughts developed in Postwar Abstract Expressionism in New York, where she has lived since 1945 after being held in the internment camps in Utah during WWII.
Art In Conversation
Eugenio Viola with Francesca Pietropaolo
This interview with the Italian-born and Bogotá-based curator Eugenio Viola, who curates the Italian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (opening later this month), took place on February 4, 2022. He from his home in Bogotá and I from mine in Venice, we connected via Zoom to talk about the possibilities and challenges of curatorial practice, the resilience of art in exploring memory and trauma, and the necessity to maintain a despite-everything optimism at this difficult historical juncture. Our dialogue encompassed Violas socially engaged projects at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotà, where he works, and his upcoming undertaking in Venice, with some incursions into his formative experiences in Naples.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiAs democracies rise and fall globally, so have endless crises of economic and social inequalities, ecological catastrophes, and forms of corruption as a result of personal greed and self-interest (not well-understood), which have allowed national conversations to be exploited by tyrants. Ours is no exception.
Editor's Message
Radical Poets of Different Feathers
By Luigi BalleriniA poetic text is a source of renewable linguistic energy, and since languagethe mysterious transformation of sound into sense and meaningis what make us human, you could also call it a source of vital energy, our mental and emotional breath, the winter of our discontent and the summer of our rejoicing.
Critics Page
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from Floodgate of Wind
– By Antonella Anedda Translated from the Italian by Eleonora Buonocore -
From Scraps
– By Mariano Bàino Translated from the Italian by Luigi Bonaffini -
The Trip
– By Mary Jo Bang -
three
– By Charles Bernstein -
Mandy
– By Anselm Berrigan -
Nest, Hospice, Prison Camp
– By Susan Briante -
(°) – seed
– By Maria Grazia Calandrone Translated from the Italian by Nicholas Benson -
from Every Five Strokes
– By Vincenzo Frungillo Translated from the Italian by Christina Vani -
from Excesses (on a little flight)
– By Marco Giovenale Translated from the Italian by V. Joshua Adams -
Romanticism
– By Peter Gizzi -
Gap and Erasure
– By John Latta -
Dreamlike
– By Laura Liberale Translated from the Italian by Murtha Baca and Federica Santini
(Homo Bulla) -
Porta Westfalica
– By Valerio Magrelli Translated from the Italian by Jamie McKendrick -
from Acavity of an Odyssey (Unfinished Mandala)
– By Ivan Schiavone Translated from the Italian by Alessandro Giammei -
three
– By Rosmarie Waldrop
ArtSeen
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Bridget Mullen: Quitters
– By William Corwin -
Duane Michals: Kaleidoscope
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Mia Westerlund Roosen: Aftermath
– By Lilly Wei -
Eleen Lin and Tammie Rubin: Mythodical
– By Madison Ford -
Yi To: Where the pebble hits the water
– By Nina Wolpow -
Richard Hawkins: The Forrest Bess Variations
– By Christian Liclair -
Robert Irwin: New Work
– By James Welling -
Rose Nestler: too bad for heaven, too good for hell
– By Elizabeth Buhe -
Maggi Hambling: Real time
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Adam McEwen: Execute
– By Amanda Gluibizzi -
Siobhan Liddell and Linda Matalon: Fragments
– By William Corwin -
Elbert Joseph Perez: Just Living the Dream
– By Clare Gemima -
Seether: Alexandra Hammond, Jackie Slanley, Virginia L. Montgomery (VLM)
– By Hovey Brock -
Frida Orupabo: Closed Up Like a Fist
– By Margarita Lila Rosa -
Leonardo Drew
– By Toby Kamps -
Vik Muniz: Scraps
– By Lyle Rexer -
Dewey Crumpler: Painting Is an Act of Spiritual Aggression
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Michael Rado: Show Your Work
– By Charles Schultz -
Dwight Cassin: Oronsay
– By S. David -
Jordan Belson: Landscapes
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Elaine Reichek: Material Girl
– By Norman L Kleeblatt -
Jim Osman: Walnut: Second Series
– By Tom McGlynn -
Jarrett Key: from the ground, up
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright -
Jacques-Louis David & Charles Ray
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
From Forces to Forms
– By William Corwin -
Rona Pondick
– By Susan Harris -
The Project of Independence
– By Maddie Klett -
Simone Fattal: Finding a Way
– By Maximiliane Leuschner -
Tadaaki Kuwayama
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Claude Rutault & Peter Nadin
– By Chris Murtha -
Jule Korneffel: Here comes the night
– By Andrew L. Shea -
Tabboo!: Cityscapes
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Mel Bochner: I STILL DON'T GET IT
– By Tom McGlynn -
Michael Heizer
– By Robert C. Morgan -
George Widener: COUNT DOWN
– By David Rhodes -
Yashua Klos: Our Labour
– By Jillian Russo -
Leidy Churchman: New You
– By Ksenia Soboleva -
Thomas Struth
– By James Welling -
Sascha Braunig: Lay Figure
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
Stephanie Dinkins: On Love and Data
– By Marcus Civin -
Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community
– By Jonathan Fineberg -
Barnett Newman & Brice Marden
– By Jessica Holmes -
Celebrating the City
– By Annabel Keenan -
Joe Bradley: Bhoga Marga
– By Charles Schultz -
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound
– By David Carrier -
Itziar Barrio:THE PERILS OF OBEDIENCE (PREMIERE)
– By Jillian McManemin -
Jonathan Baldock: Grave Goods
– By Helena Haimes
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
-
Radical Poets of Different Feathers
– By Luigi Ballerini
Art
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Jennie C. Jones with Ann C. Collins
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Faith Ringgold with Tschabalala Self
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Meg Webster with Julie Reiss
-
Koho Yamamoto with Amanda Millet-Sorsa
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Eugenio Viola with Francesca Pietropaolo
ArtSeen
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Bridget Mullen: Quitters
– By William Corwin -
Duane Michals: Kaleidoscope
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Mia Westerlund Roosen: Aftermath
– By Lilly Wei -
Eleen Lin and Tammie Rubin: Mythodical
– By Madison Ford -
Yi To: Where the pebble hits the water
– By Nina Wolpow -
Richard Hawkins: The Forrest Bess Variations
– By Christian Liclair -
Robert Irwin: New Work
– By James Welling -
Rose Nestler: too bad for heaven, too good for hell
– By Elizabeth Buhe -
Maggi Hambling: Real time
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Adam McEwen: Execute
– By Amanda Gluibizzi -
Siobhan Liddell and Linda Matalon: Fragments
– By William Corwin -
Elbert Joseph Perez: Just Living the Dream
– By Clare Gemima -
Seether: Alexandra Hammond, Jackie Slanley, Virginia L. Montgomery (VLM)
– By Hovey Brock -
Frida Orupabo: Closed Up Like a Fist
– By Margarita Lila Rosa -
Leonardo Drew
– By Toby Kamps -
Vik Muniz: Scraps
– By Lyle Rexer -
Dewey Crumpler: Painting Is an Act of Spiritual Aggression
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Michael Rado: Show Your Work
– By Charles Schultz -
Dwight Cassin: Oronsay
– By S. David -
Jordan Belson: Landscapes
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Elaine Reichek: Material Girl
– By Norman L Kleeblatt -
Jim Osman: Walnut: Second Series
– By Tom McGlynn -
Jarrett Key: from the ground, up
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright -
Jacques-Louis David & Charles Ray
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
From Forces to Forms
– By William Corwin -
Rona Pondick
– By Susan Harris -
The Project of Independence
– By Maddie Klett -
Simone Fattal: Finding a Way
– By Maximiliane Leuschner -
Tadaaki Kuwayama
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Claude Rutault & Peter Nadin
– By Chris Murtha -
Jule Korneffel: Here comes the night
– By Andrew L. Shea -
Tabboo!: Cityscapes
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Mel Bochner: I STILL DON'T GET IT
– By Tom McGlynn -
Michael Heizer
– By Robert C. Morgan -
George Widener: COUNT DOWN
– By David Rhodes -
Yashua Klos: Our Labour
– By Jillian Russo -
Leidy Churchman: New You
– By Ksenia Soboleva -
Thomas Struth
– By James Welling -
Sascha Braunig: Lay Figure
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
Stephanie Dinkins: On Love and Data
– By Marcus Civin -
Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art in Community
– By Jonathan Fineberg -
Barnett Newman & Brice Marden
– By Jessica Holmes -
Celebrating the City
– By Annabel Keenan -
Joe Bradley: Bhoga Marga
– By Charles Schultz -
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound
– By David Carrier -
Itziar Barrio:THE PERILS OF OBEDIENCE (PREMIERE)
– By Jillian McManemin -
Jonathan Baldock: Grave Goods
– By Helena Haimes
Critics Page
-
from Floodgate of Wind
– By Antonella Anedda Translated from the Italian by Eleonora Buonocore -
From Scraps
– By Mariano Bàino Translated from the Italian by Luigi Bonaffini -
The Trip
– By Mary Jo Bang -
three
– By Charles Bernstein -
Mandy
– By Anselm Berrigan -
Nest, Hospice, Prison Camp
– By Susan Briante -
(°) – seed
– By Maria Grazia Calandrone Translated from the Italian by Nicholas Benson -
from Every Five Strokes
– By Vincenzo Frungillo Translated from the Italian by Christina Vani -
from Excesses (on a little flight)
– By Marco Giovenale Translated from the Italian by V. Joshua Adams -
Romanticism
– By Peter Gizzi -
Gap and Erasure
– By John Latta -
Dreamlike (Homo Bulla)
– By Laura Liberale Translated from the Italian by Murtha Baca and Federica Santini -
Porta Westfalica
– By Valerio Magrelli Translated from the Italian by Jamie McKendrick -
from Acavity of an Odyssey (Unfinished Mandala)
– By Ivan Schiavone Translated from the Italian by Alessandro Giammei -
three
– By Rosmarie Waldrop
Books
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Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House
– By Tom Deignan -
Andrew Farkas with Kathleen Rooney
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Dana Levin with Tony Leuzzi
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Zachary Lazar with David Winner
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Betsy Prioleau with J.C. Hallman
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Lit de Marcel
– By Francis M. Naumann
Music
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Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella -
Moondog Music in Coventry Cathedral
– By Martin Longley -
Drums Talk
– By S. David -
This About That
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
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Kyle Marshall with Candice Thompson
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Duet with Void
– By Theo Armstrong -
Jamar Roberts’s Balletic Foray
– By Susan Yung
Film
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A24’s Folk Horror Boom and Bust
– By Payton McCarty-Simas -
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s The Gravedigger’s Wife
– By Farah Abdessamad -
Oliver Randall’s Tunnel-verse
– By Anaïs DerSimonian
Theater
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Treadmills & Windmills
– A short play by Maggie Kearnan, illustrations by Spencer Alton
Fiction
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The Book of Crow
– By Lyle Rexer -
Cooler Heads
– By Julian Tepper
Poetry
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– By Maryam Monalisa Gharavi -
three
– By Tyhe Cooper -
three
– By Karen Lepri -
eight
– By Eric Baus -
five
– By Lee Ann Brown -
four
– By Jennifer Bonilla-Edgington -
eight
– By Roberto Tejada -
Mark Pawlak with Michael Basinski
Art Books
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Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001
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Ann Marks’s Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny
– By Karen Chernick -
Carmen Winant’s Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now
– By Sarah Moroz -
Transmissions from the Pleroma and Stephen Housewright’s Partners
– By Eli Winter -
Candor Arts: The Chicago-Based Press Reenvisioning Equity in Arts Publishing
– By Leah Gallant
Field Notes
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Waking Up from Anesthesia: Decline and Violence in France
– By Alexis Moraitis -
Letter from Warsaw
– By Agata Tumiłowicz-Mazur -
Two Friends
– By Freddy Gomez -
Intellectuals and Activism
– By Sudip Bhattacharya
The Miraculous
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96. A second-floor gallery on Mercer and Prince Street, a studio in a former synagogue on Hester Street
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97. Greenpoint
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
98. The Lower East Side (mostly)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
99. Various locations around Manhattan; the Hudson River
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
100. East 19th Street near Union Square
– By Raphael Rubinstein