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Art In Conversation
PETAH COYNE with Jonathan Goodman
Petah Coyne, now entering maturity as an artist, is anything but waning in her art. Her current show in Galerie Lelong & Co. is an outstanding compilation of pieces that incorporate taxidermied birds, which are pinned to or inserted into what are usually decorative elements or large masses of material—including waxed flowers and inchoate bodies of cloth fabric. Helped by a team of collaborators, Coyne continues to address the large, imaginative themes of her career.
Art In Conversation
ALI BANISADR with Phong Bui
One of the most poignant responses to the perpetual condition of being in exile is credited to Jonas Mekas, the legendary Godfather of American Avant-garde cinema, when he was asked, “Where are you from?” he offered, “I was born and raised in Lithuania, I live in New York, and now my country is culture.”
Art In Conversation
KEITH SONNIER with Michael Straus
I first met Keith Sonnier several years ago on a party ship that was hired to follow a tugboat around Manhattan as it towed the first realization of Robert Smithson’s Floating Island.
Art In Conversation
BARBARA DAWSON & SEAN RAINBIRD with David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro
On successive mornings in July, in sunny Dublin, I had the privilege of interviewing two museum directors. We talked about practical and conceptual issues—and we discussed the history of their institutions
Art In Conversation
MICHAEL FOX and TONY ZANETTA with James Barron
Jayne County is a pioneering punk, trans performance artist. She escaped to New York City from Georgia as a young adult and shortly thereafter participated in the iconic Stonewall Riots.
Art In Conversation
PETER HALLEY with Tom McGlynn
Since the early 1980s the influence of Peter Halley’s writings, paintings, and installations has been widespread.
Everywhere and Nowhere
By Kim Levin“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.” Those all too familiar words of course are from Walter Benjamin, who committed suicide during his attempt to escape from Nazi-occupied Europe in 1940.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong Bui“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
Editor's Message Guest Critic
The Vanishing Middle
By Lane RelyeaNew Yorkers have witnessed a wave of mid-tier galleries close shop over the past year. Is this part of a wider trend?
Critics Page
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From Center to Middle and Back Again
– By Josh Rios -
Wasp sting
– By Matthew Goulish -
The Triumphant Middle
– By Blake Stimson -
Devouring the middle to see the ends
– By Stephanie Owens -
What Have We Done with the Autonomy of Art?
– By Mary Leclère -
Charles Gaines
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The Strategic Middle
– By Michelle Grabner
ArtSeen
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Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve -
Ellen Lesperance: Lily of the Arc Lights
– By Hovey Brock -
Katherine Bradford: Friends and Strangers
– By Lilly Wei -
Ivy Haldeman: The Interesting Type
– By Alex A. Jones -
Lineage: de Kooning and His Influence
– By Joachim Pissarro -
Judith Murray: Tempest
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
David Row: Counter Clockwise
– By William Corwin -
Vivian Springford
– By David Rhodes -
Abby Leigh: Sledgehammer Paintings
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Greg Burak: Visitations
– By Hadley Suter -
Eckhaus Latta: Possessed
– By J C -
Water Lilies: American Abstract Painting and the Last Monet
– By Hearne Pardee -
Dorian Gaudin: The Coffee Cup Spring
– By Louis Bury -
Dorothea Rockburne
– By A.V. Ryan -
Toyin Ojih Odutola: When Legends Die
– By Amber Jamilla Musser -
Marilyn Lerner: Walking Backward Running Forward
– By Jessica Holmes -
Anne Truitt: Paintings
– By Louis Block -
Gabriel Orozco
– By Benjamin Clifford -
Glen Fogel: With You... Me
– By Ida Pruitt -
Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Emily Jacir: La Mia Mappa
– By Alan Gilbert -
PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince
– By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla Musser -
Will Corwin: The Old Gods
– By Tom McGlynn -
Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns. Between Paris and Pont-Aven
– By William Davie -
Amanda Valdez: First Might
– By Grant Klarich Johnson -
Intimate Infinite: Imagine a Journey
– By David Carrier -
Lee Krasner: Mural Studies
– By Hovey Brock -
Brancusi & Duchamp: the Art of Dialogue
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948 - 1980
– By Bartolomeo Sala -
Samuel Jablon: Unstung
– By Ryan Chapman -
Colter Jacobsen: Essays
– By Maddie Klett -
Rachelle Dang: Southern Oceans
– By Nina Wolpow -
The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S.
– By Jessica Holmes -
Eugène Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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The Vanishing Middle
– By Lane Relyea
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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KEITH SONNIER with Michael Straus
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ALI BANISADR with Phong Bui
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PETAH COYNE with Jonathan Goodman
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BARBARA DAWSON & SEAN RAINBIRD with David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro
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Everywhere and Nowhere
– By Kim Levin -
PETER HALLEY with Tom McGlynn
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BENJAMIN PRITCHARD with Joseph Masheck
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PAUL MOGENSEN with Dan Gratz
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MICHAEL FOX and TONY ZANETTA with James Barron
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Forecasting Art and Social Justice*
– By Rehan Ansari
ArtSeen
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Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve -
Ellen Lesperance: Lily of the Arc Lights
– By Hovey Brock -
Katherine Bradford: Friends and Strangers
– By Lilly Wei -
Ivy Haldeman: The Interesting Type
– By Alex A. Jones -
Lineage: de Kooning and His Influence
– By Joachim Pissarro -
Judith Murray: Tempest
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
David Row: Counter Clockwise
– By William Corwin -
Vivian Springford
– By David Rhodes -
Abby Leigh: Sledgehammer Paintings
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Greg Burak: Visitations
– By Hadley Suter -
Eckhaus Latta: Possessed
– By J C -
Water Lilies: American Abstract Painting and the Last Monet
– By Hearne Pardee -
Dorian Gaudin: The Coffee Cup Spring
– By Louis Bury -
Dorothea Rockburne
– By A.V. Ryan -
Toyin Ojih Odutola: When Legends Die
– By Amber Jamilla Musser -
Marilyn Lerner: Walking Backward Running Forward
– By Jessica Holmes -
Anne Truitt: Paintings
– By Louis Block -
Gabriel Orozco
– By Benjamin Clifford -
Glen Fogel: With You... Me
– By Ida Pruitt -
Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Emily Jacir: La Mia Mappa
– By Alan Gilbert -
PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince
– By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla Musser -
Will Corwin: The Old Gods
– By Tom McGlynn -
Roderic O’Conor and the Moderns. Between Paris and Pont-Aven
– By William Davie -
Amanda Valdez: First Might
– By Grant Klarich Johnson -
Intimate Infinite: Imagine a Journey
– By David Carrier -
Lee Krasner: Mural Studies
– By Hovey Brock -
Brancusi & Duchamp: the Art of Dialogue
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948 - 1980
– By Bartolomeo Sala -
Samuel Jablon: Unstung
– By Ryan Chapman -
Colter Jacobsen: Essays
– By Maddie Klett -
Rachelle Dang: Southern Oceans
– By Nina Wolpow -
The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S.
– By Jessica Holmes -
Eugène Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
– By Alfred Mac Adam
1x1
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Thoughts on Mies’s Lemke House: Architecture—Feminism—Philosophy
– By Joseph Masheck
Critics Page
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From Center to Middle and Back Again
– By Josh Rios -
Wasp sting
– By Matthew Goulish -
The Triumphant Middle
– By Blake Stimson -
Devouring the middle to see the ends
– By Stephanie Owens -
What Have We Done with the Autonomy of Art?
– By Mary Leclère -
Charles Gaines
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The Strategic Middle
– By Michelle Grabner
Books
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Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know
– By Deena ElGenaidi -
Chelsea Hodson Dares Us to Desire
– By Erin Bartnett -
Shelley Jackson’s Riddance
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
The Dualities of Love and War
– By Maikie Paje -
Well-Trained into This Savage Vista
– By William Lessard -
The Aesthetic Animal
– By Taney Roniger -
Juxtapositions Across Languages: 3 by Poets & Traitors Press
– By Robert E. Tanner -
Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
Ivelisse Rodriguez’s Love War Stories
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
Roy Scranton’s We’re Doomed. Now What? Essays on War and Climate Change
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
The Jazz of Life: BUD SMITH with Nicholas Rys
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MATTHEW VOLLMER with Evan Lavender-Smith
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Women and War Literature
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The Disappearing Acts of Refuse
– By Chris Campanioni
Music
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Do Not Seek For Things Outside Yourself
– By George Grella -
Green Man Festival
– By Martin Longley -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Hard (not necessarily sad, certainly not tragic) Truths
– By Josh Sinton -
October Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Dance
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Fractured Dialogues: Juliana May’s Folk Incest
– By Rennie McDougall -
Ecstasy and Exorcism in Kimberly Bartosik’s I hunger for you
– By Ivan Talijancic -
The Shuffle
– By Erica Getto -
Finley's Current Politics, Loud and Clear
– By Mike Stinavage -
NY Quadrille: Modern Dances, Fresh Views
– By Susan Yung -
Migratory patterns: Sasha Waltz's recent works
– By Ivan Talijancic
Film
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What Do Images Do
– By Lucia Coco -
JODIE MACK with Leo Goldsmith
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Surveillance as the Shooting Script of Documentary
– By Shelby Shaw -
CAROLINE GOLUM with Gina Telaroli
– By Gina Telaroli
Theater
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HEIDI SCHRECK with Erin Courtney
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Entertaining Marx in the Machine of Capital
– By Adam R. Burnett
Fiction
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from Unclay
– By T. F. Powys -
from Americas
– By Thomas Boberg, translated from the Danish by Peter Sean Woltemade -
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #8: Travels
– By Tom Motley -
inSerial: part two The Mysteries of Paris
– By Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno -
New Routes in Fiction: JAMEL BRINKLEY with Alec Niedenthal
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Golthar, Terror of the Deep
– By Nathan Place
Poetry
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FATNESS
– By Diana Hamilton -
GILA RIVER
– By Brandon Shimoda
Art Books
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Ellie Ga’s Square Octagon Circle
– By Lee Ann Norman -
Genesis Breyer P‑Orridge’s Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master
– By Nick Bennett -
Aruna D’Souza’s Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts
– By Nico Wheadon -
Noah Charney’s The Museum of Lost Art
– By Olivia McEwan
In Memoriam
Field Notes
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THINKING ABOUT COMMUNISM
– By Charles Reeve -
Historical Inertia and Binary Stars
– By Eddie Dioguardi -
Crossing the River Styx: The Endgame
– By Peter St. Clair
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