Art In Conversation
On Larry Day
By Phong Bui , Sid Sachs, Ruth Fine, Bill Valerio, and Richard TorchiaOn November 7, 2021, Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia hosted a panel discussion on the exhibition Body Language: The Art of Larry Day, which was organized by Woodmere in conjunction with the Rosenwald-Wolf Galleries at University of the Arts and Arcadia Exhibitions at Arcadia University.
Art In Conversation
Radcliffe Bailey with Ksenia M. Soboleva
Ksenia M. Soboleva sits down with Radcliffe Bailey to discuss the wide scope of multifaceted references in his artistic practice from ancestral deities to family travels. They dive into the important role that music plays in Baileys life and work, the potential for memories to function as medicine, and his intimate relationship to Atlanta, where the artist has lived almost his entire life.
Art In Conversation
Debra Bricker Balken with David Levi Strauss
David Levi Strauss talks with Debra Bricker Balken about her new book, Harold Rosenberg: A Critics Life, and how the battles among New York writers, poets, intellectuals, and artists in the middle of the 20th century set the stage for what was to come in the 21st century, especially when it comes to arguments about the relation between art and politics.
Art In Conversation
Mary Ann Caws with Jared Daniel Fagen
In an essay on Joseph Cornells shadow boxes, Mary Ann Caws writes: The memory and the prophecy are not different: we must remember to remember. Whether familiar with or new to her work, one immediately encounters, here, the infinitive: the not yet that is and from where all else will come. More than just the genius of art criticism, more than merely a marvelous instance which is the surrealists desire to keep intact, this single line of poetrypenned more than twenty years agoremains one of the very principles of her poetics. Like Cornells Proustian remembrances, Bretons haunting Who am I? and Chars aphoristic-elliptical enjoinders, Mary Ann Caws makes us aware that lifethat primordial passagemust be looked at anew and with ever-renewed looking, if we are ever to see the red chili pepper affixed with wings that form the dragonfly, or fall madly in love and at the same time lovingly into madness.
Art In Conversation
On Jasper Johns
By Richard Shiff, Scott Rothkopf, and Carlos BasualdoRichard Shiff speaks with Scott Rothkopf and Carlos Basulado about their methodology for organizing the exhibition, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, the emotional range of Johnss work, and how the artists personality connects to his work.
Art In Conversation
Neil Jenney with Jason Rosenfeld
Jason Rosenefeld sits down with Neil Jenney on the occasion of Jenneys solo exhibition, AMERICAN REALISM TODAY, which features the series “Modern Africa,” and follows on Jenneys path of artistic experimentation from his early installations and metal wall sculpture, brushy oils on panels that he calls “Bad Paintings” in 1969 and 1970, through to his work of the last five decades that he refers to as “Good Paintings.”
Art In Conversation
Jennifer Packer with Amber Jamilla Musser
Amber Jamilla Musser sits down with Jennifer Packer to discuss Blackness, painting, and temporality. The lively conversation roams through art history, Black feminisms, and the political import of shifting hierarchies of valuation.
Art In Conversation
Cinga Samson with Amanda Gluibizzi
Cinga Samson was born in South Africa and spent his early life traveling back and forth between the Eastern and Western Capes. He received his art education from fellow artists, moving into a studio shared by the artists Gerald Tabata, Xolile Mtakatya, and Luthando Laphuwano who helped him to develop and hone his craft.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiAs weve been experiencing the extreme fragility of our democracy in the last few years, we came to finally realize there was no public intellectuals who would stand in the middle mediating, working with the broader public, our middle and working-class Americans as means to check and balance both the left and the right for their ineffective policies, here and abroad.
Editor's Message
Sounding the Idols
By W. J. T. MitchellIdolatry and iconoclasm are evil twins. They need each other, feed on each other. The idol is said to demand human sacrifice. The iconoclast responds by sacrificing idolaters, or (more likely) exterminating them without the dignity of sacrifice. See Exodus 32, in which Moses melts down the Golden Calf, forces the idolatrous Israelites to drink it, and massacres half his people. When Poussin paints this scene, he cannot help himself. As a painter, he must glorify the Calf and its maker, and shroud the furious Moses in darkness. Why does Aaron, the artist who made the idol, get away scot-free? Was Milton a true poet, and of the Devils Party?
Critics Page
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Idolizing Systems: That Doesnt Sound Right
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Resistant Noise
– By Janice Misurell-Mitchell -
Denounce, Resist, Change, Struggle
– By Charles Bernstein -
Oh, Say Can you Sing?
– By Hannah B Higgins -
Muse-ecology: on birds and other tuning forks
– By John Paul Ricco -
Ear Witness
– By Lawrence Abu Hamdan -
Untitled
– By Marjorie Perloff -
Narcissus in Black, Brown and White
– By Omar Kholeif -
Better a Good Ear than a Good Law
– By Peter Goodrich -
And They Dimmed the Sun
– By Tanya Jayani Fernando -
The Birth of Music out of the Spirit of Critical Idolatry?
– By Seth Brodsky -
The Idol of White, a CANTO (after EP)
– By Jon Bordo -
Iconophobia or idolatry
– By Luca Del Baldo
ArtSeen
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Ethan Ryman: Series: Still Lives and Dioramas
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Bruce Nauman: His Mark
– By Charles Schultz -
Madeleine Bialke: Long Summer
– By Elina Alter -
Michael Krebber: New Work
– By Louis Block -
Donald Judd: Paintings 1959-1961
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
Whitfield Lovell: Le Rouge et Le Noir
– By Hovey Brock -
Noah Landfield's Ephemeral Cities
– By William Corwin -
Jitish Kallat:Tmesis
– By William Corwin -
Dorothea Rockburne: Giottos Angels & Knots
– By Joseph Masheck -
Raqs Media Collective: HUNGRY FOR TIME
– By Klaus Speidel -
Facts of Light
– By Tim Maul -
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
– By Sid Sachs -
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
– By Amanda Gluibizzi -
Alex Katz
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Kara Walker: Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies & The Book of Hours
– By Susan Harris -
Robert Gober: “Shut up.” “No. You shut up.”
– By Brandt Junceau -
Catherine Murphy: Recent Work
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Tishan Hsu: skin-screen-grass
– By Cassie Packard -
Stephen Westfall: Persephone
– By Tom McGlynn -
Jeff Wall
– By David Carrier -
Gerald Jackson
– By Ksenia Soboleva -
Philip Pearlstein: I Love Mud
– By Jessica Holmes -
Larry Day
– By Conor Lauesen -
Domingo Guccione: Spiritual Geometry
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Rakuko Naito & Sono Kuwayama
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Roots/Anchors
– By Lilly Wei -
Stanley Whitney: TwentyTwenty
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa -
Winfred Rembert: 1945–2021
– By Dan Cameron -
Winfred Rembert: 1945–2021
– By Ann C. Collins -
KAWS: SPOKE TOO SOON
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Roxy Paine: Normal Fault
– By Gregory Volk -
Roxy Paine: Normal Fault
– By Jillian Russo -
Pablo Bronstein: Hell in its Heyday
– By Maximiliane Leuschner -
Metabolic Rift
– By Joel Kuennen -
Myron Stout and Cycladic Art
– By Brandt Junceau -
Sacred Spaces
– By Mary Ann Caws -
William McKeown
– By Bryan Martin -
Alex Griffin: Passages
– By Jennifer Rose Bonilla-Edgington -
George Rickey: Monumental Sculpture on Park Avenue
– By Irene Lyla Lee -
Kandis Williams: A Line
– By Charlene K. Lau -
Myeongsoo Kim and Cy Morgan: Classical Mechanics
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa -
Dorothea Rockburne: Giotto’s Angels and Knots
– By Charles Schultz -
John Coplans: La Vie des Formes
– By Alex Merola -
Ambrose Rhapsody Murray: Within Listening Distance of the Sea…
– By Charles Moore -
Mother and Child
– By Ekalan Hou -
Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art
– By Charlotte Kent -
Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive
– By Adriana Furlong -
In Support
– By Susan Harris -
Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi — Marvellous Entanglement
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
Mike Shultis: Animal Crackers
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Sounding the Idols
– By W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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On Larry Day
– By Phong Bui , Sid Sachs, Ruth Fine, Bill Valerio, and Richard Torchia -
Radcliffe Bailey with Ksenia M. Soboleva
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Debra Bricker Balken with David Levi Strauss
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Mary Ann Caws with Jared Daniel Fagen
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Neil Jenney with Jason Rosenfeld
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Jennifer Packer with Amber Jamilla Musser
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On Jasper Johns
– By Richard Shiff, Scott Rothkopf, and Carlos Basualdo -
Cinga Samson with Amanda Gluibizzi
ArtSeen
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Ethan Ryman: Series: Still Lives and Dioramas
– By Phong Bui -
Bruce Nauman: His Mark
– By Charles Schultz -
Madeleine Bialke: Long Summer
– By Elina Alter -
Michael Krebber: New Work
– By Louis Block -
Donald Judd: Paintings 1959-1961
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
Whitfield Lovell: Le Rouge et Le Noir
– By Hovey Brock -
Noah Landfield's Ephemeral Cities
– By William Corwin -
Jitish Kallat:Tmesis
– By William Corwin -
Dorothea Rockburne: Giottos Angels & Knots
– By Joseph Masheck -
Raqs Media Collective: HUNGRY FOR TIME
– By Klaus Speidel -
Facts of Light
– By Tim Maul -
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
– By Sid Sachs -
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
– By Amanda Gluibizzi -
Alex Katz
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Kara Walker: Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies & The Book of Hours
– By Susan Harris -
Robert Gober: “Shut up.” “No. You shut up.”
– By Brandt Junceau -
Catherine Murphy: Recent Work
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Tishan Hsu: skin-screen-grass
– By Cassie Packard -
Stephen Westfall: Persephone
– By Tom McGlynn -
Jeff Wall
– By David Carrier -
Gerald Jackson
– By Ksenia Soboleva -
Philip Pearlstein: I Love Mud
– By Jessica Holmes -
Larry Day
– By Conor Lauesen -
Domingo Guccione: Spiritual Geometry
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Rakuko Naito & Sono Kuwayama
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Roots/Anchors
– By Lilly Wei -
Stanley Whitney: TwentyTwenty
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa -
Winfred Rembert: 1945–2021
– By Dan Cameron -
Winfred Rembert: 1945–2021
– By Ann C. Collins -
KAWS: SPOKE TOO SOON
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Roxy Paine: Normal Fault
– By Gregory Volk -
Roxy Paine: Normal Fault
– By Jillian Russo -
Pablo Bronstein: Hell in its Heyday
– By Maximiliane Leuschner -
Metabolic Rift
– By Joel Kuennen -
Myron Stout and Cycladic Art
– By Brandt Junceau -
Sacred Spaces
– By Mary Ann Caws -
William McKeown
– By Bryan Martin -
Alex Griffin: Passages
– By Jennifer Rose Bonilla-Edgington -
George Rickey: Monumental Sculpture on Park Avenue
– By Irene Lyla Lee -
Kandis Williams: A Line
– By Charlene K. Lau -
Myeongsoo Kim and Cy Morgan: Classical Mechanics
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa -
Dorothea Rockburne: Giotto’s Angels and Knots
– By Charles Schultz -
John Coplans: La Vie des Formes
– By Alex Merola -
Ambrose Rhapsody Murray: Within Listening Distance of the Sea…
– By Charles Moore -
Mother and Child
– By Ekalan Hou -
Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art
– By Charlotte Kent -
Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive
– By Adriana Furlong -
In Support
– By Susan Harris -
Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi — Marvellous Entanglement
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
Mike Shultis: Animal Crackers
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright
Critics Page
-
Idolizing Systems: That Doesnt Sound Right
– By Mieke Bal -
Resistant Noise
– By Janice Misurell-Mitchell -
Denounce, Resist, Change, Struggle
– By Charles Bernstein -
Oh, Say Can you Sing?
– By Hannah B Higgins -
Muse-ecology: on birds and other tuning forks
– By John Paul Ricco -
Ear Witness
– By Lawrence Abu Hamdan -
Untitled
– By Marjorie Perloff -
Narcissus in Black, Brown and White
– By Omar Kholeif -
Better a Good Ear than a Good Law
– By Peter Goodrich -
And They Dimmed the Sun
– By Tanya Jayani Fernando -
The Birth of Music out of the Spirit of Critical Idolatry?
– By Seth Brodsky -
The Idol of White, a CANTO (after EP)
– By Jon Bordo -
Iconophobia or idolatry
– By Luca Del Baldo
Books
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Sequoia Nagamatsu with Kurt Baumeister
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Kelly Groviers On the Line: Conversations with Sean Scully
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Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives
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Hiromi Kawakami’s People From My Neighborhood and Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go in the Dark
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Ricky Tucker with Justin Sherwood
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Shannon K. Winston ’s The Girl Who Talked to Paintings
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Sarah Schulman with Pac Pobric
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Bob Keyes’s The Isolation Artist
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Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
– By Alan Gilbert -
Ricardo Wilson’s An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories
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Emily Rapp Black with Claire Phillips
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Donna Schapers Remove the Pews
– By Rochelle Stackhouse
Music
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Sex, Night
– By Adolf Alzuphar -
Lea Bertucci, Christuskirche, Cologne
– By Martin Longley -
“Trust The Funk”
– By George Grella -
Gone Global
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
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The Fascist Turn and Dance
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So You Think You Can’t Dance?
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Rousing the Beast
– By Mike Stinavage
Film
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Mohammad Reza Aslani with Forrest Cardamenis
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All Too Hip, Not Too Jewish: Jake Kasdan’s The TV Set at 15 Years
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The 16th Cyprus International Film Festival
– By Harrison Blackman -
Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
– By Edward Mendez -
Ibrahim Mursal’s The Art of Sin
– By Farah Abdessamad
Theater
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SIOBHANS’ WHEEL WORLD
– By Erin Markey
Fiction
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from A Dream Life
– By Claire Messud -
from God of Mercy
– By Okezie Nwọka
Poetry
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Blah-ment
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Sunnylyn Thibodeauxs The World Exactly
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PUNKS
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“I translate the names of boys killed in Gaza”
– By Ghinwa Jawhari -
five
– By Rae Armantrout -
four
– By Steve Levine -
New Jars
– By Zachary Wollard -
Cliff Fyman’s Taxi Night
– Review by Jim Cohn -
“A running leap at the song”
– Review by Michael Cavuto -
Returning: Hank Lazer’s field recordings of mind in morning
– Review by Joel Chace
Art Books
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20 Best Art Books of 2021
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On Edward Hicks
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Bruce Naumans Spatial Encounters
– By Charlie M. Schultz -
Dara Birnbaum’s Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On/Deal With)
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Richard Kraft’s It Is What It Is: All the Cards Issued to Donald Trump, January 2017 - January 2021
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Pope.L, My Kingdom for a Title
– By Erica N. Cardwell -
Paolo Javier’s O.B.B. a.k.a. The Original Brown Boy
– By Megan N. Liberty -
Gregg Bordowitz’s Some Styles of Masculinity
– By Nick Bennett
ArTonic
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The Dedalus Foundation
– By Phyllis Tuchman
In Memoriam
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Bob Thompson
– By Jonathan Fineberg
Special Report
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Beyond Blame: An Essay/Prayer for Alec Baldwin
– By Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper
Field Notes
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Manifesto: No Evictions!
– By Brooklyn Eviction Defense -
“Striketober”: Hopes and Realities
– By Marianne Garneau -
“Striketober” and Labor’s Long Downturn
– By Jason E. Smith -
Capitalism, Rationality, and Steven Pinker
– By Amir Hernandez -
At the Origins of Treason to the White Race
– By Ferruccio Gambino
The Miraculous
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81. Queens
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
82. Fifth Avenue
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
83. 40 Wooster Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
84. Bond Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
85. A Rooftop in SoHo
– By Raphael Rubinstein