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THE END OF AN ERA…

by Theodore Hamm

Local

In early October, after eleven years, two months and a handful of days in the same apartment, I moved out of Williamsburg. Perhaps you missed this somewhat-less-than-momentous news, but in my world, it was the stuff of banner headlines.

From A Fine Old Conflict

by Jessica Mitford

Express

In the following excerpt from her memoir A Fine Old Conflict (1977), Jessica Mitford describes her life in postwar Oakland, where she and her husband Bob Treuhaft raised a family and became active in left-wing politics.

HELMUT FEDERLE In Conversation with John Yau and Chris Martin

by Chris Martin and John Yau

Art

Just a day before the opening of his new exhibit, Scratching Away at the Surface (Peter Blum, 99 Wooster Street, October 29th, 2009–January 2, 2010) Helmut Federle welcomes Art Editor John Yau and painter Chris Martin at the gallery to talk about his life and work.

CARROLL DUNHAM In Conversation with Phong Bui

by Phong Bui

Art

Just a few days before his new exhibit at Gladstone Gallery on 24th Street in Chelsea (October 30th – December 5th, 2009), the painter Carroll Dunham paid a visit to Art International Radio to talk about his life and recent body of work.

BARRY SCHWABSKY In Conversation with Joan Waltemath

by Joan Waltemath

Art

Barry Schwabsky is an American art critic and poet living in London. His books include The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art (Cambridge University Press), Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting (Phaidon Press), Opera: Poems 1981-2002 (Meritage Press), and Book Left Open in the Rain (The Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions). He writes regularly for Artforum and The Nation, among others.

Urban Sensitivity: Seven Contemporary Japanese Artists by Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
Axell's Paradise: Last works (1971-1972) before she vanished by John Yau
Elizabeth Murray by Terry R Myers
Swantje Hielscher: A New World by Cassandra Neyenesch
Regina Jose Galindo by Thomas MIcchelli
Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield by Natalie Haddad
Next Wave Art by Shane McAdams
Sharon Horvath: Parts of a World by Ben La Rocco
Riccardo Vecchio: Recent Paintings by Cora Fisher
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess by Valery Oisteanu
Rakuko Naito: Permutation-Variant-Structure by Robert C. Morgan
Sally Mann: Proud Flesh by Lyle Rexer
paperpatterncolorculture by Emily Warner
Sandow Birk: American Qur'an by Tessa DeCarlo
Saul Leiter: Paintings by Roger Van Voorhees
Tauba Auerbach: Here and Now/And Nowhere by Kara L. Rooney
Letter from BERLIN by David Rhodes
Letter from LONDON by Sherman Sam

NOISE OF ART

by Tessa DeCarlo

Film

Almost a century after Marcel Duchamp’s nude headed down her staircase, contemporary art is still able to provoke surprise, anxiety, and anger—and not just in the hearts of Hilton Kramer and Rudolph Giuliani.

ALL AROUND BUT NEVER NEAR

by David Shirley

Music

I first heard Mary Margaret O’Hara’s extraordinary voice in 1992.

RANA HUSSEINI with Robert S. Eshelman

by Robert S. Eshelman

Express

In Murder in the Name of Honor (Oneworld), Jordanian journalist Rana Husseini describes how she became a leading voice against so-called honor killings, first, investigating the issue for the Jordan Times newspaper and, then, helping to found a grassroots movement seeking to end the practice.

ANNIE FREUD with Marek Bartelik

by Marek Bartelik and Annie Freud

Poetry

Annie Freud was born in London in 1948 and graduated in English and European Literature at the University of Warwick. She is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud, maternal granddaughter of sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, and the great grand daughter of Sigmund Freud.

RERUNS REZOOMED: a serial novel

by Jonathan Baumbach

Fiction

They come during the night, two men in stocking feet, and lift me out of bed while I am still, for all they know, asleep, and carry me between them down a narrow hallway that seems to go on forever.