The N.Y.P.D. Clamps Down on Jazz
by Liliana SeguraLocal
At 8:45 a.m. on a frigid January morning, the protesters are warming up:
Mic Check! Mic Check!
CITYNOTES
Fear of the First Amendment
by Theodore Hamm
Local
According to Sean Barry of VOCAL-NY, the fear of police contact is a major problem for those trying to mobilize the citys poor to attend political protests.
AMATEUR NIGHT
A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
by Forrest Hylton
Express
Self-expression is not a crime, reads a piece of graffiti in East Williamsburg. Maybe it should be.
CARL ANDRE with Michèle Gerber Klein and Phong Bui
by Phong Bui and Michèle Gerber KleinArt
On the occasion of Carl Andres monograph Carl Andre: Things in Their Elements by Alistair Rider (Phaidon, 2011), and his forthcoming retrospective at Dia Art Foundation (March December 2013), the sculptor/poet welcomed contributing editor Michèle Gerber Klein and publisher Phong Bui to his West Village home to talk about his life and work.
ROSALIND KRAUSS with Yve-Alain Bois
by Yve-Alain BoisArt
On the occasion of her recent publication Under Blue Cup (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England) Yve-Alain Bois visited Rosalind Krausss SoHo loft/home to talk about the genesis that led to this particular volume and more.
DAVID HOCKNEY with William Corwin
by William CorwinArt
William Corwin visited David Hockney in his studio in Bridlington, Yorkshire, to discuss the paintings, iPad drawings, and videos that form the core of his show A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy in London (JanuaryApril 9, 2012).
LINDA MARY MONTANO with Charles Duncan
by Charles DuncanArt
On the occasion of her exhibition From Chakras to Glands at the Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster (October 13 November 11, 2011) and the release of her video Starved Survivors, performance and video artist Linda Mary Montano spoke with Charles Duncan about her current work, Catholic reawakening, and aging.
BILL JENSEN with Peter Brock
by Peter BrockArt
On the occasion of the painters recent exhibition at Cheim & Read, Bill Jensen welcomed the painter/contributing writer Peter Brock to his Williamsburg studio to talk about the new direction that has occurred in his work and more.
All Painting Only Painting
by Vincent Katz, February Art EditorBecause we believe it is necessary periodically to take the pulse of painting, we propose in this issue to use diverse forms of criticism to examine what one can see this month in New York City.
- DAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades by Bridget Goodbody
- DAINA HIGGINS New Paintings by Charles Schultz
- LOIS DODD New Panel Paintings by Sharon Butler
- Unlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN by Greg Lindquist
- DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 2011 by Corina Larkin
- LORI ELLISON by Corina Larkin
- GEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers by Valery Oisteanu
- Dark Christmas by Bradley Rubenstein
- ELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss by David Rhodes
- MALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes by Robert Storr
- Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS by Charles Schultz
- THE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France by Charles Schultz
- Anonymous Tantra Paintings by Noah Dillon
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SANGRAM MAJUMDAR
New Work by Kara L. Rooney - GUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Fathers Father by Paolo Javier
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SOTO Paris and Beyond,
1950 1970 by Cora Fisher - JESS Paintings by Phong Bui
- GEORGE MCNEIL by Robert Berlind
- VICTOR MATTHEWS by Vincent Katz
- LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy by David Markus
- THOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations by Kara L. Rooney
- MARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch by Robert Berlind
- PETER GALLO by Jonathan Goodman
- Connected by Noah Dillon
- KANDINSKY's Painting with White Border by Susan Bee
- BARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning by Robert Berlind
- December (Organized by Howie Chen) by Nathan Kernan
- EDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect by Robert Berlind
- JOSÉ RIVERA by Nathan Kernan
- REMBRANDTS WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection by Sara Christoph
- JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen by Linnea Kniaz
- The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini by Mira Schor
- BOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt by Jonathan Goodman
- DOUG WADA Americana by Lilly Wei
- Mind the Gap by Anne Sherwood Pundyk
- BILL JENSEN by Ben La Rocco
- WITHIN/WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ by Zachary Wollard
- SUSANNA HELLERs Studio by Robert Berlind
- STUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO by William Corwin
- Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy by Shane McAdams
- Letter from BERLIN by David Rhodes
- JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye by Robert C. Morgan
- GORDON MOORE by Joan Waltemath
- Aggregate (Clare Gasson, Nick Hornby, Connor Linskey) by Kathy Battista
- Master Bill at MoMA by Irving Sandler
Web Exclusive
PETER DOWNSBROUGH: Two Reviews
by Joseph MasheckArt Books
Ever since Lucy Lippard included him in Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object (1973), Peter Downsbrough (b. 1940) has accrued an extensive bibliographyowing to his expatriate situation in Brussels, almost exclusively European.
Breaking Down the Fourth WallAgain
by Andrew CappettaMusic
At the two-day Minor Musics Japan concert at ISSUE Project Room this past September, Takahiro Kawaguchi and Taku Unami (in a duo with Annette Krebs) proved that, although it is now a well-defined genre, experimental music in the Cagean vein has not become overly stylized and mannered.
A Little Heap for Dara Greenwald
by Rachael RakesFilm
Just a few days after the artist and activist Dara Greenwald passed away, a project to upload nearly all of her video work to Vimeo was close to completion.
Nigerian Spammer
by Adam FitzgeraldPoetry
Adam Fitzgerald edits Maggy Poetry Magazine and teaches poetry at Rutgers University and The New School. He lives in the East Village.
Full Contents
Local
- The N.Y.P.D. Clamps Down on Jazz by Liliana Segura
- Burlesque, Beer, and PowerPoint by Mary Mann
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CITYNOTES
Fear of the First Amendment by Theodore Hamm -
REPORT CARD
The Privatized Mind by Liza Featherstone - Music that Picks You Up by Eleanor J. Bader
- The Brief Histories & Modern Journey of a Vinyl Record by Sean Cooper
Express
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AMATEUR NIGHT
A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy by Forrest Hylton - LETTER FROM THE TRAIL: Atwaters Ghost by Michael Terry
- A Festival of Reason and the Art of Common Sense by Christopher Moylan
- Kristevas Top-Down Critique by R. H. Lossin
- Emmas Lyricism by Courtney Fiske
- American Ringstrasse by David Wescott
- WR: The Wanderings of a Lost Soul by David Rosen
Art
- ROSALIND KRAUSS with Yve-Alain Bois by Yve-Alain Bois
- LINDA MARY MONTANO with Charles Duncan by Charles Duncan
- DAVID HOCKNEY with William Corwin by William Corwin
- CARL ANDRE with Michèle Gerber Klein and Phong Bui by Phong Bui and Michèle Gerber Klein
- BILL JENSEN with Peter Brock by Peter Brock
ArtSeen
- DAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades by Bridget Goodbody
- DAINA HIGGINS New Paintings by Charles Schultz
- LOIS DODD New Panel Paintings by Sharon Butler
- Unlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN by Greg Lindquist
- DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 2011 by Corina Larkin
- LORI ELLISON by Corina Larkin
- GEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers by Valery Oisteanu
- Dark Christmas by Bradley Rubenstein
- ELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss by David Rhodes
- MALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes by Robert Storr
- Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS by Charles Schultz
- THE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France by Charles Schultz
- Anonymous Tantra Paintings by Noah Dillon
-
SANGRAM MAJUMDAR
New Work by Kara L. Rooney - GUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Fathers Father by Paolo Javier
-
SOTO Paris and Beyond,
1950 1970 by Cora Fisher - JESS Paintings by Phong Bui
- GEORGE MCNEIL by Robert Berlind
- VICTOR MATTHEWS by Vincent Katz
- LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy by David Markus
- THOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations by Kara L. Rooney
- MARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch by Robert Berlind
- PETER GALLO by Jonathan Goodman
- Connected by Noah Dillon
- KANDINSKY's Painting with White Border by Susan Bee
- BARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning by Robert Berlind
- December (Organized by Howie Chen) by Nathan Kernan
- EDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect by Robert Berlind
- JOSÉ RIVERA by Nathan Kernan
- REMBRANDTS WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection by Sara Christoph
- JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen by Linnea Kniaz
- The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini by Mira Schor
- BOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt by Jonathan Goodman
- DOUG WADA Americana by Lilly Wei
- Mind the Gap by Anne Sherwood Pundyk
- BILL JENSEN by Ben La Rocco
- WITHIN/WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ by Zachary Wollard
- SUSANNA HELLERs Studio by Robert Berlind
- STUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO by William Corwin
- Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy by Shane McAdams
- Letter from BERLIN by David Rhodes
- JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye by Robert C. Morgan
- GORDON MOORE by Joan Waltemath
- Aggregate (Clare Gasson, Nick Hornby, Connor Linskey) by Kathy Battista
- Master Bill at MoMA by Irving Sandler
Books
- Interview with Poet Jerry Williams "Gamblin' Man" by Adam Fitzgerald
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NONFICTION
OCCUPYING W. S. by William S. Niederkorn -
FICTION
Conquering the Third Reich by Ariell Cacciola -
NONFICTION
Snapshots of the Artist by Chris Campanioni -
POETRY
Lo and Behole by Alex Estes -
POETRY
Road to Nowhere by Jerome Murphy - The Stuart Sherman Spectacle by Liz Axelrod
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FICTION
SUI GENERIS by Jim Feast -
POETRY
Answers Without Questions by Jerome Murphy -
ANTHOLOGY
The Burqa Unveiled by John Emrys Eller -
MEMOIR
Extravagant Blooms by Jenine Holmes -
A PORNOGRAPHER BARES ALL
SAM BENJAMIN with Winston Len by Winston Len -
FICTION
Double Jackpot by Jenine Holmes - The Dreaming Girl by Suzanne McConnell
Music
- Breaking Down the Fourth WallAgain by Andrew Cappetta
- Translation As Erasure In Leonard Cohen's Songs From A Room by Marshall Yarbrough
- Riffing On Schoenberg: Fieldwork's Hypnotic Virtuosity by David St.-Lascaux
- Outtakes by Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
- That's All She Wrote Edited by Claudia La Rocco
- Feminist Killjoys by Christine Shan Shan Hou
- Adventures In Realness by Siobhan Burke
Film
- A Little Heap for Dara Greenwald by Rachael Rakes
- NOT RECONCILED: Ben Wheatley's Kill List by Phil Coldiron
- COUNTER PROJECTIONS: PAUL SHARITS at Greene Naftali Gallery by Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
Theater
- Naked in Yosemite with Daniel Talbott by Laura Eason
- Tense Change: Leave the Balcony Open by Maya Macdonald by Karen Hartman
- Set Designers Peter Ksander and Mimi Lien with Gary Winter by Gary Winter
- Mother of All Collaborations: The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf Debuts a Chamber Opera by Jessica Del Vecchio
- The Penultimate P: Erin Courtney with Madeleine George by Madeleine George and Erin Courtney
- Nellie Tinder Sets Fire to Evelyn by Trish Harnetiaux
- Excerpt from Evelyn by Julia May Jonas
- DIVIDING DIVISIONS: What's at Stake in the Theater vs. Visual Arts Debate by Alexis Clements
Fiction
- The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel by Mario Benedetti
- The Weather in Fritz Bemelmans Park by Holly Tavel
- Tragic Strip by T. Motley
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A Scrupulous Fidelity,
On Thomas Bernhards The Loser by Douglas Glover - On the Furtiveness of Kurtz by Jeremy M. Davies
Poetry
- Nigerian Spammer by Adam Fitzgerald
- Four by Brett Price
- Two by Brendan Lorber
- Two by Laura Henriksen
- from We Are Here by Kristen Gallagher
Art Books
- PETER DOWNSBROUGH: Two Reviews by Joseph Masheck
- Bubbles: Spheres, Volume I: Microspherology by John Ganz
- Is That All There Is? by Bill Kartalopoulos
- Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography by Ela Bittencourt
LastWords
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from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
by Raoul Vaneigem
A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Editor's Message
- All Painting Only Painting by Vincent Katz, February Art Editor



