Art In Conversation
On James Baldwin
RICH BLINT and LAWRENCE WESCHLER
Lawrence Weschler and Baldwin scholar, Rich Blint, recently visited the Rail headquarters, where they spent an evening discussing Baldwin, his enduring legacy, and relevance for our time.
From the Editor: Field Notes
By Paul MattickThe Rail has something to contribute to creating the conditions for coherent thinking about whats happening to us. FIELD NOTES intends to gather information about life in our age of austerity, and to think about it as clearly as possible.
RON GORCHOV with Nathlie Provosty
In his typically charming and laissez-faire manner, the artist Ron Gorchov, when asked to conduct a public presentation of his watercolor work within the container of his concurrent show at Lesley Heller Workspace, instead invited his friend Nathlie Provosty to spare him the preparation and engage in a conversation.
Dance In Conversation
GERARD & KELLY with Stephanie Joy Del Rosso
Since they began collaborating in 2003, Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly have produced interdisciplinary work using dance, writing, and visual art to reframe perceptions of queer consciousness, complicate relationships between performer and viewer, and explore our collective memory.
FADE TO BLUE
On Derek Jarmans Final Film
By Shana Beth Mason
Works of art made under the auspices of grave illness or impending demise require a delicate approach from the critic: both an observational clarity and a genuine empathy. Derek Jarmans final feature-length film Blue (1993) is a freestanding aesthetic construct, but it is nonetheless determined by its existence as a final, courageous act.
Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt
By Samantha Dylan MitchellFor artists, the supposed dreamland art world of the 60s in Lower Manhattan is almost painful to hear about. The idea of working part-time as a security guard at MoMA alongside future bigwigs like Robert Ryman and Dan Flavin and earning enough to pay $20 a month for a live-in loft/studio on the Bowery, while curating exhibitions of your friends work at soon-to-be-legendary galleries and developing cutting-edge artwork in a reality where cubes were conceptually exciting, leaves a lot to be desired from todays New York.
Books In Conversation
SPECTACULAR INK
DANIEL LEVINE with Benjamin Percy
Dan Levine and I didnt just go to college together: we roomed together, took many of the same classes, acted in some of the same theater productions and chased some of the same girls, hefted weights at the gym, spent hours refining our impressions of certain tweedy professors and loudmouth students, slammed Jello shots and shotgunned beers and took in deep skunky lungfuls of whatever herb we could score, trekked our way to a skeezy tattoo parlor to get inked, ate countless cafeteria servings of chicken parm in each others company, dressed up as the Karate Kid skeletons for Halloween, high-fived Method Man at a Wu-Tang Clan concert.
THE OUTSIDER
Allen Lowe Against the Jazz Tradition
By George Grella
Fine arts and literature each have a well-established academic and commercial establishment that definesthrough teaching, curating, buying and selling, and criticismwhat it means to be working inside them. Outsider Art for them could be something as innocuous and tautological as a painting or a book that was created beyond the limits of what the establishment has set as normative.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear friends and readers,
By Phong BuiAs the winter has lasted longer than expected, we were soberly reminded that the fight against censorship is an ongoing struggle that requires our collective effort and strong commitment to articulate the nature of art and how artistsindividuals whose lives are devoted to the vocations of the arts and humanitiesare examples par excellence of those attempting to become free.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
BEYOND THE HORIZONS OF CRAFT
Diversity in the Global Art Market
By Lowery Stokes Sims
If the notion of diversity suggests the fostering of a variety of expressions on an equal footing, then in the visual arts our scrutiny would have to be directed toward the situation of craft.
Critics Page
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ALL TOGETHER NOW: Craft Across Boundaries
– By Glenn Adamson -
WHAT CRAFT IS MISSING: Conversation to Continue
– By Namita Gupta Wiggers -
The Margin You Feel May Not Be Real
– By Sheila Pepe -
WE ARE ALL CORALS NOW: A Crafty Yarn About Global Warming
– By Margaret Wertheim -
CORPOREAL IMPULSE: Contemporary Artists Working in Clay
– By Allyson Unzicker -
Parallel Closets
– By Aaron McIntosh -
CRAFTING OUT OF HAND
RON LABACO with Lowery Stokes Sims -
THE POTTER IS PRESENT
– By Keith Recker
Alex Matisses Creative Cycle of Intention, Accident, and Community
ArtSeen
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ETHAN COOK: Problem In Chair Not In Computer
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Mary McDonnell
– By Tom McGlynn
Clear Pause -
Metro
– By Jessica Holmes -
Myths of Eden and Gauguins Metamorphoses
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
Fountain Art Fair, 69th Armory Building
– By Margaret Graham -
ALI BANISADR Motherboard
– By William Corwin -
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China
– By Corina Larkin -
Italian Futurism, 1909 1944: Reconstructing the Universe
– By Valery Oisteanu -
PETER BUGGENHOUT Caterpillar Logic II
– By Darren Jones -
NORBERT PRANGENBERG The Last Works
– By Ben La Rocco -
THREE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME STORY
– By David A. Willis
Thomas Kovachevich 2013 -
A=I O=II U=III
– By Kara L. Rooney
BRIAN ODOHERTY Connecting the ... -
WILLIAM J. OBRIEN
– By Terry R. Myers -
NORIO IMAI Perspective in White
– By Taney Roniger -
PAWEŁ ALTHAMER The Neighbors
– By Chloe Wyma -
GERMAINE RICHIER
– By Sara Christoph -
NATALIE EDGAR Abstract Journey
– By William Benton -
For Marian
– By Anna Tome -
EMILY NOELLE LAMBERT Curio Logic II
– By Becky Brown -
CHUCK CLOSE Nudes 1967 2014
– By Phong Bui -
PAT STEIR
– By Phong Bui -
ROSS BLECKNER
– By Phong Bui -
WILLIAM PANGBURN
– By Jonathan Goodman -
ERWIN WURM Synthesa
– By Nicola Ricciardi -
Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores
– By Karlynne Ejercito
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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BEYOND THE HORIZONS OF CRAFT Diversity in the Global Art Market
– By Lowery Stokes Sims
Publisher's Message
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Dear friends and readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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KELTIE FERRIS with Jarrett Earnest
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ROBERT MANGOLD with Alex Bacon
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Impossible Dream Made Possible FOR MITCH LEIGH (1928 2014)
– By Phong Bui -
SHEILA HICKS with Danielle Mysliwiec
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On James Baldwin RICH BLINT and LAWRENCE WESCHLER
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DANIEL TURNER with Phong Bui
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RON GORCHOV with Nathlie Provosty
ArtSeen
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ETHAN COOK: Problem In Chair Not In Computer
– By Alex Bacon -
Mary McDonnell Clear Pause
– By Tom McGlynn -
Metro
– By Jessica Holmes -
Myths of Eden and Gauguins Metamorphoses
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
Fountain Art Fair, 69th Armory Building
– By Margaret Graham -
ALI BANISADR Motherboard
– By William Corwin -
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China
– By Corina Larkin -
Italian Futurism, 1909 1944: Reconstructing the Universe
– By Valery Oisteanu -
PETER BUGGENHOUT Caterpillar Logic II
– By Darren Jones -
NORBERT PRANGENBERG The Last Works
– By Ben La Rocco -
THREE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME STORY Thomas Kovachevich 2013
– By David A. Willis -
A=I O=II U=III BRIAN ODOHERTY Connecting the ...
– By Kara L. Rooney -
WILLIAM J. OBRIEN
– By Terry R. Myers -
NORIO IMAI Perspective in White
– By Taney Roniger -
PAWEŁ ALTHAMER The Neighbors
– By Chloe Wyma -
GERMAINE RICHIER
– By Sara Christoph -
NATALIE EDGAR Abstract Journey
– By William Benton -
For Marian
– By Anna Tome -
EMILY NOELLE LAMBERT Curio Logic II
– By Becky Brown -
CHUCK CLOSE Nudes 1967 2014
– By Phong Bui -
PAT STEIR
– By Phong Bui -
ROSS BLECKNER
– By Phong Bui -
WILLIAM PANGBURN
– By Jonathan Goodman -
ERWIN WURM Synthesa
– By Nicola Ricciardi -
Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores
– By Karlynne Ejercito
Critics Page
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ALL TOGETHER NOW: Craft Across Boundaries
– By Glenn Adamson -
WHAT CRAFT IS MISSING: Conversation to Continue
– By Namita Gupta Wiggers -
The Margin You Feel May Not Be Real
– By Sheila Pepe -
WE ARE ALL CORALS NOW: A Crafty Yarn About Global Warming
– By Margaret Wertheim -
CORPOREAL IMPULSE: Contemporary Artists Working in Clay
– By Allyson Unzicker -
Parallel Closets
– By Aaron McIntosh -
CRAFTING OUT OF HAND RON LABACO with Lowery Stokes Sims
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THE POTTER IS PRESENT Alex Matisses Creative Cycle of Intention, Accident, and Community
– By Keith Recker
Books
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The Rules of Obsession
– By Weston Cutter -
Prismatic Plato
– By Jack Finnegan -
Wading Into the Grey
– By Jeremy Polacek -
Enemy and Promised Land
– By Katharina Smundak -
SPECTACULAR INK DANIEL LEVINE with Benjamin Percy
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WHATS IMPORTANT IS READING ADAM WILSON with Ben Pfeiffer
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Unlikely Pairs
– By Risa Miller
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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THE OUTSIDER Allen Lowe Against the Jazz Tradition
– By George Grella -
ROMANO DROM
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
WILLIAM TYLER
– By Christopher Nelson -
Muzak for the Manic
– By Taylor Dafoe -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Tinariwen at Brooklyn Bowl
– By Enrica Ferrero -
Christian Wolff @ 80
– By Kurt Gottschalk
Dance
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The Hitchhikers Guide to Faye Driscolls World
– By Brian Schaefer -
GERARD & KELLY with Stephanie Joy Del Rosso
Film
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The Practice of Description: Films and Videos by Thom Andersen
– By Colin Beckett -
ROBERT GREENE with Valentina Canavesio
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ALWAYS IN THE PRESENT TENSE KEVIN JEROME EVERSON with Benjamin Schultz‑Figueroa
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OUT OF EDEN Jarmusch Since 2009
– By Joseph Pomp -
The Theater of Outlaws The Wooster Groups Rumstick Road
– By Xin Zhou -
FADE TO BLUE On Derek Jarmans Final Film
– By Shana Beth Mason
Theater
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UBU SINGS UBU DAN SAFER and TONY TORN with JOHN REED
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How to be Good, and Win Anyway Bryan Cranston Goes All The Way
– By J. C. Hallman -
Iskandars Feast: Bringing the Bacchanal Back to Theater Ed Sylvanus Iskandar with Jordan G. Teicher
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Deserving in Kansas: Catherine Trieschmann
– By Trista Baldwin
Fiction
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from DNA
– By Johannah Rogers -
from Miransù
– by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio -
extracts from FIELD GLASS
– Joanna Ruocco | Joanna Howard -
A diary of mysterious difficulties
– By Laura Raicovich -
Diary
– By Liana Finck -
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
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Five
– By Carley Moore -
Five
– By CAConrad -
Five
– By Guillermo Filice Castro -
Three
– By Andrew Boston -
Eight from Newcomer
– By Nathaniel Farrell -
Four
– By Paul G. Maziar
Art Books
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IN MEMORIAM PictureBox
– By Trinie Dalton -
Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt
– By Samantha Dylan Mitchell -
The Place We Live
– By Adam Bell
Field Notes
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From the Editor: Field Notes
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WHITHER LICH? Healthcare in an Age of Austerity
– By The Florence Johnson Collective -
LETTER FROM POZNAN Who controls the budget, controls culture
– By Krzysztof Król -
HOPE On the Revolts in Bosnia-Herzegovina
– By Charles Reeve