Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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A Tree With Roots
– By Raymond Foye
Art
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2014/15 Winter Reading List: Literary Revisitations
– By Phong Bui -
ALANNA HEISS with David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro, with the assistance of Gaby Collins-Fernandez
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Rethinking Duchamp
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ROBERT GOBER with Jarrett Earnest
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ALEXANDER ROSS with Will Corwin
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Stealing Time: Emma Bee Bernstein
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Casa Wabi
– By Lucía Hinojosa and Diego Gerard -
No Room for Artists
– By Darragh McNicholas -
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART Troubled Sleep, Sugar High
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JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND with Jarrett Earnest
ArtSeen
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IN MEMORIAM Thoughts about Jane Freilicher (1924 - 2014)
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ZIN HELENA SONG: Beyond Color
– By Jonathan Goodman -
LOUISE BOURGEOIS Suspension
– By Phong Bui -
Letter from Copenhagen
– By Terry R. Myers -
LILIANE TOMASKO Into the Darkness
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JAMES HOFF Skywiper
– By Charles Schultz -
GILLIAN WEARING We Are Here
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CARY SMITH and DON VOISINE Orthogonal and Diagonal
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NEO RAUCH At the Well
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ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA Selfie
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MICHELLE GRABNER
– By Kate Liebman -
CHRIS OFILI Night and Day
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TOM OTTERNESS Creation Myth
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RICHARD POUSETTE-DART
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BETTINA BLOHM
– By Jonathan Goodman -
FRANCESCO VEZZOLI Teatro Romano
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THE SECRET LIFE OF A FAKE UTOPIANIST DAN ALLENDE Humans: The Secret Life of Martin Handford
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XU BING Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral
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RICHARD JACOBS: SOUL DELAY
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JULIAN STANCZAK From Life
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ALEKSANDAR DURAVCEVIC
– By Phong Bui -
MOURNING HABITS Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire
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MOBY Innocents
– By William Corwin -
SADE Attacking the Sun
– By John Galbraith Simmons
Critics Page
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IN MEMORIAM Rene Ricard (1946 2014)
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Massachusetts Avenue
– By Rene Ricard -
Poems
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Introducing Eric Walker
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WILL EPSTEIN with Marshall Yarbrough
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from Hoodo Metaphysics
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Shiv Mirabito on Shivastan Publishing
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RIDE IT, OR GO UNDER HENRY THREADGILL AND JASON MORAN with George Grella and Raymond Foye
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Its a glorious thing if you dont expect an explanation. Jordan Belson on his Art
– By Raymond Foye and Jordan Belson -
Stroke
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PHILIP TAAFFE with Charles Stein
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The Liberation of the Knots
– By Jack Hirschman
Books
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End of an Era
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The Myth of a Post-Racial America
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Inconclusion
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MOTHER TONGUE LEORA SKOLKIN-SMITH with Andrea Scrima
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Falls Picks for Younger Readers
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WARM CORE: The Unusually Associative Cyclonic System of Ben Lerners 10:04
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WHY ARE THERE NO FOUNDING MOTHERS? KATHLEEN ROONEY with Rachel Slotnick
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Arms in the Air
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Pure Art
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WRITTEN AT THE BODY CHRISTINE WERTHEIM with Alexandra Chasin
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The Long View Back to the Gardens: Politics as Dissident Polis in Jonathan Lethem's Dissident Gardens
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To Articulate the Daily Miraculous
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DREAM MACHINE SADE MURPHY with Laura Stokes
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A WAY I COULD BE KATE BERNHEIMER with Matt Bell
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Fragments of Feminism: Four New Books
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A Vaccine for Death Itself Eludes Us Yet
– By Ben Pfeiffer
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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CONSIDER THE CRITIC Dispatch from the CMJ Music Marathon
– By Allyson Polsky McCabe -
The Code from Beneath Drives the Lines
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The Beautiful Weirdness of Javier Cohen
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George Clinton
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Outtakes
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Anthems in the Afternoon
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10 LISTENS REVIEW: Philip White's Documents
– By Michael Durek
Dance
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APPARITION OF A FACE IN A CROWD Eikos First Solo Performance In Philadelphias 30th Street Station
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Lives of (Xavier Le Roys) Performers: Retrospective by Xavier Le Roy
– By Jaime Shearn Coan -
This Interview
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BEYOND FORMAL Complicating Categorizations and Preserving Street Dance With Rep Your Style
– By Ali Rosa-Salas
Film
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ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO with Joshua Sperling
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Towards a Complete Order
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Super-Realism: Observations on the New York Film Festival
– By Matt Peterson
Theater
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Aggressive Inefficiency: from Stage to Page with Rachel Chavkin and Alec Duffy
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Body Blows David Anzuelo and the Creation of Violence
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Scenes From a Life IVO VAN HOVE with Kristin Meyer
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A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER ON THE BANKS OF THE GREATEST OF THE GREAT LAKES Lee Sunday Evans with Sam Pinkleton
– By Sam Pinkleton
Fiction
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Somebodys Got to Sweep the Floors
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Born Man
– By Lisa Gunn -
from Miransù
– by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio -
Two Extracts from Aline and Valcour
– by the Marquis de Sade, translated from the French by Jocelyne Geneviève Barque and John Galbraith Simmons
Poetry
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Two
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Dromomania
– By Divya Victor -
Four
– By Julien Poirier
Art Books
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The Ten Best Art Books of 2014
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Events Ashore
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Eight Begin: Artists' Memories of Starting Out
– By Nathlie Provosty
Field Notes
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WHITHER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? The 2014 Election and the Future of Capitals A-Team
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THE REVOLUTION IS BEING TELEVISED BRANDON JOURDAN OF GLOBAL UPRISINGS with Paul Mattick
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FIGHTING FOR THE FOREST Ecological Activism in France
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Are we really feeling healthier or just dying less? Questions for José Tapia
– By Jose A. Tapia
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