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THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
A Socialism of Creation

By Luis Camnitzer

About once every decade I decide to confront the issue of whether it’s possible to teach art or not. My immediate, passionate, and unexamined inclination is to say: yes, it’s possible.

Field Notes In Conversation

ART & ACTIVISM
People’s Climate Arts with Nato Thompson

Last month, Nato Thompson, Chief Curator of Creative Time, sat down with three members of the activist art collective People’s Climate Arts to discuss their work.

THEORY AND CRITIQUE:
The Raw and the Cooked

By Dave Hickey

Recently, a lot of people have been whining on about me being anti-academic. Not so. In fact, I am an academic. I read difficult books in difficult languages, I write difficult essays about difficult art. I taught school from age 50 to 70. So I am an academic by any definition. My problem is that I belong to the academic species but not to the art tribe of academics.

A Night of Philosophy in NYC, 04-24-2015 7 P.M. To 7 A.M.

By Mary Ann Caws

If philosophy takes in everything, it was all here on this night-morning. Of course, you might say to yourself, why just a night of philosophy, why not, perhaps, a day and a night, or several of each, or what about a life of it?

The Gut Wants What It Wants

By John Domini

Amelia Gray’s Gutshot bristles in the best way. Just about every prick and sting compels you to seek more, to take up the next story—gingerly—and the next. Indeed, the author’s second set of short fiction represents an advance for her in its size alone.

COMPLEXITY, STRANGENESS, AND CHARM:
Noah Creshevsky’s Archives

By George Grella

You could say that Noah Creshevsky sits at the crossroads of the world. He lives in a comfortable apartment—where he keeps his composition studio—a short walk from Times Square, and his music and compositional career are an intersection for several important directions for music, old and new, high and low, traditional and technological.

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From the Publisher & Artistic Director

Dear Friends and Readers,

By Phong Bui

As we give spring a robust welcome, the art world synchronously offers its own salutation. We have all been invited to drift, like Le Petit Prince, through the universe created by Alexander Calder’s fierce yet exuberant small-scale sculptures at Dominique Lévy. I found myself transfixed by the magic of each work.

Editor's Message Guest Critic

SURVIVING BECOMING
for Mac and Grace

By Charles Schultz

How do we become who we are? What experiences mold our character and how do those experiences alter the way we interact with artwork? For me the experiences that have been the most transformative happened suddenly: one I saw coming for nine months, the other I didn’t see coming at all.

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