Art In Conversation
DURABLE FUTURES AND INTIMATE ENCOUNTERS
MCKENZIE WARK with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
New Yorkers are fortunate to have living among us the wildly inventive and far-ranging Australian-born public intellectual and theorist McKenzie Wark. This spring he added two new books to his robust list of titles produced since 1994: the dauntingly original Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene (Verso, 2015), and the deeply personal I’m Very Into You (Semiotexte, 2015), made up of email correspondence between him and Kathy Acker during a brief but intense affair in the mid-’90s.
Film In Conversation
MARY CURTIS RATCLIFF & PARRY TEASDALE OF VIDEOFREEX
with Erin Sickler
From the late 1960s through mid-’70s, the ten-member collective Videofreex produced several thousand videotapes, installations, and multimedia events, and trained hundreds of video-makers in the brand-new medium.
DAYS OF FUTURES PAST
Okwui Enwezor’s Eurocentric Venice Biennale
By Marcia E. Vetrocq
The Venice Biennale of 1990 was the first of many—every Biennale since, to be precise—that I’ve written about, and I was prompted to look back after returning from the 2015 edition.
The Radiant City
By Dustin IllingworthGeoffrey Scott, in his seminal work The Architecture of Humanism (1914), said that “the art of architecture studies not structure in itself, but the effect of structure on the human spirit.”
The Salad Days of Sheila Callaghan
By Tommy SmithSheila Callaghan is one of my favorite living playwrights. I can count these playwrights on one hand. In a theatrical landscape dominated by after-school specials, on-stage television pilots, exposés of rich families, and nonsense musicals, Callaghan’s work eschews any category.
Five on the Black Hand Side / Dapline!
By Jaime Shearn CoanAndré M. Zachery thrives in collaborative settings. Back in June I saw Wildcat! Assembly, his collaboration with Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste and Eleni Zaharopoulos, at JACK.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiWhile keeping up with the daily demands of our monthly journal, its editorial meetings, our Rail Curatorial Projects, our poetry readings, and other events, we have all been consumed the entire summer with the renovation of our old headquarters in Greenpoint as well as of our new one at Industry City in Sunset Park, making them both the most comfortable and conducive work environments.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
The Prismatic View
By Alexander NagelIn the last Whitney Biennial a significant percentage of the works on view took as their subjects actual historical episodes or addressed earlier moments in the history of art. This is different from artists grappling with and working out of tradition, which is how art gets made at any time.
Critics Page
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Amelia Saul and St. John the Evangelist (ca. 1410)
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Alexi Worth and Jan van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment (ca. 1435 – 40)
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Nina Katchadourian and the Gallery of Late Medieval Secular Art
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CHARLES RAY with Alexander Nagel
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R.H. QUAYTMAN with Alexander Nagel and The Judgment of Paris (ca. 1510 – 20)
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Shahzia Sikander and Princely Deer Hunters (ca. 1660 – 70)
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Rebecca Chamberlain and the Shoin Rooms of Japan (17th century)
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Amie Siegel and 18th-century Dutch houses at the Brooklyn Museum
ArtSeen
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Space Between
– By Samuel Feldblum -
Berliner Sommerzeit
– By Tom McGlynn -
Letter from Paris
– By Hearne Pardee -
SARAH CHARLESWORTH Doubleworld
– By Simone Krug -
Picture This: New Orleans
– By Charles Schultz
Mary Ellen Mark’s Last Assignment -
A Painted Horse by JOE SOLA
– By Liz Hirsch
(with MATTHEW CHAMBERS, SAYRE GOMEZ, RUDY K. SLOBECK, and others) -
RODRÍGUEZ CALERO
– By Jessica Holmes
Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos -
RUTH ROOT
– By ANTHONY HAWLEY -
SEAN SCULLY Different Places
– By David Carrier -
CLIFFORD ROSS Landscape Seen & Imagined
– By Phong Bui -
MERYL MCMASTER Second Self
– By Christopher Green -
Type as Image
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Personal Correspondents: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn
– By Sara Christoph -
STANLEY WHITNEY and LORRAINE O’GRADY
– By Phillip Griffith -
AGNES DENES Living Pyramid
– By Ann McCoy -
ANDREAS SCHULZE Stau
– By Terry R. Myers -
EVAN NESBIT Porosity
– By David Rhodes -
BARBARA TAKENAGA Nebraska
– By Kara L. Rooney -
WOLFGANG TILLMANS Book for Architects
– By Michelle Standley -
Means of Approach: New York Painting
– By Joan Waltemath -
SHIRIN NESHAT Facing History
– By Yasi Alipour -
MICHAEL SMITH Excuse Me!?!…I’m looking for the “Fountain of Youth”
– By Andrea Zlotowitz -
CHOONG SUP LIM Void
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Empty House Casa Vazia
– By Margaret Graham
Table of Contents
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Editor's Message
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The Prismatic View
– By Alexander Nagel
Art
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DURABLE FUTURES AND INTIMATE ENCOUNTERS MCKENZIE WARK with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
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JOSIAH MCELHENY with Jarrett Earnest
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DAYS OF FUTURES PAST Okwui Enwezor’s Eurocentric Venice Biennale
– By Marcia E. Vetrocq -
TREVOR PAGLEN with Hunter Braithwaite
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BIG TALK, SMALL TALK Why People Who Read Should Care About Emojis
– By Jonathan Kalb -
FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA Seeing Édouard Glissant in Miami
– By Laila Pedro -
ARLENE SHECHET with Phong Bui
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A Little Boy Lies Face Down on the Beach
– By David Levi Strauss -
Landon Metz’s New Paintings
– By Alex Bacon
ArtSeen
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Space Between
– By Samuel Feldblum -
Berliner Sommerzeit
– By Tom McGlynn -
Letter from Paris
– By Hearne Pardee -
SARAH CHARLESWORTH Doubleworld
– By Simone Krug -
Picture This: New Orleans Mary Ellen Mark’s Last Assignment
– By Charles Schultz -
A Painted Horse by JOE SOLA (with MATTHEW CHAMBERS, SAYRE GOMEZ, RUDY K. SLOBECK, and others)
– By Liz Hirsch -
RODRÍGUEZ CALERO Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos
– By Jessica Holmes -
RUTH ROOT
– By ANTHONY HAWLEY -
SEAN SCULLY Different Places
– By David Carrier -
CLIFFORD ROSS Landscape Seen & Imagined
– By Phong Bui -
MERYL MCMASTER Second Self
– By Christopher Green -
Type as Image
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Personal Correspondents: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn
– By Sara Christoph -
STANLEY WHITNEY and LORRAINE O’GRADY
– By Phillip Griffith -
AGNES DENES Living Pyramid
– By Ann McCoy -
ANDREAS SCHULZE Stau
– By Terry R. Myers -
EVAN NESBIT Porosity
– By David Rhodes -
BARBARA TAKENAGA Nebraska
– By Kara L. Rooney -
WOLFGANG TILLMANS Book for Architects
– By Michelle Standley -
Means of Approach: New York Painting
– By Joan Waltemath -
SHIRIN NESHAT Facing History
– By Yasi Alipour -
MICHAEL SMITH Excuse Me!?!…I’m looking for the “Fountain of Youth”
– By Andrea Zlotowitz -
CHOONG SUP LIM Void
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Empty House Casa Vazia
– By Margaret Graham
Critics Page
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Amelia Saul and St. John the Evangelist (ca. 1410)
-
Alexi Worth and Jan van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment (ca. 1435 – 40)
-
Nina Katchadourian and the Gallery of Late Medieval Secular Art
-
CHARLES RAY with Alexander Nagel
-
R.H. QUAYTMAN with Alexander Nagel and The Judgment of Paris (ca. 1510 – 20)
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Shahzia Sikander and Princely Deer Hunters (ca. 1660 – 70)
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Rebecca Chamberlain and the Shoin Rooms of Japan (17th century)
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Amie Siegel and 18th-century Dutch houses at the Brooklyn Museum
Books
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Autumn’s Picks for Young Readers
– By Jordan B. Nielsen -
The Physics of Bearing Witness
– By Sharon Mesmer -
Your Body Becomes You
– By Carmiel Banasky -
Cruel Theater
– By Mary Ann Caws -
The Radiant City
– By Dustin Illingworth -
Daughter of the West
– By Jill Dehnert -
The Secret Life of Everything
– By Madeline Gressel -
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS’S 21st CENTURY PROSE SERIES AUTHORS LAUREN FOSS GOODMAN in conversation with RYAN RIDGE
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Living Between the Imagined and the Real MICHAEL KLEIN with Tony Leuzzi
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COREY MESLER with Alex Dueben
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Throw Yourself Accordingly Roberto Montes with Andrew Weatherhead
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Tongues Like as of Fire
– By Ryan D. Matthews -
SUSAN SHAPIRO with Anne Scardino
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Spells, Riddles, Potions, and Curses
– By Lucas Hunt -
RENÉE WATSON with Linda Kleinbub
Music
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Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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Selling Out to Freedom
– By George Grella -
A PARLIAMENT OF SOUND The Twentieth Annual Vision Festival
– By Ryan Meehan -
SINGING HISTORY The President’s “Amazing Grace”
– By Brian Barone -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella -
Spacious and Relaxed
– By Michael Blair
Dance
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Whose Island / Who is Island
– By Jaime Shearn Coan -
Five on the Black Hand Side / Dapline!
– By Jaime Shearn Coan -
ABOVE THE FOLD Hierarchy, Hedonism, and Hemlines in Walter Dundervill’s Arena
– By Erica Getto
Film
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MARY CURTIS RATCLIFF & PARRY TEASDALE OF VIDEOFREEX with Erin Sickler
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ONCE MORE TO THE LAKE Jerome Hiler’s New Shores
– By Max Goldberg -
HIGH AND LOW Sakura Ando’s Restraint
– By Jesse Cumming
Theater
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The Salad Days of Sheila Callaghan
– By Tommy Smith -
Storm, Still:
– Gabrielle Reisman and Portia Krieger with Morgan Gould
Fiction
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Horror Story
– by Mirza Athar Baig, translated from the Urdu by Haider Shahbaz -
1997
– By Jeremy Tiang -
from Kid Coole
– By M. G. Stephens -
Young Mothers
– By Joanna Walsh -
an extract from The Folly
– By Ivan Vladislavić -
Messages from Home
– By Molly Roth -
Arrowschmitt!!!!
– By Arryan Decatur
Poetry
Art Books
Field Notes
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Editor’s Note
– By Paul Mattick -
We Gotta Get Out of This Place ANSELM JAPPE with Alastair Hemmens
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Back to School, Back to Work
– By Samuel Feldblum -
Fighting the Fire Next Time
– By Peter St. Clair
