Table of Contents
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Art, Science, and the Question of Convergence
– By Taney Roniger
Art
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General Idea in Perspective
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CECILY BROWN with Jason Rosenfeld
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IRVING PETLIN with Elyse Benenson
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RAHA RAISSNIA with Charles Schultz
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L.A. KAUFFMAN with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
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DONNA HARAWAY with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
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LUCY LIPPARD with Jarrett Earnest
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THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART Dorine, Barbara, Kathy
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RONA PONDICK & ROBERT FEINTUCH with Phong Bui
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KATHY HIGH with Sadie Rebecca Starnes
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ANN MAGNUSON with Katherine Dieckmann
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CARROLL DUNHAM & DAVID SALLE with Cornelius Tittel
ArtSeen
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The Enigma of Arrival: On Gonzalo Fonseca’s Timeless Vista
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CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN: Kinetic Painting
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Walter De Maria and The Lightning Field at Forty: Art as Symbiosis
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Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon
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RICHARD SERRA: Sculpture and Drawings
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ELIZABETH MURRAY: Painting in the ’80s
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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: Gates of Paradise
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JOSEPHINE HALVORSON: As I Went Walking
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JONATHAN MONAGHAN: The Disco Beast
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THOMAS BANGSTED JEANNE SILVERTHORNE
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BENJAMIN KRESS: New Paintings
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The Internal Machine
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Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943-47
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ANTOINE CATALA: Everything is Okay
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Nuvolo and Post-War Materiality 1950-1965
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MIKE KELLEY: Kandors 1999-2011
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SETH PRICE: Circa 1981
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DUNCAN HANNAH: Adrift in the 21st Century
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MARTÍN RAMÍREZ: A Journey
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DUKE RILEY: Now Those Days Are Gone
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Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985
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London Painters
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LIN YAN: Gateway
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JUDITH BERNSTEIN: Cabinet of Horrors
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Below the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico
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The Oscar Wilde Temple
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ELLEN HARVEY: Nostalgia
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HOWARDENA PINDELL: Recent Paintings
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AGNIESZKA KURANT: Collective Intelligence
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Golden Eyes: Alex Katz at Ninety
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Deep in the Static: Raghubir Singh’s Photographs
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MARK DION: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist
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Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer
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RICHARD SERRA: Sculpture and Drawings
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Measuring the Weight with Richard Serra
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Dalí/Duchamp
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Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983
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MINOUK LIM: Mamour
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HASSEL SMITH: The Ferus Years
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JOSÉ LEONILSON: Empty Man
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NINA CHANEL ABNEY: Safe House/Seized the Imagination
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KATE GROOBEY: I'm Made of Milk
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Critics Page
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Figuring Forms
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Diagramming a New Theory of Picture
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Why Sci-Art Needs Not to Make Sense
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Two Branches, One Tree
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Art is Irrelevant
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Monstrosity, Spectacle, Wonder
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Sci-Art Doubts and Disruptions
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Complexity and Accessibility: Why Science Needs Art
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Some Thoughts on Art and Science
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Tortured Artists and Mad Scientists: Separated at Birth
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Describing Flow: An Interaction Between Science and Art
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ALEXIS ROCKMAN with Tom McGlynn
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Notes on Science and Film
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Intimate Knowledge
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Staging Physical Analogues of Entangled Black Holes
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Remote Sensing
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Haptico-Visual Observation and Drawing: A Novel Method for Studying Anatomy
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What if?
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RadWaste: A Shadow Without a Body
– By Eve Andrée Laramée -
The Original Social Network
– By Catherine Chalmers
Books
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The Rail's Best Books of 2017
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Ordinary Beast: NICOLE SEALEY with Alex Dueben
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Vengeance: ZACHARY LAZAR with David Winner
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Ultraluminous: KATHERINE FAW with Sean Madigan Hoen
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My Cousin A.J.: A.J. JACOBS with Meg Kissel
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Really Any Desert Creature: CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS with Allison Field Bell
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Naomi Alderman’s The Power
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Anelise Chen’s So Many Olympic Exertions
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Gil Fagiani's Logos
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Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Iliac Crest
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Eyes Without a Face: Christine Hume and Jeff Clark’s Question Like A Face
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Claire Messud’s The Burning Girl
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The Lonely Scrivener: GAY TALESE with John Domini
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Time-Trails and Travelled Roads: GALE RENEE WALDEN with Rod Kessler
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Beyond Violence: Paul Yoon’s The Mountain
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Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility
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ADAM BRAVER with David Winner
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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Anthony DeCurtis's Lou Reed: A Life
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Fathers and Daughters: Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach
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D. Foy’s Absolutely Golden
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On the Impossibility of Teaching Writing: Rainald Goetz
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Patrick McGrath's The Wardrobe Mistress
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Structures in Service to Wonder: Ivy Pochoda's Wonder Valley
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Karl Ove Knausgaard: Autumn and Winter
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CELESTE LIM, TERESE SVOBODA, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK with Gabriel Don
– By Gabriel Don
Music
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Tomokawa Kazuki at Greene Naftali
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Scenes From The Class Struggle
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It Just Gets Out of Hand: JOHN COHEN In Conversation with Stephen Ellis, Ivy Sheppard, and David Sheppard
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Songs About Fucking and Killing: Diamanda Galás at Murmrr Theatre, October 31
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Cutting Ties with Cut Worms
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
Dan Bejar’s Latest Iteration
– By John Amen -
Outtakes
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December & January Listings
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Dance
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Dance and Music Speak the Heart: Two Generations
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Dissolving into Chaos
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Art and science of the unraveling mind: A My Name Is… STEFANIE NELSON and DAVID SHENK with Ivan Talijancic
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Savage Logic
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Shaping Up
– By Erica Getto
Film
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Specious Realities at DOC NYC
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BARBARA HAMMER with Alexandra Juhasz
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Lost in the Field of Screens: The Films of Olivia Ciummo
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MICHAEL ROBINSON with Z. W. Lewis
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The Collaborators: Yuzo Kawashima x Ayako Wakao at Japan Society
– By Jaime Grijalba
Theater
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DIVING IN: On the Pop-Up Theater Company The Pool and the Generous Act of Producing
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From the Inside Out: Rock Monster Jody Christopherson
– By Mariah MacCarthy -
JIM FINDLAY with Ivan Talijancic
– By Ivan Talijancic
Fiction
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Art Brut
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Christmas at the Boarding School
– By Dominique Fabre, translated from the French by Michael Z. Wise -
inSerial: part fourteen Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh -
from Palace of Rubble
– By Kyra Simone -
New Routes in Fiction: David Coventry with Alec Niedenthal
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from Satania
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Absurd Things That Happened You Might Have Forgotten!
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Carmel, California—1992
– By Tom Daly
Poetry
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– By Stacey Tran -
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– By Sean Cole and David Kirschenbaum -
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seven
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three
– By Charity Coleman
Verbatim
Art Books
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Boris Arvatov's Art & Production
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Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985
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Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois
– By Amei Wallach
In Memoriam
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Editor's Note
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RICK SAVINON
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Angel Abreu
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Jorge Abreu
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Robert Branch, Ed.M
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Julie Ault
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Doug Ashford
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Andres Serrano
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Jim Hodges
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Robert Bordo
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Pastor Vanessa Brown
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Dara Birnbaum
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Marc J. Straus
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Eleanor Heartney
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Sergio Bessa
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Stefan Kalmár
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David Rhodes
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Conrad Atkinson
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Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
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Larry Littany Litt
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David Ross
Field Notes
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Climate Change: What is to be Done? Part 2: Climate and the Economy
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The Future of the Past
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The Critique of Value at Belshazzar’s Feast: A Review of Anselm Jappe’s The Writing on the Wall
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The Vietnam War
– By Peter St. Clair -
NATALIE BAKER with Sammy Feldblum
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