Suffusing Form with Activism
by Susan YungDance
Dance can be rewarding for its simple humanity and kineticism, particularly in the hands (and feet, and legs, and torsos) of accomplished companies like the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which had its annual month-long run in December.
Bearing Witness, Mendieta Now
by Vanessa ThillArtSeen
Death is palpable in Ana Mendieta’s work, as a body undergoes elemental transformation. Grave-like pits, gushing blood, and gunpowder silhouettes operate on a symbolic and primordial level, but it’s important to note that some of her earliest work was a direct response to the rape and murder of a nursing student on her college campus in 1973 at University of Iowa.
The Death of John Berger
by David Levi StraussArt
John Berger died just as the United States of America was crossing over from the triumph of neoliberalism to the final melding of corporate power with state power that defines fascism.
Passing Notes with Refugees
by Ilana SimonsField Notes
The Iranian refugees in Calais sewed their mouths shut and went on a twenty-five-day hunger strike, after authorities destroyed the tents they were living in while they waited for asylum.
CO-FOUNDER&ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Dear Friends and Readers,
by Phong BuiThe day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, my partner and I, together with art-world friends and family, filled two buses that took us to the historic Women’s March in Washington, D.C. We all knew in our gut that this event would be remembered with great significance.
- Colonization of Space by Phong Bui
- Man-o Man-ifesto! by Alexandra Juhasz
- Alice Neel, Collector of Souls by Jurriaan Benschop
- Vel Minimum by Tom McGlynn
- Marilyn Minter Pretty/Dirty by Hannah Stamler
- Kader Attia Reason’s Oxymorons by Osman Yerebakan
- Dispatches by Samuel Feldblum
- Bhupen Khakhar You Can’t Please All by Michelle Standley
- A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde by Mary Ann Caws
- A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde by Hovey Brock
- Bearing Witness, Mendieta Now by Vanessa Thill
- Lenore Malen Scenes from Paradise by Ann McCoy
- Popped from Life (for E. M.) by Phong Bui
Art
ArtSeen
- Colonization of Space by Phong Bui
- Man-o Man-ifesto! by Alexandra Juhasz
- Alice Neel, Collector of Souls by Jurriaan Benschop
- Vel Minimum by Tom McGlynn
- Marilyn Minter Pretty/Dirty by Hannah Stamler
- Kader Attia Reason’s Oxymorons by Osman Yerebakan
- Dispatches by Samuel Feldblum
- Bhupen Khakhar You Can’t Please All by Michelle Standley
- A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde by Mary Ann Caws
- A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde by Hovey Brock
- Bearing Witness, Mendieta Now by Vanessa Thill
- Lenore Malen Scenes from Paradise by Ann McCoy
- Popped from Life (for E. M.) by Phong Bui
Books
- The Noise of the Rain by Mary Ann Caws
- Down with the Corpocratic Monoculture! Holly Tavel with Angela Woodward
- The Beasts in Me by Gillie Collins
- Exile on Main Street by Tadzio Koelb
- Relationships Require Fictions to Sustain Them: Jonathan Baumbach with Charles Shafaieh by Charles Shafaieh
- The Poet As Caretaker (having said too much having not gotten it all down) by Chris Campanioni
- Picking at the Whole Notion of Story by Weston Cutter
- MAUREEN N. MCLANE with Alex Dueben by Alex Dueben
- Review of The Patriots by Tom Deignan
- The Parts That Were Mysterious Even to Me ROBERT KLOSS with Amber Sparks by Amber Sparks
Music
- Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
- Diary of a Mad Composer by George Grella
- Legacy in Action: Pharoah Sanders by Vilde Aaslid
- Optimism, Restraint, and Repetition by Marshall Yarbrough
- Dreaming Of A Not-White Winter Jazzfest by Daniel Gold
- Fusing Beauty with Anger The Liberation Music Orchestra by Jeff Tobias
- Outtakes by Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
- Suffusing Form with Activism by Susan Yung
- Re-performing Images of Violence and Beauty by Ivan Talijancic
- Walking On Common Ground by Erica Getto
- The Making of Modernities by Sariel Frankfurter
Film
- Even The Dead Will Not Be Safe Montage, History, and Cutting Art Museums by Madison Brookshire
- “You’re the Nigger, Baby” James Baldwin on Film by Rich Blint
- WOLFGANG STAEHLE Ludlow Street by Keith Sanborn
- ACTION MOVIES “Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power” by Michael Joshua Rowin
Theater
Fiction
- Sand Fortress by Meg Kaizu
- The Guest by Roberta Allen
- Manhattan Meets Dixie by Dorin Schumacher
- Chanel at the Bottom of the Ocean by Stephanie Ye
- Household Harmonizing by Dorin Schumacher
- inSerial: part five Delusions of Being Observed by Lewis Warsh
- Tragic Strip by T. Motley
- Bigly's Wall by William & Katy Arnold and Susan Young
- LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 5: The Pre-Partum Mites (Acarophenax imaginaria) by Sid Gershgoren
- Upon waking an homage to Mierle Laderman Ukeles by Laura Raicovich
- New Routes in Fiction A Talk with Akhil Sharma by Alec Niedenthal
Verbatim
Poetry
- from Shine by Dale Smith
- Reckoning by Roberto Tejada
- Five by Elaine Equi
- DRAFT (September 29, 2016) by Anna Moschovakis
- Six from Existing Models With Intrusive Noise by Jeremy Hoevenaar
- Six by Garrett Caples
- Four by Laura Henriksen
- Five by Maureen Thorson
- HIST ODRES DE PARADISE (13 poems) by Brandon Shimoda
Art Books
- Art Systems and Hélio Oiticica by Gillian Sneed
- Mark Neville, Fancy Pictures by Adam Bell
- René Magritte: Selected Writings by Elizabeth Berkowitz
- Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer by Phillip Griffith
Field Notes
- Editor’s Note by Paul Mattick
- Elephant Blues by Pavlos Roufos
- Standing with Syrians: An Open Letter to an Anti-Imperialist by Philip Rizk
- Passing Notes with Refugees by Ilana Simons
The Well
- Marie’s Crisis by Sara Christoph
Co-Founder's Message
- Dear Friends and Readers, by Phong Bui
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