Looking for Lumia:
Thomas Wilfred’s Forgotten Art of Light
by Swagato Chakravorty
Film
It is possible to experience the exhibition Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light (Yale University Art Gallery, February 17 – July 23, 2017) in reverse-chronological order, since one may enter the gallery from either end.
Say Goodbye to Reality
Nicholas Smith (I Cut People) with Matthew Ackerman
Music
The cut-up is a literary technique that involves rearranging either printed or recorded content to create a new work. It’s been around since the Dada movement and was revived in the ’50s and ’60s when it caught a second wind with the beat generation.
Titicut Follies:
A Stark Documentary Transformed into Dance
by Susan Yung
Dance
Generating new movement ideas is difficult for choreographers, particularly when creating full-length dances. It’s so challenging that most of the big ballet companies continue to rely on narrative staples from centuries ago.
Cultural Currency:
LISA KO with Nicole Tresca
Books
A May 3, 2009, New York Times headline reads, “Mentally Ill and in Immigration Limbo,” and chronicles the story of Xiu Ping Jiang, a woman lost in an immigration detention camp in Florida.
Notes on a bad photo of a sick society, or, What does democracy looks like?
by Charles ReeveField Notes
With Emmanuel Macron’s presidential victory, the second episode of the electoral process France has been going through is over. The third episode, the parliamentary elections, will take place on June 11 and 18.
CO-FOUNDER&ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Dear Friends and Readers,
by Phong Bui“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
The New Figurative & History Painting
by Donald KuspitTheir ambition is to convey a lived experience of the human body, more broadly, a sense that the body is the first ego, as Freud said, giving it a certain mythical importance, making it the most privileged of all objects, and with that to re-humanize art.
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The Day’s Outrage:
Fearless Girl and Open Casket by Brian Winkweder - Response to James Cooper by Mark Van Proyen
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Temporal Nomads:
The Scandal of Postmodern History Painting by Robert R. Shane - The Issue of History Painting by Jacob Collins
- Contemporary History Painting by Adam Miller
- History Painting and the Problem with Art Education by Robert Zeller
- MIDTOWN by Rabia Ashfaque
- All the Threatened and Delicious Things Joining One Another by Magdalyn Asimakis
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres by Phillip Griffith
- The Longest Journey by Tim Barry
- When An Image Works, Words Don’t Need To by Will Fenstermaker
- MARTIN BOYCE Sleeping Chimneys. Dead Stars. by Stephen Truax
- Rachel Harrison Prasine by Jane Cavalier
- Florine Stettheimer Painting Poetry by Michelle Standley
- Ridley Howard Travel Pictures by Jason Rosenfeld
- Myths of the Marble by Leah Gallant
- Making Space: Women Artists in Postwar Abstraction by Ann McCoy
- Robert Bordo Back Flip by David Rhodes
- Head Over Heels by Amy Deneson
- Tales of Transformation by Jurriaan Benschop
- Exhibition 1 by Osman Yerebakan
- A Fable of A Time Traveler by Phong Bui
Art
ArtSeen
- MIDTOWN by Rabia Ashfaque
- All the Threatened and Delicious Things Joining One Another by Magdalyn Asimakis
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres by Phillip Griffith
- The Longest Journey by Tim Barry
- When An Image Works, Words Don’t Need To by Will Fenstermaker
- MARTIN BOYCE Sleeping Chimneys. Dead Stars. by Stephen Truax
- Rachel Harrison Prasine by Jane Cavalier
- Florine Stettheimer Painting Poetry by Michelle Standley
- Ridley Howard Travel Pictures by Jason Rosenfeld
- Myths of the Marble by Leah Gallant
- Making Space: Women Artists in Postwar Abstraction by Ann McCoy
- Robert Bordo Back Flip by David Rhodes
- Head Over Heels by Amy Deneson
- Tales of Transformation by Jurriaan Benschop
- Exhibition 1 by Osman Yerebakan
- A Fable of A Time Traveler by Phong Bui
Critics Page
- The Day’s Outrage: Fearless Girl and Open Casket by Brian Winkweder
- Response to James Cooper by Mark Van Proyen
- Temporal Nomads: The Scandal of Postmodern History Painting by Robert R. Shane
- The Issue of History Painting by Jacob Collins
- Contemporary History Painting by Adam Miller
- History Painting and the Problem with Art Education by Robert Zeller
Books
- Cultural Currency: LISA KO with Nicole Tresca
- Defiant Duality by Gabino Iglesias
- KALEIDOSCOPIC: MELISSA FEBOS with Ryan Berg
- Different Routes to Rarified Air by John Domini
- Leaps of Faith by David Varno
- STACEY LEVINE with Kristy Eldredge
- Refusing Removal by Nicole Tresca
- Defacing the Palimpsest: Don DeLillo, New York Antagonist by John Domini
- Mai Der Vang with Alex Dueben
- Fat Beautiful Stinking Bookmarks: Joseph Scapellato with James Tadd Adcox
- The Women in the Band by Yvonne C. Garrett
- Bibliotherapy by Yvonne C. Garrett
- Family Bonds by Matt Grant
- Getting Portland by Yvonne C. Garrett
- In the Green Chair: Talking Alternative Lives: PAUL AUSTER with J.T. Price
- Modes of Stylish Knowing by J.T. Price
Music
- Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
- Brooklyn Rail Spring Mix by the Editors
- Relexifying the Canon of Black Music Nicholas Payton with Vilde Aaslid
- Continuous Variable Harmonics by MV Carbon
- Say Goodbye to Reality Nicholas Smith (I Cut People) with Matthew Ackerman
- Loony Tunes by Richard Klin
- Outtakes by Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
- Titicut Follies: A Stark Documentary Transformed into Dance by Susan Yung
- Hitting Her Stride by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
- The Slow Burn: Hilary Easton’s Radiator by Jen George
Film
- Looking for Lumia: Thomas Wilfred’s Forgotten Art of Light by Swagato Chakravorty
- Intelligence Porn by Sarah Mendelsohn
- Screening the Regions: An Incomplete Philippine Cinema by Paul Grant
- Content Is King by Will Fenstermaker
- A Prophet Against Empire: Jerry Tartaglia’s Escape from Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith by Davin Bruin
Theater
- (NOT) Water: Sheila Callaghan, Daniella Topol, and the Slow-Building Wave of Collaboration by Katie Pearl
- Parity, Politics, and Survival: WiTFESTNYC 2017 by Martha Steketee
Fiction
- The World Without People Who Ruin It and Make It Ugly by Patricio Pron, translated from the Spanish by Kathleen Heil
- Extract from Autopsy of a Father by Pascale Kramer
- inSerial: part nine Delusions of Being Observed by Lewis Warsh
- New Routes in Fiction A talk with Colm Tóibín by Alec Niedenthal
- Tragic Strip by T. Motley
- Watching TV with Steven Freund by Tom Daly
- LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 9: The Transfinite Direwolf (Canis infinitis) by Sid Gershgoren
Poetry
- Regression, by Gabe Kruis
- Six by Shannon Tharp
- Two by Diana Morán, translated by Ash Ponders
- Four for Joanne Kyger by Mike Cavuto
Art Books
- Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century by Andrew Holter
- Kate Zambreno with T. Clutch Fleischmann
- Agnes Martin: Night Sea by Stephanie Guyet
- Activestills: Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel by Maria Quinata
- Blurred Library: Essays on Artists’ Books by Megan N. Liberty
- Social Medium: Artists Writing; 2000 – 2015 by Tim Barry
Field Notes
- Notes on a bad photo of a sick society, or, What does democracy looks like? by Charles Reeve
- Dutch Treat: The General Election of March 2017 and the Populist Vote by Nick Vos
- Field Notes from the Anthropocene: Living in the Back Loop by Stephanie Wakefield
- Why Conservatives Are Panicking Over a Short Story About Communism by Chad Kautzer
- Peter James Hudson with John Clegg
Editor's Message
- The New Figurative & History Painting by Donald Kuspit
The Well
- Bar LunÀtico by Juliet Helmke
Co-Founder's Message
- Dear Friends and Readers, by Phong Bui