Introduction: Toby Kamps with Anne Doran
Critics Page
The life and career of Walter Hopps is legendary. His obituary in The Washington Post described him as a “sort of a gonzo museum directorelusive, unpredictable, outlandish in his range, jagged in his vision, heedless of rules.”
GUY GOODWIN with Phong Bui
Art
On the occasion of Guy’s recent show, Grotto Relief at Brennan & Griffin (May 13June 18, 2017), we enjoyed a long-overdue conversation on the exhibition’s last day, in front of an audience comprised mostly of artists.
MIGUEL LUCIANO with Media Farzin and Charles Schultz
Art
With the Puerto Rican debt crisis as well as the controversy over legendary political activist Oscar López Rivera’s participation in the Puerto Rican parade as backdrop, we took the opportunity to discuss Luciano’s long engagement with Puerto Rican politics and history, his love of creatively refurbished bicycles, and how the two intersect in Ride or Die, Luciano’s solo exhibition of commissioned work, which was on view at Brooklyn’s BRIC gallery this past spring.
Art of the Cover-Up:
Gerhard Richter's Decke
by Rob Halpern
Art
Strung-out between abstract dematerialization and post-minimalist figuration, Decke absorbs the photograph and disfigures its referent. Working over its own rendered image corrosively, Richter’s paint becomes a cover, a screen, a veil.
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
After Deadpan
by Marika Takanishi Knowles
Art
The French model of painting seemed prescient, because of its insistence that history and passion go hand in hand. Immediately following the election, I looked to French painting as a school of affect, a repository of figures whose emotions provided a series of lessons in how to behave as a historical agent and how to respond to historical events.
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Dear Friends and Readers,
by Phong Bui“A utopia is not a portrait of the real world, of the actual political or social order. It exists at no moment of time and at no point in space; it is “nowhere.” But just such a conception of a nowhere has stood the test and proved its strength in the development of the modern world.”
- Introduction: Toby Kamps with Anne Doran
- On Walter Hopps by Terrell James
- On Walter Hopps by Sarah C. Bancroft
- El Bandido by George Herms
- Smoking Walter by Nancy Kienholz
- On Walter Hopps by Susan Davidson
- On Walter Hopps by Neil Printz
- On Walter Hopps by David Salle
- On Walter Hopps by Don Quaintance
- On Walter Hopps by Michael McCall
- Works on Water by Nicole Miller
- DAVID MICHALEK: SlowDancing/TrioA by Vered Engelhard
- ALEXANDER CALDER: Hypermobility by Jason Rosenfeld
- ALI BANISADR: Trust in the Future by Jessica Holmes
- MARTIN ROTH: In May 2017 I cultivated a piece of land in Midtown Manhattan nurtured by tweets by Jonathan Goodman
- SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD: Summer and Winter by David Rhodes
- Disappearing, Inc. by Tom McGlynn
- The Uptown Triennial by Magdalyn Asimakis
- ROBERT MANGOLD: Paintings and Works on Paper 20132017 by David Rhodes
- MATISSE/DIEBENKORN by Hearne Pardee
- PHILIP PEARLSTEIN: Facing You by Jonathan Goodman
- MARINELLA SENATORE: Piazza Universale/Social Stages by Yasaman Alipour
- MARKUS LÜPERTZ: New Paintings by Hovey Brock
- RICO GATSON: Icons 2007-2017 by William Corwin
- IVANA BAIĆ: Through the Hum of Black Velvet Sleep by William Corwin
- Hiding in Plain Site by Colin Edgington
- KATE HARDING: Uphill Downhill Conversation, (Sister) by Alexandra Hammond
- What's Left Behind by Will Fenstermaker
- CHANTAL JOFFE by David Carrier
- KAARI UPSON: Good Thing You Are Not Alone by Rabia Ashfaque
- Future Library by Lucía Hinojosa
Art
ArtSeen
- Works on Water by Nicole Miller
- DAVID MICHALEK: SlowDancing/TrioA by Vered Engelhard
- ALEXANDER CALDER: Hypermobility by Jason Rosenfeld
- ALI BANISADR: Trust in the Future by Jessica Holmes
- MARTIN ROTH: In May 2017 I cultivated a piece of land in Midtown Manhattan nurtured by tweets by Jonathan Goodman
- SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD: Summer and Winter by David Rhodes
- Disappearing, Inc. by Tom McGlynn
- The Uptown Triennial by Magdalyn Asimakis
- ROBERT MANGOLD: Paintings and Works on Paper 20132017 by David Rhodes
- MATISSE/DIEBENKORN by Hearne Pardee
- PHILIP PEARLSTEIN: Facing You by Jonathan Goodman
- MARINELLA SENATORE: Piazza Universale/Social Stages by Yasaman Alipour
- MARKUS LÜPERTZ: New Paintings by Hovey Brock
- RICO GATSON: Icons 2007-2017 by William Corwin
- IVANA BAIĆ: Through the Hum of Black Velvet Sleep by William Corwin
- Hiding in Plain Site by Colin Edgington
- KATE HARDING: Uphill Downhill Conversation, (Sister) by Alexandra Hammond
- What's Left Behind by Will Fenstermaker
- CHANTAL JOFFE by David Carrier
- KAARI UPSON: Good Thing You Are Not Alone by Rabia Ashfaque
- Future Library by Lucía Hinojosa
Critics Page
- Introduction: Toby Kamps with Anne Doran
- On Walter Hopps by Terrell James
- On Walter Hopps by Sarah C. Bancroft
- El Bandido by George Herms
- Smoking Walter by Nancy Kienholz
- On Walter Hopps by Susan Davidson
- On Walter Hopps by Neil Printz
- On Walter Hopps by David Salle
- On Walter Hopps by Don Quaintance
- On Walter Hopps by Michael McCall
Books
- Bed-Stuy's Many Faces of Gentrification: BRIAN PLATZER with Liz von Klemperer
- The Revealing Science of Prog: David Weigel by Rick Moody
- Her Body, Herself: Hunger by Roxane Gay by Matt Grant
- Changing Climate by Christine Mi
- Giving Voice to What's Unsaid: Fred Marchant by Olivia Kate Cerrone
- God in the Machine by Chris Campanioni
- Through the Viewfinder: Pamela Ryder with Peter Markus by Peter Markus
- Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Weston Cutter
- MATT HART with Weston Cutter
- MAILE MELOY with Weston Cutter
- Deb Olin Unferth's Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories by Yvonne C. Garrett
Music
- The Emergence of A New Black Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Text by Cisco Bradley
- Art of Darkness: Wrekmeister Harmonies by Marshall Yarbrough
- Make Your Pointe: Visible Cloaks' Reassemblage by Mik Pointe
- Outtakes by Steve Dalachinsky
- Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Listings By The Editors
Dance
- Small Steps by Erica Getto
- Empowerment Waltz: Patricia Noworol's TREMENDOUS by Ivan Talijancic
- Whipped Cream, With a Cherry on Top by Susan Yung
- Dancing to the Historical Record by Gillian Jakab
- Dance Caribbean Collective's Third Year by Susanna Sloat
Film
- Known Quantities: Cannes 2017 by James Lattimer
- ERMEK SHINARBAEV with Tanner Tafelski
- Risk/Reward: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen by Almudena Escobar López
- Rites of Passage: John Trengove’s The Wound by Cindy Govender
Theater
Fiction
- Returning to the Problem by Eugene Lim
- The Bar by Strawberry Saroyan
- from The Waste Pickers By Sausan Jamil Hasan, translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins
- inSerial: part ten Delusions of Being Observed by Lewis Warsh
- Lost and Found Animals Part 10: The Tennessee Wallgroper: Murafactor Fictifioriana by Sid Gershgoren
- We Are Fox! by T. Motley
- New Routes in Fiction: David Szalay with Alec Niedenthal by Alec Niedenthal and David Szalay
Verbatim
Poetry
- Three by Noah Falck
- Vito by Anne Waldman
- from LEGEND OF THE WINTER TRIP by Pansy Maurer-Alvarez
- from Exercises for the Hard at Work by Matt Reeck
- Three by Emily Skillings
Art Books
- Adam Bartos and Colin MacCabe, Studio: Remembering Chris Marker by Sadie Rebecca Starnes
- E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera, Eds., Blacktino Queer Performance by Timothy Francis Barry
- Jennifer L. Shaw, Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by Phillip Griffith
Field Notes
- Letter to My Neighbor Who Took Part in the Colonial War by Jorge Valadas
- On Being a Good Ally: The Handmaid's Tale And the Specter of Fascism by Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
- Modern Humans Are Probably Easier to Unwrap: Jeff Vandermeer with Jacob Blumenfeld by Jacob Blumenfeld
- The New Deal in New York, Revisited by Nicholas Gamso
- Richard Walker Replies by Richard Walker
Publisher's Message
- Dear Friends and Readers, by Phong Bui