ELLEN ALTFEST with Phong Bui

Art

Ellen Alfest's paintings appear confrontational, digested, and candid in how they deal with a meditative state of mind and a hallucinatory dedication to "somethingness" that lies between things and entities.

INCONVERSATION

HANNE TIERNEY with Alex A. Jones

Art

Twenty years ago Hanne Tierney founded FiveMyles, a non-profit art space in Crown Heights. To readers of the Rail who go back a long time in New York, perhaps those have a shared history with Tierney in the SoHo art scene, FiveMyles is a familiar and highly regarded establishment.

INCONVERSATION

ROBERT GROSVENOR with Alex Bacon

Art

Robert Grosvenor spoke with Alex Bacon over the phone from his home in the Florida Keys about important moments from his five decade career, and wide-ranging topics such as his photography, refitting of automobiles and boats, and enduring fascination with architecture, from iconic buildings to improvisational structures.

INCONVERSATION

WAYNE THIEBAUD with Hearne Pardee

Art

At age 98, Thiebaud still paints and plays tennis daily; spanning more than 50 years and a range of themes, his works reflect his commitment to the material and tradition of painting. His selections from the museum's collection exhibit the wide range of his enthusiasms, leavened with wit and intelligence.

Seeing, Naming, Knowing

by Nora N. Khan

Art

In Detroit, driving at night north up Woodward Avenue, a long, wide boulevard, one's eye is caught by emerald green lights, perched on the topmost corners of gas station signs, laundromats, corner stores, peep shows, groceries, and churches. They blink quickly, three times in a row. Their green makes for strange beacons, at first eerie, then comforting, not a warning, but an invitation.

FROMTHE
PUBLISHER&ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Dear Friends and Readers,

by Phong Bui

We shall come together in the spirit of solidarity and provide a megaphone to the urgent actions to be implemented into laws—from diversity initiatives to support of public education—while checking as much as possible the entrenched patriarchy (evidenced in every facet of our lives, and particularly in the longstanding political complexion).

GUESTCRITIC

Welcome to the Feminist Institute’s Guest Critic Edition of the Brooklyn Rail. We Hope You Stay a Long Time!

by Kathleen Landy

Women have shared their wisdom with one another for millennia, in oral histories that teach and inform subsequent generations of women about family, home, sex, power, politics, and survival. But patriarchal histories didn’t include these contributions. Huh!

CRITICSPAGE

Alison Knowles with Carolee Schneemann

No footage? No problem! Eva Hesse: A Feature Documentary Crafted from Archives by Marcie Begleiter

The Feminist Institute by John Carvalho

My History With History by Kashana Cauley

Lifting the Mask by Alexandra Dean

Helène Aylon with Monika Fabijanska

Pussy Speak Out by Karen Finley

Liz Nielsen and Carolina Wheat-Nielsen with Jessamyn Fiore

Considering Mary Beth Edelson’s Some Living American Women Artists by Kat Griefen

Judith Bernstein’s Archive by Jillian McManemin

My Women Mentors: Mentorship as Activism by Natalie Frank