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INCONVERSATION
MARINA ADAMS with Alex Bacon
Art
"I remember feeling that everything in the world should be art, that everything in the world should have the touch of the handmade."
INCONVERSATION
JANE BENSON with Yasi Alipour
Art
Jane Benson stubbornly magnified the fake to draw attention to the shaken notion of the real. Happy Faux Flora (2002)—which would become one of the young artist’s most iconic interventions—was as captivating and contemplative as it was unsettling.
INCONVERSATION
JOSH SMITH with Phong Bui
Art
At once seemingly casual and unpredictable the paintings are underpinned by a pragmatic mind at work and always present.
INCONVERSATION
DE WAIN VALENTINE with Michael Straus
Art
De Wain Valentine has long been a pioneering artist based in Southern California, most known for his evanescent and light-transforming sculptures cast in polyester resin.
FROMTHE
PUBLISHER&ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PUBLISHER&ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Dear Readers and Friends,
Anyone who has visited Venice will generally confess that it’s a city that is immune to the passing of time. Most of us still marvel at the illusive and fragile beauty which was built on a salt marsh at sea level, as Alexander Herzen exalted, “to build a city where it is impossible to build a city is a madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.”
GUESTCRITIC
Fictions Of Art
by Barry SchwabskyEvery artwork has to be imagined before it is made, and every artwork that’s made only takes effect in someone’s imagination, where it may continue to unfold even long after it has been lost to sight.
CRITICSPAGE
- Picture a Picture of a Bed by Edwin Frank
- Paula Rego and Balzac: A Footnote by Anthony Rudolf
- The Cursed Painter by Jean Frémon
- Oscar Wilde's Basil Hallward by Tosh Berman
- A War on the World of Surfaces by Ann Reynolds
- Elstir's Harbor at Carquethuit by David Carrier
- A Hunger Artist by Betsy Kaufman
- Virginia Woolf's Paragone by Jonathan Gilmore
- Art World Doggerel by John Yau
- The Museum Frozen In Amber by Seph Rodney
- A Chance Encounter by Rhona Bitner
- The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting by Dalia Neis
- Nalo Hopkinson's Message in a Bottle by Steven Shaviro
ARTSEEN
- Wendy Red Star: Accession by Eleanor Heartney
- Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Workshop by Hovey Brock
- Lawrence Lek: AIDOL 爱道 by Michael Eby
- Chando Ao, Sam Ghantous, David OReilly, and Bjorn Sparrman by Danni Shen
- Moira Dryer: Paintings & Works on Paper by David Rhodes
- Louis Fratino: Come Softly to Me by Wen Tao
- John Sonsini by Dan Cameron
- Walid Raad by Elleree Erdos
- Sharon Horvath: Gaze at Your Own Risk by Jeremy Sigler
- Leeroy New: Aliens of Manila by Osman Can Yerebakan
- Paul Anthony Smith: Junction by Dan Cameron
- Suzanne Anker & Frank Gillette: Strata by Taney Roniger
- The Drowned World by Nicole Miller
- Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement by Michael Eby
- Adolph Gottlieb: Classic Paintings by David Rhodes
- Overture by Joseph Lubitz
- ANOHNI: LOVE by Simon Wu
- Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: Delights of an Undirected Mind by Alex A. Jones
- Tattfoo Tan: Heal the Man in Order to Heal the Land by Kristen Racaniello
- Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey by Louis Block
- Jessi Reaves: II by Eliza Barry
- In Celebration by Joyce Beckenstein
- The Symbolist Vision by Mary Ann Caws
- Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s by Benjamin Clifford
- Barthélemy Toguo: Urban Requiem by Ann C. Collins
- Gretchen Bender: So Much Deathless by Dan Cameron
- Joan Miró: Birth of the World by Jessica Holmes
- Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room by Sophie Kovel
- Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything by Steven Pestana
- Odette England: The Outskirts, Exposed, and Punched by tamara suarez porras
- Michelle Handelman: LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL by Alex A. Jones
- N. Dash by Steven Pestana
- Sheer Presence: Monumental Paintings by Robert Motherwell by Robert C. Morgan
- New York-Centric by William Corwin
- Warhol Women by Robert C. Morgan
- Zoe Avery Nelson: The Measure of a Boi by William Corwin
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
- Fictions Of Art by Barry Schwabsky
Publisher's Message
Art
ArtSeen
- Wendy Red Star: Accession by Eleanor Heartney
- Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Workshop by Hovey Brock
- Lawrence Lek: AIDOL 爱道 by Michael Eby
- Chando Ao, Sam Ghantous, David OReilly, and Bjorn Sparrman by Danni Shen
- Moira Dryer: Paintings & Works on Paper by David Rhodes
- Louis Fratino: Come Softly to Me by Wen Tao
- John Sonsini by Dan Cameron
- Walid Raad by Elleree Erdos
- Sharon Horvath: Gaze at Your Own Risk by Jeremy Sigler
- Leeroy New: Aliens of Manila by Osman Can Yerebakan
- Paul Anthony Smith: Junction by Dan Cameron
- Suzanne Anker & Frank Gillette: Strata by Taney Roniger
- The Drowned World by Nicole Miller
- Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement by Michael Eby
- Adolph Gottlieb: Classic Paintings by David Rhodes
- Overture by Joseph Lubitz
- ANOHNI: LOVE by Simon Wu
- Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: Delights of an Undirected Mind by Alex A. Jones
- Tattfoo Tan: Heal the Man in Order to Heal the Land by Kristen Racaniello
- Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey by Louis Block
- Jessi Reaves: II by Eliza Barry
- In Celebration by Joyce Beckenstein
- The Symbolist Vision by Mary Ann Caws
- Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s by Benjamin Clifford
- Barthélemy Toguo: Urban Requiem by Ann C. Collins
- Gretchen Bender: So Much Deathless by Dan Cameron
- Joan Miró: Birth of the World by Jessica Holmes
- Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room by Sophie Kovel
- Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything by Steven Pestana
- Odette England: The Outskirts, Exposed, and Punched by tamara suarez porras
- Michelle Handelman: LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL by Alex A. Jones
- N. Dash by Steven Pestana
- Sheer Presence: Monumental Paintings by Robert Motherwell by Robert C. Morgan
- New York-Centric by William Corwin
- Warhol Women by Robert C. Morgan
- Zoe Avery Nelson: The Measure of a Boi by William Corwin
1 by 1
- Jorge Méndez Blake: Amerika by Colin Edgington
Critics Page
- Picture a Picture of a Bed by Edwin Frank
- Paula Rego and Balzac: A Footnote by Anthony Rudolf
- The Cursed Painter by Jean Frémon
- Oscar Wilde's Basil Hallward by Tosh Berman
- A War on the World of Surfaces by Ann Reynolds
- Elstir's Harbor at Carquethuit by David Carrier
- A Hunger Artist by Betsy Kaufman
- Virginia Woolf's Paragone by Jonathan Gilmore
- Art World Doggerel by John Yau
- The Museum Frozen In Amber by Seph Rodney
- A Chance Encounter by Rhona Bitner
- The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting by Dalia Neis
- Nalo Hopkinson's Message in a Bottle by Steven Shaviro
Books
- Then I Put In My False Heart: SARAH ROSE ETTER in conversation with Andrew Ervin by Andrew Ervin
- Living on the Borderlines: Stories, by Melissa Michal and Sabrina & Corina: Stories, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine by Yvonne C. Garrett
- What My Mother And I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break The Silence by Elizabeth Block
- My Roots Were Somewhere With You by Shoreh Laici
- My Struggle: Book Six by Karl Ove Knausgaard by Nathan Knapp
- The Girls in My Town By Angela Morales by Erin Carden
- The Aesthetics of Silence: New Books by Ilya Kaminsky & Donna Stonecipher by Kristina Marie Darling
- The Fat Kid by Jamie Iredell by Hugh Sheehy
Music
- Pay the Artist by George Grella
- Hey Internet DJ by Greta Rainbow
- Kinesiology of the Viola by Eli Zeger
- Outtakes by Steve Dalachinsky
- May Listings by George Grella and Brad Cohan
- Jon Savage: This Searing Light, The Sun And Everything Else by Dan Joseph
Dance
- Take Off From the Earth, Then Go To The Moon by Erica Getto
- Amendments, New Waves, and Updates by Gillian Jakab
- Lauren Bakst’s More Problems with Form by Rennie McDougall
- Kyle Abraham’s Live! The Realest MC by Susan Yung
- Choreographing “Lines of Flight” by George Kan
Film
- The Craftsman by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- Otro Mundo: The Wandering Soap Opera by Violet Lucca
- An Antidote for These Trying Times: Diamantino by Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
- There are no rules!: Restored and Revisited Avante–garde Films from the Netherlands by Marius Hrdy
- Losing Control of the Nightclub: Everybody in the Place by Matt Turner
Theater
Fiction
- From The New York Jail by Plinio Garrido, translated from the Spanish by Harry Morales
- From My Friends by Emmanuel Bove, translated from the French by Janet Louth
- Tragic Strip by Tom Motley
- inSerial: part eight The Mysteries of Paris by Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno
Poetry
- Anemone by Norma Cole
- Grand Army Plaza by James Loop
- five from Cosmic Bottom by Lucas de Lima
- three by Catherine Wagner
- four by Kate Colby
- four by John Williams Narins
- %NSFW by Joshua Escobar
- dandy aisle by Mike Lala
Art Books
- Anna Ostoya's and Ben Lerner's The Polish Rider by Taylor Dafoe
- R. Crumb's Dream Diary by Lily Majteles
- Saul Fletcher, Essays by Ralph Rugoff and Kirsty Bell by Nick Bennett
- Olivier Schrauwen's Parallel Lives by Bill Kartalopoulos
Field Notes
- Frontera/Frontier: Chaos at the US-Mexico Border by Marisela Barrera
- Algeria: A Historic and Ambivalent Movement by Nedjib Sidi Moussa translated by Janet Koenig
- Why 3508 Economists Are Probably Wrong by José A. Tapia
- Freaky Realism: Michael Taussig's Palma Africana by McKenzie Wark
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