Art In Conversation
JEFF ELROD with Phong H. Bui
Jeff Elrod speaks with Rail publisher, Phong Bui, about his new show The Last Handshake, the evolution of his practice, and the significance of the hand in his work.
Art In Conversation
CATHERINE GUND with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
On the occasion of her newest film, Aggie, filmmaker Catherine Gund speaks to Rail Editor at Large, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve about her life spent in activism and film making.
Art In Conversation
LESLIE HEWITT with Megan N. Liberty
Leslie Hewitt speaks with Rail Art Books editor, Megan N. Liberty on the occasion of the opening of her project space at Perrotin, NY, Anatomy of a Flower and Other Studio Experiments.
KENT MONKMAN with Amber Jamilla Musser
In this moment of institutional and personal reckoning about the legacy of settler-colonialism and violence against Indigenous people, Kent Monkmans work invites provocative intersections with the canon of Western European and American art history while exploring themes such as sexuality, colonization, loss, and resilience. Monkman is an interdisciplinary visual artist and member of the Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty Five territory, Manitoba.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiMany of us who have read Alexis de Tocquevilles Democracy in America (published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840), are forever grateful to his acute observations about, and enthusiasm for America.
Editor's Message
The Prompt
By Ralph LemonThroughout, the worldview of a (Black) artists Times obituary and its expectations of talent, form, worthiness, a show, a gallery, a museum or notall particular containersare evident. Present and posthumous success requires a comprehensive identity, a position in terms of the systems frame.
Critics Page
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Mr. Brown-Guy Falls To Leave
– By Pope.L -
Note on Surrender
– By Fred Moten -
Essayons
– By Will Rawls and Thomas Lax -
Some Thoughts on a Constellation of Things Seen and Felt
– By Adrienne Edwards -
Negroes in their prime
– By Kevin Beasley -
Oceanic, porous, and monstrous thoughts
– By Diane Lima
ArtSeen
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Abstraction in the Black Diaspora
– By Elizabeth Buhe -
Rafael Domenech: Bad infinities: laboratory of fragments
– By Yasi Alipour -
Louise Fishman: Ballin’ the Jack
– By Ksenia Soboleva -
Donald Judd
– By Lyle Rexer -
Tanya Aguiñiga: Extraño
– By Jared Quinton -
Gina Osterloh
– By Susan Breyer -
Shahzia Sikander: Weeping Willows, Liquid Tongues
– By William Corwin -
Tau Lewis: Triumphant Alliance of the Ubiquitous Blossoms of Incarnate Souls
– By Lillian O’Brien Davis -
Shari Mendelson: Animals, Idols, and Us
– By Ann McCoy -
Interiors: hello from the living room
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Leilah Babirye: Ebika Bya ba Kuchu mu Buganda (Kuchu Clans of Buganda)
– By Elizabeth Buhe -
Sari Carel: The Shape of Play
– By Naomi Lev -
Susan Bee: Anywhere Out of the World: New Paintings, 2017–2020
– By Yínká Elújọba -
Cecily Brown
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Titus Kaphar: From a Tropical Space
– By Dan Cameron -
Companion Pieces: New Photography 2020
– By Graham W. Bell -
Mary Jones: Attachments
– By Hovey Brock -
Sue Coe: It Can Happen Here
– By David Carrier -
Diversity Billboard Art Project
– By David Carrier -
Luca Giordano: The Triumph of the Neapolitan Painting
– By David Carrier -
Akeem Smith: No Gyal Can Test
– By Darla Migan -
Tjebbe Beekman: Symbiosis
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Billie Zangewa: Wings of Change
– By Ann C. Collins -
Bruce Nauman
– By Amanda Gluibizzi -
Anna Horvath: precarious dazzle
– By Alex Jen -
Genevieve Goffman: Here Forever
– By Alex A. Jones -
Rodney McMillian: Body Politic
– By Yxta Maya Murray -
Baris Gokturk: Public Secret
– By Bat-Ami Rivlin -
Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings
– By Hearne Pardee -
Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver: Cinematic Illumination
– By Madeleine Seidel -
Orbits of Known and Unknown Objects: SFAI Histories / MATRIX 277
– By Sam Korman -
Amy Sillman: Twice Removed
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit
– By Simon Wu -
Peggy Ahwesh: Heart_Land
– By Olivia Gauthier -
Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution
– By Toby Kamps -
Antoine Catala: alphabet
– By Nina Wolpow
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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The Prompt
– By Ralph Lemon
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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JEFF ELROD with Phong H. Bui
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CATHERINE GUND with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
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LESLIE HEWITT with Megan N. Liberty
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KENT MONKMAN with Amber Jamilla Musser
ArtSeen
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Abstraction in the Black Diaspora
– By Elizabeth Buhe -
Rafael Domenech: Bad infinities: laboratory of fragments
– By Yasi Alipour -
Louise Fishman: Ballin’ the Jack
– By Ksenia Soboleva -
Donald Judd
– By Lyle Rexer -
Tanya Aguiñiga: Extraño
– By Jared Quinton -
Gina Osterloh
– By Susan Breyer -
Shahzia Sikander: Weeping Willows, Liquid Tongues
– By William Corwin -
Tau Lewis: Triumphant Alliance of the Ubiquitous Blossoms of Incarnate Souls
– By Lillian O’Brien Davis -
Shari Mendelson: Animals, Idols, and Us
– By Ann McCoy -
Interiors: hello from the living room
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Leilah Babirye: Ebika Bya ba Kuchu mu Buganda (Kuchu Clans of Buganda)
– By Elizabeth Buhe -
Sari Carel: The Shape of Play
– By Naomi Lev -
Susan Bee: Anywhere Out of the World: New Paintings, 2017–2020
– By Yínká Elújọba -
Cecily Brown
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Titus Kaphar: From a Tropical Space
– By Dan Cameron -
Companion Pieces: New Photography 2020
– By Graham W. Bell -
Mary Jones: Attachments
– By Hovey Brock -
Sue Coe: It Can Happen Here
– By David Carrier -
Diversity Billboard Art Project
– By David Carrier -
Luca Giordano: The Triumph of the Neapolitan Painting
– By David Carrier -
Akeem Smith: No Gyal Can Test
– By Darla Migan -
Tjebbe Beekman: Symbiosis
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Billie Zangewa: Wings of Change
– By Ann C. Collins -
Bruce Nauman
– By Amanda Gluibizzi -
Anna Horvath: precarious dazzle
– By Alex Jen -
Genevieve Goffman: Here Forever
– By Alex A. Jones -
Rodney McMillian: Body Politic
– By Yxta Maya Murray -
Baris Gokturk: Public Secret
– By Bat-Ami Rivlin -
Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings
– By Hearne Pardee -
Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver: Cinematic Illumination
– By Madeleine Seidel -
Orbits of Known and Unknown Objects: SFAI Histories / MATRIX 277
– By Sam Korman -
Amy Sillman: Twice Removed
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit
– By Simon Wu -
Peggy Ahwesh: Heart_Land
– By Olivia Gauthier -
Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution
– By Toby Kamps -
Antoine Catala: alphabet
– By Nina Wolpow
Critics Page
-
Mr. Brown-Guy Falls To Leave
– By Pope.L -
Note on Surrender
– By Fred Moten -
Essayons
– By Will Rawls and Thomas Lax -
Some Thoughts on a Constellation of Things Seen and Felt
– By Adrienne Edwards -
Negroes in their prime
– By Kevin Beasley -
Oceanic, porous, and monstrous thoughts
– By Diane Lima
Books
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ANDREW ERVIN with Matthew Simmons
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GREG MANIA with Melissa Faliveno
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ROD KESSLER with Brooke Delp
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RICARDO MONTEZ with Theodore Kerr
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Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind
– By Joseph Peschel -
Danielle Evans’s The Office of Historical Corrections
– By Joseph Peschel -
Charles Bernstein’s Near/Miss
– By Neeli Cherkovski -
Trump, the American Dream, and the Frontier
– By Joshua Sperber
Music
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Home is Nowhere
– By George Grella -
Lucrecia Dalt
– By Martin Longley -
Listening In: Illuminating the Landscape
– By Scott Gutterman -
THURSTON MOORE with Rob Duguay
Dance
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Simulations: Living Sculptures on the Public Stage
– By George Kan -
Vahram Zaryan's Perf festival: Text, Gesture, and Translation
– By Christopher Atamian -
BILL SHANNON with Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
Film
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A Posthumous Palindrome: Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento’s The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror
– By Ethan Spigland -
Joy in Spite of Everything: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe
– By Madeleine Seidel -
Self-Making and the Travelogue: Courtney Stephens's Terra Femme
– By Caitlin Quinlan
Theater
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“Putting Your Shame Out There”: How a Booming Instagram Account Wields Comedy, Mimicry, and Advocacy
– By Cam Cronin -
Through the Uncertainty, Agnes Borinsky and the Working Group for a New Spirit Are Taking Inventory of Our Lives
– By Daniel Krane
Fiction
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Editor’s Note
– By Will Chancellor -
Igifu
– by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from the French by Jordan Stump -
from Difficult Light
– by Tomás González, translated from the Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg
Poetry
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A Library Alone Is Not a Poets House
– By E.J. McAdams -
How to Breathe Underwater: The Pandemician’s Reprisal
– By Edwin Torres -
“Herewith the Prologue:”
– By Aditi Machado -
Muwashshaḥa Qalandariyya
– by Taqi al-Din ‘Ali ibn al-Maghribi, translated from Arabic by David Larsen -
Guide for the Discouraged
– By Albert Mobilio -
six
– By Sara Larsen -
nine
– By Maureen Owen -
three
– By Michael Rothenberg -
Riding Death
– By Joseph Lease -
A Conversation Between Maggie Dubris & Bob Rosenthal
Art Books
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Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
– By Re'al Christian -
Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979
– By Megan N. Liberty -
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Photostats
– By Lee Ann Norman -
Brick Press’s N.E. Thing Co.: Companies Act
– By Jennie Waldow -
Dejan Lukić and Nik Kosieradzki’s The Oyster: Or, Radial Suppleness
– By Sahar Khraibani
In Memoriam
Field Notes
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Happy Days
– By Paul Mattick -
A Past That Is Not Past
– By Frances Cathryn -
White Fear and Safety in the Struggle for Housing Justice
– By Jerald Isseks -
JASON E. SMITH with Tony Smith
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Andreas Malms Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency
– By Max Ajl -
JEAN-LOUIS COHEN with Ross Wolfe
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Inflation. Government Policy, and Profits—an Exchange
The Miraculous
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26. (The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
27. (Ridge Street, Attorney Street, South Bronx)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
28. (A series of telephone booths in Midtown Manhattan, several addresses in the East Village and an unidentified location in the Bronx)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
29. (Saint Marks Place)
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
30. (Harlem, Flushing Meadows)
– By Raphael Rubinstein