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From the Publisher & Artistic Director

Editor's Message

Critics Page

The Mystical
– By Yuk Hui
I am Prehistory
– By Rémi Labrusse
The Promise
– By Anne-Laure Zevi
Resilient Objects: Surviving the Collapse of the Institution
– By Juliana Cerqueira Leite
John Armleder
Mai-Thu Perret
Dance in the Making
– By Anna Yudina , Diana Vishneva, and Olivier Berggruen
Lady Lay
– By Ali Van
Anicka Yi with Olivier Berggruen
Symbiontics: a view of present conditions from a place of entanglement
– By Caroline A. Jones
The Case for Impure Vision
– By Antonio Damasio

ArtSeen

Laurie Kang: Her Own Devices
– By Esmé Hogeveen
Alexa West: Triple Expo
– By Rachel Remick
Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the Animals
– By Holly Bushman
Erik Olson: Through the States
– By Hearne Pardee
Flávio de Carvalho
– By Bruna Shapira
Virtual Views: Video Lives
– By Madeleine Seidel
Gary Simmons: Screaming into the Ether
– By William Corwin
Mulyana & Iwan Effendi: Jumping the Shadow
– By Charlotte Kent
LigoranoReese: School of Good Citizenship
– By Marisa Lerer
Tim Kent: Enfilade
– By William Corwin
Aliza Shvarts: Purported
– By Elizabeth Buhe
Valerie Jaudon: Prepositions
– By Alfred Mac Adam
All What I Want is Life
– By Ruba Al-Sweel
Brown’s a Color, Black is Not
– By Darla Migan
Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective
– By David Carrier
Thaddeus Mosley
– By Jonathan Goodman
The New British Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
– By Christian Kleinbub
From Pot to Plate: Eli Ping at And Now
– By Israel Lund
An Incomplete History of Muralism at Rikers Island
– By Parker Field
ecofeminism(s)
– By Alex A. Jones
Tatiana Arocha: Respiro un bosque/I breathe a forest
– By Hovey Brock
NOT OVER
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Josh Smith: High as Fuck
– By Ann C. Collins
Farah Al Qasimi: Back and Forth Disco
– By Nina Wolpow
Painting at Night
– By Robert R. Shane
The Tree of Life
– By Charlotte Kent
Letter From New York: Marcin Muchalski and David Rhodes
– By Hearne Pardee
The Rock
– By Peter Brock
Within Global Isolation: Asian Artists in America
– By Sahar Khraibani
Hard Opening: Vigil for Black Death
– By Kathleen Langjahr
FIVE.
– By Charlene K. Lau
do it (around the world)
– By Ketter Weissman
Elizabeth Ibarra
– By Jason Rosenfeld
2 Lizards
– By Charlene K. Lau
Paintings Boarded-Up
– By Robert C. Morgan
Jonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love
– By Ksenia Soboleva
The Pursuit of Aesthetics: Artwork Created During Quarantine
– By William Corwin
Mike Childs: The Journey: Grids, Color and Curvilinear forms, 2004 to 2020
– By David Rhodes

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

State of Affairs
– By Olivier Berggruen

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

Laurie Kang: Her Own Devices
– By Esmé Hogeveen
Alexa West: Triple Expo
– By Rachel Remick
Lin May Saeed: Arrival of the Animals
– By Holly Bushman
Erik Olson: Through the States
– By Hearne Pardee
Flávio de Carvalho
– By Bruna Shapira
Virtual Views: Video Lives
– By Madeleine Seidel
Gary Simmons: Screaming into the Ether
– By William Corwin
Mulyana & Iwan Effendi: Jumping the Shadow
– By Charlotte Kent
LigoranoReese: School of Good Citizenship
– By Marisa Lerer
Tim Kent: Enfilade
– By William Corwin
Aliza Shvarts: Purported
– By Elizabeth Buhe
Valerie Jaudon: Prepositions
– By Alfred Mac Adam
All What I Want is Life
– By Ruba Al-Sweel
Brown’s a Color, Black is Not
– By Darla Migan
Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective
– By David Carrier
Thaddeus Mosley
– By Jonathan Goodman
The New British Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
– By Christian Kleinbub
From Pot to Plate: Eli Ping at And Now
– By Israel Lund
An Incomplete History of Muralism at Rikers Island
– By Parker Field
ecofeminism(s)
– By Alex A. Jones
Tatiana Arocha: Respiro un bosque/I breathe a forest
– By Hovey Brock
NOT OVER
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Josh Smith: High as Fuck
– By Ann C. Collins
Farah Al Qasimi: Back and Forth Disco
– By Nina Wolpow
Painting at Night
– By Robert R. Shane
The Tree of Life
– By Charlotte Kent
Letter From New York: Marcin Muchalski and David Rhodes
– By Hearne Pardee
The Rock
– By Peter Brock
Within Global Isolation: Asian Artists in America
– By Sahar Khraibani
Hard Opening: Vigil for Black Death
– By Kathleen Langjahr
FIVE.
– By Charlene K. Lau
do it (around the world)
– By Ketter Weissman
Elizabeth Ibarra
– By Jason Rosenfeld
2 Lizards
– By Charlene K. Lau
Paintings Boarded-Up
– By Robert C. Morgan
Jonathan Berger: An Introduction to Nameless Love
– By Ksenia Soboleva
The Pursuit of Aesthetics: Artwork Created During Quarantine
– By William Corwin
Mike Childs: The Journey: Grids, Color and Curvilinear forms, 2004 to 2020
– By David Rhodes

Critics Page

The Mystical
– By Yuk Hui
I am Prehistory
– By Rémi Labrusse
The Promise
– By Anne-Laure Zevi
Resilient Objects: Surviving the Collapse of the Institution
– By Juliana Cerqueira Leite
John Armleder
Mai-Thu Perret
Dance in the Making
– By Anna Yudina , Diana Vishneva, and Olivier Berggruen
Lady Lay
– By Ali Van
Anicka Yi with Olivier Berggruen
Symbiontics: a view of present conditions from a place of entanglement
– By Caroline A. Jones
The Case for Impure Vision
– By Antonio Damasio

Books

KATE GREENE with Jacquelyn Marie Gallo
LEIGH STEIN with Kathleen Rooney
Kevin Carey’s Set in Stone: poems
– By Christopher X. Shade
Partial Reveals & Inclusive Revelations in the Post-Truth Simulacracy: The Poetics
– By Chris Campanioni
Can’t Look Away: Ben Ehrenreich’s Desert Notebooks
– By Erika Howsare
Inkblot Journalism: Jay Kirk’s Avoid the Day
– By J.C. Hallman

Music

MATTHEW SHIPP with George Grella
BOTCH-ing Online Opera
– By Joe Diebes
Fairuz and Her Family Fusions
– By Martin Longley
Listening In: Version and Inversion
– By Scott Gutterman

Dance

Can we create lasting mutual aid structures?
– By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
The Bon Iver Race Dance, Reviewed
– By Adlan Jackson
LIZ WOLFF with Ivan Talijancic
– By Ivan Talijancic

Film

In Conversation: JOSEPHINE DECKER with Madeline Whittle
Japan Cuts 2020: Social Shifts Through Time
– By Jaime Grijalba
Future Days: Berlinale 2020
– By Leo Goldsmith
"It’s Alive! It’s Alive!"
– By Tyler Wilson
Quemar para sembrar: Pablo Larraín’s Ema
– By Bartolomeo Sala

Theater

Theater Must Hold
– By Elinor T Vanderburg
The Case for Telematics
– By Jared McNeill
National Queer Theater: Building Community, Shining a Light, and Raising Hell
– By Billy McEntee
ANNE BOGART with Tara Ahmadinejad

Fiction

Excerpt from Parakeet
– By Marie-Helene Bertino
Eau de Toilette
– By Ariel Saramandi

Poetry

four
– By Patricia Spears Jones
five
– By David Mills
Triptychs
– By Sandra Simonds
five
– By Kyle Dacuyan
five
– By Claire Donato
Now It Can Be Told
– By Jonathan Lethem
four
– By John Yau
six from Snoring in Oregon
– By Paul G. Maziar

Art Books

Sara Magenheimer’s Beige Pursuit
– By Maxwell Paparella
Lorena Lohr’s Tonight Lounge
– By Sarah Moroz
Jonas Mekas’s I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries 1950–1969
– By Paul G. Maziar
Mayumi Hosokura’s New Skin
– By Megan N. Liberty
Alice Trumbull Mason: Pioneer of American Abstraction
– By Karen Chernick

ArTonic

Artists Space
– By Nancy Princenthal

Field Notes

Prelude to a Hot American Summer
– By Jarrod Shanahan and Zhandarka Kurti
For the State, the Best Defense is Sometimes a Deadly Offense
– By Charles Reeve
“My son's dreams were cut short”: protests against police brutality go viral in Mexico, the US, and beyond
– By David Schmidt
Crowned Plague
– By Phil A. Neel
Elise Armani with Piotr Szyhalski
Journey to a “People's War”
– By Thomas Dai
American Factory
– By Andy Battle
Beyond the Green New Deal
– By Max Ajl

The Miraculous

11. (Harlem)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
12. (Chelsea, Fifth Avenue)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
13. (Meat Packing District)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
14. (NoHo)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
15. (East Village, Union Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein

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