Art In Conversation
Maja Ruznic with Ann C. Collins
Anchoring her work in deeply saturated colors, American artist Maja Ruznic channels her subconscious into haunting paintings in which figures materialize from geometric and amorphous forms. Confident in the hybrid space she has found between figurative and abstract traditions, she evokes an unsettling sadness tinged with a sense of the mystical and the cathartic.
Art In Conversation
David Ostrowski with Andrew Woolbright
David Ostrowski has somewhat of a cult status among painters. His F series continues on in the memory and discussions of painters here in New York, brought up in the more wistful moments of painters reminiscing about the moments when painting felt like it understood something about culture and about itself.
Art In Conversation
Isaac Julien with Zoë Hopkins
In the past four decades, British filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien has become widely celebrated for his pioneering body of work, which combines avant-garde film techniques with an incisive gaze at the politico-historical tumult of our world and a careful grip on the intellectual and philosophical currents that have shaped modernity.
Art In Conversation
Alvaro Barrington with Alex Bacon
Alvaro Barrington recently welcomed me to his sprawling studio complex in Londons Whitechapel neighborhood. Fresh from the opening of his installation at Tate Britain, his most ambitious to date, we discussed a wide range of subjects, including his grounding in painting, his study of art history, and the inspiration he draws from hip hop culture. This allowed us to pull out some of the many threads present in the Tate project, both personalsuch as his evocation of significant female friends and familyand formal, as in his particular approach to the structure of Tates Duveen hallway.
The Queer Imagination, Then and Now
By Christopher T. RichardsIve just returned to New York from my annual pilgrimage to the Zoo, where every May Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo hosts a cadre of monks, neopagans, cosplayers, and Tolkien lovers, in addition to a few medievalists. Three days of academic panels, working groups, and business meetings culminate with The Dance, where, if youre anything like me, youll take the opportunity to kiss a beautiful Hispanist, whom you wont see again till next year. Its rather like summer camp that way.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers
We must remind ourselves that the speed of technology and social media can be deployed for both negative and positive means of communication. And in response, we must continue to elevate and give proper attention to the slowness of culture, the arts, and the humanities as urgent and vital counter friction as weve done so in the pastfor they are essential to the health of our democratic heart and all of us as individuals.
Editor's Message
SPECULUM MUNDI: For an Iconography of the Present
By Pepe KarmelIn his introduction to The Gothic Image (1899, English trans. 1913), Émile Mâle implicitly acknowledges that a nineteenth-century viewer may find the visual language of medieval art obscure. Mâle responds by explaining that, unlike art in the Renaissance tradition, medieval art does not attempt to reproduce literal appearances. Rather, it is a sacred writing of which every artist must learn the characters.
Critics Page
-
Pioneering Environmental Art: The Poetics of Khoisan Painting
– By Alisa LaGamma -
Black and Blue Images: Sondra Perrys ITS IN THE GAME 17
– By Erich Kessel, Jr. -
Baaraan Ijlal: Hostile Witness
– By Gayatri Sinha -
Words as Images
– By María Minera -
The Unfactorable Factor
– By Richard Kalina -
MEME: The Simplified Head
– By Tony Godfrey -
The Big Bummer
– By Vasif Kortun -
Eyes and Flesh
– By Xin Wang -
The Emotional Foundations of Everyday Life
– By Youyou Wang
ArtSeen
-
Machine Dazzle: Ouroboros
– By Davida Fernández-Barkan -
Angel Otero: That First Rain in May
– By Terry R. Myers -
Tulips
– By Izzy Einstein -
Lynda Benglis: Knots & Videotapes 1972–1976
– By Alex Bacon -
Willem de Kooning and Italy
– By Phong Bui -
Fernando Palma Rodríguez: Āmantēcayōtl: And When it Disappears, it is Said, the Moon has Died (Auh inihcuac huel ompoliuh, mitoa, ommic in meztli)
– By Eleonor Botoman -
Julian Schnabel: Paintings from 1978—1987
– By David Carrier -
Hugh Hayden: Hughmans
– By William Corwin -
Deborah Buck: Witches Bridge
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa -
Emilie Stark-Menneg: Thread of Her Scent
– By Chris Crosman -
Rita Ackermann: Splits
– By Ekin Erkan -
Haas Brothers: Moonlight
– By Madison Ford -
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch
– By Jane Freiman -
Simon Dybbroe Møller: Thick & Thin
– By Alice Godwin -
Jonas N.T. Becker: A Hole is not a Void
– By Robert Alan Grand -
Vera Molnár: Parler à loeil
– By Richard Kalina -
Malcolm Morley: Painting as Model
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
– By Ann McCoy -
Tiff Massey: 7 Mile + Livernois
– By Charles Moore -
Ed Ruscha: NOW THEN
– By Terry R. Myers -
KAWS + Warhol
– By Emann Odufu -
Jutta Koether: 1982, 1983, 1984
– By Selena Parnon -
Arab Presences: Modern Art and Decolonisation Paris, 1908-1988
– By Dina A. Ramadan -
Petrit Halilaj: Abetare
– By Chloe Stagaman -
Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik: Diurnal
– By Dominika Tylcz -
Cal Siegel: Whose Folk
– By David Whelan -
Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now
– By Jessica Holmes -
Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures
– By William Corwin -
László Moholy-Nagy: Radiant Exposure
– By Lyle Rexer -
Eli Bornowsky: 3.3671984954 × 106391
– By Spencer Everett
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
-
SPECULUM MUNDI: For an Iconography of the Present
– By Pepe Karmel
Publisher's Message
Art
-
Ute Meta Bauer with Natalia Gierowska
-
Maja Ruznic with Ann C. Collins
-
David Ostrowski with Andrew Woolbright
-
Isaac Julien with Zoë Hopkins
-
Alvaro Barrington with Alex Bacon
-
The Queer Imagination, Then and Now
– By Christopher T. Richards
ArtSeen
-
Machine Dazzle: Ouroboros
– By Davida Fernández-Barkan -
Angel Otero: That First Rain in May
– By Terry R. Myers -
Tulips
– By Izzy Einstein -
Lynda Benglis: Knots & Videotapes 1972–1976
– By Alex Bacon -
Willem de Kooning and Italy
– By Phong Bui -
Fernando Palma Rodríguez: Āmantēcayōtl: And When it Disappears, it is Said, the Moon has Died (Auh inihcuac huel ompoliuh, mitoa, ommic in meztli)
– By Eleonor Botoman -
Julian Schnabel: Paintings from 1978—1987
– By David Carrier -
Hugh Hayden: Hughmans
– By William Corwin -
Deborah Buck: Witches Bridge
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa -
Emilie Stark-Menneg: Thread of Her Scent
– By Chris Crosman -
Rita Ackermann: Splits
– By Ekin Erkan -
Haas Brothers: Moonlight
– By Madison Ford -
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch
– By Jane Freiman -
Simon Dybbroe Møller: Thick & Thin
– By Alice Godwin -
Jonas N.T. Becker: A Hole is not a Void
– By Robert Alan Grand -
Vera Molnár: Parler à loeil
– By Richard Kalina -
Malcolm Morley: Painting as Model
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
– By Ann McCoy -
Tiff Massey: 7 Mile + Livernois
– By Charles Moore -
Ed Ruscha: NOW THEN
– By Terry R. Myers -
KAWS + Warhol
– By Emann Odufu -
Jutta Koether: 1982, 1983, 1984
– By Selena Parnon -
Arab Presences: Modern Art and Decolonisation Paris, 1908-1988
– By Dina A. Ramadan -
Petrit Halilaj: Abetare
– By Chloe Stagaman -
Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik: Diurnal
– By Dominika Tylcz -
Cal Siegel: Whose Folk
– By David Whelan -
Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now
– By Jessica Holmes -
Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures
– By William Corwin -
László Moholy-Nagy: Radiant Exposure
– By Lyle Rexer -
Eli Bornowsky: 3.3671984954 × 106391
– By Spencer Everett
Critics Page
-
Pioneering Environmental Art: The Poetics of Khoisan Painting
– By Alisa LaGamma -
Black and Blue Images: Sondra Perrys ITS IN THE GAME 17
– By Erich Kessel, Jr. -
Baaraan Ijlal: Hostile Witness
– By Gayatri Sinha -
Words as Images
– By María Minera -
The Unfactorable Factor
– By Richard Kalina -
MEME: The Simplified Head
– By Tony Godfrey -
The Big Bummer
– By Vasif Kortun -
Eyes and Flesh
– By Xin Wang -
The Emotional Foundations of Everyday Life
– By Youyou Wang
Books
-
Théo Casciani with Donatien Grau
-
We The People
– By Chris Campanioni -
Kevin Barry with Tadhg Hoey
-
Lena Valencia with Jessie Ren Marshall
-
Ayşegül Savaşs The Anthropologists
– By Loré Yessuff -
Sable Yongs Die Hot With a Vengeance
– By Anson Tong -
Joy Williamss Concerning the Future of Souls
– By Vincent Scarpa -
Colm Tóibíns Long Island
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
Morgan Taltys Fire Exit
– By John Domini
Music
-
Son Rompe Pera: Triple Fusion
– By Dan Cameron -
Music in Twelve Parts
– By George Grella -
FOCUS Wales
– By Martin Longley -
Mining the Ambiguities
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
-
Malik Nashad Sharpe with George Kan
-
Humans as Prosthetics
– By Maximiliane Leuschner -
How Long, Baby How Long?
– By Karen Hildebrand
Film
-
The Architecture and Design Film Festival
– By Harrison Blackman -
DCTVs Lynne Sachs: From the Outside In
– By Hannah Bonner -
Catherine Breillats Last Summer
– By Natalia Keogan -
Annie Bakers Janet Planet
– By Joanna Seifter -
Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray
– By Laura Valenza
Theater
-
CLASSIC FLYING SAUCER
– By Trish Harnetiaux, illustrations by Anthony Arkin -
Marta Nesspek Presents the Hands, Voices, and Bodies of Performance
– By Billy McEntee
Fiction
-
from Love, Leda
– By Mark Hyatt -
from Fictions
– By Ashley Honeysett
Poetry
Art Books
-
Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa
– By Phillip Griffith -
Pia Camils Friendly Fires
– By Nicole Kaack -
Cecilia Vicuñas Deer Book
– By Re'al Christian -
Barbara T. Smith: Proof
– By Megan N. Liberty
In Memoriam
-
A Tribute to Jim Long
– -
Martica Sawin
– By Francis M. Naumann
Field Notes
-
After the Wave, Winter: Demographic Decline and the Production of Men in the Twenty-First Century
– By Jason E. Smith -
Welcome to the Anderscene
– By Jacob Blumenfeld
Architecture
-
The Antiformalists
– By Nile Greenberg -
Painting / Sculpture / Architecture
– By Edgar Rodriguez -
Tree As Architectural Metaphor
– By Jessica Martin -
Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion
– By Phillip Denny