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Art In Conversation
Joel Meyerowitz with Charlotte Kent
Joel Meyerowitz never stops. With shows this fall in Berlin, London, Paris and, locally, in Montclair, New Jersey, Meyerowitz also presents photographs from his archive daily through an online platform, Fellowship. His energy is inspiring. His excitement for the medium, contagious.
Art In Conversation
Daniel Richter with Toby Kamps
Daniel Richter came of age in Hamburg in the 1980s, when that citys punk and squatter scenes provided DIY spaces for artists and proposed positive alternatives to the times go-go 1980s mercantilism.
Art In Conversation
Tony Cokes with Zoë Hopkins
Tony Cokes consumes media with a singular zeal. The video works which he has become known for incorporate text from a dizzyingly wide range of sourcesspeeches, books, newspapers, archives, Twitter feeds. Unfolding on the screen against bright, changing monochromatic backgrounds, flashes of text are overlaid with songs from an equally impressive range of musical genres and tones, drawn from Cokess wide and deep knowledge of music history.
Art In Conversation
Liz Deschenes with Jean Dykstra
Back in 2000, Liz Deschenes curated a show at the Andrew Kreps Gallery called Photography about Photography, which included thirteen artists and outlined her approach to the medium. That approach might be described as: rigorous, unorthodox, engaged with the materiality of her work as well as with the architecture in which it is shown, and deeply invested in the medium and history of photography (though she rarely uses a camera).
Art In Conversation
Melissa Chiu with Joachim Pissarro & Jennifer Stockman
Melissa Chiu has been the director of the Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden since 2014. During that time, she has focused on bringing the museum and its collections into the twenty-first century, with direct attention to what she terms radical accessibility.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers
By Phong BuiWe like to think of culture as providing a balancing and healing element for the human condition. And the present political circumstances all over the world make us all the more aware of how important such balance ishow important it is for us to act in harmony with, and with consideration for, each other.
Editor's Message
Martial Intimacies: The Gun and Everyday Militarism
By Pamela M. LeeCould there be any more dispiriting topic than that of the gun? A topic veering between devastating personal histories, shoot first laws and arrogant entitlements, and weak pronouncements about sensible gun control?
Critics Page
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The Armed Individual, Black Life, and the Race for New Social Worlds
– By Joshua Aiken -
Two Observations on Early Origins of the Western: Pressure Studies
– By Lucy Raven -
Stray Bullets
– By Tuan Andrew Nguyen -
Fortune and Fear: Samuel Colts Revolver and Cyclical Violence
– By Joseph Mizhakii Zordan -
¡WELCOME TO AMERICA!
– By Mary Ellen Carroll -
WHO IM FINNA TEACH WITH THEORY HOW NOT TO KILL ME?!
– By Tiona Nekkia McClodden -
Visual Ballistics
– By Joan Kee
ArtSeen
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Marcus Jahmal: Interiors
– By Phong Bui -
Tiziano 1508. Agli esordi di una luminosa carriera
– By David Carrier -
The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Frans Hals
– By William Davie -
Sean Scully: LA Deep
– By Terry R. Myers -
Vaughn Spann: Trilogy
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
The Taos Abstract Artist Collective
– By Jeremy Zilar -
Distortions: Moscow Conceptualists Working Today
– By David Carrier -
Laura Anderson Barbata: Singing Leaf
– By Ekin Erkan -
Annesta Le: Eternal Current
– By David Ebony -
Allison Miller: World
– By D. Dominick Lombardi -
Katy Moran: How to paint like an athlete
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Aaron Curry
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Charles Traub: Skid Row
– By Saul Ostrow -
David Novros: Wall Paintings
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Heather Dewey-Hagborg: Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera
– By Laurel V. McLaughlin -
Jessica Segall: Human Energy
– By Hearne Pardee -
Ali Banisadr: The Changing Past
– By Maximiliane Leuschner -
Dala Nasser: Adonis River
– By Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert -
Adriana Furlong: Hundreds Do Things
– By Qingyuan Deng -
Martyn Cross: All Shall Be Well
– By Ekin Erkan -
Don Eddy
– By Riad Miah -
Wave Pattern
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright -
Marisol: A Retrospective
– By Jessica Holmes -
Manet/Degas
– By David Carrier -
Richard McDonough: House Full of Time
– By Ann C. Collins -
Yonia Fain: Modern-ish: Yonia Fain and the Art History of Yiddishland
– By Nicholas Heskes -
Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant
– By William Corwin -
Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick
– By Zoë Hopkins -
Dana James: Pearls & Potions
– By Annabel Keenan -
Valerie Jaudon: Parameters
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Connected Diaspora: U.S. Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media
– By Beatriz Yanes Martinez -
Harry Smith: Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
– By Ann McCoy -
Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus
– By Jenny Wu -
Manet/Degas
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
Ezra Tessler: Where the Stress Falls
– By Louis Block -
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions
– By Debra Riley Parr -
Trude Viken: Night Crawlers
– By Charles Schultz -
Roy Lichtenstein: Bauhaus Stairway Mural
– By David Whelan -
Deborah Buck: Into the Wild: To Crash is Divine
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright -
Climate Futurism
– By Alec Turnbull -
I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem
– By Bruna Shapira -
Man Ray: Other Objects
– By Charles Stuckey -
Chloe Chiasson: Keep Left at the Fork
– By Madison Ford -
Myrtle Williams: Spirit of the Sisterhood
– By Amanda Gluibizzi -
Manet/Degas
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Andrew Ross: Bucket of Truth
– By William Corwin -
Sean Scully: Jack the Wolf
– By Joachim Pissarro
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Martial Intimacies: The Gun and Everyday Militarism
– By Pamela M. Lee
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers
– By Phong Bui
Art
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Liz Deschenes with Jean Dykstra
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Joel Meyerowitz with Charlotte Kent
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Daniel Richter with Toby Kamps
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Tony Cokes with Zoë Hopkins
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Melissa Chiu with Joachim Pissarro & Jennifer Stockman
ArtSeen
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Marcus Jahmal: Interiors
– By Phong Bui -
Tiziano 1508. Agli esordi di una luminosa carriera
– By David Carrier -
The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Frans Hals
– By William Davie -
Sean Scully: LA Deep
– By Terry R. Myers -
Vaughn Spann: Trilogy
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
The Taos Abstract Artist Collective
– By Jeremy Zilar -
Distortions: Moscow Conceptualists Working Today
– By David Carrier -
Laura Anderson Barbata: Singing Leaf
– By Ekin Erkan -
Annesta Le: Eternal Current
– By David Ebony -
Allison Miller: World
– By D. Dominick Lombardi -
Katy Moran: How to paint like an athlete
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Aaron Curry
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Charles Traub: Skid Row
– By Saul Ostrow -
David Novros: Wall Paintings
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Heather Dewey-Hagborg: Hybrid: an Interspecies Opera
– By Laurel V. McLaughlin -
Jessica Segall: Human Energy
– By Hearne Pardee -
Ali Banisadr: The Changing Past
– By Maximiliane Leuschner -
Dala Nasser: Adonis River
– By Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert -
Adriana Furlong: Hundreds Do Things
– By Qingyuan Deng -
Martyn Cross: All Shall Be Well
– By Ekin Erkan -
Don Eddy
– By Riad Miah -
Wave Pattern
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright -
Marisol: A Retrospective
– By Jessica Holmes -
Manet/Degas
– By David Carrier -
Richard McDonough: House Full of Time
– By Ann C. Collins -
Yonia Fain: Modern-ish: Yonia Fain and the Art History of Yiddishland
– By Nicholas Heskes -
Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant
– By William Corwin -
Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick
– By Zoë Hopkins -
Dana James: Pearls & Potions
– By Annabel Keenan -
Valerie Jaudon: Parameters
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Connected Diaspora: U.S. Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media
– By Beatriz Yanes Martinez -
Harry Smith: Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
– By Ann McCoy -
Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus
– By Jenny Wu -
Manet/Degas
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
Ezra Tessler: Where the Stress Falls
– By Louis Block -
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions
– By Debra Riley Parr -
Trude Viken: Night Crawlers
– By Charles Schultz -
Roy Lichtenstein: Bauhaus Stairway Mural
– By David Whelan -
Deborah Buck: Into the Wild: To Crash is Divine
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright -
Climate Futurism
– By Alec Turnbull -
I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem
– By Bruna Shapira -
Man Ray: Other Objects
– By Charles Stuckey -
Chloe Chiasson: Keep Left at the Fork
– By Madison Ford -
Myrtle Williams: Spirit of the Sisterhood
– By Amanda Gluibizzi -
Manet/Degas
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Andrew Ross: Bucket of Truth
– By William Corwin -
Sean Scully: Jack the Wolf
– By Joachim Pissarro
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Critics Page
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The Armed Individual, Black Life, and the Race for New Social Worlds
– By Joshua Aiken -
Two Observations on Early Origins of the Western: Pressure Studies
– By Lucy Raven -
Stray Bullets
– By Tuan Andrew Nguyen -
Fortune and Fear: Samuel Colts Revolver and Cyclical Violence
– By Joseph Mizhakii Zordan -
¡WELCOME TO AMERICA!
– By Mary Ellen Carroll -
WHO IM FINNA TEACH WITH THEORY HOW NOT TO KILL ME?!
– By Tiona Nekkia McClodden -
Visual Ballistics
– By Joan Kee
Books
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Our Strange World
– By Mandana Chaffa -
Louis Burys The Way Things Go
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
Jeremy T. Wilson with Christine Sneed
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Shannon Sanders with Shannon Perri
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Natasha Stagg with Joel Danilewitz
– By Joel Danilewitz -
Meg Kissingers While You Were Out
– By Anson Tong -
Being and Loving: Talking about Life, Art, and Writing with Jarrett Earnest
– By Thyrza Nichols Goodeve -
Naomi Aldermans The Future
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
Justin Torress Blackouts
– By John Domini -
Sigrid Nunezs The Vulnerables
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
James Kennedy with Kathleen Rooney
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Yvonne Rainers Parts of Some Sextets, 1965/2019
– By Cassie Packard
Music
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Ben Manley: Digital Thoreau
– By Ben Gambuzza -
Bent Duo: Embodying Queer Sonics
– By John P. Hastings -
Philip Ewells On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
– By George Grella -
Crossing the Distance
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
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Queering a Canon
– By Candice Thompson -
Once the dust settles, flowers bloom
– By Nell Breyer -
October 11, 1948/2023
– By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
Film
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Ana Mendieta and Cuban Cinema
– By Carly Mattox -
Thien An Phams Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
– By Farah Abdessamad -
Sebastián Silvas Rotting in the Sun
– By Joanna Seifter -
Alice Rohrwachers La Chimera
– By Laura Valenza
Theater
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At Soho Rep., a Jokey Vagina, Chatty Penis, and Future Beyond Both
– By Billy McEntee -
Stereophonic with Lily Goldberg
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Listening to the Play: Arin Arbus on Directing Waiting for Godot
– By Paul David Young
Fiction
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Sponger Money
– By Ethan Knowles -
Jungle Siren
– By Jade Leatham
Poetry
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NICE BOOK: On NICE NOSE by Buck Downs & The Poetry of Ephemera
– By Zack Pieper -
Brittany Adames
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David Blair
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Steve Orth
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Shin Yu Pai
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Sylvie Baumgartel
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Anneysa Gaille
Art Books
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Matarile Ediciones with Zach Ritter
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Joel Meyerowitz and Lorenzo Bracas The Pleasure of Seeing
– By Aaron M. Cohen -
The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan
– By Sara Century -
Bringing Worlds Together: A Rethinking Residencies Reader
– By Jenny Wu -
Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
– By Alice Godwin
Field Notes
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Editors Note
– By Paul Mattick -
Germany at War
– By The Friends of the Classless Society -
“When We Win, We Lose:” The Story of a Run-Away Shop
– By Elizabeth Henson -
Phil Neel with Komite
The Miraculous
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51. Early 20th Century, Tucumán, Argentina
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
52. 1950s, before and after; Tryon, North Carolina; Philadelphia; New York City; Carry-le-Rouet, France
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
53. 1960s and later, Panama City, New York City
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
54. 1957, Liverpool, England
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
55. 1966-1979, Houston, Texas; New York City; London; Leeds
– By Raphael Rubinstein
Art and Technology
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Crisis, A Critical Imaginary
– By Charlotte Kent