Norman Siegel and the Race for Public Advocate
By Theodore HammIt’s 6:00 on a Thursday night in late March, and Norman Siegel is speaking at a small campaign fund-raiser at the Bowery Poetry Club. The Dance Liberation Front organized the event, and the room is filled with a collection of activist types, who some might view as oddballs and misfits but who proudly call themselves “deviants for Norm,” as one speaker puts it.
Paris ’68: Professors, You Make Us Grow Old
By Andy MerrifieldOn the brink of working class and student insurgency, Guy Debord published The Society of the Spectacle (1967), his best-known text, a work that would become the radical book of the decade, perhaps the most radical radical book ever written. Utterly original in composition, its 221 strange theses give us stirring crescendos of literary power, compelling evocations of an epoch in which unity spelt division, essence appearance, truth falsity.
Art In Conversation
Carolee Schneemann with Praxis (Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey)
By Delia Bajo and Brainard CareyCarolee Schneemann, a multidisciplinary artist, transformed the definition of art in the 1960s, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender.
Railing Opinion: Considering the Alternative
By David Levi StraussIt has been clear for some time now that the American people love art—the museums are choked with visitors and the art market is booming—but hate artists, who are widely regarded as elitist troublemakers.
Books In Conversation
Thar She Blows Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians with Kate Trainor
Writer and publisher Dennis Loy Johnson is the creator of the literary weblog MobyLives.com and the founder of Melville House Books, which he launched with his wife, Valerie Merians, in 2002.
Brooklyn's Jazz Renaissance
By Robin D. G. KelleyIn March 2003, Jazz at Lincoln Center hosted a forum titled “Jazz and Social Protest” that drew a predominantly black, standing-room-only crowd.
Double the Pleasure: Dance Meets Poetry in 2wice
By Claudia La RoccoIn her delightful memoir, Dancing with Cuba, Alma Guillermoprieto remembers her first years spent dancing in New York, including early morning practices of Twyla Tharp’s Medley on Central Park’s Great Lawn.
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Basquiat
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Martha Cooper
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Martin Kippenberger
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Diana Cooper
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Nancy de Holl
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Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga
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Jim Torok
– By William Powhida -
Brian Walker
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Jules de Balincourt
– By William Powhida -
Joe Fyfe
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Thornton Willis and James Little
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Emily Mason
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Carol Salmanson and Jae Hi Ahn
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Saul Steinberg
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Elise Freda
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Harvey Quaytman
– By Michael Brennan
Table of Contents
Local
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Norman Siegel and the Race for Public Advocate
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Helluva Impulse Buy
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An MOU and a Giant Check: Spring, Courtesy of Forest City Ratner
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iPod Wars
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Pastor of the People: David Dyson
– By Norman Kelley -
Eavesdropping on Brooklyn
– By Lela Moore -
Giving Good
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Brooklyn Proves It’s Easy Being Green
– By Marjory Garrison
Express
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Paris ’68: Professors, You Make Us Grow Old
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Rocky Mountain Lows: Bringing Secession to the Red States
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Singapore Gumshoe
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H.S.T. (1937–2005): A Strange and Terrible Requiem
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Learning from Right-Wing Media?
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My Encounter with Army Recruiters
– By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Art
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de Kooning: An American Master
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Railing Opinion: Considering the Alternative
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Diane Arbus: Revelations Beyond Shock
– By Tessa DeCarlo -
Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography
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Buddhism, Landscape, and the Absolute Truth about Abstract Painting
– By Chris Martin -
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art
– By Cary Levine -
Carolee Schneemann with Praxis (Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey)
– By Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey
ArtSeen
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Basquiat
– By Nick Stillman -
Martha Cooper
– By Derek L. John -
Martin Kippenberger
– By James Kalm -
Diana Cooper
– By Roger White -
Nancy de Holl
– By Katie Stone -
Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Jim Torok
– By William Powhida -
Brian Walker
– By John Hawke -
Jules de Balincourt
– By William Powhida -
Joe Fyfe
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Thornton Willis and James Little
– By Ben La Rocco -
Emily Mason
– By Roger Kamholz -
Carol Salmanson and Jae Hi Ahn
– By James Kalm -
Saul Steinberg
– By Ben La Rocco -
Elise Freda
– By Thomas Micchelli -
Harvey Quaytman
– By Michael Brennan
Books
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Off the Shelves
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Thar She Blows Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians with Kate Trainor
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Control
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Michael Cunningham with Philip Kaddish
Music
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Argentina's Diamond, Finally Mined
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Rachel's: Upstaging "Stage Presence"
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Brooklyn's Jazz Renaissance
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Review: Deep Throat Anthology Parts I & II
– By Derek L. John
Dance
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Double the Pleasure: Dance Meets Poetry in 2wice
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Taylor Turns 50
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Dancing on the Rail: April’s Lesson in Dance History
– By Vanessa Manko
Film
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Lost in the Laboratory
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Down by the Old Mainstream
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Go Underground for the Good Stuff
– By Williams Cole
Theater
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In Dialogue: Framing Rinne Groff
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Interview or Who’s Afraid of Mr. Albee?
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Houses of Faustus (The Devil’s in the Details)
– By David Kilpatrick
Fiction
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Winners
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Revenge
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The Beaming Ghetto
– By Carmen Francesca Banciu
Poetry
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Philip Lamantia (1927-2005)
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Indeed, Insist (a mystery)
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Excerpts from re: evolution
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Creative Control
– By Bill Zavatsky
LastWords
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Timetax
– By Scot Crawford
