The N.Y.P.D. Clamps Down on Jazz
By Liliana SeguraAt 8:45 a.m. on a frigid January morning, the protesters are warming up: Mic Check! Mic Check!
CITYNOTES
Fear of the First Amendment
By Theodore Hamm
According to Sean Barry of VOCAL-NY, the fear of police contact is a major problem for those trying to mobilize the citys poor to attend political protests.
AMATEUR NIGHT
A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
By Forrest Hylton
Self-expression is not a crime, reads a piece of graffiti in East Williamsburg. Maybe it should be.
Art In Conversation
CARL ANDRE with Michèle Gerber Klein and Phong Bui
On the occasion of Carl Andres monograph Carl Andre: Things in Their Elements by Alistair Rider (Phaidon, 2011), and his forthcoming retrospective at Dia Art Foundation (March December 2013), the sculptor/poet welcomed contributing editor Michèle Gerber Klein and publisher Phong Bui to his West Village home to talk about his life and work.
Art In Conversation
ROSALIND KRAUSS with Yve-Alain Bois
On the occasion of her recent publication Under Blue Cup (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England) Yve-Alain Bois visited Rosalind Krausss SoHo loft/home to talk about the genesis that led to this particular volume and more.
Art In Conversation
DAVID HOCKNEY with William Corwin
William Corwin visited David Hockney in his studio in Bridlington, Yorkshire, to discuss the paintings, iPad drawings, and videos that form the core of his show A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy in London (JanuaryApril 9, 2012).
Art In Conversation
LINDA MARY MONTANO with Charles Duncan
On the occasion of her exhibition From Chakras to Glands at the Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster (October 13 November 11, 2011) and the release of her video Starved Survivors, performance and video artist Linda Mary Montano spoke with Charles Duncan about her current work, Catholic reawakening, and aging.
BILL JENSEN with Peter Brock
On the occasion of the painters recent exhibition at Cheim & Read, Bill Jensen welcomed the painter/contributing writer Peter Brock to his Williamsburg studio to talk about the new direction that has occurred in his work and more.
PETER DOWNSBROUGH: Two Reviews
By Joseph MasheckEver since Lucy Lippard included him in Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object (1973), Peter Downsbrough (b. 1940) has accrued an extensive bibliographyowing to his expatriate situation in Brussels, almost exclusively European.
Breaking Down the Fourth WallAgain
By Andrew CappettaAt the two-day Minor Musics Japan concert at ISSUE Project Room this past September, Takahiro Kawaguchi and Taku Unami (in a duo with Annette Krebs) proved that, although it is now a well-defined genre, experimental music in the Cagean vein has not become overly stylized and mannered.
A Little Heap for Dara Greenwald
By Rachael RakesJust a few days after the artist and activist Dara Greenwald passed away, a project to upload nearly all of her video work to Vimeo was close to completion.
Nigerian Spammer
By Adam FitzgeraldAdam Fitzgerald edits Maggy Poetry Magazine and teaches poetry at Rutgers University and The New School. He lives in the East Village.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
All Painting Only Painting
By Vincent Katz, February Art EditorBecause we believe it is necessary periodically to take the pulse of painting, we propose in this issue to use diverse forms of criticism to examine what one can see this month in New York City.
ArtSeen
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DAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades
– By Bridget Goodbody -
DAINA HIGGINS New Paintings
– By Charles Schultz -
LOIS DODD New Panel Paintings
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Unlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN
– By Greg Lindquist -
DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 2011
– By Corina Larkin -
LORI ELLISON
– By Corina Larkin -
GEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Dark Christmas
– By Bradley Rubenstein -
ELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss
– By David Rhodes -
MALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes
– By Robert Storr -
Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS
– By Charles Schultz -
THE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France
– By Charles Schultz -
Anonymous Tantra Paintings
– By Noah Dillon -
SANGRAM MAJUMDAR
– By Kara L. Rooney
New Work -
GUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Fathers Father
– By Paolo Javier -
SOTO Paris and Beyond,
– By Cora Fisher
1950 1970 -
JESS Paintings
– By Phong Bui -
GEORGE MCNEIL
– By Robert Berlind -
VICTOR MATTHEWS
– By Vincent Katz -
LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy
– By David Markus -
THOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch
– By Robert Berlind -
PETER GALLO
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Connected
– By Noah Dillon -
KANDINSKY's Painting with White Border
– By Susan Bee -
BARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning
– By Robert Berlind -
December (Organized by Howie Chen)
– By Nathan Kernan -
EDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect
– By Robert Berlind -
JOSÉ RIVERA
– By Nathan Kernan -
REMBRANDTS WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection
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JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen
– By Linnea Kniaz -
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
– By Mira Schor -
BOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt
– By Jonathan Goodman -
DOUG WADA Americana
– By Lilly Wei -
Mind the Gap
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
BILL JENSEN
– By Ben La Rocco -
WITHIN/WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ
– By Zachary Wollard -
SUSANNA HELLERs Studio
– By Robert Berlind -
STUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO
– By William Corwin -
Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy
– By Shane McAdams -
Letter from BERLIN
– By David Rhodes -
JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye
– By Robert C. Morgan -
GORDON MOORE
– By Joan Waltemath -
Aggregate (Clare Gasson, Nick Hornby, Connor Linskey)
– By Kathy Battista -
Master Bill at MoMA
– By Irving Sandler
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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All Painting Only Painting
– By Vincent Katz, February Art Editor
Local
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The N.Y.P.D. Clamps Down on Jazz
– By Liliana Segura -
Burlesque, Beer, and PowerPoint
– By Mary Mann -
CITYNOTES Fear of the First Amendment
– By Theodore Hamm -
REPORT CARD The Privatized Mind
– By Liza Featherstone -
Music that Picks You Up
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
The Brief Histories & Modern Journey of a Vinyl Record
– By Sean Cooper
Express
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AMATEUR NIGHT A fragment from Isolate Flecks: An Anatomy
– By Forrest Hylton -
LETTER FROM THE TRAIL: Atwaters Ghost
– By Michael Terry -
A Festival of Reason and the Art of Common Sense
– By Christopher Moylan -
Kristevas Top-Down Critique
– By R. H. Lossin -
Emmas Lyricism
– By Courtney Fiske -
American Ringstrasse
– By David Wescott -
WR: The Wanderings of a Lost Soul
– By David Rosen
Art
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ROSALIND KRAUSS with Yve-Alain Bois
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LINDA MARY MONTANO with Charles Duncan
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DAVID HOCKNEY with William Corwin
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CARL ANDRE with Michèle Gerber Klein and Phong Bui
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BILL JENSEN with Peter Brock
ArtSeen
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DAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades
– By Bridget Goodbody -
DAINA HIGGINS New Paintings
– By Charles Schultz -
LOIS DODD New Panel Paintings
– By Sharon L. Butler -
Unlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN
– By Greg Lindquist -
DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 2011
– By Corina Larkin -
LORI ELLISON
– By Corina Larkin -
GEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers
– By Valery Oisteanu -
Dark Christmas
– By Bradley Rubenstein -
ELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss
– By David Rhodes -
MALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes
– By Robert Storr -
Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS
– By Charles Schultz -
THE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France
– By Charles Schultz -
Anonymous Tantra Paintings
– By Noah Dillon -
SANGRAM MAJUMDAR New Work
– By Kara L. Rooney -
GUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Fathers Father
– By Paolo Javier -
SOTO Paris and Beyond, 1950 1970
– By Cora Fisher -
JESS Paintings
– By Phong Bui -
GEORGE MCNEIL
– By Robert Berlind -
VICTOR MATTHEWS
– By Vincent Katz -
LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy
– By David Markus -
THOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch
– By Robert Berlind -
PETER GALLO
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Connected
– By Noah Dillon -
KANDINSKY's Painting with White Border
– By Susan Bee -
BARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning
– By Robert Berlind -
December (Organized by Howie Chen)
– By Nathan Kernan -
EDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect
– By Robert Berlind -
JOSÉ RIVERA
– By Nathan Kernan -
REMBRANDTS WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection
– -
JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen
– By Linnea Kniaz -
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
– By Mira Schor -
BOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt
– By Jonathan Goodman -
DOUG WADA Americana
– By Lilly Wei -
Mind the Gap
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
BILL JENSEN
– By Ben La Rocco -
WITHIN/WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ
– By Zachary Wollard -
SUSANNA HELLERs Studio
– By Robert Berlind -
STUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO
– By William Corwin -
Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy
– By Shane McAdams -
Letter from BERLIN
– By David Rhodes -
JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye
– By Robert C. Morgan -
GORDON MOORE
– By Joan Waltemath -
Aggregate (Clare Gasson, Nick Hornby, Connor Linskey)
– By Kathy Battista -
Master Bill at MoMA
– By Irving Sandler
Books
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Interview with Poet Jerry Williams "Gamblin' Man"
– By Adam Fitzgerald -
NONFICTION OCCUPYING W. S.
– By William S. Niederkorn -
FICTION Conquering the Third Reich
– By Ariell Cacciola -
NONFICTION Snapshots of the Artist
– By Chris Campanioni -
POETRY Lo and Behole
– By Alex Estes -
POETRY Road to Nowhere
– By Jerome Murphy -
The Stuart Sherman Spectacle
– By Liz Axelrod -
FICTION SUI GENERIS
– By Jim Feast -
POETRY Answers Without Questions
– By Jerome Murphy -
ANTHOLOGY The Burqa Unveiled
– By John Emrys Eller -
MEMOIR Extravagant Blooms
– By Jenine Holmes -
A PORNOGRAPHER BARES ALL SAM BENJAMIN with Winston Len
– By Winston Len -
FICTION Double Jackpot
– By Jenine Holmes -
The Dreaming Girl
– By Suzanne McConnell
Music
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Breaking Down the Fourth WallAgain
– By Andrew Cappetta -
Translation As Erasure In Leonard Cohen's Songs From A Room
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
Riffing On Schoenberg: Fieldwork's Hypnotic Virtuosity
– By David St.-Lascaux -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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That's All She Wrote Edited
– By Claudia La Rocco -
Feminist Killjoys
– By Christine Shan Shan Hou -
Adventures In Realness
– By Siobhan Burke
Film
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A Little Heap for Dara Greenwald
– By Rachael Rakes -
NOT RECONCILED: Ben Wheatley's Kill List
– By Phil Coldiron -
COUNTER PROJECTIONS: PAUL SHARITS at Greene Naftali Gallery
– By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
Theater
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Naked in Yosemite with Daniel Talbott
– By Laura Eason -
Tense Change: Leave the Balcony Open by Maya Macdonald
– By Karen Hartman -
Set Designers Peter Ksander and Mimi Lien with Gary Winter
– By Gary Winter -
Mother of All Collaborations: The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf Debuts a Chamber Opera
– By Jessica Del Vecchio -
The Penultimate P: Erin Courtney with Madeleine George
– By Madeleine George and Erin Courtney -
Nellie Tinder Sets Fire to Evelyn
– By Trish Harnetiaux -
Excerpt from Evelyn
– By Julia May Jonas -
DIVIDING DIVISIONS: What's at Stake in the Theater vs. Visual Arts Debate
– By Alexis Clements
Fiction
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The Diary of Martín Santomé: A Novel
– By Mario Benedetti -
The Weather in Fritz Bemelmans Park
– By Holly Tavel -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley -
A Scrupulous Fidelity, On Thomas Bernhards The Loser
– By Douglas Glover -
On the Furtiveness of Kurtz
– By Jeremy M. Davies
Poetry
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Nigerian Spammer
– By Adam Fitzgerald -
Four
– By Brett Price -
Two
– By Brendan Lorber -
Two
– By Laura Henriksen -
from We Are Here
– By Kristen Gallagher
Art Books
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PETER DOWNSBROUGH: Two Reviews
– By Joseph Masheck -
Bubbles: Spheres, Volume I: Microspherology
– By John Ganz -
Is That All There Is?
– By Bill Kartalopoulos -
Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
– By Ela Bittencourt
LastWords
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from The Revolution Of Everyday Life
– By Raoul Vaneigem, A new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith