Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender
By Jarrett EarnestIt is radical to propose that abstract sculptures have genders, or rather, can evoke them. In his new book, David Getsy goes even further, arguing that non-representational forms can conjure genders unknown, unforeseen, and unshared by their makers.
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?
By Alexandra FowleA Constellation challenges us to reflect on contemporary and historical politics of racial inclusion versus exclusion. It is remarkable not only for its diverse collection of artists and media, but because it embodies such a large scope of political themes. As we navigate through painting, photography, sculpture, large-scale, small-scale, and mixed-media works, we are confronted with subjects of race, identity, culture, gender, and economic inequality.
“Painter-painter,” and the Lingering Specter of Greenberg
By Lilly LampeAt an art auction a few years ago, I overheard a conversation that unsettled my sense of painting in a way that I’m still trying to fully understand. The auction was a fundraiser for a local art nonprofit and the mood was sour. The artists clung to the walls and their drinks, grumbling about the measly number of comped drink tickets, the price-slashing they foresaw for their work, and the various iniquities of fundraisers, which ask artists to give work for pennies on the dollar.
Every Type of Sun
By Neha ChoksiNow and then after a difficult day I have a repeating dream of me as a child coming home from school and sitting down to draw. And I draw suns. I use every crayon in the box.
LISA YUSKAVAGE The Brood
By Jeff FraimanIn 2015, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University organized The Brood, Lisa Yuskavage’s first solo show at an American museum since a retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia fifteen years prior.
JOAN MITCHELL
Meditations in an Emergency
The Joan Mitchell Foundation has extensive holdings of “archival art,” a broad category that includes student work, sketchbooks, trial proofs, drawings, and gifts of artwork from friends.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiWhat a privilege it is to spend time with artists and learn how they gain the confidence and courage that allow them to transform their visions into memorable cultural contributions.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
Ours is a City of Writers
By Suzanne Hudson, Simon Leung, and James NisbetNew approaches to writing are everywhere in evidence across the contemporary art world. In Los Angeles, home of East of Borneo, X–TRA, Les Figues Press, MATERIAL, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, to name a few venues where art meets writing, critical and discursive engagement with art and art writing is especially pronounced.
Critics Page
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Kill Time Objective
– By Roberto Tejada -
Every Type of Sun
– By Neha Choksi -
10. Everyone’s Desire to be Happier than Everyone Else’s Desire to be Happy.1
– By A. L. Steiner -
The Impossibility of Existing in Los Angeles
– By Anuradha Vikram -
The Body of the Email
– By Gelare Khoshgozaran -
COMMUNIQUÉ #1:
– By Litia Perta
Lie Down as Far as You Can You Are the Sky1 -
Pimp This Shit
– By Bruce Hainley -
“Stop me if . . .”
– By Jibade-Khalil Huffman -
Institutions, When Will You Open Your Doors?
– By Michelle Dizon -
Proems
– By Ginny Cook and Kim Schoen -
Inside Man
– By Michael Ned Holte -
Homemade
– By Vanessa Place -
MFA-L&
– By Dr. Nizan Shaked -
Eight Haikus For B.H.
– By Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer and Kristina Kite -
Prison of Realty
– By Prism of Reality -
Excerpt from A Sublime Madness in the Soul
– Libretto by Susan Silton -
Double Bind: An Excerpt
– By Rhea Anastas and Leigh Ledare
ArtSeen
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KATHERINE BRADFORD Fear of Waves
– By Hearne Pardee -
GORDON HALL AND PER SE AND
– By Dana Kopel and Jody Graf -
YUN HYONG-KEUN
– By David Rhodes -
Carolanna Parlato: A Delicate Balance
– By Tom McGlynn -
Andrew Gbur
– By Melinda Lang -
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?
– By Alexandra Fowle -
FRANCIS BACON Late Paintings
– By David Carrier -
SARAH PLIMPTON Black Light: New Works
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Carnegie Tech to New York
– By Ed Breslin -
JONATHAN LASKER
– By Kate Liebman -
SHARON LOCKHART Milena Milena
– By Simone Krug -
LISA YUSKAVAGE The Brood
– By Jeff Fraiman -
LORI ELLISON
– By Hovey Brock -
TIM CLIFFORD Threat Assessment
– By Darragh McNicholas -
Recycling Religion
– By Ann McCoy -
Design for Dying
– By Adele Tutter -
ELISABETH KLEY Ozymandias
– By William Corwin -
ROBERT RYMAN
– By David Rhodes -
RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD
– By Jessica Holmes -
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age
– By Terry R. Myers -
Letter from Cairo
– By Kara L. Rooney
IBRAHIM AHMED Pressing Fallacies -
PAULA MODERSOHN-BECKER
– By Jonathan Goodman -
LIFE AND DEATH IN A POISONOUS GARDEN
– By Michelle Standley
EBONY G. PATTERSON Dead Treez -
JOHN WALKER Looking Out to Sea
– By Stephen Truax -
ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV New Paintings
– By Eric Sutphin -
KATHERINE BRADFORD Fear of Waves
– By Phong Bui -
MARTHA TUTTLE Metaxu
– By Phong Bui
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Ours is a City of Writers
– By Suzanne Hudson, Simon Leung, and James Nisbet
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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IN MEMORIAM ROBERT BERLIND with Robert Kushner
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YOKO ONO with Laila Pedro
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LORRAINE O’GRADY with Jarrett Earnest
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ARCHIE RAND with Barry Schwabsky
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“Painter-painter,” and the Lingering Specter of Greenberg
– By Lilly Lampe
ArtSeen
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KATHERINE BRADFORD Fear of Waves
– By Hearne Pardee -
GORDON HALL AND PER SE AND
– By Dana Kopel and Jody Graf -
YUN HYONG-KEUN
– By David Rhodes -
Carolanna Parlato: A Delicate Balance
– By Tom McGlynn -
Andrew Gbur
– By Melinda Lang -
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?
– By Alexandra Fowle -
FRANCIS BACON Late Paintings
– By David Carrier -
SARAH PLIMPTON Black Light: New Works
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Carnegie Tech to New York
– By Ed Breslin -
JONATHAN LASKER
– By Kate Liebman -
SHARON LOCKHART Milena Milena
– By Simone Krug -
LISA YUSKAVAGE The Brood
– By Jeff Fraiman -
LORI ELLISON
– By Hovey Brock -
TIM CLIFFORD Threat Assessment
– By Darragh McNicholas -
Recycling Religion
– By Ann McCoy -
Design for Dying
– By Adele Tutter -
ELISABETH KLEY Ozymandias
– By William Corwin -
ROBERT RYMAN
– By David Rhodes -
RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD
– By Jessica Holmes -
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age
– By Terry R. Myers -
Letter from Cairo IBRAHIM AHMED Pressing Fallacies
– By Kara L. Rooney -
PAULA MODERSOHN-BECKER
– By Jonathan Goodman -
LIFE AND DEATH IN A POISONOUS GARDEN EBONY G. PATTERSON Dead Treez
– By Michelle Standley -
JOHN WALKER Looking Out to Sea
– By Stephen Truax -
ILYA AND EMILIA KABAKOV New Paintings
– By Eric Sutphin -
KATHERINE BRADFORD Fear of Waves
– By Phong Bui -
MARTHA TUTTLE Metaxu
– By Phong Bui
Critics Page
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Kill Time Objective
– By Roberto Tejada -
Every Type of Sun
– By Neha Choksi -
10. Everyone’s Desire to be Happier than Everyone Else’s Desire to be Happy.1
– By A. L. Steiner -
The Impossibility of Existing in Los Angeles
– By Anuradha Vikram -
The Body of the Email
– By Gelare Khoshgozaran -
COMMUNIQUÉ #1: Lie Down as Far as You Can You Are the Sky1
– By Litia Perta -
Pimp This Shit
– By Bruce Hainley -
“Stop me if . . .”
– By Jibade-Khalil Huffman -
Institutions, When Will You Open Your Doors?
– By Michelle Dizon -
Proems
– By Ginny Cook and Kim Schoen -
Inside Man
– By Michael Ned Holte -
Homemade
– By Vanessa Place -
MFA-L&
– By Dr. Nizan Shaked -
Eight Haikus For B.H.
– By Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer and Kristina Kite -
Prison of Realty
– By Prism of Reality -
Excerpt from A Sublime Madness in the Soul
– Libretto by Susan Silton -
Double Bind: An Excerpt
– By Rhea Anastas and Leigh Ledare
Books
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Life in Translation
– By Hilary Reid -
Between Homes
– By Jill Dehnert -
Out of Reach
– By Katharina Smundak -
MAKING ROOM FOR MYSTERY PETER TURCHI with CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI
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PEN VS. SWORD ILANA MYER with Nancy Hightower
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The Beauty of Independent Publishing
– By Phong Bui -
America the Dysfunctional
– By John Domini -
Lennon’s Scream
– By Weston Cutter
Music
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Lionel Loueke: Gaïa
– By Adolf Alzuphar -
10 LISTENS Whale / Human Collaborative Music Project's Pod Tune
– By Michael Durek -
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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LATINO PUNKS AND REVOLUTION: Skarroñeros
– By Ian Marsh and Jamie Frey -
DAVID GRUBBS with John Tamplin
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Dylan’s Third Law
– By Christopher Nelson -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
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Realness Revisited
– By Ivan Talijancic -
OUT OF THE BLUE Ligia Lewis’s Sorrow Swag Disrupts Identity Politics-as-Usual
– By Jaime Shearn Coan -
STANDING AT THE READY Martha Graham Company’s Living Legacy
– By Erica Getto
Film
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BOYS TO MEN Friends with Benefits at Film Society of Lincoln Center
– By James N. Kienitz Wilkins -
DON’T LOOK BACK Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years
– By Erica Peplin -
MODERN TIMES Dreams Rewired
– By David Fresko -
Border Crossings
– By Paul Felten -
ADAM & ZACK KHALIL with Leo Goldsmith
Theater
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Still Imagining The Imaginary with Ruth Maleczech
– By Matthew Paul Olmos -
Talking Inclusivity: Three Sisters
– By Joshua Young -
Your, My, and Our Town: O, Earth CASEY LLEWELLYN with Susan Soon He Stanton
Fiction
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Dream Come True
– by Guillermo Samperio, translated from the Spanish by Shawn Gonzalez -
AN EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 1 OF A Permanent Passion
– by Philippe Sollers, translated from the French by Armine Kotin Mortimer -
from Kid Coole
– By M. G. Stephens -
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
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Two
– By Adam Fitzgerald -
Four
– By Dorothea Lasky -
Four
– By Eileen Tabios -
Poem After Reading Eileen Myles
– By Norman Fischer -
Four
– By Ruth Lepson
Verbatim
Art Books
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Portraits: John Berger on Artists
– By Sara Christoph -
Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender
– By Jarrett Earnest
Field Notes
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Letter From Paris Terrorism and the Socialist Police State
– By Charles Reeve -
Toward a New Global Recession? Economic Perspectives for 2016 and Beyond
– By Jose A. Tapia -
Syria: The Stolen Revolution
– translated from the French by Janet Koenig -
What’s Not to Like About Targeted Killings? A Philosopher’s View
– By Shawn Kaplan
