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Editor's Message

It's a Great Day When One and One Don't Add Up To Two
– By Jonathan Fineberg

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

Firmament & Flora Are The New Black
– By Nico Wheadon
Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings
– By Jason Rosenfeld
TANIA BRUGUERA: Untitled (Havana, 2000)
– By Magdalyn Asimakis
MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ: Embodied Forms
– By Jonelle Mannion
NATHANIEL MELLORS: Progressive Rocks
– By William Corwin
Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil
– By Vitoria Hadba Groom
Quinn Likes Trucks
– By J C
THOMAS DEMAND
– By Louis Block
NATE ETHIER: Wilderness
– By Jason Stopa
Apocalypse, Right Now: Abel Tilahun: Vital Signs
– By William Corwin
AL TAYLOR: What Are You Looking At?
– By William Whitney
An Assembly of Gods
– By Hovey Brock
California Landscapes: Richard Diebenkorn / Wayne Thiebaud
– By Hearne Pardee
JAYNE COUNTY: Paranoia Paradise
– By Ingrid Dudek
Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound
– By Christopher Green
ROBERT MOSKOWITZ: Window Shades, 1959–62
– By Barbara MacAdam
peter campus: pause
– By Pac Pobric
Michael Goldberg End to End: The 1950s & 2000s
– By Alfred Mac Adam
In Practice: Another Echo
– By Phillip Griffith
The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers
– By Andrew Holter
DEANA LAWSON
– By Jessica Bell Brown
BARKLEY HENDRICKS: Them Changes
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
THORNTON DIAL: Mr. Dial’s America
– By Jessica Holmes
Incision: Feminist in Residence Exhibition
– By Cassandra Neyenesch
PETER PLAGENS
– By David Rhodes
LAUREL SPARKS: Geomantria
– By Alfred Mac Adam
ROBERT RYMAN: Drawings
– By Tom McGlynn
PETER DOIG
– By William Davie
The Ghosts of Italy’s ’68
– By Michela Moscufo
CHRISTOPHER KNOWLES: In a Word
– By Vivian Li
Some Roads Yet Untraveled in Abstraction
– By John Michael Colón
The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
– By Taney Roniger
LEANDRO ERLICH: Seeing and Believing
– By Siwin Lo
Club 57
– By Meredith Mowder

Critics Page

CHRISTO with Jonathan Fineberg
They Say it is Heaven
– By Cynthia Oliver
Visionary Creative Interchange—An Unusual Collaboration
– By David Yager
The Present and The Box
– By Enrique Martinez Celaya
Inspiration and Obsession
– By Josef Helfenstein
On Creativity
– By Agnes Gund
Bees, Ants, Spiders, and a Side of Bacon
– By May R. Berenbaum
Collective Creativity: A Few Thoughts on Filmmaking
– By Rob Cohen
The Roots of Creativity
– By Semir Zeki
Institutional Creativity and the Enlightened Critic
– By James B. Milliken

Books

Teju Cole’s Blind Spot
– By Leah Gallant
Poignant Repairs: JOHN FREEMAN GILL with Hilary Reyl
– By Hilary Reyl
John Freeman Gill’s The Gargoyle Hunters
– By Matt Grant
Morgan Jerkins’s This Will Be My Undoing
– By Deena ElGenaidi
Dude, What’s My Age Again? Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down: Essays
– By David Varno
State Your Name for the Record: NATALIE SINGER with Christine Sang
– By Christine Sang
Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks
– By Matt Grant

Music

Tinariwen: Elwan
– By Adolf Alzuphar
Fake Music For Fake Times
– By George Grella
Playlist for Prefab Houses: YouTube and the Revitalization of Japanese Ambient Music
– By Sadie Rebecca Starnes
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
March Listings
– By Brad Cohan
Out of Time
– By George Grella

Dance

Uncanny Worlds in Familiar Spaces
– By Sariel Frankfurter
An Unusual Evening of Baroque Opera and Kuchipudi Flavors
– By Susanna Sloat
Suspended Animation
– By Susan Yung
The Making Room: A dance performance with required reading
– By Jen George
GESEL MASON with Megan Pugh
– By Megan Pugh

Film

PEDRO PINHO with Jesse Cumming
– By Jesse Cumming
“The Primary Event was the Performance”: Anthony McCall’s Play with Light
– By Swagato Chakravorty
FEMEXFILMARCHIVE with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
– By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
A Methodone Film: On Ashley McKenzie’s Werewolf
– By Jessica Dunn Rovinelli
Looking Again, Slowly: On Hong Sangsoo’s Claire’s Camera
– By Peter Kim

Theater

Wholehearted: Suli Holum and Deborah Stein
– By Aaron Landsman
A Brave New World, at Your Doorstep
– By Jim Knable

Fiction

Witch!
– By Faleeha Hassan, translated by William M. Hutchins
Our Neighbors
– By Faleeha Hassan, translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins
Disfigurements
– By Kim-Anh Schreiber
Roll of the Dice
– By Aniqa Naz, translated from Urdu by Daisy Rockwell
inSerial: part sixteen Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #2: Doublure
– By Tom Motley
The Black Market
– By Joshua Daniel

Poetry

five
– By Sam Lohmann
four
– By Steven Alvarez
six
– By Kyle Schlesinger
The New Goldfish
– By Spencer Everett
seven
– By Raphael Rubinstein
two
– By Patricia Spears Jones
two
– By Jean Day

Verbatim

Milton Resnick: Wielding the Club
– By Geoffrey Dorfman

Art Books

Stephan Keppel's Flat Finish
– By Adam Bell
Tisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis, and Katie Aymar's The Encyclopedia Project, Volume III L-Z
– By Eli Hill
Mirtha Dermisache's Selected Writings and Renee Gladman's Prose Architectures
– By Megan N. Liberty
Eyal Weizman's Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
– By Andreas Petrossiants

Field Notes

Visions of Resilience: New York City’s Infrastructural Response to Climate Change
– By Max Moorhead
Second Chances in the Era of the Jobless Future
– By Zhandarka Kurti
“Despite it All!”
– By Paul Mattick
Don't Mourn, Organize! Is Communism a Pipe Dream—or a Viable Future?
– By Gabriel Kuhn
A New Man Is No Good on Earth: The Great Cowboy Strike
– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

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