Art In Conversation
EMIL LUKAS with Harry Philbrick
On the occasion of Emil Lukas’s fourth exhibition at Sperone Westwater, the Rail’s new editor-at-large Harry Philbrick met the artist at the gallery talk about this recent body of work, which includes his landmark bubble wrap paintings, larvae paintings, thread paintings, and the enigmatic stack structures that evoke the artist’s archeological index of broad interests in what lies between art, science, alchemy, as well as other materials and matters.
Art In Conversation
KEVIN BEASLEY with Yasi Alipour
Kevin Beasley has gained a reputation for his playful sculptures and activated sound-installations where everyday objects and dismissed voices are turned into signifiers to reflect on culture, politics, and history. A view of a landscape is a project that started in graduate school, and now, after many productive years, it is brought to the public at the Whitney Museum. Separated into three rooms—a running cotton gin motor encapsulated, an immersive sound-room dedicated to its forgotten voice, and three sculptural reliefs in the hallway that narrate Beasley’s journey—the exhibition becomes an occasion to reflect on the artist’s unique practice and his deep concerns: political, historic, and ever-so personal.
Art In Conversation
IAN CHENG with Osman Can Yerebakan
Since earning his MFA from Columbia University in 2009, Cheng has been investigating ways to infuse humanity into the machine, not shying away from the possibilities embedded in chaos, in defiance of pristine and consequential order technology and science manifest. After debuting at Serpentine Galleries early last year, BOB continues Cheng’s utilization of simulation to challenge narrative constructs of art, a path he embarked on with his Emissaries saga, composed of intertwined and infinite narrative possibilities within live simulation, which will be a part of the upcoming Sharjah Biennial 14 in March.
Art In Conversation
CHARLES STEIN with Raymond Foye
Poet Charles Stein teaches art writing at the MFA program of the School of Visual Arts, New York. His work comprises a complexly integrated field of poems, philosophy, art theory, mathematics, translations from ancient Greek, drawings, photographs, lectures, conversations and music performances. Born in 1944 in New York City, he is the author of fourteen books of poetry. He holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Connecticut at Storrs.
Art In Conversation
JULIE MEHRETU with Allie Biswas
Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa in 1970 to an Ethiopian father and an American mother. She grew up in East Lansing, Michigan, and now lives in New York. The following conversation took place over the course of a day in London, in October of last year, when an exhibition of Mehretu’s paintings was on display at White Cube.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiWhat have we learned from the horrendous political situation in our society, where noise is a weapon to slay our focus and deceive our reason? What have we learned from technological “progress,” and its consuming production and exploitation?
Editor's Message Guest Critic
Downturn New York
By Daniel S. PalmerNew York City is a place of perpetual change, but perhaps this has its limits. I’ve only lived here for about twelve years, but the past two or three have felt particularly different and especially precarious for the arts and for artist communities. Accordingly, this feels like the perfect moment and venue to bring together a group of New Yorkers to reflect on the changes that have happened to this city in recent years, and to discuss how they have impacted the creative sector.
Critics Page
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Loose Spaces
– By Wilson Sherwin -
Internet Bulldozing: Gentrification and The Rise of Cyberharassment, BRUJAS Calls for Coalition, Again!
– by Arianna Gil, approved by BRUJAS -
Finding Up
– By Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh -
No Condition Is Permanent
– By Lisa Cooley -
In Search of a Darkroom
– By Remy Amezcua -
Endangered Species: An Artist’s Loft
– By John Newman -
The Lover’s War
– By Siyona Ravi
ArtSeen
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Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919 – 1933
– By Daniel Pateman -
West By Midwest
– By Elliot J. Reichert -
Ella Kruglyanskaya: Fenix
– By Alex A. Jones -
Cameron Rowland: D37
– By Alex Jen -
Raha Raissnia: Galvanization
– By Benjamin Clifford -
Imagined Communities: Photographs by Mila Teshaieva
– By Vivian Li -
Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Boy: Witness and Marker 2003 – 2018
– By Lilly Wei -
The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night
– By Alex Jen -
Erik Parker: New Soul
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950
– By Nico Wheadon -
Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist
– By A.V. Ryan -
Gaylen Gerber
– By Lori Waxman -
Viktor Timofeev: God Room
– By Rudy Natanzon -
Viktor Timofeev: God Room
– By Alex A. Jones -
Richard Artschwager: Primary Sources and Self-Portraits and the American Southwest
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Jeanne Silverthorne: From Darkness
– By William Corwin -
Archie Rand: Misfits
– By Ann McCoy -
Torey Thornton: Sustenance Traversing Foundational Urgencies (STFU [some])(Re-Faux Outing)
– By Vijay Masharani -
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
– By Amber Jamilla Musser -
Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning
– By McKenzie Wark -
Venceremos: Resisting the Rise of the Far-right in Brazil
– By Tatiane Santa Rosa -
Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt
– By Will Fenstermaker -
Forest Law
– By Lisa E. Bloom, Iris Morrell, and Ariel Hoage -
Francesco Clemente: Works 1978-2018
– By Alan Gilbert -
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts
– By Swagato Chakravorty -
Dana Schutz: Imagine Me and You
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Nancy Holt
– By Ann McCoy -
James Siena: Painting
– By Tom McGlynn -
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera
– By Benjamin Clifford -
Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing
– By Taney Roniger -
Max Kozloff: The Atmospherics of Interruption: Paintings 1966-2018
– By Hovey Brock -
David Rabinowitch: Périgord Construction of Vision Drawings
– By Marcia E. Vetrocq -
EJ Hauser: Barn Spirits
– By Louis Block -
Rochelle Feinstein: Image of an Image
– By David Carrier -
Maria Antelman: Disassembler
– By Ann C. Collins -
Robert Janitz: Uptown Campus / College Robert Janitz
– By David Rhodes -
Caroline Larsen: Kaleidoscopic & Mathew Zefeldt: Customizable Realities
– By Nina Wolpow -
Lyle Ashton Harris: Flash of the Spirit
– By Jan Avgikos -
Max Neumann: Specter
– By Will Fenstermaker -
Under Erasure
– By William Corwin
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Downturn New York
– By Daniel S. Palmer
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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IAN CHENG with Osman Can Yerebakan
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CHARLES STEIN with Raymond Foye
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JULIE MEHRETU with Allie Biswas
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KEVIN BEASLEY with Yasi Alipour
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EMIL LUKAS with Harry Philbrick
ArtSeen
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Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919 – 1933
– By Daniel Pateman -
West By Midwest
– By Elliot J. Reichert -
Ella Kruglyanskaya: Fenix
– By Alex A. Jones -
Cameron Rowland: D37
– By Alex Jen -
Raha Raissnia: Galvanization
– By Benjamin Clifford -
Imagined Communities: Photographs by Mila Teshaieva
– By Vivian Li -
Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Boy: Witness and Marker 2003 – 2018
– By Lilly Wei -
The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night
– By Alex Jen -
Erik Parker: New Soul
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950
– By Nico Wheadon -
Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist
– By A.V. Ryan -
Gaylen Gerber
– By Lori Waxman -
Viktor Timofeev: God Room
– By Rudy Natanzon -
Viktor Timofeev: God Room
– By Alex A. Jones -
Richard Artschwager: Primary Sources and Self-Portraits and the American Southwest
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Jeanne Silverthorne: From Darkness
– By William Corwin -
Archie Rand: Misfits
– By Ann McCoy -
Torey Thornton: Sustenance Traversing Foundational Urgencies (STFU [some])(Re-Faux Outing)
– By Vijay Masharani -
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
– By Amber Jamilla Musser -
Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning
– By McKenzie Wark -
Venceremos: Resisting the Rise of the Far-right in Brazil
– By Tatiane Santa Rosa -
Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt
– By Will Fenstermaker -
Forest Law
– By Lisa E. Bloom, Iris Morrell, and Ariel Hoage -
Francesco Clemente: Works 1978-2018
– By Alan Gilbert -
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts
– By Swagato Chakravorty -
Dana Schutz: Imagine Me and You
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Nancy Holt
– By Ann McCoy -
James Siena: Painting
– By Tom McGlynn -
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera
– By Benjamin Clifford -
Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing
– By Taney Roniger -
Max Kozloff: The Atmospherics of Interruption: Paintings 1966-2018
– By Hovey Brock -
David Rabinowitch: Périgord Construction of Vision Drawings
– By Marcia E. Vetrocq -
EJ Hauser: Barn Spirits
– By Louis Block -
Rochelle Feinstein: Image of an Image
– By David Carrier -
Maria Antelman: Disassembler
– By Ann C. Collins -
Robert Janitz: Uptown Campus / College Robert Janitz
– By David Rhodes -
Caroline Larsen: Kaleidoscopic & Mathew Zefeldt: Customizable Realities
– By Nina Wolpow -
Lyle Ashton Harris: Flash of the Spirit
– By Jan Avgikos -
Max Neumann: Specter
– By Will Fenstermaker -
Under Erasure
– By William Corwin
1x1
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Barbara Takenaga and Patricio Guzmán: telescopes and other visions
– By Joan Waltemath
Critics Page
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Loose Spaces
– By Wilson Sherwin -
Internet Bulldozing: Gentrification and The Rise of Cyberharassment, BRUJAS Calls for Coalition, Again!
– by Arianna Gil, approved by BRUJAS -
Finding Up
– By Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh -
No Condition Is Permanent
– By Lisa Cooley -
In Search of a Darkroom
– By Remy Amezcua -
Endangered Species: An Artist’s Loft
– By John Newman -
The Lover’s War
– By Siyona Ravi
Books
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Aimee Parkison and Carol Guess’s Girl Zoo
– By Melanie Odelle -
Sophie Mackintosh's The Water Cure
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
How to Be Human: Some Beheadings by Aditi Machado
– By Julie Carr -
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's At the End of the Century
– By Rachel Aydt -
JAMES CHARLESWORTH with Kathleen Rooney
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A Life Not Fit to Form: The Restoration of Unnamable Joy
– By Chris Campanioni -
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH with Joseph Salvatore
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Ross Barkan’s Demolition Night
– By Joseph Peschel -
JEFF JACKSON with Nicholas Rys
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R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries
– By Deena ElGenaidi -
DAVID PEAK with Joseph Scapellato
Music
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The Known and the Unknown: Winter Jazzfest marathon, January 11-12, 2019
– By George Grella -
Andy Statman: Practical Mystic
– By Scott Gutterman -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda: ke i te ki
– By Daniel Wilson -
February Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Dance
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BOBBI JENE SMITH with Sima Belmar
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Miguel Gutierrez’s This Bridge Called My Ass
– By George Kan -
Dear Chaos
– By Erica Getto -
Make 'Em Laugh
– By Madison Mainwaring
Film
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True to Form: International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2018
– By Leo Goldsmith -
Routine Pleasures: Termite Art and the Paintings of Manny Farber
– By Sean Nam -
Double Vision: On Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II
– By Kazu Watanabe -
Love Screams: Valentine’s Day Massacre at Anthology Film Archives
– By Hillary Weston -
Rear Windows: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019
– By Giovanni Marchini Camia
Theater
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Tragedy with a Chewy Comic Center: MADELEINE GEORGE with Matt Longabucco
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Jeremy O. Harris Continues His Firecracker Season with “Daddy”
– By Billy McEntee -
Venturing into the Dark with a Lifeline: PAUL CALDERON with Elisabeth Ng
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God Said This: Dying Laughing with Leah Nanako Winkler
– By Clare Barron
Fiction
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Two Excerpts from a Novel in Progress
– By Pamela Ryder -
Gone Runt
– By Erica Kent -
LSD Halloween
– By Erica Kent -
Melody Plays a Tune
– By Erica Kent -
Excerpt of Carne de Dios
– by Homero Aridjis, translated from the Spanish by Chloe Garcia Roberts -
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #11: The Punchline
– By Tom Motley -
inSerial: part five The Mysteries of Paris
– By Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno -
Day Trip to Durmitor
– by Asja Bakić, translated by Jennifer Zoble -
Golthar, Terror of the Deep
– By Nathan Place
Poetry
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Little Dog at the End of the Rainbow
– By Sharon Mesmer -
NUDE GDUDE (SCRATCH AND SNIFF) (MY RIDES)
– By Farnoosh Fathi -
A User’s Guide to the Miracle
– By Dave Morse -
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– By Tenaya Nasser-Frederick -
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– By Ana Božičević -
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– By Jeffrey Grunthaner -
three
– By Merritt Waldon
Art Books
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Remedios Varo's Letters, Dreams & Other Writings
– By Zack Hatfield -
Tavia Nyong’o's Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life
– By Peter Murphy -
Stéphane Mallarmé's The Book and Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done
– By Nicole Meily
Field Notes
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The Class Struggle in France
– by Charles Reeve and Jean-Luc Sahagian, translated by Janet Koenig -
In Search of the Promised Land: Hope and Despair in the Migrant Caravan
– By David Schmidt -
Bolsonarism and “Frontier Capitalism”
– By Daniel Cunha -
Roots and Continuities of the Crisis: ADAM TOOZE with Pavlos Roufos