Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Sounding the Idols
– By W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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On Larry Day
– By Phong Bui , Sid Sachs, Ruth Fine, Bill Valerio, and Richard Torchia -
Radcliffe Bailey with Ksenia M. Soboleva
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Debra Bricker Balken with David Levi Strauss
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Mary Ann Caws with Jared Daniel Fagen
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Neil Jenney with Jason Rosenfeld
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Jennifer Packer with Amber Jamilla Musser
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On Jasper Johns
– By Richard Shiff, Scott Rothkopf, and Carlos Basualdo -
Cinga Samson with Amanda Gluibizzi
ArtSeen
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Ethan Ryman: Series: Still Lives and Dioramas
– By Phong Bui -
Bruce Nauman: His Mark
– By Charles Schultz -
Madeleine Bialke: Long Summer
– By Elina Alter -
Michael Krebber: New Work
– By Louis Block -
Donald Judd: Paintings 1959-1961
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
Whitfield Lovell: Le Rouge et Le Noir
– By Hovey Brock -
Noah Landfield's Ephemeral Cities
– By William Corwin -
Jitish Kallat:Tmesis
– By William Corwin -
Dorothea Rockburne: Giottos Angels & Knots
– By Joseph Masheck -
Raqs Media Collective: HUNGRY FOR TIME
– By Klaus Speidel -
Facts of Light
– By Tim Maul -
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
– By Sid Sachs -
Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror
– By Amanda Gluibizzi -
Alex Katz
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Kara Walker: Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies & The Book of Hours
– By Susan Harris -
Robert Gober: “Shut up.” “No. You shut up.”
– By Brandt Junceau -
Catherine Murphy: Recent Work
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Tishan Hsu: skin-screen-grass
– By Cassie Packard -
Stephen Westfall: Persephone
– By Tom McGlynn -
Jeff Wall
– By David Carrier -
Gerald Jackson
– By Ksenia Soboleva -
Philip Pearlstein: I Love Mud
– By Jessica Holmes -
Larry Day
– By Conor Lauesen -
Domingo Guccione: Spiritual Geometry
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Rakuko Naito & Sono Kuwayama
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Roots/Anchors
– By Lilly Wei -
Stanley Whitney: TwentyTwenty
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa -
Winfred Rembert: 1945–2021
– By Dan Cameron -
Winfred Rembert: 1945–2021
– By Ann C. Collins -
KAWS: SPOKE TOO SOON
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Roxy Paine: Normal Fault
– By Gregory Volk -
Roxy Paine: Normal Fault
– By Jillian Russo -
Pablo Bronstein: Hell in its Heyday
– By Maximiliane Leuschner -
Metabolic Rift
– By Joel Kuennen -
Myron Stout and Cycladic Art
– By Brandt Junceau -
Sacred Spaces
– By Mary Ann Caws -
William McKeown
– By Bryan Martin -
Alex Griffin: Passages
– By Jennifer Rose Bonilla-Edgington -
George Rickey: Monumental Sculpture on Park Avenue
– By Irene Lyla Lee -
Kandis Williams: A Line
– By Charlene K. Lau -
Myeongsoo Kim and Cy Morgan: Classical Mechanics
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa -
Dorothea Rockburne: Giotto’s Angels and Knots
– By Charles Schultz -
John Coplans: La Vie des Formes
– By Alessandro Merola -
Ambrose Rhapsody Murray: Within Listening Distance of the Sea…
– By Charles Moore -
Mother and Child
– By Ekalan Hou -
Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art
– By Charlotte Kent -
Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive
– By Adriana Furlong -
In Support
– By Susan Harris -
Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi — Marvellous Entanglement
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
Mike Shultis: Animal Crackers
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright
Critics Page
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Idolizing Systems: That Doesnt Sound Right
– By Mieke Bal -
Resistant Noise
– By Janice Misurell-Mitchell -
Denounce, Resist, Change, Struggle
– By Charles Bernstein -
Oh, Say Can you Sing?
– By Hannah B Higgins -
Muse-ecology: on birds and other tuning forks
– By John Paul Ricco -
Ear Witness
– By Lawrence Abu Hamdan -
Untitled
– By Marjorie Perloff -
Narcissus in Black, Brown and White
– By Omar Kholeif -
Better a Good Ear than a Good Law
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And They Dimmed the Sun
– By Tanya Jayani Fernando -
The Birth of Music out of the Spirit of Critical Idolatry?
– By Seth Brodsky -
The Idol of White, a CANTO (after EP)
– By Jon Bordo -
Iconophobia or idolatry
– By Luca Del Baldo
Books
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Sequoia Nagamatsu with Kurt Baumeister
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Kelly Groviers On the Line: Conversations with Sean Scully
– By Charles Schultz -
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives
– By John Domini -
Hiromi Kawakami’s People From My Neighborhood and Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go in the Dark
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
Ricky Tucker with Justin Sherwood
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Shannon K. Winston ’s The Girl Who Talked to Paintings
– By Amanda Auerbach -
Sarah Schulman with Pac Pobric
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Bob Keyes’s The Isolation Artist
– By Roger Conover -
Hoa Nguyen’s A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
– By Alan Gilbert -
Ricardo Wilson’s An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories
– By Andrew Gori -
Emily Rapp Black with Claire Phillips
– By Claire Phillips -
Donna Schapers Remove the Pews
– By Rochelle Stackhouse
Music
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Sex, Night
– By Adolf Alzuphar -
Lea Bertucci, Christuskirche, Cologne
– By Martin Longley -
“Trust The Funk”
– By George Grella -
Gone Global
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
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The Fascist Turn and Dance
– By Tanya Jayani Fernando -
So You Think You Can’t Dance?
– By Christopher Atamian -
Rousing the Beast
– By Mike Stinavage
Film
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Mohammad Reza Aslani with Forrest Cardamenis
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All Too Hip, Not Too Jewish: Jake Kasdan’s The TV Set at 15 Years
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The 16th Cyprus International Film Festival
– By Harrison Blackman -
Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
– By Edward Mendez -
Ibrahim Mursal’s The Art of Sin
– By Farah Abdessamad
Theater
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SIOBHANS’ WHEEL WORLD
– By Erin Markey
Fiction
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from A Dream Life
– By Claire Messud -
from God of Mercy
– By Okezie Nwọka
Poetry
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Blah-ment
– By Eileen Myles -
Sunnylyn Thibodeauxs The World Exactly
– By Neeli Cherkovski -
PUNKS
– By John Keene -
“I translate the names of boys killed in Gaza”
– By Ghinwa Jawhari -
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– By Rae Armantrout -
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– By Steve Levine -
New Jars
– By Zachary Wollard -
Cliff Fyman’s Taxi Night
– Review by Jim Cohn -
“A running leap at the song”
– Review by Michael Cavuto -
Returning: Hank Lazer’s field recordings of mind in morning
– Review by Joel Chace
Art Books
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20 Best Art Books of 2021
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On Edward Hicks
– By Brandt Junceau -
Bruce Naumans Spatial Encounters
– By Charlie M. Schultz -
Dara Birnbaum’s Note(s): Work(ing) Process(es) Re: Concerns (That Take On/Deal With)
– By Jennie Waldow -
Richard Kraft’s It Is What It Is: All the Cards Issued to Donald Trump, January 2017 - January 2021
– By Leah Ollman -
Pope.L, My Kingdom for a Title
– By Erica N. Cardwell -
Paolo Javier’s O.B.B. a.k.a. The Original Brown Boy
– By Megan N. Liberty -
Gregg Bordowitz’s Some Styles of Masculinity
– By Nick Bennett
ArTonic
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The Dedalus Foundation
– By Phyllis Tuchman
In Memoriam
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Bob Thompson
– By Jonathan Fineberg
Special Report
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Beyond Blame: An Essay/Prayer for Alec Baldwin
– By Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper
Field Notes
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Manifesto: No Evictions!
– By Brooklyn Eviction Defense -
“Striketober”: Hopes and Realities
– By Marianne Garneau -
“Striketober” and Labor’s Long Downturn
– By Jason E. Smith -
Capitalism, Rationality, and Steven Pinker
– By Amir Hernandez -
At the Origins of Treason to the White Race
– By Ferruccio Gambino
The Miraculous
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81. Queens
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
82. Fifth Avenue
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
83. 40 Wooster Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
84. Bond Street
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
85. A Rooftop in SoHo
– By Raphael Rubinstein
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