Where Did Uptown Go?
By Rodney RobinsonYou been to Harlem lately? Yo, son, uptown is upside down! I know things change, but this is crazy.
My Years With Guns
By Williams ColeThe gun “issue” is woven with the strands of American history. It is also made from politics, culture, identity, passion, power, and, of course, fear.
Art In Conversation
TOM BURCKHARDT with John Yau
Shortly before the opening of his exhibition, Louder Milk at Pierogi (April 8 – May 8, 2011), Tom Burckhardt invited ARTSEEN Editor John Yau to his studio to discuss his new work.
Art In Conversation
ROBERT WHITMAN with Joan Waltemath
Robert Whitman, whose new work, Passport, will be performed April 16 – 17 at Dia:Beacon and Montclair State University, N.J., speaks with Rail Editor-at-Large Joan Waltemath at Mimi Gross's TriBeCa loft.
Art In Conversation
ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN with Phong Bui
Just a few days after the opening reception of her new exhibit The Estate of Rochelle F. at On Stellar Rays (March 27 – May 1, 2011), the artist Rochelle Feinstein paid a visit to the Rail’s headquarters to talk with publisher Phong Bui about her life and work.
Art In Conversation
JUAN USLÉ with John Yau
This interview was conducted via e-mail in Spanish. It began after a series of conversations, in which Juan Uslé and I decided that this would allow him to feel most at ease in language.
Sonics in the Wildernesses—A Justification
By Dan WilsonHeavy-laden with electromagnetic clamps and batteries, I am often interrupted by suspicious passersby during my acoustical experiments in tunnels, industrial estates, and multi-story car parks.
Varieties of Documentary
By Fred CamperOn Saturday, March 26, at UnionDocs in Williamsburg, critic and scholar Fred Camper presented a program of films that play with the idea of documentary production, method, and meaning. Below is Camper’s expanded thesis on the program, written exclusively for this publication.
Dance In Conversation
THOMAS LEHMEN with Claudia La Rocco
During her recent artist residency at Arizona State University, Claudia La Rocco interviewed the German choreographer Thomas Lehmen, who is a clinical professor in the School of Dance. They spoke in his garden in Tempe, Arizona.
Crown of Thorns
By Douglas GloverWhen Tobin was eight, he fell in love with his babysitter Aganetha, the awkward one with the large, damp eyes, floppy, uncontrollable bosoms and a soot-coloured hair-wing she kept pulled down over her face to hide her acne.
Editor's Message From The Editor
On Trump and "The Blacks"
By Theodore HammDonald Trump’s recent claim that “I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks” has rightly earned him much ridicule, mostly for his anachronistic, and condescending, choice of terms. Yet few critics seem to be asking whether the statement itself is true.
ArtSeen
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Some Thoughts, Possibly Related, on Time, Criticism, and the Nature of Consciousness
– By Claudia La Rocco -
Unpainted Paintings
– By Shane McAdams -
JANE FREILICHER Recent Paintings and Prints
– By John Yau -
JIM NUTT Coming Into Character
– By Terry R. Myers -
Powders, a Phial, and a Paper Book
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ Spirituality
– By Kara L. Rooney -
VALTON TYLER’S OTHERWORDLY ART: From the Heart of Texas
– By Edward M. Gómez -
A Tribute to Alan Uglow
– By Medrie MacPhee, Stephen J. Morse, and Olivier Mosset -
PROJECTS 94: HENRIK OLESEN
– By Valery Oisteanu -
MARK LOMBARDI Index
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Eugène Leroy and the Fle(mi)sh Figure
– By Gwenaël Kerlidou -
TIPI: Heritage of the Great Plains
– By Josh Garrett-Davis -
The Days of This Society Are Numbered
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
DANA SCHUTZ Drawings & Prints
– By John Yau -
BEYOND “WHAT YOU SEE”: Rethinking Abstract Painting as a Signifying Process
– By Robert C. Morgan -
EMILY MASON Recent Paintings
– By Phong Bui -
JAMES SIENA
– By John Yau -
JEAN CROTTI Inhabiting Abstraction
– By John Yau -
CORRECTION
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Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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On Trump and "The Blacks"
– By Theodore Hamm
Local
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CITYNOTES: Mod Times
– By Theodore Hamm -
Where Did Uptown Go?
– By Rodney Robinson -
REPORT CARD: Reform via Gentrification
– By Liza Featherstone -
PROFILE OF A TEEN MOM: Yaskaira Benitez
– By Jessica Campbell -
SEEDING LOCALLY Brooklyn Community Foundation
– By Eleanor J. Bader -
Diary of a Street Art Culture Warrior
– By Robin Grearson -
I Drink to You: Anthology Film Archives's 40th Birthday and Benefit
– By Jarrett Earnest
Express
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My Years With Guns
– By Williams Cole -
Cul-de-Sac In Context
– By Christian Parenti -
Inside Cul de Sac
– By Ian Olds -
The splendid asylum of impersonating Kris Kringle
– By Joshua Mohr -
A Buenos Aires Memory
– By Steven Ross -
Kraków Here and There
– By Alan Lockwood -
A Night in the Foxwoods
– By Karl Greenberg -
Cyber Wars 2.0
– By David Rosen -
In Dubious Battle
– By Allen Wilcox -
Addicted to Polymers
– By James Arnett -
Amongst the Ruins
– By Michael Terry -
Still Looking For a Cure
– By Christopher Michel -
BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN: ROBIN HESSMAN in Conversation with Williams Cole
Art
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Leo Steinberg (1920 - 2011)
– By David Levi Strauss, Robert Storr, and Nancy Goldring -
TOM BURCKHARDT with John Yau
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ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN with Phong Bui
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ROBERT WHITMAN with Joan Waltemath
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JUAN USLÉ with John Yau
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ARTISTS’ EYES: Children’s Art from Studio In A School
– By Phong Bui -
By Night
– By Richard Tuttle
ArtSeen
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Some Thoughts, Possibly Related, on Time, Criticism, and the Nature of Consciousness
– By Claudia La Rocco -
Unpainted Paintings
– By Shane McAdams -
JANE FREILICHER Recent Paintings and Prints
– By John Yau -
JIM NUTT Coming Into Character
– By Terry R. Myers -
Powders, a Phial, and a Paper Book
– By Anne Sherwood Pundyk -
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ Spirituality
– By Kara L. Rooney -
VALTON TYLER’S OTHERWORDLY ART: From the Heart of Texas
– By Edward M. Gómez -
A Tribute to Alan Uglow
– By Medrie MacPhee, Stephen J. Morse, and Olivier Mosset -
PROJECTS 94: HENRIK OLESEN
– By Valery Oisteanu -
MARK LOMBARDI Index
– By Cassandra Neyenesch -
Eugène Leroy and the Fle(mi)sh Figure
– By Gwenaël Kerlidou -
TIPI: Heritage of the Great Plains
– By Josh Garrett-Davis -
The Days of This Society Are Numbered
– By Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata -
DANA SCHUTZ Drawings & Prints
– By John Yau -
BEYOND “WHAT YOU SEE”: Rethinking Abstract Painting as a Signifying Process
– By Robert C. Morgan -
EMILY MASON Recent Paintings
– By Phong Bui -
JAMES SIENA
– By John Yau -
JEAN CROTTI Inhabiting Abstraction
– By John Yau -
CORRECTION
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Books
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The Shakespeare Chronology Recalibrated
– By William S. Niederkorn -
Of Mice and Despots
– By Hope E. Ewing -
The Secrets of Gaza
– By Randy Rosenthal -
Home Truths and African Magic
– By Matthew Finch -
She That Bore Thee
– By Marie Bacigalupo -
Do For Love
– By Maxine Case -
Happiness is a Short-Short
– By Justin Courter -
Foreign Relations
– By Vladislav Davidzon -
Nechvatal’s Immersive Noise Theory
– By Yuting Zou -
Rapid Transit
– By Jeffrey Cyphers Wright -
A Sexual Revival?
– By Rayyan Al-Shawaf
Music
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Sonics in the Wildernesses—A Justification
– By Dan Wilson -
An Auspicious Beginning for Elliott Sharp's Seventh Decade
– By David St.-Lascaux -
Life After Turntablism
– By Dominic Umile -
Spacewalking Together, Under the Vault
– By David St.-Lascaux -
“Thank You For Waiting”
– By Todd Simmons
Dance
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Obeying = Acting Out in Brother of Gogolorez
– By Siobhan Burke -
Facing the Music
– By Christine Hou -
Come One, Come All...
– By Jeremy Finch -
Wandering Along a Dreamscape
– By Christine Hou -
Unforgettable
– By L.J. Sunshine -
Curator's Letter
– By David Parker -
“AS NIGHTFALL DOES NOT COME ALL AT ONCE…”: Yvonne Rainer’s Politics of Pathos
– By Thom Donovan -
A MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY QUICKIE (with an extended Trisha Brown Parenthetical)
– By Claudia La Rocco -
My Schreibstück
– By Karen Schupp -
THOMAS LEHMEN with Claudia La Rocco
Film
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“WE’VE COME TO A TERRIBLE PLACE”: Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff
– By Paul Felten -
Varieties of Documentary
– By Fred Camper -
ART-HOUSE MIXTAPE 2011: Selections from New Directors/New Films
– By Colin Beckett -
WELCOME TO THE DEPARTMENT OF KICKASS: VANESSA RENWICK with Penny Lane
– By Penny Lane
Theater
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The Shame of Theater
– By Alex Kilgore -
Laurel Haines and her Anxiety, soon on display at the Flea
– By Trista Baldwin -
Aviones de Papel: From One City to Another, a Play Takes Flight
– By Christy Hutchcraft -
LET IT RAIN Director Daniel Talbott and Playwright Stephanie Janssen reopen The Umbrella Plays
– By Crystal Skillman
Fiction
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Crown of Thorns
– By Douglas Glover -
FÉDER or the Gilded Husband
– By Stendhall , translated from the French by Brian Evenson -
Chapters 1, 2, & 8 from Fatale
– By Jean-Patrick Manchette, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith -
Character and Fitness: Chapters 7 and 8
– By Jason Flores-Williams -
Tragic Strip
– By T. Motley
Poetry
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Ed Smokes, Stares Moodily
– By Ed Friedman -
how the sculpture is made
– By Priscilla Becker
Art Books
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A Collection of Personal Accounts
– By Stephanie Buhmann -
Good-Bye To All That
– By John Ganz
LastWords
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BLACK METAL TROY or, How to Drink Online
– By Robert Moor
