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Bill BatsonBILL BATSON illustrates and writes a weekly column on NyackNewsAndViews.com called “Nyack Sketch Log.” His stories about the sketches can be found on that log. Last June, Batson produced the world’s first “Flash Sketch Mob” in Nyack. His work can be seen at www.billbatsonarts.com.
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On Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear
DEC 22–JAN 23 | 1x1
From 2018 to 2019, the Rail published a column titled “1 by 1,” edited by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, featuring original writing on singular works of art. On the occasion of Wolfgang Tillmans’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, To look without fear, we felt compelled to revive the section.
A Language Cairn: Artists on Their Practice
By Charlotte KentMAY 2023 | Art and Technology
Because this month I had the honor of acting as Guest Editor for the Critics Page, where I invited global curators and scholars to contribute a word they’d like to see or never see again in the discourse around art and technology, I thought I would develop this month’s column around the words that artists use and encounter about their practice—across media. So I asked them what silly, uncomfortable, or productive term they encountered. It could be something said to them or something they say to themselves. Leaving aside the linguistic debates around performative utterances, words act around art as a network of ideas, a system if you will, or a kind of scatterplot of imaginative relations.
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By Julie AgoosSEPT 2022 | Poetry
Julie Agoos is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Echo System (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2015), and a new manuscript, Stateless. She is a Professor of English and coordinator of the MFA Program in Poetry at Brooklyn College/CUNY, and lives in Nyack, NY.
