SEPT 2013

Local

De Blasio Time
By Ari Paul
STORM TROOPERS The Legacy of Occupy Sandy
By Ari Paul
Faith + Action = Justice
By Eleanor J. Bader
Seaside Stories
By Saskia Kahn
In Homestretch of NYC Mayor’s Race, Watch for John Liu
By Theodore Hamm
Antonio Reynoso's Fight for Williamsburg
By Williams Cole

Express

Inside the Mexican Cartels
By Anabel Hernández
A Pack of Damn Lies
By Matt Igoe

Art

ArtSeen

DONNA DENNIS Coney Night Maze
By Robert Berlind
JAMES TURRELL
By Kara L. Rooney
Punk: Chaos to Couture
By David Carrier
SVEN-OLE FRAHM A Hole in the Wall is Nothing to Worry About – Part I
By Taney Roniger
Soundings: A Contemporary Score and The String and the Mirror
By Andrew Cappetta
Art About the Art World
By Michael Pepi
Poetics of the Unpromising
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
Descending Into the Abyss of Double Negative
By Greg Lindquist
AKIVA SAUNDERS & JOHN FELL RYAN The Shining (Backwards and Forwards)
By William Corwin
Women’s Fiction
By Jen Schwarting

Critics Page

What is Art—and Why Even Ask?
Guest Critic: Carter Ratcliff
What is Art?
By Juan Puntes
On Defining Art: A Quasi-Definition of Works of Art
By Tiziana Andina
What is Art?
By Elizabeth C. Baker
What is Art?
By Peter Barton
What is Art?
By Bill Berkson
What is Art?
By Gregory Botts
My Personal Definition of Art
By Diane Burko
What is Art?
By Noah Dillon
lines circling a definition of art (on my birthday, for W.H.A.)
By Jarrett Earnest
What is Art?
By Peter Freeman
What is Art?
By Charles Stein
What is Architecture? (Art?)
By Steven Holl
Filling the Emptiness
By Vincent Katz
Is it Possible to Define Art?
By Ford Crull
What is Art?
By Corina Larkin
Art Is
By George Quasha
What is Art?
By Lenore Malen
What is Art?
By Ann McCoy
Vedova / Tintoretto
By Robert C. Morgan
What is Art?
By Gary Stephan
What is Art? Art is What?
By Joan Waltemath
What is Art?
By Francis M. Naumann
Points of Change; A Painter’s Journey
By Dorothea Rockburne

Books

Terry Eagleton Versus Winston Churchill
By David Lehman
Shades of Greying
By Abby Margulies
Summer Escapees
By Jodi Angel
Me, Myself, And My Mind
By Jeremy Polacek
When Darkness Isn’t Dark
By Geoffrey Young
Eyes Everywhere
By David Rosen
Throwaway Lives
By David Rosen
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
By Todd Petty
Tampa
By Weston Cutter
The Only Thing(s) to Fear: Monkeytown
By Stephen Cicirelli
Torquing the Form
By Weston Cutter
Man of Silicon and the American Future
By J.T. Price

Music

Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Zorn @ 60
By George Grella
A SPOTLIGHT BENT THROUGH A PRISM Teri Gender Bender of Bosnian Rainbows
By Allyson Polsky McCabe
TIME-BASED PERFORMANCE: A Decade of Issue Project Room
By Marshall Yarbrough
Hear and There: Soundings at MoMA and The String and the Mirror at Lisa Cooley
By Jonny Farrow

Dance

Film

LYNNE SACHS with Karen Rester
AFFECTIVE NUMBERS Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme’s Le Joli Mai
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
DREAM REELER Jud Yalkut (1938-2013)
By Gregory Zinman

Theater

FRIENDSHIP'S CHAFING BONDS Jonathan Caren's The Recommendation
By Janine Nabers
IT'S THE APOCALYPSE. DOH! Anne Washburn brings The Simpsons post-electric
By Emily DeVoti

Fiction

The Crime of Passion or, Love’s Delirium: A Spanish Story
By Marquis de Sade, translated from the French by Jocelyne Geneviève Barque and John Galbraith Simmons
The Border Picnics
By Laura Brown-Lavoie
When the Time Comes
By Josef Winkler
The Renoir Is Put Straight
By Pamela Ryder
an extract from Blinding: Book One
By Mircea Cărtărescu, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter, out now on Archipelago books
A Connected People
By David Prudhomme
I Remember Beirut
By Zeina Abirached
Ernesto
By Alfred
Anxious Squirrel
By Antony Huchette
Tokyo/Blooklyn
By Aya Kakeda
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

Three
By Leah Umansky
Three
By Thomas Devaney
Four
By Ben Doller
Seven
By Lauren Russell
from The Sissies
By Evan Kennedy

Art Books

THE POLITICS OF THINGS JOSHUA SIMON with Orit Gat
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
By Michael McCanne

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SEPT 2013

Local

De Blasio Time
By Ari Paul
STORM TROOPERS The Legacy of Occupy Sandy
By Ari Paul
Faith + Action = Justice
By Eleanor J. Bader
Seaside Stories
By Saskia Kahn
In Homestretch of NYC Mayor’s Race, Watch for John Liu
By Theodore Hamm
Antonio Reynoso's Fight for Williamsburg
By Williams Cole

Express

Inside the Mexican Cartels
By Anabel Hernández
A Pack of Damn Lies
By Matt Igoe

Art

ArtSeen

DONNA DENNIS Coney Night Maze
By Robert Berlind
JAMES TURRELL
By Kara L. Rooney
Punk: Chaos to Couture
By David Carrier
SVEN-OLE FRAHM A Hole in the Wall is Nothing to Worry About – Part I
By Taney Roniger
Soundings: A Contemporary Score and The String and the Mirror
By Andrew Cappetta
Art About the Art World
By Michael Pepi
Poetics of the Unpromising
By Alana Shilling-Janoff
Descending Into the Abyss of Double Negative
By Greg Lindquist
AKIVA SAUNDERS & JOHN FELL RYAN The Shining (Backwards and Forwards)
By William Corwin
Women’s Fiction
By Jen Schwarting

Critics Page

What is Art—and Why Even Ask?
Guest Critic: Carter Ratcliff
What is Art?
By Juan Puntes
On Defining Art: A Quasi-Definition of Works of Art
By Tiziana Andina
What is Art?
By Elizabeth C. Baker
What is Art?
By Peter Barton
What is Art?
By Bill Berkson
What is Art?
By Gregory Botts
My Personal Definition of Art
By Diane Burko
What is Art?
By Noah Dillon
lines circling a definition of art (on my birthday, for W.H.A.)
By Jarrett Earnest
What is Art?
By Peter Freeman
What is Art?
By Charles Stein
What is Architecture? (Art?)
By Steven Holl
Filling the Emptiness
By Vincent Katz
Is it Possible to Define Art?
By Ford Crull
What is Art?
By Corina Larkin
Art Is
By George Quasha
What is Art?
By Lenore Malen
What is Art?
By Ann McCoy
Vedova / Tintoretto
By Robert C. Morgan
What is Art?
By Gary Stephan
What is Art? Art is What?
By Joan Waltemath
What is Art?
By Francis M. Naumann
Points of Change; A Painter’s Journey
By Dorothea Rockburne

Books

Terry Eagleton Versus Winston Churchill
By David Lehman
Shades of Greying
By Abby Margulies
Summer Escapees
By Jodi Angel
Me, Myself, And My Mind
By Jeremy Polacek
When Darkness Isn’t Dark
By Geoffrey Young
Eyes Everywhere
By David Rosen
Throwaway Lives
By David Rosen
In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
By Todd Petty
Tampa
By Weston Cutter
The Only Thing(s) to Fear: Monkeytown
By Stephen Cicirelli
Torquing the Form
By Weston Cutter
Man of Silicon and the American Future
By J.T. Price

Music

Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky
Zorn @ 60
By George Grella
A SPOTLIGHT BENT THROUGH A PRISM Teri Gender Bender of Bosnian Rainbows
By Allyson Polsky McCabe
TIME-BASED PERFORMANCE: A Decade of Issue Project Room
By Marshall Yarbrough
Hear and There: Soundings at MoMA and The String and the Mirror at Lisa Cooley
By Jonny Farrow

Dance

Film

LYNNE SACHS with Karen Rester
AFFECTIVE NUMBERS Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme’s Le Joli Mai
By Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
DREAM REELER Jud Yalkut (1938-2013)
By Gregory Zinman

Theater

FRIENDSHIP'S CHAFING BONDS Jonathan Caren's The Recommendation
By Janine Nabers
IT'S THE APOCALYPSE. DOH! Anne Washburn brings The Simpsons post-electric
By Emily DeVoti

Fiction

The Crime of Passion or, Love’s Delirium: A Spanish Story
By Marquis de Sade, translated from the French by Jocelyne Geneviève Barque and John Galbraith Simmons
The Border Picnics
By Laura Brown-Lavoie
When the Time Comes
By Josef Winkler
The Renoir Is Put Straight
By Pamela Ryder
an extract from Blinding: Book One
By Mircea Cărtărescu, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter, out now on Archipelago books
A Connected People
By David Prudhomme
I Remember Beirut
By Zeina Abirached
Ernesto
By Alfred
Anxious Squirrel
By Antony Huchette
Tokyo/Blooklyn
By Aya Kakeda
Tragic Strip
By T. Motley

Poetry

Three
By Leah Umansky
Three
By Thomas Devaney
Four
By Ben Doller
Seven
By Lauren Russell
from The Sissies
By Evan Kennedy

Art Books

THE POLITICS OF THINGS JOSHUA SIMON with Orit Gat
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
By Michael McCanne