THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
In Defense of Faking It
By Blake Gopnik
In November, I published a New York Times essay headlined “In Praise of Art Forgeries .” Nothing I have written has provoked as strong a reaction— including the response by philosopher Alva Noë in these pages. I have since realized that my article touched such a nerve because it raised issues that seemed to dance around art but which are actually central to it.
“What the world looks like when it is loved”: JOSEPHINE HALVORSON Facings
By Jarrett EarnestJosephine Halvorson is a painter of intimacy, which is as real as anything, but not what people mean when they talk about representing reality.
THE CINEMA OF CRUELTY
The Missing Picture (L’image Manquante) by Rithy Panh
By Genevieve Yue
Rithy Panh has devoted his career to making films about the atrocities and legacies of the Cambodian Genocide, from the precisely documented torture facility described in S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, to the indentured servitude faced by present-day sex workers in Paper Cannot Wrap up Embers. Throughout, Panh has remained steadfastly situated in the present: while his films concern the past, they do not attempt to enter or relive it, but rather interrogate historical meaning for the purposes of understanding a troubled present.
JHEREK BISCHOFF
Composed at St. Ann's Warehouse
By Marshall Yarbrough
Jherek Bischoff’s two-night stand at St. Ann’s Warehouse in January was an intimate showcase for his eclectic brand of orchestral pop.
Second Life
By Katharina SmundakPeter Steiner’s famous cartoon in which one dog, sitting at a computer, says to another, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” addresses the anonymity the Internet affords and the identities one can perform.
Remembering Nancy Holt
By Jack FlamMore than with most artists, Nancy’s persona was very much like her art, and her art so very much like her: precise, calm, accepting, radiant, luminous.
JULIA ROMMEL The Little Match Stick
By Alex BaconJulia Rommel has installed just two works in the first room of her current exhibition: a large, ravishing creamsicle orange painting, “Punkin Chunkin” (2014), and a small, mostly white canvas, with accents of grays around the edges and sides, “Sandpipers” (2013).
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear friends and readers,
By Phong BuiIt was during his speech at a General Electric gas engine plant in Wisconsin on January 30th that President Obama made his off-the-cuff remark about art history being useless.
Editor's Message Guest Critic
The Demolition Game
By Carlos BrillembourgWhat is the role of architecture in the eyes of the patrons and trustees of our museums? How does patronage influence the curators and the interaction of the public with the art displayed?
Critics Page
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Joanna Pousette-Dart & David Novros
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Distant Musings on MoMA’s Folk Art Dilemma: What, Who & How It Represents
– By Ted Landrum -
A.F.A.M./MOMA
– By Stephen Rustow -
The Specific Museum
– By Antonio Sergio Bessa -
Above the Crowds
– By Joe Fyfe -
Modern Versus Modern
– By Deborah Gans -
Demolition Style: Big Art, Small Architecture, and the Dust of Daily Life
– By Peter Wheelwright -
Let Us Start by Identifying Differing Ends
– By Saul Ostrow -
Tear Down on 53rd Street
– By Peter Scott
ArtSeen
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Florence and Daniel Guerlain Donation
– By William Corwin -
Moira Dryer Project
– By David Rhodes -
Mingei: Are You Here?
– By Michael Straus -
New Originals at Gallery HO
– By Jonathan Goodman -
“What the world looks like when it is loved”: JOSEPHINE HALVORSON Facings
– By Jarrett Earnest -
Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art
– By Oona Haas -
Representing Rainbows
– By Lisa Corinne Davis -
KEITH SONNIER Elysian Plain + Early Works
– By Charles Schultz -
PHILIP PEARLSTEIN
– By Robert Berlind
JUST THE FACTS, 50 Years of Looking and Drawing and Painting -
ALFREDO GISHOLT Canto General
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MATTHEW BARNEY & JONATHAN BEPLER
– By Nicola Ricciardi
River of Fundament (2014) -
JULIA ROMMEL The Little Match Stick
– By Alex Bacon -
STRANGE INTIMACIES
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
LORI ELLISON
– By Taney Roniger -
MAY DAY IN MARCH
– By Joan Waltemath
AUSTIN THOMAS Utopian -
A SPECIFIC IMAGINATION
– By Anna Tome
SHIRIN NESHAT Our House is on Fire -
DOUG WHEELER
– By Ann McCoy -
CLARE GRILL Comb
– By Sara Christoph -
SOCIAL RADIANT
– By Phong Bui
Alex Katz / Dara Friedman -
WHERE ARE WE
– By Phong Bui
RICHARD TUTTLE
Looking for the Map -
Images of Passengers, Memories of Thirst
– By Andrew Stefan Weiner -
MEL KENDRICK Water Drawings
– By Pac Pobric
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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The Demolition Game
– By Carlos Brillembourg
Publisher's Message
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Dear friends and readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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Poem Beginning with a Line from Robert Ashley
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
IDEALLY THIS INTERVIEW WOULD ANSWER ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS LAURE PROUVOST with Jarrett Earnest
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FRAN LEBOWITZ with Phong Bui
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LAURIE SIMMONS with Phong Bui
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THE POETIC POLITICS OF SPACE REBECCA SOLNIT with Jarrett Earnest
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THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART In Defense of Faking It
– By Blake Gopnik -
A Memory Jug For Terry Adkins (1953–2014)
– By Sarah Goffstein -
Remembering Nancy Holt
– By Jack Flam
ArtSeen
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Florence and Daniel Guerlain Donation
– By William Corwin -
Moira Dryer Project
– By David Rhodes -
Mingei: Are You Here?
– By Michael Straus -
New Originals at Gallery HO
– By Jonathan Goodman -
“What the world looks like when it is loved”: JOSEPHINE HALVORSON Facings
– By Jarrett Earnest -
Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art
– By Oona Haas -
Representing Rainbows
– By Lisa Corinne Davis -
KEITH SONNIER Elysian Plain + Early Works
– By Charles Schultz -
PHILIP PEARLSTEIN JUST THE FACTS, 50 Years of Looking and Drawing and Painting
– By Robert Berlind -
ALFREDO GISHOLT Canto General
– By Kara L. Rooney -
MATTHEW BARNEY & JONATHAN BEPLER River of Fundament (2014)
– By Nicola Ricciardi -
JULIA ROMMEL The Little Match Stick
– By Alex Bacon -
STRANGE INTIMACIES
– By Alana Shilling-Janoff -
LORI ELLISON
– By Taney Roniger -
MAY DAY IN MARCH AUSTIN THOMAS Utopian
– By Joan Waltemath -
A SPECIFIC IMAGINATION SHIRIN NESHAT Our House is on Fire
– By Anna Tome -
DOUG WHEELER
– By Ann McCoy -
CLARE GRILL Comb
– By Sara Christoph -
SOCIAL RADIANT Alex Katz / Dara Friedman
– By Phong Bui -
WHERE ARE WE RICHARD TUTTLE Looking for the Map
– By Phong Bui -
Images of Passengers, Memories of Thirst
– By Andrew Stefan Weiner -
MEL KENDRICK Water Drawings
– By Pac Pobric
Critics Page
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Joanna Pousette-Dart & David Novros
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Distant Musings on MoMA’s Folk Art Dilemma: What, Who & How It Represents
– By Ted Landrum -
A.F.A.M./MOMA
– By Stephen Rustow -
The Specific Museum
– By Antonio Sergio Bessa -
Above the Crowds
– By Joe Fyfe -
Modern Versus Modern
– By Deborah Gans -
Demolition Style: Big Art, Small Architecture, and the Dust of Daily Life
– By Peter Wheelwright -
Let Us Start by Identifying Differing Ends
– By Saul Ostrow -
Tear Down on 53rd Street
– By Peter Scott
Books
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DISMAY AS REVELATION: CHRISTOPHER MERKNER with Matt Bell
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Echoes and Traces
– By Casey Murphy -
Second Life
– By Katharina Smundak -
SUBTERRANEAN FRESHNESS Rane Arroyo and His Poems
– By Tony Leuzzi -
Stardust Memory
– By Noah Isenberg -
“News” Under the Sun
– By Leigh Kamping-Carder -
The Author Would Go On To Repeat Herself
– By Ashley P. Taylor -
The Incidental Physicists
– By Katie Rolnick and Geoffrey Young
Music
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ALL MUSIC IS CHURCH Choral Music In New York
– By Pete Matthews -
Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste
– By Kurt Gottschalk -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
MATTER REHEARSED Thoughts on the New York Philharmonic's Open Rehearsal
– By Daniel Gold -
JHEREK BISCHOFF Composed at St. Ann's Warehouse
– By Marshall Yarbrough -
Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella
Film
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THE CINEMA OF CRUELTY The Missing Picture (L’image Manquante) by Rithy Panh
– By Genevieve Yue -
RUNNING THE GAMUT An Overdue Spotlight on Richard Fleischer
– By Danny King -
CAPTURING UPHEAVAL MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight 2014
– By Ela Bittencourt
Theater
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The Norwegians Busting Outta Permafrost with C. Denby Swanson
– By Janet Allard -
“You Say You Want a Revolution...” A Glimpse into NYC’s Independent Producing Scene
– By Crystal Skillman
Fiction
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from Miransù
– by Monica Sarsini, translated from the Italian by Maryann De Julio -
SIX PIECES BY Dino Buzzati
– translated from the Italian by Lawrence Venuti -
Arrowschmitt!!
– By Arryan Decatur -
Hermetic
– By Joe Pavelka -
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley -
from DNA
– By Johannah Rogers -
A diary of mysterious difficulties…
– By Laura Raicovich -
an extract from Theories of Forgetting
– by Lance Olsen, out now from FC2
Poetry
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Two Excerpts
– By Jennifer Bartlett -
Five
– By Valerie Deus -
Four
– By Jessica Smith -
from State of the Union
– By Susan Lewis -
Three
– By Chris Hosea -
from Slow Poetry in America
– By Dale Martin Smith
Art Books
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Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant’s Volte-Face
– By T Clutch Fleischmann -
A Life in Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley
– By Robert Berlind -
Writings and Conversations
– By Craig Stockwell
LastWords
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An Uphill Battle for Legal Services in Brooklyn
– By Eleanor J. Bader
