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Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Downturn New York
– By Daniel S. Palmer
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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IAN CHENG with Osman Can Yerebakan
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CHARLES STEIN with Raymond Foye
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JULIE MEHRETU with Allie Biswas
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KEVIN BEASLEY with Yasi Alipour
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EMIL LUKAS with Harry Philbrick
ArtSeen
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Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919 – 1933
– By Daniel Pateman -
West By Midwest
– By Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert -
Ella Kruglyanskaya: Fenix
– By Alex A. Jones -
Cameron Rowland: D37
– By Alex Jen -
Raha Raissnia: Galvanization
– By Benjamin Clifford -
Imagined Communities: Photographs by Mila Teshaieva
– By Vivian Li -
Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Boy: Witness and Marker 2003 – 2018
– By Lilly Wei -
The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night
– By Alex Jen -
Erik Parker: New Soul
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950
– By Nico Wheadon -
Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist
– By A.V. Ryan -
Gaylen Gerber
– By Lori Waxman -
Viktor Timofeev: God Room
– By Rudy Natanzon -
Viktor Timofeev: God Room
– By Alex A. Jones -
Richard Artschwager: Primary Sources and Self-Portraits and the American Southwest
– By Robert C. Morgan -
Jeanne Silverthorne: From Darkness
– By William Corwin -
Archie Rand: Misfits
– By Ann McCoy -
Torey Thornton: Sustenance Traversing Foundational Urgencies (STFU [some])(Re-Faux Outing)
– By Vijay Masharani -
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
– By Amber Jamilla Musser -
Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning
– By McKenzie Wark -
Venceremos: Resisting the Rise of the Far-right in Brazil
– By Tatiane Santa Rosa -
Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt
– By Will Fenstermaker -
Forest Law
– By Lisa E. Bloom, Iris Morrell, and Ariel Hoage -
Francesco Clemente: Works 1978-2018
– By Alan Gilbert -
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts
– By Swagato Chakravorty -
Dana Schutz: Imagine Me and You
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Nancy Holt
– By Ann McCoy -
James Siena: Painting
– By Tom McGlynn -
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera
– By Benjamin Clifford -
Maya Lin: A River Is a Drawing
– By Taney Roniger -
Max Kozloff: The Atmospherics of Interruption: Paintings 1966-2018
– By Hovey Brock -
David Rabinowitch: Périgord Construction of Vision Drawings
– By Marcia E. Vetrocq -
EJ Hauser: Barn Spirits
– By Louis Block -
Rochelle Feinstein: Image of an Image
– By David Carrier -
Maria Antelman: Disassembler
– By Ann C. Collins -
Robert Janitz: Uptown Campus / College Robert Janitz
– By David Rhodes -
Caroline Larsen: Kaleidoscopic & Mathew Zefeldt: Customizable Realities
– By Nina Wolpow -
Lyle Ashton Harris: Flash of the Spirit
– By Jan Avgikos -
Max Neumann: Specter
– By Will Fenstermaker -
Under Erasure
– By William Corwin
1x1
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Barbara Takenaga and Patricio Guzmán: telescopes and other visions
– By Joan Waltemath
Critics Page
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Loose Spaces
– By Wilson Sherwin -
Internet Bulldozing: Gentrification and The Rise of Cyberharassment, BRUJAS Calls for Coalition, Again!
– by Arianna Gil, approved by BRUJAS -
Finding Up
– By Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh -
No Condition Is Permanent
– By Lisa Cooley -
In Search of a Darkroom
– By Remy Amezcua -
Endangered Species: An Artist’s Loft
– By John Newman -
The Lover’s War
– By Siyona Ravi
Books
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Aimee Parkison and Carol Guess’s Girl Zoo
– By Melanie Odelle -
Sophie Mackintosh's The Water Cure
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
How to Be Human: Some Beheadings by Aditi Machado
– By Julie Carr -
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's At the End of the Century
– By Rachel Aydt -
JAMES CHARLESWORTH with Kathleen Rooney
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A Life Not Fit to Form: The Restoration of Unnamable Joy
– By Chris Campanioni -
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH with Joseph Salvatore
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Ross Barkan’s Demolition Night
– By Joseph Peschel -
JEFF JACKSON with Nicholas Rys
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R.O. Kwon’s The Incendiaries
– By Deena ElGenaidi -
DAVID PEAK with Joseph Scapellato
Music
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The Known and the Unknown: Winter Jazzfest marathon, January 11-12, 2019
– By George Grella -
Andy Statman: Practical Mystic
– By Scott Gutterman -
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky -
Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda: ke i te ki
– By Daniel Wilson -
February Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Dance
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BOBBI JENE SMITH with Sima Belmar
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Miguel Gutierrez’s This Bridge Called My Ass
– By George Kan -
Dear Chaos
– By Erica Getto -
Make 'Em Laugh
– By Madison Mainwaring
Film
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True to Form: International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2018
– By Leo Goldsmith -
Routine Pleasures: Termite Art and the Paintings of Manny Farber
– By Sean Nam -
Double Vision: On Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II
– By Kazu Watanabe -
Love Screams: Valentine’s Day Massacre at Anthology Film Archives
– By Hillary Weston -
Rear Windows: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019
– By Giovanni Marchini Camia
Theater
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Tragedy with a Chewy Comic Center: MADELEINE GEORGE with Matt Longabucco
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Jeremy O. Harris Continues His Firecracker Season with “Daddy”
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Venturing into the Dark with a Lifeline: PAUL CALDERON with Elisabeth Ng
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God Said This: Dying Laughing with Leah Nanako Winkler
– By Clare Barron
Fiction
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Two Excerpts from a Novel in Progress
– By Pamela Ryder -
Gone Runt
– By Erica Kent -
LSD Halloween
– By Erica Kent -
Melody Plays a Tune
– By Erica Kent -
Excerpt of Carne de Dios
– by Homero Aridjis, translated from the Spanish by Chloe Garcia Roberts -
Highlights from the Life of Raymond Roussel #11: The Punchline
– By Tom Motley -
inSerial: part five The Mysteries of Paris
– By Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno -
Day Trip to Durmitor
– by Asja Bakić, translated by Jennifer Zoble -
Golthar, Terror of the Deep
– By Nathan Place
Poetry
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Little Dog at the End of the Rainbow
– By Sharon Mesmer -
NUDE GDUDE (SCRATCH AND SNIFF) (MY RIDES)
– By Farnoosh Fathi -
A User’s Guide to the Miracle
– By Dave Morse -
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– By Tenaya Nasser-Frederick -
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– By Ana Božičević -
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– By Jeffrey Grunthaner -
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– By Merritt Waldon
Art Books
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Remedios Varo's Letters, Dreams & Other Writings
– By Zack Hatfield -
Tavia Nyong’o's Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life
– By Peter Murphy -
Stéphane Mallarmé's The Book and Un Coup de dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done
– By Nicole Meily
Field Notes
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The Class Struggle in France
– by Charles Reeve and Jean-Luc Sahagian, translated by Janet Koenig -
In Search of the Promised Land: Hope and Despair in the Migrant Caravan
– By David Schmidt -
Bolsonarism and “Frontier Capitalism”
– By Daniel Cunha -
Roots and Continuities of the Crisis: ADAM TOOZE with Pavlos Roufos
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