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Editor's Message Guest Critic

Critics Page

Picture a Picture of a Bed
– By Edwin Frank
Paula Rego and Balzac: A Footnote
– By Anthony Rudolf
The Cursed Painter
– By Jean Frémon
Oscar Wilde's Basil Hallward
– By Tosh Berman
A War on the World of Surfaces
– By Ann Reynolds
Elstir's Harbor at Carquethuit
– By David Carrier
A Hunger Artist
– By Betsy Kaufman
Virginia Woolf's Paragone
– By Jonathan Gilmore
Art World Doggerel
– By John Yau
The Museum Frozen In Amber
– By Seph Rodney
A Chance Encounter
– By Rhona Bitner
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
– By Dalia Neis
Nalo Hopkinson's Message in a Bottle
– By Steven Shaviro

ArtSeen

Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Workshop
– By Hovey Brock
Lawrence Lek: AIDOL 爱道
– By Michael Eby
Chando Ao, Sam Ghantous, David OReilly, and Bjorn Sparrman
– By Danni Shen
Moira Dryer: Paintings & Works on Paper
– By David Rhodes
Louis Fratino: Come Softly to Me
– By W Tao
John Sonsini
– By Dan Cameron
Walid Raad
– By Elleree Erdos
Sharon Horvath: Gaze at Your Own Risk
– By Jeremy Sigler
Leeroy New: Aliens of Manila
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Paul Anthony Smith: Junction
– By Dan Cameron
Suzanne Anker & Frank Gillette: Strata
– By Taney Roniger
The Drowned World
– By Nicole Miller
Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement
– By Michael Eby
Adolph Gottlieb: Classic Paintings
– By David Rhodes
Overture
– By Joseph Lubitz
ANOHNI: LOVE
– By Simon Wu
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: Delights of an Undirected Mind
– By Alex A. Jones
Tattfoo Tan: Heal the Man in Order to Heal the Land
– By Kristen Racaniello
Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey
– By Louis Block
Jessi Reaves: II
– By Eliza Barry
In Celebration
– By Joyce Beckenstein
The Symbolist Vision
– By Mary Ann Caws
Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s
– By Benjamin Clifford
Barthélemy Toguo: Urban Requiem
– By Ann C. Collins
Gretchen Bender: So Much Deathless
– By Dan Cameron
Joan Miró: Birth of the World
– By Jessica Holmes
Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room
– By Sophie Kovel
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything
– By Steven Pestana
Odette England: The Outskirts, Exposed, and Punched
– By tamara suarez porras
Michelle Handelman: LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL
– By Alex A. Jones
N. Dash
– By Steven Pestana
Sheer Presence: Monumental Paintings by Robert Motherwell
– By Robert C. Morgan
New York-Centric
– By William Corwin
Warhol Women
– By Robert C. Morgan
Zoe Avery Nelson: The Measure of a Boi
– By William Corwin

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

Fictions Of Art
– By Barry Schwabsky

Publisher's Message

Dear Readers and Friends,
–

Art

ArtSeen

Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: Workshop
– By Hovey Brock
Lawrence Lek: AIDOL 爱道
– By Michael Eby
Chando Ao, Sam Ghantous, David OReilly, and Bjorn Sparrman
– By Danni Shen
Moira Dryer: Paintings & Works on Paper
– By David Rhodes
Louis Fratino: Come Softly to Me
– By W Tao
John Sonsini
– By Dan Cameron
Walid Raad
– By Elleree Erdos
Sharon Horvath: Gaze at Your Own Risk
– By Jeremy Sigler
Leeroy New: Aliens of Manila
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Paul Anthony Smith: Junction
– By Dan Cameron
Suzanne Anker & Frank Gillette: Strata
– By Taney Roniger
The Drowned World
– By Nicole Miller
Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement
– By Michael Eby
Adolph Gottlieb: Classic Paintings
– By David Rhodes
Overture
– By Joseph Lubitz
ANOHNI: LOVE
– By Simon Wu
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: Delights of an Undirected Mind
– By Alex A. Jones
Tattfoo Tan: Heal the Man in Order to Heal the Land
– By Kristen Racaniello
Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey
– By Louis Block
Jessi Reaves: II
– By Eliza Barry
In Celebration
– By Joyce Beckenstein
The Symbolist Vision
– By Mary Ann Caws
Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s
– By Benjamin Clifford
Barthélemy Toguo: Urban Requiem
– By Ann C. Collins
Gretchen Bender: So Much Deathless
– By Dan Cameron
Joan Miró: Birth of the World
– By Jessica Holmes
Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room
– By Sophie Kovel
Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything
– By Steven Pestana
Odette England: The Outskirts, Exposed, and Punched
– By tamara suarez porras
Michelle Handelman: LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL
– By Alex A. Jones
N. Dash
– By Steven Pestana
Sheer Presence: Monumental Paintings by Robert Motherwell
– By Robert C. Morgan
New York-Centric
– By William Corwin
Warhol Women
– By Robert C. Morgan
Zoe Avery Nelson: The Measure of a Boi
– By William Corwin

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Jorge Méndez Blake: Amerika
– By Colin Edgington

Critics Page

Picture a Picture of a Bed
– By Edwin Frank
Paula Rego and Balzac: A Footnote
– By Anthony Rudolf
The Cursed Painter
– By Jean Frémon
Oscar Wilde's Basil Hallward
– By Tosh Berman
A War on the World of Surfaces
– By Ann Reynolds
Elstir's Harbor at Carquethuit
– By David Carrier
A Hunger Artist
– By Betsy Kaufman
Virginia Woolf's Paragone
– By Jonathan Gilmore
Art World Doggerel
– By John Yau
The Museum Frozen In Amber
– By Seph Rodney
A Chance Encounter
– By Rhona Bitner
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
– By Dalia Neis
Nalo Hopkinson's Message in a Bottle
– By Steven Shaviro

Books

Then I Put In My False Heart: SARAH ROSE ETTER in conversation with Andrew Ervin
– By Andrew Ervin
Living on the Borderlines: Stories, by Melissa Michal and Sabrina & Corina: Stories, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
What My Mother And I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break The Silence
– By Elizabeth Block
My Roots Were Somewhere With You
– By Shohreh Laici
My Struggle: Book Six by Karl Ove Knausgaard
– By Nathan Knapp
The Girls in My Town By Angela Morales
– By Erin Carden
The Aesthetics of Silence: New Books by Ilya Kaminsky & Donna Stonecipher
– By Kristina Marie Darling
The Fat Kid by Jamie Iredell
– By Hugh Sheehy

Music

Pay the Artist
– By George Grella
Hey Internet DJ
– By Greta Rainbow
Kinesiology of the Viola
– By Eli Zeger
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
May Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Jon Savage: This Searing Light, The Sun And Everything Else
– By Dan Joseph

Dance

Take Off From the Earth, Then Go To The Moon
– By Erica Getto
Amendments, New Waves, and Updates
– By Gillian Jakab
Lauren Bakst’s More Problems with Form
– By Rennie McDougall
Kyle Abraham’s Live! The Realest MC
– By Susan Yung
Choreographing “Lines of Flight”
– By George Kan

Film

Change as Real as New York Schist: “This Used to Be New York” at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival
– By Williams Cole
The Craftsman
– By Giovanni Marchini Camia
Otro Mundo: The Wandering Soap Opera
– By Violet Lucca
An Antidote for These Trying Times: Diamantino
– By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
There are no rules!: Restored and Revisited Avante–garde Films from the Netherlands
– By Marius Hrdy
Losing Control of the Nightclub: Everybody in the Place
– By Matt Turner

Theater

Fiction

From The New York Jail
– by Plinio Garrido, translated from the Spanish by Harry Morales
From My Friends
– by Emmanuel Bove, translated from the French by Janet Louth
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
inSerial: part eight The Mysteries of Paris
– by Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno

Poetry

Anemone
– By Norma Cole
Grand Army Plaza
– By James Loop
five from Cosmic Bottom
– By Lucas de Lima
three
– By Catherine Wagner
four
– By Kate Colby
four
– By John Williams Narins
%NSFW
– By Joshua Escobar
dandy aisle
– By Mike Lala

Art Books

Anna Ostoya's and Ben Lerner's The Polish Rider
– By Taylor Dafoe
R. Crumb's Dream Diary
– By Lily Majteles
Saul Fletcher, Essays by Ralph Rugoff and Kirsty Bell
– By Nick Bennett
Olivier Schrauwen's Parallel Lives
– By Bill Kartalopoulos

Field Notes

Frontera/Frontier: Chaos at the US-Mexico Border
– By Marisela Barrera
Algeria: A Historic and Ambivalent Movement
– by Nedjib Sidi Moussa translated by Janet Koenig
Why 3508 Economists Are Probably Wrong
– By José A. Tapia
Freaky Realism: Michael Taussig's Palma Africana
– By McKenzie Wark

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