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From the Publisher & Artistic Director

Editor's Message Guest Critic

Critics Page

Exhibiting Nature’s Nation
– By Alan C. Braddock
Creating a New Narrative About Climate Change: 1000 Steps
– By Mary Miss
ELIZABETH CORR with Julie Reiss
Fragility Curve
– By Janet Biggs
Art Project Summary: Holding Ice
– By Zak Hajjaoui
Martha
– By Alice Momm
Material Supply Chains and Eco-traumas
– By Mary Mattingly
The Masochism Tango
– By Aurora Robson
Against Hope
– By Jenny Kendler
Communicating Climate Change Through Art
– By Zaria Forman

ArtSeen

Bruce Pearson: Shadow Language
– By Lilly Wei
James Nares: Monuments
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Yasi Alipour: As Dreams
– By Vered Engelhard
Pedro Mesa: No One Listening
– By Colin Edgington
Thief of Baghdad: Arabs in World Cinema
– By Giovanni Vimercati
Jack Youngerman: Cut-Ups
– By Jonathan Goodman
Writings on the Wall
– By Daniel Pateman
Rico Gatson and Baseera Khan: Free to Be
– By Danilo Machado
2019 Whitney Biennial
– By Alex Jen
Richard Pousette-Dart: Works 1940 – 1992
– By Phillip Griffith
Idris Khan:Blue Rhythms
– By Tom McGlynn
Julia Scher: American Promises
– By Charlotte Kent
Joan Mitchell: All by Herself
– By Jeremy Sigler
Marley Freeman: Park Closes at Midnight
– By Kathleen Hefty
Sarah Grass: Unmanned
– By Hovey Brock
Vivian Suter
– By Louis Block
Mary Bauermeister: Live in Peace or Leave the Galaxy
– By Mark Bloch
Heidi Bucher: The site of Memory
– By Jennifer Rose Bonilla-Edgington
De Kooning: Five Decades
– By Tom McGlynn
Carlos Motta: Conatus
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Mandy El-Sayegh: Cite Your Sources
– By Michael Eby
Perilous Bodies
– By Mengna Da
Corita Kent: Works from the 1960s
– By Sophie Kovel
Lorna Simpson: Darkening
– By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla Musser
David Novros
– By David Rhodes
Ansel Krut: Back to Back Balloons
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Wendy Red Star: Accession
– By Eleanor Heartney
Visions of Brazil
– By Madeline Murphy Turner
Surrealism in Mexico
– By Mary Ann Caws
Sanya Kantarovsky: On Them
– By Nicholas Heskes
David Driskell: Resonance: Paintings, 1965–2002
– By Hovey Brock
Sean Scully: PAN
– By Robert C. Morgan
Simone Fattal: Works and Days
– By Ann C. Collins
Yuji Agematsu: 1995 & 2003
– By Jan Avgikos
Diana Copperwhite: The Clock Struck Between Time
– By Robert R. Shane
Liz Magor: Blowout
– By Jared Quinton
Berna Reale: While you laugh / Enquanto Você Ri
– By Charlene K. Lau
Ming Fay: Beyond Nature
– By Robert C. Morgan
As If: Alternative Histories from Then to Now
– By Avram C. Alpert
Esteban Cabeza de Baca: Worlds without Borders
– By Colin Edgington
Todd Gray: Cartesian Gris Gris
– By Graham W. Bell
Peggy Ahwesh: CLEAVE
– By Ann McCoy
Irma Blank: Painting Between the Lines
– By Marcia E. Vetrocq
Alex Katz: New Paintings and Sculptures
– By Tom McGlynn
Deborah Turbeville: Collages
– By Benjamin Clifford

Table of Contents

Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

Art in the Climate Crisis
– By Julie Reiss

Art

ArtSeen

Bruce Pearson: Shadow Language
– By Lilly Wei
James Nares: Monuments
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Yasi Alipour: As Dreams
– By Vered Engelhard
Pedro Mesa: No One Listening
– By Colin Edgington
Thief of Baghdad: Arabs in World Cinema
– By Giovanni Vimercati
Jack Youngerman: Cut-Ups
– By Jonathan Goodman
Writings on the Wall
– By Daniel Pateman
Rico Gatson and Baseera Khan: Free to Be
– By Danilo Machado
2019 Whitney Biennial
– By Alex Jen
Richard Pousette-Dart: Works 1940 – 1992
– By Phillip Griffith
Idris Khan:Blue Rhythms
– By Tom McGlynn
Julia Scher: American Promises
– By Charlotte Kent
Joan Mitchell: All by Herself
– By Jeremy Sigler
Marley Freeman: Park Closes at Midnight
– By Kathleen Hefty
Sarah Grass: Unmanned
– By Hovey Brock
Vivian Suter
– By Louis Block
Mary Bauermeister: Live in Peace or Leave the Galaxy
– By Mark Bloch
Heidi Bucher: The site of Memory
– By Jennifer Rose Bonilla-Edgington
De Kooning: Five Decades
– By Tom McGlynn
Carlos Motta: Conatus
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
Mandy El-Sayegh: Cite Your Sources
– By Michael Eby
Perilous Bodies
– By Mengna Da
Corita Kent: Works from the 1960s
– By Sophie Kovel
Lorna Simpson: Darkening
– By Maureen Catbagan and Amber Jamilla Musser
David Novros
– By David Rhodes
Ansel Krut: Back to Back Balloons
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Wendy Red Star: Accession
– By Eleanor Heartney
Visions of Brazil
– By Madeline Murphy Turner
Surrealism in Mexico
– By Mary Ann Caws
Sanya Kantarovsky: On Them
– By Nicholas Heskes
David Driskell: Resonance: Paintings, 1965–2002
– By Hovey Brock
Sean Scully: PAN
– By Robert C. Morgan
Simone Fattal: Works and Days
– By Ann C. Collins
Yuji Agematsu: 1995 & 2003
– By Jan Avgikos
Diana Copperwhite: The Clock Struck Between Time
– By Robert R. Shane
Liz Magor: Blowout
– By Jared Quinton
Berna Reale: While you laugh / Enquanto Você Ri
– By Charlene K. Lau
Ming Fay: Beyond Nature
– By Robert C. Morgan
As If: Alternative Histories from Then to Now
– By Avram C. Alpert
Esteban Cabeza de Baca: Worlds without Borders
– By Colin Edgington
Todd Gray: Cartesian Gris Gris
– By Graham W. Bell
Peggy Ahwesh: CLEAVE
– By Ann McCoy
Irma Blank: Painting Between the Lines
– By Marcia E. Vetrocq
Alex Katz: New Paintings and Sculptures
– By Tom McGlynn
Deborah Turbeville: Collages
– By Benjamin Clifford

1x1

My Stonehenge
– By Taney Roniger

Critics Page

Exhibiting Nature’s Nation
– By Alan C. Braddock
Creating a New Narrative About Climate Change: 1000 Steps
– By Mary Miss
ELIZABETH CORR with Julie Reiss
Fragility Curve
– By Janet Biggs
Art Project Summary: Holding Ice
– By Zak Hajjaoui
Martha
– By Alice Momm
Material Supply Chains and Eco-traumas
– By Mary Mattingly
The Masochism Tango
– By Aurora Robson
Against Hope
– By Jenny Kendler
Communicating Climate Change Through Art
– By Zaria Forman

Books

Summer Round-up
– By Sarah Neilson
The Politics of Language, In & Of Translation
– By Chris Campanioni
Mark Doten's Trump Sky Alpha
– By Kurt Baumeister
Abi Andrews's The Word for Woman is Wilderness
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
SARAH McCOLL in conversation with Rachel Aydt
Where We Come From by Oscar Cásares
– By Joseph Peschel
Invasive species by Marwa Helal
– By Danilo Machado
The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn & Power essays by David Shields
– By John Domini
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
– By Tanjil Rashid
Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet, Or, The Origin of the World By Lucy Ives
– By Elizabeth Block
Never Ours to Give: Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
– By Corinne Manning

Music

Guillermo Galindo’s Songs of the Border
– By Patrick Greene
A Soundtrack for the Age of Immanence
– By John Amen
Timo Andres: Work Songs
– By Jamison Pfeifer
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Highly Selective Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan

Dance

At Long Last Tanowitz
– By Susan Yung
Giving Voice to Collective Memory
– By Rennie McDougall
Bewitching Stagecraft and Competing Objects
– By Dillon Heyck

Film

Prison Films and the Idea of Two Worlds
– By Evelyn Emile
The New Le Cinéma Club
– By Gina Telaroli
Can't Spare a Dime: Play-Doc XV
– By Christopher Small

Theater

The Universe Doesn't Cast Leading Roles: Zhu Yi's You Never Touched the Dirt
– By Billy McEntee
In Dialogue: Inner Life, Out Loud: A Strange Loop
– By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
“WHY WAIT?” On Being the Artistic Director of Your Own Work
– By Crystal Skillman
Blood Sacrifice: Adolescence, Borderlands, and Love in Julia Jarcho's Pathetic
– By Miriam Felton-Dansky

Fiction

Dalloway’s Window
– by Park Seongwon, translated from the Korean by Julie Moon
The Absence of Absence
– By Johannah Rodgers
The Road to Golgonooza
– by T. Motley
inSerial: part nine The Mysteries of Paris
– by Eugène Sue, translated from the French by Robert Bononno
New Routes in Fiction: CHRIS POWER with Alec Niedenthal

Poetry

four
– By Filip Marinovich
from THE MINGUS POEMS
– By Mona Kareem
MARKED SAFE/ For Stonewall 50th
– By Pamela Sneed
THE PALLYSADOE
– By Brenda Iijima
Advil Cream Cheese Kompromat
– By Anthony Hawley

Art Books

John Stezaker: Love
– By Jennie Waldow
Guestbook: Ghost Stories
– By Megan N. Liberty
Czech and Slovak Photo Publications 1918–1989
– By Lynn Maliszewski
Dorothy Iannone: A Cookbook
– By Shelby Shaw

Field Notes

Louisiana State Penitentiary
– By Leslie Cozzi
From the factory to the warehouse
– By Dan Nemser, Alejo Stark, and Duncan Tarr
Some Reflections on Prison Labor
– By Ruth Wilson Gilmore and James Kilgore
Reflections of an Incarcerated Worker
– By Keith "Malik" Washington

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