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Publisher's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

Only Anthropophagy Unites Us?
– By Tiago Gualberto and Sara Roffino

Art

ArtSeen

Joyce Pensato
– By Nick Bennett
Eddie Martinez: Inside Thoughts
– By Barbara A. MacAdam
Tara Donovan: Intermediaries
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Mirror-works and Drawings (2004–2016)
– By William Corwin
PHOTO | BRUT
– By Lyle Rexer
Canal Street Research Association: Shanzhai Lyric
– By Anna Harsanyi
Deborah Roberts: I'm
– By Barbara Purcell
Eric Fischl: Meditations on Melancholia
– By Phyllis Tuchman
Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dewdrop
– By Paul Gladston
Jane Freilicher: Parts of a World
– By Jonathan Goodman
Krištof Kintera: THE END OF FUN!
– By Daniel Pateman
Julia Rooney: @SomeHighTide
– By Cigdem Asatekin
Martha Diamond: 1980-1989
– By David Rhodes
Vida Americana and the Promise of “America”
– By Cathryn Jijón
Mike Ballou: The word of Bird is Cured
– By William Corwin
Fernanda Laguna: As Everybody
– By Maddie Klett
Emily Mason: Chelsea Paintings
– By Elizabeth Buhe
Samara Golden: Upstairs at Steve’s
– By Elizabeth Buhe
Patchwork
– By Barbara Calderón
Rachel Eulena Williams: Tracing Memory
– By Dan Cameron
The Asia Society Triennial
– By David Carrier, Yung-Wen (Mag) Yao, and Paul Gladston
Rembrandt's Orient
– By David Carrier
Aleksandar Duravcevic: Empire
– By William Corwin
Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason
– By David Ebony
Felipe Baeza: Through the Flesh to Elsewhere
– By Olivia Gauthier
Hiwa K: Do you remember what you are burning?
– By Ruba Al-Sweel
This Longing Vessel
– By Zoë Hopkins
Cross-cuts
– By Alfred Mac Adam
Elizabeth Schwaiger: From the Dark Sea
– By Barbara A. MacAdam
Salman Toor: How Will I Know
– By Peter Murphy
GEST
– By Yxta Maya Murray
Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing
– By Claire Phillips
Jack Tworkov: Towards Nirvana / Works from the 70s
– By David Rhodes
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League With the Night
– By Bartolomeo Sala
Haim Steinbach: 1991 – 1993
– By Katherine Siboni
11:11
– By Angela Starita
Martha Diamond: 1980-1989
– By Nina Wolpow
Helmut Federle: Basics on Composition
– By David Rhodes
Justin Matherly: Compost
– By Ann McCoy

Critics Page

Note from the Translator
– By Ramón J. Stern
We are Borg!
– By Renato Araújo da Silva
a country of anonymous pain no more
– By rafael amorim
Ka’aguy Porã
– in the words of Sandra Benites, from an interview with Tiago Gualberto
The Almost-Brazilians
– by Vivian Braga dos Santos, artwork by Rosana Paulino
Anthropophagous Manifesto from the Periphery
– By Sergio Vaz
ReAnthropophagy
– By Denilson Baniwa
Claudia Andujar: anthropophagie?, fényképezés, yanõmami!
– by André Pitol
Attacking the Biennial
– in the words of Cripta Djan, from an interview with Tiago Gualberto
At Any Time, Hard Meat
– By Caetano Dias
Plas Ayiti (Neon Project)
– By Milla Jung
Antonio Dias and the Kidnapping of Pop Art
– By Luiz Renato Martins
Sons of the Nation
– By María Iñigo Clavo
The Originality of the Herd of Cannibals
– By Thays Berbe
I Continue My “Auto-phagy” and Winds Gust Over My Own Ashes
– By Caetano Dias
Cotton Candy in Grandma’s Hair
– By Viviane A. Pistache

Theater

Fiction

Editor’s Note
– By Will Chancellor
Symbology
– By Betsy M. Narváez
from The President Shop
– By Vesna Maric

Poetry

“The beauty of this world knocked me off my feet”: The Poetry of Dick Gallup
– By Nick Sturm
from the she said dialogues: flesh memory
– By Akilah Oliver
LaDavid
– By Gabrielle Daniels
from Except for This Unseen Thread
– by Ra’ad Abdulqadir, translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem
from City Dwellers/After Brecht
– By Owen Hill
three
– By Katie Fowley
five
– By Trevor Ketner
from Petrarchan Ditties
– By Adam Strauss
Friend: A Tribute to Jean Valentine
– By Jaime Shearn Coan

Art Books

Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness
– By Karen Chernick
Luis Camnitzer’s One Number is Worth One Word
– By Leah Gallant
Martine Syms’s Shame Space
– By Megan N. Liberty
World War 3 Illustrated’s Shameless Feminists
– By Lucy Lippard
Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne
– By David Carrier

Special Report

Praising the Port Authority Terminal
– By Blake Gopnik
Benjamin & Bernie Meme: Against Aestheticization
– By Ekalan Hou

Field Notes

The Coup That Wasn’t
– By Paul Mattick
Fault Line of the American Civil War
– By Sandro Moiso
The Longue Durée of Racialized Capitalism
– By Satnam Virdee
A Response to Satnam Virdee’s The Longue Durée of Racialized Capitalism
– By Charlie Post
Curating Ridgewood
– By Max Moorhead
A Response to Max Moorhead’s Curating Ridgewood
– By Christina Wilkinson
A Response to Christina Wilkinson
– By Max Moorhead
The Money Theory of the State
– By Jamie Merchant

The Miraculous

36. (West 43rd Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
37. (West 8th Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
38. (Williamsburg, Pier 88)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
39. (Times Square, Columbus Circle, Union Square)
– By Raphael Rubinstein
40. (330 West 42nd Street)
– By Raphael Rubinstein

The Brooklyn Rail

Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture

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