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Art In Conversation
Y.Z. Kami with Phong H. Bui
Kami creates matter so concretely that he refers to his paint as skin covering the canvas below. As endless questions of how to convey spirituality through sensuality, criticality through deference, strength through tenderness, and so on, continue to populate my mind, my eyes are transfixed on the different skins that evoke such sentiments through countless painted images.
Art In Conversation
Christian Marclay with Charlotte Kent
On the occasion of Christian Marclay’s exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, the artist sat down with Charlotte Kent for a wide ranging conversation on the various entry points to his work. In the edited version below, they discuss Marclay’s long-standing fascination with doors and transitions—obscure, improvised, and ongoing.
Art In Conversation
R.H. Quaytman with Felix Bernstein
R.H. Quaytman’s current exhibition at Glenstone closes a major body of her work while opening a new one. Since 2001, her paintings have been organized in chapters, and Glenstone displays recent chapters alongside a new set of Warburgian vitrines show hints of her research for Book, a self-made artist’s catalogue that will pick up where her last major collection Spine left off: covering the years 2011–2020 (Chapters 21–35).
Art In Conversation
Didier William with Charles M. Schultz
In Miami, the largest gathering of Didier William’s work yet to be assembled took place. Years of conversations and studio visits with Dr. Erica Moiah James led to a selection of paintings and prints that convey a passage of artistic evolution. The passage is concerned with the figure. Twenty years ago William had been exploring abstract compositions until the murder of Trayvon Martin compelled a new direction. This exhibition begins at that moment and concludes at its chronological counterpart: the birth of a child and the formation of a family.
From the Publisher & Artistic Director
Dear Friends and Readers,
By Phong BuiDo we remember enough to remind ourselves that the word philosophy means to love wisdom? Do we remember enough to remind ourselves that the word philanthropy means to love people?
Editor's Message
Robert Motherwell: The Drawings of a Painter
By Katy RogersThe catalogue raisonné of Robert Motherwell’s drawings, which was published by Yale University Press in November 2022, was the culmination of more than ten years of research and serves as a companion to the 2012 catalogue raisonné of Motherwell’s paintings and collages.
Critics Page
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Robert Motherwell and David Smith: Paper Trails
– By Jennifer Field -
Who and What Are Drawing Thus?
– By Kenneth Brummel -
Motherwell, Drawing Between Painting and Print
– By Jennifer Cohen -
Robert Motherwell’s Opens and Elegies: Drawing as a Living Art
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Motherwell’s Early Drawings and Pragmatist Perception
– By Gregory Gilbert -
Robert Motherwell: Blood-Stained Papers
– By Susan Davidson -
Motherwell: Abstraction and Rebellion
– By Tim Clifford -
Robert Motherwell Illustrating Poetry
– By Heidi Colsman-Freyberger -
The Artist and the Poet
– By Edouard Kopp -
Encounters with the Unknown in a Catalogue Raisonné Project
– By Maria Quinata -
Thoughts on Drawing, 1970
– By Robert Motherwell
ArtSeen
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Bruno Dunley: Clouds
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa -
Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection
– By Hovey Brock -
Victor Burgin: Photopath
– By Hearne Pardee -
Shahzia Sikander: Havah…to breathe, air, life
– By Lilly Wei -
Neil Welliver
– By Alex Grimley -
Jonathan Santoro: In Praise of Folly
– By Mark Thomas Gibson -
Gilbert Lewis: Portraits 1979 – 2002
– By Curtis Eckley -
Victor Boullet: WERKK.WERKK.LIVERPOOL.PAINTING.
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude
– By Cassie Packard -
Paul Pagk
– By Emireth Herrera Valdés -
less: minimalism in the 1960s
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Ravi Jackson: Hardcore
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
In Search of the Miraculous
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Body Memory
– By Emireth Herrera Valdés -
Andrea Fraser
– By Clara Maria Apostolatos -
Shirin Neshat: The Fury
– By Amelia Saul -
Aneta Bartos: Monotropa Terrain
– By Alex A. Jones -
Alvaro Barrington
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Marlon Mullen
– By Jacob Brooks -
Halima Afi Cassells and Shanna Merola: Swan Song
– By Steve Panton -
Hans Hartung: Revenge
– By Robert C. Morgan -
David Deutsch: Hurly-Burly
– By Saul Ostrow -
Joan Brown
– By Hearne Pardee -
Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond
– By Ann McCoy -
Roma/New York, 1953–1964
– By David Rhodes -
Phyllis Stephens: The Movement of Material
– By Charles Moore -
Julia Jo: Riptide
– By Annabel Keenan -
Wet Conceptualism
– By William Corwin -
Jan Baracz: Mutiny’s Darling
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright -
Juan Francisco Elso: Por América
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
– By Brandt Junceau -
Ted Gahl: Le Goon
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright -
Walter Sickert: Painting and Transgressing
– By Joe Fyfe -
Benoît Platéus: Other Percolators
– By Ann C. Collins -
Luca Pancrazzi: FLASH LIGHT
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Adebunmi Gbadebo: Remains
– By Elizabeth Buhe -
Susan Philipsz: Separated Strings
– By David Rhodes -
Thierry Mugler: Couturissime
– By Maia Siegel -
Judy Ledgerwood: Sunny
– By Mána Taylor -
Modigliani Up Close
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
Eve Fowler: New Work
– By Ksenia Soboleva -
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
– By Maddie Hampton -
Cy Twombly
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Don Doe: I’ll Have What They’re Having
– By Elizabeth Johnson -
David Hockney: 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures
– By Charles Moore -
Esteban Jefferson: May 25, 2020
– By Rebecca Schiffman
Table of Contents
Editor's Message
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Robert Motherwell: The Drawings of a Painter
– By Katy Rogers
Publisher's Message
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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui
Art
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Y.Z. Kami with Phong H. Bui
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Christian Marclay with Charlotte Kent
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R.H. Quaytman with Felix Bernstein
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Didier William with Charles M. Schultz
ArtSeen
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Bruno Dunley: Clouds
– By Amanda Millet-Sorsa -
Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection
– By Hovey Brock -
Victor Burgin: Photopath
– By Hearne Pardee -
Shahzia Sikander: Havah…to breathe, air, life
– By Lilly Wei -
Neil Welliver
– By Alex Grimley -
Jonathan Santoro: In Praise of Folly
– By Mark Thomas Gibson -
Gilbert Lewis: Portraits 1979 – 2002
– By Curtis Eckley -
Victor Boullet: WERKK.WERKK.LIVERPOOL.PAINTING.
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Renee Gladman: Narratives of Magnitude
– By Cassie Packard -
Paul Pagk
– By Emireth Herrera Valdés -
less: minimalism in the 1960s
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Ravi Jackson: Hardcore
– By Osman Can Yerebakan -
In Search of the Miraculous
– By Barbara A. MacAdam -
Body Memory
– By Emireth Herrera Valdés -
Andrea Fraser
– By Clara Maria Apostolatos -
Shirin Neshat: The Fury
– By Amelia Saul -
Aneta Bartos: Monotropa Terrain
– By Alex A. Jones -
Alvaro Barrington
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Marlon Mullen
– By Jacob Brooks -
Halima Afi Cassells and Shanna Merola: Swan Song
– By Steve Panton -
Hans Hartung: Revenge
– By Robert C. Morgan -
David Deutsch: Hurly-Burly
– By Saul Ostrow -
Joan Brown
– By Hearne Pardee -
Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond
– By Ann McCoy -
Roma/New York, 1953–1964
– By David Rhodes -
Phyllis Stephens: The Movement of Material
– By Charles Moore -
Julia Jo: Riptide
– By Annabel Keenan -
Wet Conceptualism
– By William Corwin -
Jan Baracz: Mutiny’s Darling
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright -
Juan Francisco Elso: Por América
– By Jonathan Goodman -
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
– By Brandt Junceau -
Ted Gahl: Le Goon
– By Andrew Paul Woolbright -
Walter Sickert: Painting and Transgressing
– By Joe Fyfe -
Benoît Platéus: Other Percolators
– By Ann C. Collins -
Luca Pancrazzi: FLASH LIGHT
– By Jason Rosenfeld -
Adebunmi Gbadebo: Remains
– By Elizabeth Buhe -
Susan Philipsz: Separated Strings
– By David Rhodes -
Thierry Mugler: Couturissime
– By Maia Siegel -
Judy Ledgerwood: Sunny
– By Mána Taylor -
Modigliani Up Close
– By Phyllis Tuchman -
Eve Fowler: New Work
– By Ksenia Soboleva -
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
– By Maddie Hampton -
Cy Twombly
– By Alfred Mac Adam -
Don Doe: I’ll Have What They’re Having
– By Elizabeth Johnson -
David Hockney: 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures
– By Charles Moore -
Esteban Jefferson: May 25, 2020
– By Rebecca Schiffman
1x1
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On Katherine Bradford
– By Anselm Berrigan
Critics Page
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Robert Motherwell and David Smith: Paper Trails
– By Jennifer Field -
Who and What Are Drawing Thus?
– By Kenneth Brummel -
Motherwell, Drawing Between Painting and Print
– By Jennifer Cohen -
Robert Motherwell’s Opens and Elegies: Drawing as a Living Art
– By Mary Ann Caws -
Motherwell’s Early Drawings and Pragmatist Perception
– By Gregory Gilbert -
Robert Motherwell: Blood-Stained Papers
– By Susan Davidson -
Motherwell: Abstraction and Rebellion
– By Tim Clifford -
Robert Motherwell Illustrating Poetry
– By Heidi Colsman-Freyberger -
The Artist and the Poet
– By Edouard Kopp -
Encounters with the Unknown in a Catalogue Raisonné Project
– By Maria Quinata -
Thoughts on Drawing, 1970
– By Robert Motherwell
Books
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Manijeh Moradian with Golnar Adili
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John Keene with Akil Kumarasamy
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Asja Bakić’s Sweetlust
– By Yvonne C. Garrett -
Yerra Sugarman with Tony Leuzzi
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Steven Powell with Jill Dearman
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Yevgenia Belorusets’s War Diary
– By John Domini -
Nadia Uddin’s Edison in the Hood
– By Zach Schwab -
Barbara Chase-Riboud’s I Always Knew: A Memoir
– By Donatien Grau
Music
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Charles Lloyd: Freedom, and Wonder
– By Adolf Alzuphar -
Jazztopad, Wrocław, Poland
– By Martin Longley -
Blood Brothers
– By Andrey Henkin -
Odyssey for Violin
– By Scott Gutterman
Dance
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Taking Root, and Taking Flight
– By Susan Yung -
The Slowest Wave – Dancing for Data
– By Dillon Heyck
Film
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Lukas Dhont’s Close
– By Jasmine Liu -
Ashley McKenzie with Joseph Pomp
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Sierra Pettengill’s Riotsville, U.S.A.
– By Matene Toure
Theater
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Revive Odets!
– By Sam Kahn -
On Theater and Theurgy: A Les Waters Compendium Illuminates the Director’s Craft
– By Joey Sims
Fiction
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from City of Blows
– By Tim Blake Nelson
Poetry
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Hand Me the Limits
– By Ted Rees -
Metta
– By Jessica Grim -
three from Now, Here, This: Half-Sonnets
– By Ron Silliman -
from Soft Apocalypse
– By Leah Nieboer -
four
– By Edwin Torres -
Lemons
– By Kyle Seamus Brosnihan -
five from Provocations
– By mónica teresa ortiz -
Lexically Sugared Circuits of R/elation: A Conversation with Adeena Karasick
– By Chris Stroffolino and Adeena Karasick
Art Books
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The Unseen Saul Leiter
– By Paul G. Maziar -
Dick Higgins’s A Something Else Reader
– By Jennie Waldow -
Amy Ching-Yan Lam’s Looty Goes to Heaven
– By Daniella Sanader -
Phil Jung’s Windscreen
– By Zach Ritter -
Martine Syms and Rocket Caleshu’s The African Desperate
– By Erica N. Cardwell
In Memoriam
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PRAISE! ALL PRAISE! JOHN SIMS PRAISE POEM!
– By Bob Holman
Field Notes
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On Adam Tooze: A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
– By Amir Hernandez -
The Internationalist Anti-Colonialism of the Situationists
– By Erick Corrêa
The Miraculous
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36. The 1960s, Brooklyn
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
37. 1964 and Later, London
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
38. 1962, Oklahoma
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
39. 1978, Manchester
– By Raphael Rubinstein -
40. 1937-1973, Egypt
– By Raphael Rubinstein
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