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Table of Contents
- Books: Surreal Duet
by David Ebony
The artists’ relationship and occasional collaborations are explored at length in Dalí/Duchamp, a volume conceived and edited by London-based Surrealist scholar and independent curator Dawn Ades in tandem with William Jeffett, chief curator of the Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.
- The Brief
by Editors
Tarsila do Amaral at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; India Art Fair, New Delhi; Fra Angelico at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Abraham Cruzvillegas at the Kunsthaus Zürich; New Museum Triennial, New York; 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Marrakech.
- Sightlines
by Editors
Artist and composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe tells us what’s on his mind.
- Editor’s Letter
by William S. Smith
It would seem that no object could be more at home in the center of the art world, more secure in its identity as art, than a painting. Yet stories in this issue by Kirsty Bell and Stephen Westfall highlight painters whose work remains productively out of step.
- The Practical Precariat
by Sean J Patrick Carney
Instead of competing against their peers for the occasional, unreliable adjunct teaching position in a prestigious MFA program, these artists are more than happy to teach community art classes to teens, amateurs, and seniors.
- Composite Realities
by Kirsty Bell
In some of von Wulffen’s paintings, a crackled varnish applied to the surface splits like dried skin; the works want to look old. Some motifs may be traced back to sources like a late nineteenth-century farmhouse interior by Austrian painter Franz Defregger or a landscape from a blatantly kitsch kind of Parisian street-market impressionism.
- In the Studio: Renée Green
by William S. Smith
Though critics often discuss Green’s practice in relation to the history of institutional critique, she frequently seeks to expand the possibilities of working within institutions. Green has even taken on the mantle of an institution herself, producing films and publishing texts under the moniker Free Agent Media.
- Atlas St. Louis: The Fate of The Landscape
by James McAnally
For artists in St. Louis, the fissures that mark the city are personal and localized, the landscape posing entry points for future action.
- Books
by David Ebony
David Ebony on Dalí/Duchamp by Dawn Ades, William Jeffett, et al.; plus related titles in brief.
- Backstory
Downtown Evangelism
by Ann Magnuson
Performance artist Ann Magnuson recalls the improvisational “5700 Club,” a parodic Christian TV talk show that she cohosted at Club 57 in the heyday of the East Village.
- Slow Painting
by Stephen Westfall
Without resorting to nostalgia, it is necessary to understand how and why a single body working patiently in the studio might achieve moving results that have a distinctly contemporary relevance.
- First Look: Michael Stamm
by Eric Sutphin
While other young gay painters often trade in erotic imagery, Stamm sublimates the libidinal drive in more cerebral activity, coding quotidian objects with queer history and imbuing them with the status of archetypes.
- Artworld
by Editors
People, Awards, Obituaries
- Books: Orbiting Thailand
by Gregory Galligan
DAVID TEH Thai Art: Currencies of the Contemporary Cambridge, Mass., and London, MIT Press, 2017; 296 pages, 24 color and 25 black-and-white illustrations, $32.95 hardcover, $22.95 e-book. […]
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