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Table of Contents
- Imaging El Barrio
by Sebastián Pérez
Joseph Rodriguez created a photographic chronicle of life in Spanish Harlem at a time when vibrant communities persisted amid the area’s urban blight.
- Stranger Tools
by Raphael Rubinstein
Like many other artists since the advent of modernism, the participants in a recent group exhibition find that using unorthodox painting devices can bring a heightened degree of awareness and experimentation to their work.
- Bearing Witness
by Faith Ringgold
In excerpts from a master class on painting, the veteran artist highlights works that exemplify her development, both as an individual practitioner and as a committed member of the African American community.
- In the Studio: Allen Ruppersberg
by Leah Ollman
From the start, Ruppersberg has turned banality inside out, mining the heady mystery of the obvious.
- Issues and Commentary: Here to Stay
by Harry Burke
Here to Stay and the protests against Fast’s show continue a lively lineage of Chinatown-based artistic activism.
- Atlas Dhaka
by Diana Campbell Betancourt
From Bangladesh’s independence in 1971 to the present day, the country’s artists have often flourished in regional associations and creative groups.
- The Brief
by Editors
Tacita Dean at three London institutions; “Women House” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Fondation d’Entreprise Galeries Lafayette opens in Paris; Armory Show art fair in New York; Lahore Biennale.
- Artworld
by Editors
People, Awards, Obituaries
- Editor’s Letter
by William S. Smith
The social gains of the postwar period were not bestowed by especially generous plutocrats. People fought for the city they wanted.
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Imaging El Barrio
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by Sebastián Pérez
For five years in the 1980s, photographer Joseph Rodriguez chronicled the rich diversity of everyday life in El Barrio, a vibrant Hispanic and black New York neighborhood too often seen in stereotypical urban-blight terms by politicians, developers, and other outsiders.
- Gut Renovation
by Rachel Wetzler
Matta-Clark often used the term “anarchitecture” to express his approach to the built environment.
- Issues and Commentary: Attraction Pricing
by Charles Petersen
Institutions that open their doors free of charge now seem not premonitions of a democratic world to come but relics of a bygone age.
- First Look: Allison Janae Hamilton
by Eric Sutphin
Animal masks, white gowns, and rural settings figure prominently in Allison Janae Hamilton’s films, photographs, and installations exploring her psychological connections to nature and her African American heritage.
- Books
by Howard Schneider
Howard Schneider on Adam Begley’s The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera; plus related titles in brief.
- Sightlines
by Editors
Chicago MCA curator Naomi Beckwith tells us what’s on her mind.
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