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APRIL 2020 GRACIELA ITURBIDE MERLIN JAMES IMI KNOEBEL SUSAN BEE CRAIG KALPAKJIAN NORMA COLE APRIL 2020 GRACIELA ITURBIDE CRAIG KALPAKJIAN MERLIN JAMES SUSAN BEE IMI KNOEBEL GUEST CRITIC NORMA COLE CARL ANDRE JULIAN LETHBRIDGE TAUBA AUERBACH SOL LEWITT JENNIFER BARTLETT CHRISTIAN MARCLAY BERND AND HILLA BECHER JUSTIN MATHERLY CÉLESTE BOURSIER-MOUGENOT PETER MOORE CECILY BROWN DAVID NOVROS CLAES OLDENBURG & SOPHIE CALLE COOSJE VAN BRUGGEN BEATRICE CARACCIOLO PAUL PFEIFFER SARAH CHARLESWORTH WALID RAAD BRUCE CONNER VERONICA RYAN MARK DI SUVERO JOEL SHAPIRO SAM DURANT RUDOLF STINGEL MATIAS FALDBAKKEN KELLEY WALKER JA'TOVIA GARY DAN WALSH LIZ GLYNN MEG WEBSTER ROBERT GROSVENOR ROBERT WILSON HANS HAACKE JACKIE WINSOR DOUGLAS HUEBLER CAREY YOUNG MICHAEL HURSON BING WRIGHT PAULA COOPER GALLERY 524 W 26TH STREET / 521 W 21ST STREET NEW YORK 212 255 1105 WWW.PAULACOOPERGALLERY.COM Yi Yunyi A Son Older Than His Father April 30 – June 6, 2020 DOOSAN Gallery New York The Deborah Buck Foundation in partnership with the Brooklyn Rail proudly announces the first annual Stepping Up to the Plate Award to: THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART for their 2020 Vision initiative to provide greater recognition for female-identifying artists and leaders The award will be given annually to an institution that is working at the forefront of reversing the marginalization of women in the arts About 2020 Vision at The Baltimore Museum of Art “The BMA’s 2020 Vision initiative serves 2020 Vision is a year of exhibitions and programs dedicated to the presentation of to recognize the voices, narratives, the achievements of female identifying artists. The initiative encompasses 16 solo exhibitions and creative innovations of a range of and seven thematic shows. Highlights include a large-scale transformative commission by extraordinarily talented women artists. Mickalene Thomas, a major monographic survey of Joan Mitchell’s career, an The goal for this effort is to rebalance exploration of Candice Breitz’s recent video works, and the reinstallation of several of the scales and to acknowledge the ways the museum’s galleries to emphasize the depth and diversity of women’s artistry through time. These presentations will be in which women’s contributions still do supported by a wide range of public and scholarly programs that will foster dialogue not receive the scholarly examination, on women’s contributions to art history and the development of many of the artistic dialogue, and public acclaim that institutions that we know today. The museum has also committed to exclusively purchasing they deserve. This vision and goal are works by female-identifying artists during 2020 and will explore objects across genre, especially appropriate, given the central style, and medium in every collecting area. role women have played in shaping About the Deborah Buck Foundation Started in 2018, The Deborah Buck Foundation is primarily focused on arts this museum throughout its history.” institutions that have shown a commitment to the exhibition and support of women makers. While the foundation is interested in — Christopher Bedford all cultural entities, it seeks those that most Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director effectively support artistic excellence and critical thinking by women. The Deborah Buck Baltimore Museum of Art Foundation will work to encourage making a difference in the matter of inclusiveness for women within the cultural landscape. Photo: Mitro Hood field notes art books Editor’s Note: End Times Politics by Paul Mattick 8 Rosanna Mclaughlin’s Double-Tracking: Fear is more powerful than facts by Natalie Baker 9 Studies in Duplicity by Esmé Hogeveen 84 Life Comes At You Fast by Jason E. Smith 10 Lucy Ives’s The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader by Megan N. Liberty 84 A Day without Women by David J. Schmidt 12 Mathieu Copeland’s Gustav Metzger’s Writings Diary from a Genocide in the Making by Margaret M. Seiler 14 by Joseph Nechvatal 86 Patrick de Vries’s Alberto Giacometti and the art Perception of Reality by Isabella Boorman 87 ART IN CONVERSATION SUSAN BEE with Phong Bui 18 books ART IN CONVERSATION IN CONVERSATION John Gallaher with Tony Leuzzi 88 GRACIELA ITURBIDE with Sara Roffino 24 IN CONVERSATION Marie Mutsuki Mockett with ART IN CONVERSATION Eric Farwell 91 MERLIN JAMES with Louis Block 30 IN CONVERSATION Elaine Kahn with ART IN CONVERSATION Rachel Rabbit White 93 CRAIG KALPAKJIAN with Yasi Alipour 36 John Domini on Shokoofeh Azar’s The Enlightenment of LETTER FROM DUSSELDORF the Greengage Tree 94 IMI KNOEBEL with Toby Kamps 42 William Stroud on Yanis Varoufakis’s Talking to My Daughter critics page About the Economy 95 Fiore Sireci on Samuele F.S. Pardini’s In The Name of april 2020 NORMA COLE The Mother 97 From the Threshing Floor 47 Yvonne C. Garrett on Mary South’s You Will David Marriott: Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 48 Never Be Forgotten 98 Cole Swensen: Thresh: 50 Cedar Sigo: Notes on the New Threshing Floor 50 music Susan Briante: The Trajectory of a Bullet Never Shot 51 George Grella on Quarantine Hall 100 Dale Martin Smith: from Another Sky 52 LISTENING IN Scott Gutterman on Outline 100 Will Alexander: Mirage As Errata 55 Steve Erickson on Dance Punks Punk Dance 101 Laura Moriarty: Resolved 55 Martin Longley on Opus Jazz Club 102 Erín Moure: A chessboard drawn by the child Kuba 56 Carlos Lara: [Exemplary Title in the Theme of dance “From the Threshing Floor”] [?] 58 IN CONVERSATION Oxana Chi And Layla Zami Susan Gevirtz: Three Threshing Floors [or Three Invisibilities] 60 with Gillian Jakab 103 Aaron Shurin: Shake 62 Hannah Foster on Tales of Hopper 105 Hoa Nguyen: from A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure 63 Doug LeCours on Pavel Zuštiak’s Hebel 107 Farid Matuk: Video Tryouts for an American Grammar Book 64 Steven Seidenberg: The Prayers of the Saints 66 film IN CONVERSATION Matias Piñeiro with artseen Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli 108 Ann C. Collins on Angela Fraleigh 68 IN CONVERSATION Pietro Marcello with Dan Sullivan 110 David Rhodes on Arlene Shechet 68 Daniel Gerwin on Rachel Mason’s Circus of Books 112 Alfred Mac Adam on Julian Schnabel 69 Bartolomeo Sala on Georges de La Tour 69 theater Barbara A. MacAdam on Joanna Pousette-Dart 70 Billy McEntee on Sarah Einspanier’s Lunch Bunch 113 Charlotte Kent on Rita Ackermann 70 IN DIALOGUE Dave Harris with Kimber Lee 114 Nina Wolpow on Jordan Casteel 71 Phyllis Tuchman on Nicole Eisenman 72 poetry Katherine Siboni on Jana Euler 72 Twine by Leopoldine Core 116 Veronica Molnar on Zsófia Keresztes 73 Two by Nikki Wallschlager 116 Sahar Khraibani on Jennifer Bolande 73 In Rigor and Yet by Edwin Torres 117 Jan Avgikos on Christopher Wilmarth 74 Cognition Is Its Own Discard by Ben Friedlander 117 Ann C. Collins on Kelly Akashi 74 From Water & Power by Alli Warren 118 Robert C. Morgan on Richard Long 75 Two by Tony Towle 119 Elizabeth Buhe on Donald Judd 76 Love Mountain by Emmalea Russo 120 Zach Ritter on Alison Rossiter 76 Olivia Gauthier on Jennifer West 77 fiction Robert R. Shane on Leonard Contino 78 Diary of a Foreigner in Paris by Curzio Malaparte 122 Susan Breyer on Landscapes Of The South 78 Shark Fins by Enrique Serpa 131 Alfred Mac Adam on Jutta Koether 79 Hector by T. Motley 136 IN SERIAL Sixteen: The Mysteries of Paris by Eugène Sue (transl. by Robert Bononno) 137 BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN ADMIRATION Phong Bui, President Anonymous Juliette Cezzar Al Held Foundation Dan Desmond Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Para El Arte Susan Harris Gagosian Gallery Paul Lachman Humanities NY Scott Lynn Roger Kass and Andrea Van Beuren PUBLISHER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Phong H. Bui Jeremy Zilar New York State Council on the Arts Literary MANAGING EDITOR Charles Schultz Technical Assistance Program Under the leadership of our Board of Directors, MANAGING DIRECTOR Sophia Pedlow The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust the Brooklyn Rail gratefully acknowledges: DESIGN DIRECTOR Mike Tully The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Catherine Olson Robert Rauschenberg Foundation SECTION SPONSORS INSTALLATION MANAGER Cy Morgan Cordy Ryman WEB & PRODUCTION MANAGER Louis Block ART BOOKS Ethan Ryman SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER John Cappetta The Dedalus Foundation Vanguard Charitable Endowement Program ASSISTANT TO PUBLISHER & ART IN CONVERSATION The Viola Fund CURATORIAL ASSISTANT Nick Bennett Merrill Wagner Helen Frankenthaler Foundation DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Madeleine Cravens Mary Whitten, in honor of Jack Whitten ARTONIC HEAD PHOTOGRAPHER Zack Garlitos Wege Foundation Agnes Gund WEB DEVELOPER David Giglio PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Tyler Clarke, Emily Dean, ARTSEEN FRIENDS IN SOLIDARITY Miko Jeffries, Malvika The Willem de Kooning Foundation Marina Adams Shoja Azari Jolly, Riley Mang, Everett BOOKS Tony Bechara Narciso, Claudio Ortiz Ortega, Metabolic Studio, Carol Becker Jorja Willis, Claire Zhang a direct charitable activity of Jeanne Collins & John Elderfield the Annenberg Foundation GUEST CRITIC Norma Cole Cranmer Art Group ART EDITORS Benjamin Clifford, DANCE Joan K. Davidson (J.M. Kaplan Fund) Amanda Gluibizzi, Jane and David Walentas Ceylen Eccer Sara Roffino, Anna Tome FIELD NOTES Galerie Eva Presenhuber FILM EDITORS Gina Telaroli Larissa Goldston Mana Common, with additional support Dan Sullivan provided by mediaThe foundation inc. Carroll and Donna Janis MUSIC EDITOR George Grella Lisa Kim POETRY Minjung Kim DANCE EDITOR Gillian Jakab Musa and Tom Mayer Charitable Fund, Christine Kuan THEATER EDITOR Emily DeVoti in the memory of Philip Guston Lachman & Lachman BOOKS EDITOR Joseph Salvatore and his friendship with the poets Carol LeWitt ART BOOKS EDITOR Megan N. Liberty STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE Carl Lobell POETRY EDITOR Anselm Berrigan The Deborah Buck Foundation Shirin Neshat FICTION EDITOR Donald Breckenridge Charles H. Traub THEATER ASSISTANT FICTION EDITOR Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones Tomas Vu Anonymous FIELD NOTES EDITOR Paul Mattick Clark Winter INTRANSLATION EDITORS Donald Breckenridge Adam Yokell BENEFACTORS Jen Zoble Anonymous ARTONIC EDITOR Jessica Holmes SPECIAL THANKS Lily Auchincloss Foundation Industry City CONSULTING EDITORS Lawrence B.