JUNE 2020 JUNE 2020 JUNE 2020 JUNE 2020 field notes art books Normality is Death by Jacob Blumenfeld 6 Greta Rainbow on Joel Sternfeld’s American Prospects 88 Where Is She? by Soledad Álvarez Velasco 7 Kate Silzer on Excerpts from the1971 Journal of Prison in the Virus Time by Keith “Malik” Washington 10 Rosemary Mayer 88 Higher Education and the Remaking of the Working Class Megan N. Liberty on Dayanita Singh’s by Gary Roth 11 Zakir Hussain Maquette 89 The pandemics of interpretation by John W. W. Zeiser 15 Jennie Waldow on The Outwardness of Art: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes 90 Propaganda and Mutual Aid in the time of COVID-19 by Andreas Petrossiants 17 Class Power on Zero-Hours by Jarrod Shanahan 19 books Weston Cutter on Emily Nemens’s The Cactus League art and Luke Geddes’s Heart of Junk 91 John Domini on Joyelle McSweeney’s Toxicon and Arachne ART IN CONVERSATION and Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s Seeing the Body: Poems 92 LYLE ASHTON HARRIS with McKenzie Wark 22 Yvonne C. Garrett on Camille A. Collins’s ART IN CONVERSATION The Exene Chronicles 93 LAUREN BON with Phong H. Bui 28 Yvonne C. Garrett on Kathy Valentine’s All I Ever Wanted 93 ART IN CONVERSATION JOHN ELDERFIELD with Terry Winters 36 IN CONVERSATION Jason Schneiderman with Tony Leuzzi 94 ART IN CONVERSATION MINJUNG KIM with Helen Lee 46 Joseph Peschel on Lily Tuck’s Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories 96 june 2020 THE MUSEUM DIRECTORS PENNY ARCADE with Nick Bennett 52 IN CONVERSATION Ben Tanzer with Five Debut Authors 97 IN CONVERSATION Nick Flynn with Elizabeth Trundle 100 critics page IN CONVERSATION Clifford Thompson with David Winner 102 TOM MCGLYNN The Mirror Displaced: Artists Writing on Art 58 music David Rhodes: An Artist Writing 60 IN CONVERSATION Keith Rowe with Todd B. Gruel 104 Ann McCoy: When We Are Given a Voice 61 Martin Longley on Telematics: An Interview with Mark Dresser 105 William Corwin: Playing Solitaire 62 Nick Gallagher on the World’s First Electronic Instrument 105 Joan Waltemath: Transmission \ Translation 63 Jude Thomas on Horse Lords, The Common Task 106 Taney Roniger: I Run My Hand Over the Race 64 Scott Gutterman on Listening In: Vision and Revision 107 Alex A. Jones: Double Helix 65 Mira Dayal: Milling Stone 66 dance Louis Block: Writing on Art and Muscle Memory 66 IN CONVERSATION Annie-B Parson with Ivan Talijancic 108 Brandt Junceau: Artists and Writers 68 IN CONVERSATION Pam Tanowitz with Susan Yung 109 Steven Pestana: Of Masonry and Shadows 68 George Kan on Dancing Alone 111 Mark Bloch: On the Make 69 Colin Edgington: What Lives in the Work 70 film Hovey Brock: A Real Connection 70 Katherine Connell on Challenging Assumptions: Robert C. Morgan: A Correspondence With Motherwell 71 Images Festival’s in support of sex work Program 112 Sadie Rebecca Starnes: Untitled (On amber, archers, Matt Turner on Lisa Marie Malloy and J.P. Sniadecki’s cinnamon, horses, and birds) 72 A Shape of Things to Come 113 Gaby Collins-Fernandez: Writing about art is like IN CONVERSATION Zia Anger with Mike Tully 114 talking about feelings 74 artseen theater IN CONVERSATION Jumaane Williams and Bryan Doerries Amber Jamilla Musser on Rashid Johnson 75 with Lucas Kane and Shadi Ghaheri 116 William Corwin on Sindy Lutz 75 IN CONVERSATION Alec Duffy and Jordana De La Cruz Tausif Noor on The Art Of Daily Living 76 with Mei Ann Teo 118 Susan Breyer on Alice Momm 76 Robert R. Shane on Theresa Bloise & George Boorujy 77 poetry Simon Wu on Sam Lavigne & Tega Brain 78 Stepping Back by Anne Waldman 120 William Corwin on Allan Mccollum 78 Two by John Coletti 123 Ksenia M. Soboleva on Daphne Fitzpatrick 79 Two by Rachelle Rahmé 123 Avram C. 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