CA IT KU O AU RM DR LE EY IL F GU LA CK NS JA MO MES SIM PROSEK XAVIERA SARRO GUEST CRIT HIM PIS IC DAIS JOAC Y DES ITH ROS E W IER TT S RE OY I L NR HE MAY 2020 MAY 2020 TRI-STATE RELIEF FUND TO SUPPORT NON-SALARIED WORKERS IN THE VISUAL ARTS ONETIME INDIVIDUAL GRANTS OF $2,000 APPLICATION CYCLES OPEN: MAY 56, MAY 1920, JUNE 23 Established by The Willem de Kooning Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Teiger Foundation, and the Cy Twombly Foundation and Administered by New York Foundation for the Arts Open to Freelance, Contract, or Non-Salaried Archivists • Art Handlers • Artist/Photographer's Assistants • Cataloguers • Database Specialists • Digital Assets Specialists • Image Scanners/Digitizers • Registrars www.nyfa.org field notes art books The Plague and the Wrath by Charles Reeve 6 Megan N. Liberty on David Wojnarowicz’s In the Shadow New pandemic, old story by Ana V. Diez Roux 8 of Forward Motion 89 Their Money or Your Life by Paul Mattick 9 George Grella on Joseph Jarman’s Black Case Volume I & II: Return From Exile 90 The numbers must have context: Sars-CoV-2 in New York by Natalie D. Baker 11 Mary Ann Caws on André Breton’s Nadja: fac-similé du manuscrit de 1927 90 A Disaster Foretold by Pavlos Roufos 12 Jennie Waldow on Esopus’s Modern Artifacts 91 Viral Biopolitics: COVID-19 and the Living Dead by Rachel Nelson 17 books art Yvonne C. Garrett on Tracy O’Neill’s Quotients 92 ART IN CONVERSATION John Domini on Mark Nowak’s Social Poetics 92 GUILLERMO KUITCA with Raphael Rubinstein 20 Deena ElGenaidi on Tracy O’Neill’s Godshot 93 ART IN CONVERSATION IN CONVERSATION Lawrence Ellsworth with XAVIERA SIMMONS with Marcia E. Vetrocq 26 Andrew Ervin 93 ART IN CONVERSATION Bailey Trela on Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season 95 JAMES PROSEK with Hovey Brock 32 ART IN CONVERSATION music AUDREY FLACK with Charles Duncan 38 IN CONVERSATION Louise Landes Levi THE MUSEUM DIRECTORS with Raymond Foye 96 may 2020 HENRI LOYRETTE with Joachim Pissarro 44 George Grella on Lontano (“As from a distance”) 97 critics page IN CONVERSATION Matt Evans with Vanessa Ague 98 S. David on ehh hahah 99 DAISY DESROSIERS Martin Longley on Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus 100 Made of Linguistic Forms and Failures: Inquiry in Times of Isolation 50 dance Daisy Desrosiers and Jesse Chun: Poetic Intention. Correspondence in isolation. 56 George Kan on Touch Without Touching 101 Mother Tongue: What Sound Does The Blk Atlantic Make? Rennie Mcdougall on Dancing Paula Abdul in my Living Room 102 —on translation in the work of artist Alberta Whittle 58 Hannah Foster on A Night at the Ballet at Home 103 Daisy Desrosiers and Shannon Bool: Marble benches, Sima Belmar on UnSequenced 103 Anatolian weavers and Madonnasl 60 Daisy Desrosiers with Azza El Siddique and Sahar Te: film The losses we carry across: an afternoon with Gina Telaroli on True/False 2020 106 Azza El Siddique and Sahar Te 63 IN CONVERSATION Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles Sahar Te: KHAAREJ NO.3 66 with Anthony Hawley 107 Frances Loeffler and Daisy Desrosiers: Thinking about you, Ilana Simone Herzig on Jo Ardinger’s Personhood 108 thinking about translation 67 Marie-Michelle Deschamps: The Twofold Room 69 theater Ambera Wellmann: Catachresis 71 POWER & PUNK Richard Foreman with Sara Farrington 110 Kathleen Ritter: Babble 73 Billy McEntee on Trickling Up 112 artseen IN DIALOGUE Morgan Gould and Ren Dara Santiago with Kate Cortesi 113 William Whitney on Matt Mullican 74 Megan N. 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