Table of Contents
Art
- General Idea in Perspective by Mark Bloch
- CECILY BROWN with Jason Rosenfeld
- IRVING PETLIN with Elyse Benenson
- RAHA RAISSNIA with Charles Schultz
- L.A. KAUFFMAN with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
- DONNA HARAWAY with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
- LUCY LIPPARD with Jarrett Earnest
- THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART Dorine, Barbara, Kathy by Karen Archey
- RONA PONDICK & ROBERT FEINTUCH with Phong Bui
- KATHY HIGH with Sadie R. Starnes
- ANN MAGNUSON with Katherine Dieckmann
- CARROLL DUNHAM & DAVID SALLE with Cornelius Tittel
ArtSeen
- The Enigma of Arrival: On Gonzalo Fonseca’s Timeless Vista by Phong Bui
- CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN: Kinetic Painting by Hovey Brock
- Walter De Maria and The Lightning Field at Forty: Art as Symbiosis by Jason Rosenfeld
- Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon by Rindon Johnson
- RICHARD SERRA: Sculpture and Drawings by Benjamin Clifford
- ELIZABETH MURRAY: Painting in the ’80s by William Corwin
- HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: Gates of Paradise by Jessica Holmes
- JOSEPHINE HALVORSON: As I Went Walking by Hearne Pardee
- JONATHAN MONAGHAN: The Disco Beast by Alex A. Jones
- THOMAS BANGSTED JEANNE SILVERTHORNE by Joyce Beckenstein
- BENJAMIN KRESS: New Paintings by Ann McCoy
- The Internal Machine by Tom McGlynn
- Ardent Nature: Arshile Gorky Landscapes, 1943-47 by David Rhodes
- ANTOINE CATALA: Everything is Okay by Vijay Masharani
- Nuvolo and Post-War Materiality 1950-1965 by Benjamin Clifford
- MIKE KELLEY: Kandors 1999-2011 by Hannah Sage Kay
- SETH PRICE: Circa 1981 by Patrick Langley
- DUNCAN HANNAH: Adrift in the 21st Century by Nicole Miller
- MARTÍN RAMÍREZ: A Journey by Jonathan Goodman
- DUKE RILEY: Now Those Days Are Gone by Kate Harding
- Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 by Michael Valinsky
- London Painters by Tom McGlynn
- LIN YAN: Gateway by Jonathan Goodman
- JUDITH BERNSTEIN: Cabinet of Horrors by Rabia Ashfaque
- Below the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico by Liz Hirsch
- The Oscar Wilde Temple by Carlos Kong
- ELLEN HARVEY: Nostalgia by Nicole Miller
- HOWARDENA PINDELL: Recent Paintings by Jan Avgikos
- AGNIESZKA KURANT: Collective Intelligence by Hunter Braithwaite
- Golden Eyes: Alex Katz at Ninety by William Corbett
- Deep in the Static: Raghubir Singh’s Photographs by Louis Block
- MARK DION: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist by Vivian Li
- Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer by Brandt Junceau
- RICHARD SERRA: Sculpture and Drawings by David Carrier
- Measuring the Weight with Richard Serra by Mary Ann Caws
- Dalí/Duchamp by Elizabeth Fullerton
- Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983 by Nicole Miller
- MINOUK LIM: Mamour by Osman Can Yerebakan
- HASSEL SMITH: The Ferus Years by David Rhodes
- JOSÉ LEONILSON: Empty Man by Andreas Petrossiants
- NINA CHANEL ABNEY: Safe House/Seized the Imagination by Will Whitney
- KATE GROOBEY: I'm Made of Milk by Alfred Mac Adam
Critics Page
- Figuring Forms by Margaret Wertheim
- Diagramming a New Theory of Picture by Matthew Ritchie
- Why Sci-Art Needs Not to Make Sense by James Elkins
- Two Branches, One Tree by Werner Sun
- Art is Irrelevant by Daniel Hill
- Monstrosity, Spectacle, Wonder by Dan Weiskopf
- Sci-Art Doubts and Disruptions by Stephen Nowlin
- Complexity and Accessibility: Why Science Needs Art by Elaine R. Reynolds
- Some Thoughts on Art and Science by Linda Francis
- Tortured Artists and Mad Scientists: Separated at Birth by Wavelength
- Describing Flow: An Interaction Between Science and Art by Luis F. Schettino
- ALEXIS ROCKMAN with Tom McGlynn
- Notes on Science and Film by Sonia Shechet Epstein
- Intimate Knowledge by Ed Kerns
- Staging Physical Analogues of Entangled Black Holes by Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand
- Remote Sensing by Suzanne Anker
- Haptico-Visual Observation and Drawing: A Novel Method for Studying Anatomy by Leonard Shapiro
- What if? by Lorrie Fredette
- RadWaste: A Shadow Without a Body by Eve Andrée Laramée
- The Original Social Network by Catherine Chalmers
Books
- The Rail's Best Books of 2017 Joseph Salvatore, Books Editor
- Ordinary Beast: NICOLE SEALEY with Alex Dueben
- Vengeance: ZACHARY LAZAR with David Winner
- Ultraluminous: KATHERINE FAW with Sean Madigan Hoen
- My Cousin A.J.: A.J. JACOBS with Meg Kissel
- Really Any Desert Creature: CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS with Allison Field Bell
- Naomi Alderman’s The Power by Yvonne C. Garrett
- Anelise Chen’s So Many Olympic Exertions by James Duesterberg
- Gil Fagiani's Logos by Kevin Carey
- Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Iliac Crest by Yvonne C. Garrett
- Eyes Without a Face: Christine Hume and Jeff Clark’s Question Like A Face by Chris Campanioni
- Claire Messud’s The Burning Girl claire messud, the burning girl, yvonne c. garret, books, fiction
- The Lonely Scrivener: GAY TALESE with John Domini
- Time-Trails and Travelled Roads: GALE RENEE WALDEN with Rod Kessler
- Beyond Violence: Paul Yoon’s The Mountain by Darley Stewart
- Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility by Giovanni Vimercati
- ADAM BRAVER with David Winner
- Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Matt Grant
- Anthony DeCurtis's Lou Reed: A Life by Ben Tripp
- Fathers and Daughters: Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach by Tom Deignan
- D. Foy’s Absolutely Golden by Sean Gill
- On the Impossibility of Teaching Writing: Rainald Goetz by Andrea Scrima
- Patrick McGrath's The Wardrobe Mistress by Yvonne C. Garrett
- Structures in Service to Wonder: Ivy Pochoda's Wonder Valley by Michael Natalie
- Karl Ove Knausgaard: Autumn and Winter by David Varno
- CELESTE LIM, TERESE SVOBODA, GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK with Gabriel Don by Gabriel Don
Music
- Tomokawa Kazuki at Greene Naftali by Sadie R. Starnes
- Scenes From The Class Struggle by George Grella
- It Just Gets Out of Hand: JOHN COHEN In Conversation with Stephen Ellis, Ivy Sheppard, and David Sheppard
- Songs About Fucking and Killing: Diamanda Galás at Murmrr Theatre, October 31 by George Grella
- Cutting Ties with Cut Worms by Marshall Yarbrough
- Dan Bejar’s Latest Iteration by John Amen
- Outtakes by Steve Dalachinsky
- December & January Listings
Dance
- Dance and Music Speak the Heart: Two Generations by Susan Yung
- Dissolving into Chaos by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
- Art and science of the unraveling mind: A My Name Is… STEFANIE NELSON and DAVID SHENK with Ivan Talijancic
- Savage Logic by Erica Getto
- Shaping Up by Erica Getto
Film
- Specious Realities at DOC NYC by Williams Cole
- BARBARA HAMMER with Alexandra Juhasz
- Lost in the Field of Screens: The Films of Olivia Ciummo by Michael Sicinski
- MICHAEL ROBINSON with Z. W. Lewis
- The Collaborators: Yuzo Kawashima x Ayako Wakao at Japan Society by Jaime Grijalba
Theater
- DIVING IN: On the Pop-Up Theater Company The Pool and the Generous Act of Producing by Deborah Stein
- From the Inside Out: Rock Monster Jody Christopherson by Mariah MacCarthy
- JIM FINDLAY with Ivan Talijancic by Ivan Talijancic
Fiction
- Art Brut by Carlos Fonseca Suárez
- Christmas at the Boarding School By Dominique Fabre, translated from the French by Michael Z. Wise
- inSerial: part fourteen Delusions of Being Observed by Lewis Warsh
- from Palace of Rubble by Kyra Simone
- New Routes in Fiction: David Coventry with Alec Niedenthal
- from Satania by Kerascoet and Fabien Vehlmann
- Absurd Things That Happened You Might Have Forgotten! by Joshua Daniel
- Carmel, California—1992 by Tom Daly
Poetry
Verbatim
Art Books
- Boris Arvatov's Art & Production by Celluloid Liberation Front
- Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 by Gillian Sneed
- Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois by Amei Wallach
Field Notes
- Climate Change: What is to be Done? Part 2: Climate and the Economy by José A. Tapia
- The Future of the Past by Bini Adamczak
- The Critique of Value at Belshazzar’s Feast: A Review of Anselm Jappe’s The Writing on the Wall by Andy Battle
- The Vietnam War by Peter St. Clair
- Disaster, Fear of Chaos, and Spontaneous Organization: Lessons of Hurricane Harvey by Samuel Feldblum
In Memoriam
- Editor's Note by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
- RICK SAVINON
- Angel Abreu
- Jorge Abreu
- Robert Branch, Ed.M by Robert Branch, Ed.M.
- Julie Ault
- Doug Ashford
- Andres Serrano
- Jim Hodges
- Robert Bordo
- Pastor Vanessa Brown
- Dara Birnbaum
- Marc J. Straus
- Eleanor Heartney
- Sergio Bessa
- Stefan Kalmár
- David Rhodes
- Conrad Atkinson
- Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
- Larry Littany Litt
- David Ross
Editor's Message
- Art, Science, and the Question of Convergence by Taney Roniger
Publisher's Message
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