In this issue: Rahel Aima, American Artist, Noah Barker, Tenzing Barshee, Ericka Beckman, Andrew Berardini, Dara Birnbaum, Zach Blas, Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda, Paul Clinton, Nick Currie on the new picturesque, Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, Hendrik Folkerts, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Hettie Judah, Bouchra Khalili, Kris Lemsalu, Ghislaine Leung, Alvin Li, Kate Newby, Gladys Nilsson, Ulrike Ottinger, Kari Rittenbach, Emanuel Rossetti, Chris Sharp, Aliza Shvarts, Ross Simonini, Mitch Speed on the anti-power of the found object, Sabrina Tarasoff on Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Milan Ther, Ana Teixeira Pinto on futurisms, Raphaela Vogel, Wendy Vogel, Shen Xin, Emily Watlington, Rose Wylie and Roy Oxlade, Women’s History Museum, and more.

Accordingly, situating Considine in the lineage of any would substantially alter an interpretation of his work. In a gesture toward clearing this up (or perhaps adding to the confusion), Considine uses the text he wrote for the show to point us subtly toward one option: realism’s ninetenth century origin.