June 2015
The “June 2015” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on June 3, 2015.
Critics Page
Art and Protest
– By Matthew BiroHYPOCRITICAL PROTEST
Karl Marx at the Venice Biennale– By Donald KuspitNefertiti in a Gas Mask
– By Christiane GruberArt as Protest
– By Alex PottsExecution, Huntsville Prison, 2013
– By Alec SothPills, Protest, and Piracy
– By John J. CorsoWhen? Where? How?
– By Edward DimendbergDetroit and the Art of Protest
– By Dora ApelTHE PROTEST MARKET
after Audre Lorde's "Power"– By Jennifer NelsonMedellín
– By Corine Vermeulen"Good luck, Bauhaus and Berlin Comrades, and See You After the Revolution"
– By Elizabeth OttoProtest and Survive
– By Kathy Battista"To the Lynching!"
– By Carmenita Higginbotham
Publisher's Message
Dear Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Art
RAILING OPINION
Dear Dave, Welcome Back– By Irving SandlerTANIA BRUGUERA with Lucia Hinojosa, Diego Gerard, and Dennise Abush
– By Lucía Hinojosa, Diego Gerard, and Dennise AbushGUERRILLA GIRLS BROADBAND with Chloe Wyma
MARY CORSE with Alex Bacon
JESSICA DICKINSON with Danielle Mysliwiec
BILL BERKSON with Jarrett Earnest
ALEKSANDAR DURAVCEVIC with Phong Bui
ArtSeen
MARGARET EVANGELINE
An Injured Armory – By Jonathan GoodmanFrom the Ruins...
– By Tom McGlynnArthur Ou
– By David CarrierLEON GOLUB Riot
– By Kara L. RooneySalon Style
– By Simone KrugAudubon's Aviary: The Final Flight
(Part III of the Complete Flock)– By Tom McGlynnBENJAMIN COTTAM
– By Jonathan GoodmanJune Leaf
– By Robert BerlindLISA YUSKAVAGE
– By Phong H. BuiRICHARD ESTES Painting New York City
– By David CarrierLAURA OWENS
– By Geoff MakPIERRE OBANDO Like New
– By David RhodesOne-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series
– By Mary ProenzaIDA APPLEBROOG The Ethics of Desire
– By Ashton CooperEMILY MASON The Intuitive Print
– By Jessica HolmesRUSSELL TYLER Radiant Fields
– By Jason StopaBRENT WADDEN
– By Maggie BarrettSARAH PETERS
– By Sara ChristophGILLIAN LAUB Southern Rites
– By Hilary ReidRICHARD SERRA Equal
– By Phong H. BuiBEVERLY BUCHANAN And You May Find Yourself...
– By Chloe Wilcoxbetween a place and candy: new works in pattern + repetition + motif
– By Kate LiebmanDAVID GOODMAN Apparatus
– By William CorwinSUSAN CIANCIOLO if God COMes to visit You, HOW will you know? (the great tetrahedral kite)
– By Liz HirschJOAN SNYDER Sub Rosa
– By Hovey Brock
Books
The Beautiful in Between
– By Madeline GresselA Different Side of Terrorism
– By Katharina SmundakClass Rules
– By Jill DehnertRequired Reading
– By Johannah RodgersA Portrait of the Critic as a Miraculating Agent
– By J. C. HallmanBIG BROTHER: ANDREW ERVIN with Owen King
Spring's Picks for Young Readers
– By Jordan B. NielsenTHE MONSTER IS ALWAYS LONELINESS:
JEFFREY ROTTER with Bill ChengProsaic Hallucination
– By Brendan GarrisonSHE WON'T BE RESCUED
KATHLEEN OSSIP with Molly Rose Quinn
Music
Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George GrellaBrooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
ASCENDING TO FREEDOM
Wadada Leo Smith– By Daniel GoldNick Cave's Great Gamble
– By Allyson Polsky McCabeGothic Revival Revised
– By Scott BorchertCircuit des Yeux, In Plain Speech
– By Christopher NelsonOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
RESIDUE AND REORDERING
–CONJURING FUTURE JOY
EMILY JOHNSON with Ivan TalijancicCOMING HOME
Milka Djordjevich + Chris Peck's MASS at The Kitchen– By Cassie PetersonLA SYLPHIDE AT THE NEW YORK CITY BALLET
Romantic Ballet, Victorian Morals, and the Wisdom of Sondheim– By Brian SchaeferEmbodied Construction: Building a Home for Dance
– By Melissa Croushorn
Theater
And That's How the Rent Gets Paid
Paying Tribute to Jeff Weiss– By Roger BabbSnow Globes & Global Politics:
The Theatrical World of Kate E. Ryan– By Kathryn Walat
Fiction
from Kid Coole
– By M. G. Stephensfrom Trenton Makes
– By Tadzio KoelbButter Eggs
– By Hannah Thurmanfrom The Lifeless Sea
– By Jen MichalskiGood Clean Sex
– By Chad BeverlinKatie Merz
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
Why the Whale?
–from Philadelphia (Freedom Song)
– By Gina Myersgohst
– By Sara Deniz AkantThe Dream's Navel
– By Clayton Eshleman
Art Books
Anthony McCall: Notebooks and Conversations
– By Jarrett Earnest
Field Notes
Baltimore's "Fire Next Time"
– By Curtis PriceTo Our Friends: Two Friendly Responses
– By Paul MattickOn The Invisible Committee's To Our Friends
– By Ryan RichardsonAnti-Terrorism and the Specter of The Invisible Committee
– By Serge QuadruppaniSince the End of the Movement of the Squares:
The Return of The Invisible Committee– By Jason E. Smith