May 2015
The “May 2015” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 6, 2015.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
SURVIVING BECOMING
– By Charles SchultzThreadsuns
– By Susan BeeFUNERAL POETRY: A Last-Ditch Effort
– By Mattie John BammanBeing One
– By Diane SchenandoahGender Trauma & Abreaction
– By Wendy VogelThe Inferno Where We Live Every Day
– By Andrew BerardiniEmpathy, Loss and Painting
– By Greg LindquistExtremes Redux Nearby or The The The
– By Nathlie ProvostyDon Quixote Saved My Life
– By James English LearyLow Heaven
– By Susan TallmanArt And Trauma, or Run of the Mill Suffering
– By Corina LarkinIn Memoriam
– By Joseph AkelZHANG HONGTU with Charlie Schultz
Art
Postcard Chat
between Yves Berger and John BergerGLENN LOWRY with Joachim Pissarro, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, and David Carrier
HANK WILLIS THOMAS with Allie Biswas
THEORY AND CRITIQUE:
The Raw and the Cooked– By Dave HickeyTHE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
A Socialism of Creation– By Luis CamnitzerCHRIS LARSON with Phong Bui
A Night of Philosophy in NYC, 04-24-2015 7 P.M. To 7 A.M.
– By Mary Ann CawsDEAN LEVIN with Alex Bacon
DAVID SALLE with Hunter Braithwaite
ArtSeen
HANS-CHRISTIAN LOTZ
– By Alexander ShulanWEIRD CABOOSE
2015 Triennial: Surround Audience– By Michael PepiONLY CONNECT
2015 Triennial: Surround Audience– By Sue Scott2015 Triennial: Surround Audience
– By Christopher GreenNANCY HAYNES anomalies and non-sequiturs
– By Anna TomeWILLIAM POPE.L Trinket
– By Terry R. MyersPoussin et Dieu
– By David CarrierBILL JENSEN Transgressions
– By Hearne PardeeJOAN SEMMEL Across Five Decades
– By Joyce BeckensteinTHOMAS NOZKOWSKI
– By David RhodesJAMES SIENA New Sculpture
– By Tom McGlynnMATT DUCKLO Tomorrow is a Long Time
– By Taylor DafoeBRENDA GOODMAN: New Work
– By Jonathan GoodmanJOYCE KOZLOFF
– By Ann McCoyMARTHA WILSON Downtown
– By Kara L. RooneyRAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, and HESAM RAHMANIAN I won't wait for grey hairs and worldly cares to soften my views
– By Sara RoffinoARNE SVENSON: The Workers
– By Sara ChristophTrue Monotypes
– By Mary ProenzaHISAKO KOBAYASHI Said in Silence
– By Jonathan GoodmanJULIAN HATTON New Season
– By Hovey BrockMONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN Infinite Possibility. Mirror Works and Drawings 1974 – 2014
– By Yasi AlipourBASQUIAT The Unknown Notebooks
– By Bradley RubensteinLAURA LANCASTER A Stranger's Dream
– By Molly ElizaldeCLARE GRILL Touch'd Lustre
– By Nora GriffinJEAN PAGLIUSO Poultry and Raptor Suites
– By Phong H. BuiABBY LEIGH Pause
– By Phong H. BuiRUTH HARDINGER The Basement Rocks
– By Elena Berriolo
Books
IN THE GAPS BETWEEN THINGS
ANDREA SCRIMA with Leora Skolkin-SmithThe Gut Wants What It Wants
– By John DominiDIVING INTO THE WRECK
GREGORY SPATZ with Doug DorstHuman Divinity
– By Jack FinneganCity of Exception
– By Dustin IllingworthThe Frontier's Finale
– By Ashley P. TaylorThe (Practical) Pursuit of Happiness
– By Hilary ReidOn the Shores of Word and Image
– By Matt Finch
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George GrellaCOMPLEXITY, STRANGENESS, AND CHARM:
Noah Creshevsky's Archives– By George Grella10 LISTENS
Forest Management's Sharper Focus EP– By Michael DurekOUTTAKES
– By Steve DalachinskyCODED FOR TRANSPARENCY
Tristan Perich's Parallels– By Marshall Yarbrough
Dance
NOTES FROM ABOVE GROUND
Rashaun Mitchell's Light Years– By Madison MainwaringTHE GILDED STAGE: FLEXN
– By Brian SchaeferNO SHARP EDGES:
Katie Workum's Black Lakes– By Tara SheenaBUILDING AND UNBUILDING
Part 2 of 2 on Platform 2015: Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Streets– By Siobhan BurkeA KIND OF IMPOSSIBLE: Michelle Boulé's White
– By Cassie Peterson
Film
PLEASURE IN DISSONANCE:
Crossroads 2015– By James HansenFROM ABOVE:
The First NYC Drone Film Festival– By Anna Gurton-WachterCINEMACHINERY:
Show and Tell with Lary 7– By Fabio RobertiDocs in Sight: Systemic Ills, Dark Fetishes, Drugs, and Guns at the Tribeca Film Festival
– By Williams ColeWindows, Mirrors, and Frames in Akram Zaatari's 28 Nights and a Poem
– By M. T. NiagaraGINA TELAROLI with Phil Coldiron
Poetry
Four
– By Kenyatta Jean-Paul GarciaFour
– By Allison CobbTwo
– By Danniel SchoonebeekTwo
– By Camille Royfrom THE BLOCK
– By Dan Machlin
Art Books
LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Notion of Family
– By Holly GavinTony DeLap: Painting Sculpture & Works on Paper 1965 – 2013
– By Jessica Holmes
Field Notes
Chicago, Babylon
– By Zaheer KazmiART & ACTIVISM
People's Climate Arts with Nato ThompsonGERMANWINGS
An Anthropological Fear– By Jorge de la Barre