JUNE 2016

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A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

BETTINA POUSTTCHI with Barry Schwabsky
B. WURTZ with Sara Roffino
JOANNE GREENBAUM with Phong Bui
DIANE ARBUS: THE FIRST CHAPTER JEFF ROSENHEIM with Michèle Gerber Klein

ArtSeen

MATT KLEBERG
By Jonathan Goodman
MOYRA DAVEY: 7 Albums
By Thea Ballard
Anna Mikhailovskaia and John Schacht
By Diana McClure
Painting as Modeling
By Tom McGlynn
Louisa Matthíasdóttir/Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jonsson
By Hovey Brock
Joe Zucker: Armada
By Harrison Tenzer
CARMEN HERRERA
By David Rhodes
Marcia Hafif: The Art of Distillation The Italian Paintings, 1961 – 1969
By Joan Waltemath
SHIMON ATTIE Facts on the Ground
By Yasi Alipour
KATE TEALE I Am Not Empty, I Am Open
By Taney Roniger
Gods and Mortals at Olympus: Ancient Dion, City of Zeus
By Jason Rosenfeld
MONA HATOUM
By William Corwin
DAVID REED / THORNTON WILLIS
By David Carrier
DAVID HAMMONS Five Decades
By Alexandra Fowle
LUKAS DUWENHÖGGER Undoolay
By Terence Trouillot
Future Fossil, Other Vessel
By ANTHONY HAWLEY
CAROL SZYMANSKI A Distance As Close As It Can Be
By Jonathan Goodman
RODNEY MCMILLIAN Views of Main Street
By Michelle Standley
ADRIANA VAREJÃO Kindred Spirits
By Sara Christoph
Reflections on Philip Guston PHILIP GUSTON Painter, 1957 – 1967
By Kate Liebman
Reflections on Philip Guston The Generous Law: Philip Guston’s Wobble
By Tom McGlynn
Reflections on Philip Guston Philip Guston: Burning the Midnight Oil
By Nora Griffin
Reflections on Philip Guston Verbal Equivalents (For Philip Guston)
By Greg Lindquist
RICHARD SERRA Grace Under Pressure
By Phong Bui
JEAN DUBUFFET Anticultural Positions
By Phong Bui

Books

Dark Atrocities: DAVID WINNER with Tyler Gore
By Tyler Gore
In the Interstices and the Lacunae
By Katharina Smundak
One-State Dissolution
By Joshua Alvarez
Natural-Born Storytellers
By John Domini
Worry and the Mordant Wallow
By J. C. Hallman
POST-LUNCH POEMS JOE PAN with ANSELM BERRIGAN
PLAYERS: JOHN MCCAFFREY with Jill Dearman

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
The Player Piano
By Ryan Meehan
THE RESIDENTS The World’s Most Mysterious Band Steps Out of the Shadows
By Kurt Gottschalk
Devastating Blues, Laugh-Out-Loud Funny
By Dylan Angell
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

JEROBOAM BOZEMAN with Erica Getto
Mark Morris Up Close
By Susan Yung

Film

NO ESCAPING THAT Cheryl Donegan Takes the High Line
By Joe Bucciero
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IT? Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits
By Brittany Stigler
LAND OF LIBERTY Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side
By Erica Peplin
IDEAS AS IMAGES Thom Andersen’s The Thoughts That Once We Had
By Joseph Pomp

Theater

SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES Stage Designer Mimi Lien
By Marcina Zaccaria
6 Translations, 4 Acts, and 11 Vanyas New Saloon’s Minor Character
By Ariel Stess
America: A Performance in Five Miltons
By Ben Gassman

Fiction

Transitions to the Up-Tempo Second Section, Called Tombohoneng (“Remedy for Yearning”)
By Jesse Kohn
from Games and Stunts
By Albert Mobilio
Futures in Child Rearing
by Jen George, from her debut story collection, The Babysitter at Rest, forthcoming this October from Dorothy, a publishing project
from Kid Coole
By M. G. Stephens
Tragic Strip
By Tom Motley

Poetry

A$$-ETS
By Georgia Faust
Six
By Ann Stephenson
Three
By Guillermo Filice Castro
Two
By Alex Dimitrov
Dodge-Verse-ity, New Jersey: The Festival at the Heart of the Foundations A Yelp Poem
by Margie Plymouth and Homar Hudson

Verbatim

ARSHILE GORKY: Turn in the Road

Art Books

Nato Thompson, Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century
By Holly Gavin
Chris Killip
By Adam Bell
JOHN E. SCOFIELD with Laila Pedro

Field Notes

EDITOR'S NOTE The Withering of the State
By Paul Mattick
THE LAST CUT WAS THE DEEPEST: Cuomo’s Gamble and CUNY’s Full-Throated Retort
By Samuel Feldblum
Nuit Debout: The Longest Month
by Ferdinand Cazalis, with the assistance of Emilien Bernard, and a crowd of nights who will recognize themselves

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JUNE 2016

By Tom Motley

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Tom Motley

Tom Motley is a cartoonist, illustrator, and educator. His publications include Tragic Strip (a monthly strip in the Brooklyn Rail), The Golden Ass, The One Marvelous Thing, and contributions to the indie anthology Cartozia Tales. He teaches cartooning at the School of Visual Arts and illustration at Pratt.

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JUNE 2016

Find the RAIL in print

Subscribe $50 annually

A message from Phong Bui
Publisher and Artistic Director

Art

BETTINA POUSTTCHI with Barry Schwabsky
B. WURTZ with Sara Roffino
JOANNE GREENBAUM with Phong Bui
DIANE ARBUS: THE FIRST CHAPTER JEFF ROSENHEIM with Michèle Gerber Klein

ArtSeen

MATT KLEBERG
By Jonathan Goodman
MOYRA DAVEY: 7 Albums
By Thea Ballard
Anna Mikhailovskaia and John Schacht
By Diana McClure
Painting as Modeling
By Tom McGlynn
Louisa Matthíasdóttir/Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jonsson
By Hovey Brock
Joe Zucker: Armada
By Harrison Tenzer
CARMEN HERRERA
By David Rhodes
Marcia Hafif: The Art of Distillation The Italian Paintings, 1961 – 1969
By Joan Waltemath
SHIMON ATTIE Facts on the Ground
By Yasi Alipour
KATE TEALE I Am Not Empty, I Am Open
By Taney Roniger
Gods and Mortals at Olympus: Ancient Dion, City of Zeus
By Jason Rosenfeld
MONA HATOUM
By William Corwin
DAVID REED / THORNTON WILLIS
By David Carrier
DAVID HAMMONS Five Decades
By Alexandra Fowle
LUKAS DUWENHÖGGER Undoolay
By Terence Trouillot
Future Fossil, Other Vessel
By ANTHONY HAWLEY
CAROL SZYMANSKI A Distance As Close As It Can Be
By Jonathan Goodman
RODNEY MCMILLIAN Views of Main Street
By Michelle Standley
ADRIANA VAREJÃO Kindred Spirits
By Sara Christoph
Reflections on Philip Guston PHILIP GUSTON Painter, 1957 – 1967
By Kate Liebman
Reflections on Philip Guston The Generous Law: Philip Guston’s Wobble
By Tom McGlynn
Reflections on Philip Guston Philip Guston: Burning the Midnight Oil
By Nora Griffin
Reflections on Philip Guston Verbal Equivalents (For Philip Guston)
By Greg Lindquist
RICHARD SERRA Grace Under Pressure
By Phong Bui
JEAN DUBUFFET Anticultural Positions
By Phong Bui

Books

Dark Atrocities: DAVID WINNER with Tyler Gore
By Tyler Gore
In the Interstices and the Lacunae
By Katharina Smundak
One-State Dissolution
By Joshua Alvarez
Natural-Born Storytellers
By John Domini
Worry and the Mordant Wallow
By J. C. Hallman
POST-LUNCH POEMS JOE PAN with ANSELM BERRIGAN
PLAYERS: JOHN MCCAFFREY with Jill Dearman

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
The Player Piano
By Ryan Meehan
THE RESIDENTS The World’s Most Mysterious Band Steps Out of the Shadows
By Kurt Gottschalk
Devastating Blues, Laugh-Out-Loud Funny
By Dylan Angell
Outtakes
By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

JEROBOAM BOZEMAN with Erica Getto
Mark Morris Up Close
By Susan Yung

Film

NO ESCAPING THAT Cheryl Donegan Takes the High Line
By Joe Bucciero
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IT? Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits
By Brittany Stigler
LAND OF LIBERTY Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side
By Erica Peplin
IDEAS AS IMAGES Thom Andersen’s The Thoughts That Once We Had
By Joseph Pomp

Theater

SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES Stage Designer Mimi Lien
By Marcina Zaccaria
6 Translations, 4 Acts, and 11 Vanyas New Saloon’s Minor Character
By Ariel Stess
America: A Performance in Five Miltons
By Ben Gassman

Fiction

Transitions to the Up-Tempo Second Section, Called Tombohoneng (“Remedy for Yearning”)
By Jesse Kohn
from Games and Stunts
By Albert Mobilio
Futures in Child Rearing
by Jen George, from her debut story collection, The Babysitter at Rest, forthcoming this October from Dorothy, a publishing project
from Kid Coole
By M. G. Stephens
Tragic Strip
By Tom Motley

Poetry

A$$-ETS
By Georgia Faust
Six
By Ann Stephenson
Three
By Guillermo Filice Castro
Two
By Alex Dimitrov
Dodge-Verse-ity, New Jersey: The Festival at the Heart of the Foundations A Yelp Poem
by Margie Plymouth and Homar Hudson

Verbatim

ARSHILE GORKY: Turn in the Road

Art Books

Nato Thompson, Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century
By Holly Gavin
Chris Killip
By Adam Bell
JOHN E. SCOFIELD with Laila Pedro

Field Notes

EDITOR'S NOTE The Withering of the State
By Paul Mattick
THE LAST CUT WAS THE DEEPEST: Cuomo’s Gamble and CUNY’s Full-Throated Retort
By Samuel Feldblum
Nuit Debout: The Longest Month
by Ferdinand Cazalis, with the assistance of Emilien Bernard, and a crowd of nights who will recognize themselves

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