November 2016
The “November 2016” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 1, 2016.
Critics Page
Recalling the Saints
– By Susan HarrisExit Art
– By Barry SchwabskyAt the Speed of Light:
Larry Poons Paintings of the 1960s–Hudson
– By Jennifer R. GrossL’École de 8 Rue Saint-Victor
– By Raphael RubinsteinGrateful to all things past. Service for all things present. Embrace of all things future.
– By Phong H. BuiJUDITH STEIN with Susan Harris
Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern ArtSylvia Hochfield
– By Barbara A. MacAdamA Critical Rescue Mission
– By Alexandra C. AndersonLeo Steinberg, Rosalind Krauss, Scott Burton, Siah Armajani, Betsy Baker, Printed Matter
– By Nancy PrincenthalElizabeth C. Baker
– By Richard KalinaTowards a Foothold in New York
– By Elizabeth C. BakerWho Has Your Back?
– By Eleanor HeartneyMy Mentors
– By Irving SandlerYayoi Kusama
– By Lynn GumpertJohn Perreault
– By Brett LittmanRecalling a Notable Logician-Philosopher Connecting with the Art World
– By Phyllis BraffAlan Solomon
– By Norman L KleeblattWilliam Cobbett
– By Martha SchwendenerNotes on Influence
– By Holland Cotter
Co-Founder's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
AGNES MARTIN
– By Mira DayalSLAVS AND TATARS Afteur Pasteur
– By Ann McCoyTurner Prize 2016
– By William CorwinGay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York
– By Phillip GriffithSALLY MANN Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington
– By David CarrierSéance with Warhol, Brunch with RuPaul
– By Connor HammValentin de Boulogne Beyond Caravaggio
– By Jason RosenfeldHÉLIO OITICICA To Organize Delirium
– By Hearne PardeeDubuffet Drawings,
1935 – 1962
– By Hovey BrockALEX WEBB La Calle, Photographs from Mexico
– By Matthew BiroKAREN GUNDERSON
– By Kathleen HeftyCAMILLE HENROT
– By ANTHONY HAWLEYCAITLIN KEOGH Loose Ankles
– By Jessica HolmesParc Natural
– By David RhodesAfter, Ever After
– By Tom McGlynnBreathing Lights
– By Charles DuncanThe Sun Chaser
– By Phong H. BuiThe Democracy of Touches: A New Reading of Richard Pousette-Dart
– By Phong H. Bui
Books
A New Kind of Spooky
– By Katie RiceWhat Can You Do with The Taming of the Shrew?
– By Alison Tate LewisDANIEL MENAKER with Susan Shapiro
Against the Willowy Rascal with Giant Phallus
– By William LessardTIM MURPHY with Jill Dearman
The Gun Room
– By Tadzio KoelbBetween Life and Death
– By Ryan AvanzadoMAYBE LOSS IS WHAT LITERATURE IS FOR
RICK MOODY with Porochista KhakpourHE WAS ONCE MY STUDENT
KEVIN CAREY with Rod KesslerZadie Smith Offers Some New Moves
– By John DominiSorrow, Exile, and Cunning
– By Torrey CrimCollaborations with Time
– By Michael KleinDare to Be Naïve
– By Taney RonigerAll the World's a Stage
– By Katharina Smundak
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
The End (of the Year) Justifies the Means: Best of 2016
– By Marshall YarbroughIt Will Be the Silence, Where I Am?
– By Lital KhaikinTen Years of the Jalopy Theatre
– By Robert Jackson WoodOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyDon't Think Twice, It's Alright
– By George GrellaOn Dylan's Nobel
– By Michael Millner
Dance
Ballet, Evolving
– By Susan YungOpening the Door to Memory
– By Sariel FrankfurterNYCB's Fashion Gala Leaps Forward
– By Susan YungTwo Revolutions: Saw You Yesterday and Mourn and Never Tire
– By Gillian JakabThis is the Kind of Dance that We Do
Film
Love and Magic:
Anna Biller's The Love Witch– By Brittany StiglerBluebeard Revisited:
Gastón Solnicki's Kékszakállú– By Daniel WalberALISON S. M. KOBAYASHI and CHRISTOPHER ALLEN with Tess Takahashi
Rough Seeing:
Gianfranco Rosi's Fire At Sea– By Peter GoldbergHistory in Fragments:
Samir Jamal Aldin's Iraqi Odyssey– By Simon Davis-Cohen
Theater
Wrestling Alligators:
HILARY BETTIS with Kyoung H. ParkPlaying in No Man's Land with The Anthropologists
– By Adam R. BurnettCourting the Lower East Side with Andy Bragen
– By Kathryn Walat"A current gaining more wave:" 25 Years of Artist Development at Brooklyn Arts Exchange
– By Jess Barbagallo
Fiction
The Histories
–Good people
– By Sergio Gutiérrez NegrónThe Last Election
– By Johannah RodgersinSerial: part three
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis WarshLOST AND FOUND ANIMALS
a misplaced bestiary
Part 3: The Inverted Owp (Mobius Transversus)– By Sid GershgorenTragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
Mehan e ma / Macrorayan, Kabul/ April, 5:00 AM/ notes on return
– By Mina ZohalThirteen
– By Buck Downsfrom "Insurgentes / Avenues"
– By Marc NasdorOne
– By Alex CuffSee you soon America
– By Ben Keating
Special Report
Dispatches from the Campaign
– By David Levi Strauss
The Well
67 Orange Street
– By Mitchell Kuga