The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Co-Founder's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Editor's Message

• What is Criticism, Now?

  – By David Levi Strauss

Art

• AI WEIWEI with Phong Bui

• TROY BRAUNTUCH with Allie Biswas

• PRABHAVATHI MEPPAYIL with Laila Pedro

• RUSSELL CONNOR with Eleanor Heartney

• When Artists Choose Artists

  – By Joyce Beckenstein

• SARAH SCHULMAN with Jarrett Earnest

• Carolee Schneemann with Jarrett Earnest

ArtSeen

• Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark

  – By William Corbett

• Max Beckmann in New York

  – By Tom McGlynn

• William Eggleston The Democratic Forest

  – By Sara Christoph

• Beverly Buchanan Ruins and Rituals

  – By Jared Quinton

• Gimme Shelter

  – By Michelle Standley

• The Democracy of Touches: A New Reading of Richard Pousette-Dart

  – By Phong Bui

• Carrie Mae Weems

  – By Matthew Biro

• Pipilotti Rist Pixel Forest

  – By Lara Atallah

• Æthelred Eldridge

  – By William Corwin

• Doris Salcedo The Materiality of Mourning

  – By Timothy Francis Barry

• Kerry James Marshall Mastry

  – By Hovey Brock

• Zao Wou-Ki No Limits

  – By David Carrier

• Ragnar Kjartansson Scenes from Western Culture/Architecture and Morality/World Light

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• Carolee Schneemann

  – By Ann McCoy

• Alex Da Corte A Man Full of Trouble

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Tetsumi Kudo

  – By Ciara Moloney

• Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016

  – By Charlene K. Lau

• Decolonize This Place

  – By Terence Trouillot

• Julia Rommel Man Alive

  – By Phong Bui

• Leah Raintree: Another Land: After Noguchi

  – By Taney Roniger

• Black Pulp!

  – By Terence Trouillot

• Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction

  – By Jason Rosenfeld

• No Man's Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection

  – By Joyce Beckenstein

• Siah Armajani

  – By Jonathan Goodman

• Reflections on The Sea is Mine: 2016 Qalandiya International in Palestine

  – By Elliot J. Reichert

• MICHAEL MANDIBERG | SIMON DENNY

  – By Ian Cofre

Critics Page

• Reparative Criticism

  – By Kareem Estefan

• A Shelter for Shadows

  – By Sam Swasey

• Critics of the Corners

  – By Alexandra Nicolaides

• Criticism and Civility

  – By Jessica Holmes

• Why I Am Not a Tech Writer

  – By Will Fenstermaker

• How to Value Criticism?

  – By Noah Dillon

• What is Art Criticism?

  – By Clay Matlin

• The Promise of Mutability

  – By Emmanuel Iduma

• Embracing the Unseen

  – By Aimee Walleston

• The Ineluctable Task

  – By Eric Sutphin

• Words as Necessities

  – By Sabrina Mandanici

• Art Is Our Last Hope

  – By Tatiane Schilaro

• Critical Catastrophes

  – By Amelia Rina

• Dear Grace & Quinn

  – By Charles Schultz

• A Sequence of Coherent Words

  – By Sara Christoph

Books

• Intimations and Hints

  – By Weston Cutter

• The Underground Railroad

  – By Weston Cutter

• Requiem for a Great America

  – By Joshua Alvarez

• What the Darkness Was For

  – By Dustin Illingworth

• A Poet’s Guide to Death

  – By Gillie Collins

• A Poet is a Mood

  – By J. C. Hallman

• Flower or Whip?

  – By John Domini

• DAN SIMON with Phong Bui

• By Godlis! DAVID GODLIS with Jacquelyn Gallo

Music

• Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events

• LIMPE FUCHS with Cammisa Buerhaus

• The Return of the Legendary Pink Dots

  – By Dan Joseph

• The Maestro and His Double

  – By Jeff Tompkins

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

• I Thought That We Were Winning: In Remembrance of Leonard Cohen

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• Diary of a Mad Composer

  – By George Grella

Dance

• India, Illuminating and Inspiring

  – By Ryan Wenzel

• End of Party Ionesco Meets Beckett

  – By Ivan Talijancic

Film

• Idle in Ireland: Albert Serra’s Singularity

  – By Samuel Adelaar

• Drifting Architectures: Deborah Stratman’s The Illinois Parables

  – By Joe Bucciero

• Wild and Vocal: Flaherty NYC Autumn 2016

  – By Irina Leimbacher

• Artist and Models: Bresson’s Interviews and Writings

  – By Michael Blum

• Urban Legend: Matt Tyrnauer’s Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

  – By Erica Peplin

Theater

• Letter From Queens: Reflections on a Homegrown Disruption

  – By Ben Gassman

• From Great Lakes to Porto KATE BENSON with Ariel Stess

• Manifesting Destiny Playwrights Traverse the Theater and TV Divide

  – By Addie Johnson Talbott

• Playwright, Citizen, Educator Lucy Thurber at The New School

  – By Emily Morse

• Breaking the Theatrical Fundraising Mold Lesser America Launches The Dare Fund

  – By Dorit Avganim

• Exponentially Inclusive: Brooklyn’s January Performance Festival

  – By Adam R. Burnett

• In Mariah MacCarthy’s World, “Weirdos” Take the Lead

  – By Leah Nanako Winkler

Fiction

• The Manifesto of the 121 (On the Right to Refuse Military Service)

  – translated from the French by Mitchell Abidor

• an extract from Fractals in a Box

  – by Luis Othoniel Rosa, translated from the Spanish by Noel Black

• inSerial: part four Delusions of Being Observed

  – By Lewis Warsh

• LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 4: Sound Spiders (Sondifera terrastis)

  – By Sid Gershgoren

• New Routes in Fiction: TAYLOR LARSEN with Alec Niedenthal 

• 23 Clinton Street

  – By Tom Daly

• Tragic Strip

  – By Tom Motley

Poetry

• Jury

  – By Ann Lauterbach

• Seven

  – By Barbara Jane Reyes

• Three

  – By Edwin Torres

• Three

  – By Andrei Codrescu

• Homage to Ralph Nader

  – By Garrett Caples

• My Little Envoi, For Nancy, Travis, and Roswell

  – By Jennifer Bartlett

• Make America Again

  – By Greg Fuchs

• Trump Morning, A Grief Sequence

  – By Sue Landers

• Opinion Sonnet

  – By John Yau

• A nasty woman has a vision

  – By Allison Cobb

• November 9th, 2016

  – By Robert Booras

• Four

  – By Uche Nduka

Verbatim

• Adolph Gottlieb Polarities

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Art Books

• ON DONALD JUDD’S WRITINGS Mirror and Bridge

  – By Greg Lindquist

• “Judd’s Answer”

  – By Colleen Asper

• bent reflections: a response to Judd’s writings

  – By Joan Waltemath

• Reply to “It’s Hard to Find a Good Lamp”

  – By Jose Dávila

• Distance Learning

  – By Ethan Greenbaum

• God is Dead! Painting is Dead?

  – By James Kalm

• [Untitled]

  – By Marjorie Welish

• 6 September 1986

  – By Martha Tuttle

• A YEAR IN ART BOOKS Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition

  – By Benjamin Gottlieb

• Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke

  – By Greg Lindquist

• Float

  – By Phillip Griffith

• How To See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More

  – By Sara Christoph

Field Notes

• SPECIAL SECTION: AFTER THE ELECTION

  – Editor's Note by Paul Mattick

• The Stakes Are High: An Interview with Noam Chomsky

• The Road Not Taken

  – By Steve Fraser

• Donald J. Trump, or How He Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Establishment

  – By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch and Nicoletta Rousseva

• The Presidential Election of 2016: The Rise of the Kakistocracy

  – By Peter St. Clair

• A Door to the Unknown

  – By Jose A. Tapia

• Delete Your Account: A Brief History of an Election Night Collapse

  – By Dane A. Wisher

• Infinite Crisis

  – By Jacob Blumenfeld

• White Noise: Gun Deaths in the Background

  – By Stephanie Skaff

• Take It Off!: An Evening on the Jersey Shore with God and Michael Bolton

  – By Dane A. Wisher

The Well

• KGB Bar

  – By Mitchell Kuga