The Brooklyn Rail

Table of Contents

Co-Founder's Message

• Dear Friends and Readers,

  – By Phong Bui

Art

• JACK WHITTEN with Jarrett Earnest

• Hilton Als on Alice Neel

• EUGENE LEMAY with Phong Bui

• When the Dada Daddies Got Real; Or, How I Turned Picabia Inside Out

  – By Philip Pearlstein

• The Death of John Berger

  – By David Levi Strauss

• DAVID SALLE with Jarrett Earnest

• CHRISTOPHER LE BRUN with Barbara Rose

• JAUME PLENSA with Laila Pedro

• “What Forms of Making Might Spin the Stories We Need to Lift Ourselves from the Distractions of the Immediate?” ANN HAMILTON with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

ArtSeen

• Gut Feeling Martha Friedman Dancing Around Things

  – By Erin Sweeny

• TM DAVY Horses

  – By Stephen Truax

• Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975

  – By David Rhodes

• PETER CAMPUS

  – By Hearne Pardee

• Man-o Man-ifesto!

  – By Alexandra Juhasz

• Alice Neel, Collector of Souls

  – By Jurriaan Benschop

• Vel Minimum

  – By Tom McGlynn

• Marilyn Minter Pretty/Dirty

  – By Hannah Stamler

• Kader Attia Reason’s Oxymorons

  – By Osman Can Yerebakan

• Dispatches

  – By Samuel Feldblum

• Bhupen Khakhar You Can’t Please All

  – By Michelle Standley

• A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde

  – By Mary Ann Caws

• A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde

  – By Hovey Brock

• Bearing Witness, Mendieta Now

  – By Vanessa Thill

• Lenore Malen Scenes from Paradise

  – By Ann McCoy

• Popped from Life (for E. M.)

  – By Phong Bui

• Colonization of Space

  – By Phong Bui

Books

• The Noise of the Rain

  – By Mary Ann Caws

• Down with the Corpocratic Monoculture! Holly Tavel with Angela Woodward

• The Beasts in Me

  – By Gillie Collins

• Exile on Main Street

  – By Tadzio Koelb

• Relationships Require Fictions to Sustain Them: Jonathan Baumbach with Charles Shafaieh

• The Poet As Caretaker (having said too much having not gotten it all down)

  – By Chris Campanioni

• Picking at the Whole Notion of Story

  – By Weston Cutter

• MAUREEN N. MCLANE with Alex Dueben

• Review of The Patriots

  – By Tom Deignan

• The Parts That Were Mysterious Even to Me ROBERT KLOSS with Amber Sparks

Music

• Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events

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• Diary of a Mad Composer

  – By George Grella

• Legacy in Action: Pharoah Sanders

  – By Vilde Aaslid

• Optimism, Restraint, and Repetition

  – By Marshall Yarbrough

• Dreaming Of A Not-White Winter Jazzfest

  – By Daniel Gold

• Fusing Beauty with Anger The Liberation Music Orchestra

  – By Jeff Tobias

• Outtakes

  – By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

• Suffusing Form with Activism

  – By Susan Yung

• Re-performing Images of Violence and Beauty

  – By Ivan Talijancic

• Walking On Common Ground

  – By Erica Getto

• The Making of Modernities

  – By Sariel Frankfurter

Film

• Even The Dead Will Not Be Safe Montage, History, and Cutting Art Museums

  – By Madison Brookshire

• “You’re the Nigger, Baby” James Baldwin on Film

  – By Rich Blint

• WOLFGANG STAEHLE Ludlow Street

  – By Keith Sanborn

• ACTION MOVIES “Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power”

  – By Michael Joshua Rowin

Theater

• Two Playwrights of a Certain Age DAN FINGERMAN with Steven Carl McCasland

• We Are All Very Talky Tiny Little Band’s Your Hair Looked Great

  – By Alexander Borinsky

Fiction

• Sand Fortress

  – By Meg Kaizu

• The Guest

  – By Roberta Allen

• Manhattan Meets Dixie

  – By Dorin Schumacher

• Chanel at the Bottom of the Ocean

  – By Stephanie Ye

• Household Harmonizing

  – By Dorin Schumacher

• inSerial: part five Delusions of Being Observed

  – By Lewis Warsh

• Tragic Strip

  – By Tom Motley

• Bigly's Wall

  – By William & Katy Arnold and Susan Young

• LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 5: The Pre-Partum Mites (Acarophenax imaginaria)

  – By Sid Gershgoren

• Upon waking an homage to Mierle Laderman Ukeles

  – By Laura Raicovich

• New Routes in Fiction A Talk with Akhil Sharma

  – by Alec Niedenthal

Poetry

• Eight

  – By Anthony McCann

• Ankara

  – By Ethan Fugate

• from Shine

  – By Dale Martin Smith

• Reckoning

  – By Roberto Tejada

• Five

  – By Elaine Equi

• DRAFT (September 29, 2016)

  – By Anna Moschovakis

• Six from Existing Models With Intrusive Noise

  – By Jeremy Hoevenaar

• Six

  – By Garrett Caples

• Four

  – By Laura Henriksen

• Five

  – By Maureen Thorson

• HIST ODRES DE PARADISE (13 poems)

  – By Brandon Shimoda

Verbatim

• We’ve Got a Bigger Problem Now!

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Art Books

• Art Systems and Hélio Oiticica

  – By Gillian Sneed

• Mark Neville, Fancy Pictures

  – By Adam Bell

• René Magritte: Selected Writings

  – By Elizabeth Berkowitz

• Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer

  – By Phillip Griffith

Field Notes

• Editor’s Note

  – By Paul Mattick

• Elephant Blues

  – By Pavlos Roufos

• Standing with Syrians: An Open Letter to an Anti-Imperialist

  – By Philip Rizk

• Passing Notes with Refugees

  – By Ilana Simons

The Well

• Marie’s Crisis

  – By Sara Christoph