JUNE 2017 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Editor's Message

The New Figurative & History Painting
– By Donald Kuspit

Co-Founder's Message

Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

ArtSeen

MIDTOWN
– By Rabia Ashfaque
All the Threatened and Delicious Things Joining One Another
– By Magdalyn Asimakis
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
– By Phillip Griffith
The Longest Journey
– By Tim Barry
When An Image Works, Words Don’t Need To
– By Will Fenstermaker
MARTIN BOYCE Sleeping Chimneys. Dead Stars.
– By Stephen Truax
Rachel Harrison Prasine
– By Jane Cavalier
Florine Stettheimer Painting Poetry
– By Michelle Standley
Ridley Howard Travel Pictures
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Myths of the Marble
– By Leah Gallant
Making Space: Women Artists in Postwar Abstraction
– By Ann McCoy
Robert Bordo Back Flip
– By David Rhodes
Head Over Heels
– By Amy Deneson
Tales of Transformation
– By Jurriaan Benschop
Exhibition 1
– By Osman Can Yerebakan
A Fable of A Time Traveler
– By Phong Bui
Luke Diiorio nine paintings
– By Alex Bacon
Venice Biennial: At a Glance, 2017
– By Barbara London
Tobias Pils
– By Ilka Scobie
Roxy Paine Farewell Transmission
– By Hovey Brock
Alex Katz Subway Drawings
– By Tom McGlynn

Critics Page

The Day’s Outrage: Fearless Girl and Open Casket
– By BRIAN WINKENWEDER
Response to James Cooper
– By Mark Van Proyen
Temporal Nomads: The Scandal of Postmodern History Painting
– By Robert R. Shane
The Issue of History Painting
– By Jacob Collins
Contemporary History Painting
– By Adam Miller
History Painting and the Problem with Art Education
– By Robert Zeller

Books

Cultural Currency: LISA KO with Nicole Treska
Defiant Duality
– By Gabino Iglesias
KALEIDOSCOPIC: MELISSA FEBOS with Ryan Berg
Different Routes to Rarified Air
– By John Domini
Leaps of Faith
– By David Varno
STACEY LEVINE with Kristy Eldredge
Refusing Removal
– By Nicole Treska
Defacing the Palimpsest: Don DeLillo, New York Antagonist
– By John Domini
Mai Der Vang with Alex Dueben
Fat Beautiful Stinking Bookmarks: Joseph Scapellato with James Tadd Adcox
The Women in the Band
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Bibliotherapy
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Family Bonds
– By Matt Grant
Getting Portland
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
In the Green Chair, Talking Alternative Lives: PAUL AUSTER with J.T. Price
Modes of Stylish Knowing
– By J.T. Price

Music

Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
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Brooklyn Rail Spring Mix
– by the Editors
Relexifying the Canon of Black Music Nicholas Payton with Vilde Aaslid
Continuous Variable Harmonics
– By MV Carbon
Say Goodbye to Reality Nicholas Smith (I Cut People) with Matthew Ackerman
Loony Tunes
– By Richard Klin
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky

Dance

Titicut Follies: A Stark Documentary Transformed into Dance
– By Susan Yung
Hitting Her Stride
– By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
The Slow Burn: Hilary Easton’s Radiator
– By Jen George
“I’m gay,” she never said.
– By Clare Croft

Film

Looking for Lumia: Thomas Wilfred’s Forgotten Art of Light
– By Swagato Chakravorty
Intelligence Porn
– By Sarah Mendelsohn
Screening the Regions: An Incomplete Philippine Cinema
– By Paul Grant
Content Is King
– By Will Fenstermaker
A Prophet Against Empire: Jerry Tartaglia’s Escape from Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
– By David Bruin
Seems Like Just Yesterday Revisiting the 80s and 90s at The Tribeca Film Festival
– By Williams Cole

Theater

(NOT) Water: Sheila Callaghan, Daniella Topol, and the Slow-Building Wave of Collaboration
– By Katie Pearl
Parity, Politics, and Survival: WiTFESTNYC 2017
– By Martha Steketee

Fiction

The World Without People Who Ruin It and Make It Ugly
– by Patricio Pron, translated from the Spanish by Kathleen Heil
Extract from Autopsy of a Father
– by Pascale Kramer
inSerial: part nine Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh
New Routes in Fiction A talk with Colm Tóibín
– by Alec Niedenthal
Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Watching TV with Steven Freund
– By Tom Daly
LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary Part 9: The Transfinite Direwolf (Canis infinitis)
– By Sid Gershgoren

Poetry

Regression,
– By Gabe Kruis
Six
– By Shannon Tharp
Two
– by Diana Morán, translated by Ash Ponders
Four for Joanne Kyger
– By Mike Cavuto

Verbatim

Robert Rauschenberg: Untitled Press, Inc.
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Art Books

Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
– By Andrew Holter
Kate Zambreno with T. Clutch Fleischmann
Agnes Martin: Night Sea
– By Stephanie Guyet
Activestills: Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel
– By Maria Quinata
Blurred Library: Essays on Artists’ Books
– By Megan N. Liberty
Social Medium: Artists Writing; 2000 – 2015
– By Tim Barry

Field Notes

Notes on a bad photo of a sick society, or, What does democracy looks like?
– By Charles Reeve
Dutch Treat: The General Election of March 2017 and the Populist Vote
– By Nick Vos
Field Notes from the Anthropocene: Living in the Back Loop
– By Stephanie Wakefield
Why Conservatives Are Panicking Over a Short Story About Communism
– By Chad Kautzer
Peter James Hudson with John Clegg

The Well

Bar LunÀtico
– By Juliet Helmke

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