JUL-AUG 2017 – The Brooklyn Rail

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Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong Bui

Art

GUY GOODWIN with Phong Bui
MIGUEL LUCIANO with Media Farzin and Charles Schultz
MOLLY NESBIT with Jarrett Earnest
Art of the Cover-Up: Gerhard Richter's Decke
– By Rob Halpern
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART After Deadpan
– By Marika Takanishi Knowles

ArtSeen

CAROL RAMA: Antibodies
– By Sadie Rebecca Starnes
WILLIAM POPE.L: Proto-Skin Set
– By Alan Gilbert
LEO VILLAREAL
– By Taney Roniger
VINCENZO AGNETTI: Territories
– By Jonathan Goodman
CLIFFORD ROSS: Wood Waves
– By Hovey Brock
Garden Dwellers
– By Alexandra Hammond
Unto each other, a new thing
– By Colin Edgington
VOICE=SURVIVAL
– By JESSE BANDLER FIRESTONE
THE 57TH VENICE BIENNALE: Viva arte Viva
– By David Carrier
JO NIGOGHOSSIAN: Exotica
– By Phong Bui
JO SPENCE: Memory Cards
– By Nicole Miller
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ: French Bashing
– By Seth Cameron
DOCUMENTA 14
– By Timothy Francis Barry
Works on Water
– By Nicole Miller
DAVID MICHALEK: SlowDancing/TrioA
– By Vered Engelhard
ALEXANDER CALDER: Hypermobility
– By Jason Rosenfeld
ALI BANISADR: Trust in the Future
– By Jessica Holmes
MARTIN ROTH: In May 2017 I cultivated a piece of land in Midtown Manhattan nurtured by tweets
– By Jonathan Goodman
Artists Rising
– By Kathy Brew
SYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD: Summer and Winter
– By David Rhodes
Disappearing, Inc.
– By Tom McGlynn
The Uptown Triennial
– By Magdalyn Asimakis
ROBERT MANGOLD: Paintings and Works on Paper 2013–2017
– By David Rhodes
MATISSE/DIEBENKORN
– By Hearne Pardee
PHILIP PEARLSTEIN: Facing You
– By Jonathan Goodman
MARINELLA SENATORE: Piazza Universale/Social Stages
– By Yasi Alipour
MARKUS LÜPERTZ: New Paintings
– By Hovey Brock
RICO GATSON: Icons 2007-2017
– By William Corwin
IVANA BAŠIĆ: Through the Hum of Black Velvet Sleep
– By William Corwin
CORDY RYMAN: Freefall
– By Colin Edgington
KATE HARDING: Uphill Downhill Conversation, (Sister)
– By Alexandra Hammond
MERRILL WAGNER: Works from the 70s
– By Will Fenstermaker
CHANTAL JOFFE
– By David Carrier
KAARI UPSON: Good Thing You Are Not Alone
– By Rabia Ashfaque
Future Library
– By Lucía Hinojosa

Critics Page

Introduction: Toby Kamps with Anne Doran
On Walter Hopps
– By Terrell James
On Walter Hopps
– By Sarah C. Bancroft
El Bandido
– By George Herms
Smoking Walter
– By Nancy Kienholz
On Walter Hopps
– By Susan Davidson
On Walter Hopps
– By Neil Printz
On Walter Hopps
– By David Salle
On Walter Hopps
– By Don Quaintance
On Walter Hopps
– By Michael McCall

Books

Modern Humans Are Probably Easier to Unwrap: JEFF VANDERMEER with Jacob Blumenfeld
Bed-Stuy's Many Faces of Gentrification: BRIAN PLATZER with Liz von Klemperer
The Revealing Science of Prog: DAVID WEIGEL with Rick Moody
Her Body, Herself: Hunger by Roxane Gay
– By Matt Grant
Changing Climate
– By Christine Mi
Giving Voice to What's Unsaid: FRED MARCHANT with Olivia Kate Cerrone
God in the Machine
– By Chris Campanioni
Through the Viewfinder: PAMELA RYDER with Peter Markus
Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
– By Weston Cutter
MATT HART with Weston Cutter
MAILE MELOY with Weston Cutter
Deb Olin Unferth's Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Julia Fierro's The Gypsy Moth Summer
– By Christine Sang
Maile Meloy's Do Not Become Alarmed
– By Weston Cutter

Music

The Emergence of A New Black Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Text
– By Cisco Bradley
Art of Darkness: Wrekmeister Harmonies
– By Marshall Yarbrough
Make Your Pointe: Visible Cloaks' Reassemblage
– By Mik Pointe
Outtakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Listings
– By The Editors

Dance

Small Steps
– By Erica Getto
Empowerment Waltz: Patricia Noworol's TREMENDOUS
– By Ivan Talijancic
Whipped Cream, With a Cherry on Top
– By Susan Yung
Dancing to the Historical Record
– By Gillian Jakab
Dance Caribbean Collective's Third Year
– By Susanna Sloat
A Little Misery Out There
– By Erica Getto

Film

Known Quantities: Cannes 2017
– By James Lattimer
ERMEK SHINARBAEV with Tanner Tafelski
Risk/Reward: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
– By Almudena Escobar López
Rites of Passage: John Trengove’s The Wound
– By Cindy Govender

Theater

Fiction

Returning to the Problem
– By Eugene Lim
The Bar
– By Strawberry Saroyan
from The Waste Pickers
– By Sausan Jamil Hasan, translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins
inSerial: part ten Delusions of Being Observed
– By Lewis Warsh
Lost and Found Animals Part 10: The Tennessee Wallgroper: Murafactor Fictifioriana
– By Sid Gershgoren
We Are Fox!
– By Tom Motley
New Routes in Fiction: David Szalay with Alec Niedenthal

Poetry

Three
– By Noah Falck
Vito
– By Anne Waldman
from LEGEND OF THE WINTER TRIP
– By Pansy Maurer-Alvarez
from Exercises for the Hard at Work
– By Matt Reeck
Three
– By Emily Skillings

Verbatim

Robert Motherwell: Interrelations
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Art Books

Adam Bartos and Colin MacCabe, Studio: Remembering Chris Marker
– By Sadie Rebecca Starnes
E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera, Eds., Blacktino Queer Performance
– By Timothy Francis Barry
Jennifer L. Shaw, Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun
– By Phillip Griffith

Field Notes

Letter to My Neighbor Who Took Part in the Colonial War
– By Jorge Valadas
On Being a Good Ally: The Handmaid's Tale And the Specter of Fascism
– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
The New Deal in New York, Revisited
– By Nicholas Gamso
Richard Walker Replies
– By Richard Walker

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