September 2019
Featuring interviews with Sam Gilliam, Aliza Nisenbaum, Lari Pittman, and Tomas Vu. Guest Critic Terry R. Myers: “No One Gets to be Right.”
The “September 2019” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 4, 2019.
Critics Page
No One Gets to be Right
– By Terry R. MyersRethinking David Hockney
– By Bill Arning"WRONG? ME?"
– By Laura CottinghamI Was Wrong
– By Dan CameronUnbuggerable
– By Michelle Grabner"I Fucking Hate David Hockney"
– By Jonathan T.D. NeilSecond Thoughts
– By David Pagel
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Christian Marclay
– By Amanda GluibizziEd Clark
– By Louis BlockDoron Langberg: Likeness
– By Osman Can YerebakanSky Hopinka at the Poor Farm
– By Frani O'TooleJosiah McElheny: Observations at Night
– By Charles SchultzYasmin Kaytmaz: Hippocrene Runs Dry
– By William CorwinMorehshin Allahyari: She Who Sees the Unknown
– By Joel KuennenThe Aerodrome
– By William DavieAllan Sekula: Labor’s Persistence
– By Brett WallaceKyle Breitenbach: When the Leaves Come Down
– By Nicholas HeskesKeith Tyson: Life Still
– By Daniel PatemanAt Baselitz Academy
– By Richard ShiffStephen Milner: A Spiritual Good Time
– By J CAbout Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging
– By Lisa E. BloomDevin Kenny: rootkits rootwork
– By W TaoMika Rottenberg: Easypieces
– By Dan CameronAmy Bennett: Nuclear Family
– By Robert R. ShaneJohn Armleder: Sh/Ash/Lash/Splash
– By David RhodesWilliam Hogarth: Cruelty and Humor
– By Alfred Mac AdamMalcolm Morley, Richard Artschwager, and Made in Vermont
– By Phong H. BuiThe Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement
– By Osman Can YerebakanJoan Jonas: Moving Off The Land II
– By Barry SchwabskyJannis Kounellis
– By Toby KampsVenice 2019: A Few Reflections
– By Barbara LondonT.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America
– By Mark BlochMonique Mouton: Scene
– By David RhodesLeonardo da Vinci's Saint Jerome
– By Brandt JunceauBel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera
– By Kathy BrewRalston Crawford: Torn Signs
– By Louis BlockDaria Martin: Tonight the World
– By tamara suarez porrasAlicja Kwade: ParaPivot
– By Ann C. CollinsYun Hyong-Keun: A Retrospective
– By Robert C. MorganJay DeFeo: Depicting with Abandon
– By Clifford Ross
1×1
Exit Strategies: On Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970)
– By Anthony Hawley
Books
SALMAN RUSHDIE with John Domini
Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror
– By Christine MiBurn It Down: Women Writing About Anger
– By Deena ElGenaidiColson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys
– By Joseph PeschelLeland Cheuk's No Good Very Bad Asian
– By Kurt BaumeisterEternal Poet
– By devorah majorKIMBERLY J. SOENEN with Kathleen Rooney
JOSHUA SPERLING with Sebastiaan Faber
Edwidge Danticat’s Everything Inside: Stories
– By Yvonne C. GarrettJIA TOLENTINO with Eric Farwell
T.C. Boyle's Outside Looking In
– By Joseph PeschelKaren Russell's Orange World and Other Stories
– By Joseph PeschelPhilippe Petit's On the High Wire
– By Zach Davidson
Music
Mark Berry's Arnold Schoenberg
– By George GrellaEthno Port 2019
– By Martin LongleySeptember Listings
– By George Grella and Brad CohanOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyDommengang: Derivative Originality
– By John Amen
Dance
ITA SEGEV with George Kan
– By George KanThe Master and Form: Ballet is Not Bondage
– By Noa WeissThis Is What Accessibility Sounds Like
– By James Dinneen
Film
Zombie Vérité: Olivier Meyrou's Celebration
– By Micah GottliebTalking Things Through: Lucy Parker's Solidarity
– By Matt TurnerDOMINGA SOTOMAYOR with Madeline Whittle
– By Madeline Whittle
Fiction
From Nomad Siesta
–From The Factory
–Magnetic Sleep
– By Radha VatsalinSerial: part eleven
The Mysteries of Paris–Chapter 12 from NADA
–The Road to Golgonooza
– By T. Motley, Cyndi Rizzo, Stevens Valmor, and Cookie MotowanAs the World Burns
– By Tom MotleyNew Routes in Fiction: KIMBERLY KING PARSONS with Alec Niedenthal
Poetry
POEM (“popular fear…”)
– By Simon Pettettwo
– By Marie Buckfive poems from “From a Winter Notebook”
– By Matvei Yankelevichfour
– By Kit SchluterBest Ship Braving Waves
– By Adjua Gargi Nzinga GreavesBut I Did Learn to Swim: A Few Memories of Kevin Killian
– By Trace Peterson
Art Books
Aaron Schuman's SLANT
– By Jennie WaldowShattered Objects: Djuna Barnes's Modernism
– By Megan N. LibertyPaul Gauguin's Intimate Journals
– By Lee Ann NormanEBONY FLOWERS with Naomi Elias
Art Books Dispatches from the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair
ArTonic
Pen + Brush
– By Alex A. Jones
Field Notes
Nationalism, Borders, and the State
– By Ross WolfeWeimar: Then or Now?
– By Gary RothThe Educated Working Class
– By Peter St. ClairEmma Goldman's Adventures in France