October 2019
Featuring interviews with Mark Dion, Amy Sherald, Henry Taylor, and John Zurier. Guest Critic Richard Shiff “Reality by Chance.”
The “October 2019” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 1, 2019.
Critics Page
Reality by Chance
– By Richard ShiffPea Stones
– By Matthew SimmsShifting
– By Michael SchreyachAs Chance Would Have It
– By Thierry de DuveTwombly’s Sophistication
– By Ross PosnockThe Luck of the Draw
– By Suzanne Hudson"The Ruses of Chance"
– By Karen LangChance and the Punctum
– By David ReedComment on Richard Shiff’s argument on chance and reality
– By Dario GamboniChance encounters are my alibi
– By Marlene DumasPareidolia and Signifying the Insignificant
– By Jessamine Batario"Hasards de la rime"
– By Sima GodfreyREWIRING NORA: A Chance Encounter with Something Unknown
– By Jonathan FinebergRorschachian Chance in Flow and Ebb
– By Joseph Masheck
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Judy Chicago: Los Angeles
– By Olivia GauthierNicolás Guagnini: Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina
– By Israel LundJohn Giorno: Do The Undone
– By Sophie KovelThe Return of Tom Doyle
– By Jessica HolmesSayre Gomez: X-Scapes
– By Patrick J. ReedJohn Giorno: DO THE UNDONE
– By Robert C. MorganSarah Sze
– By Phong H. BuiWhat Are Words Worth?
– By Dan CameronRenée Cox: Returned
– By Jan AvgikosBradford Kessler: Become Gift, Sky Become Shadow
– By Zach RitterGraham Nickson: Eye Level
– By Aimée Brown PriceAlex Da Corte: Marigolds
– By Anna TomeConstantina Zavitsanos: L&D Motel
– By Michael EbyAleksandar Duravcevic: YOUTH
– By Alfred Mac AdamMeriem Bennani: Party on the CAPS
– By Isis AwadRichard Mosse: Ultra
– By Hannah Maier-KatkinUrban Impulses: Latin American Photography From 1959 to 2016
– By Daniel PatemanMarcus Jahmal: Double Down
– By Charles SchultzCalder: Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere
– By Barbara A. MacAdamHearne Pardee: N/S/E/W: Painting | Drawing | Collage
– By Jonathan GoodmanJoe Zucker: 100-Foot-Long Piece, 1968-1969
– By Alfred Mac AdamSahar Khoury: Afterhours
– By Sahar KhraibaniWangechi Mutu: The NewOnes, will free Us
– By Ann C. CollinsCindy Ji Hye Kim: Verses from the Apocalypse
– By Amelia FarleyBernard Piffaretti
– By Raphael RubinsteinN. Dash
– By William CorwinPersonal Private Public
– By Jennifer Rose Bonilla-EdgingtonAlain Kirili: Who's Afraid of Verticality?
– By Susan HarrisMatt Kleberg: Trespassing
– By Gilles Heno-CoeSoft Fascination: Heidi Norton, Jolynn Krystosek & Erin LaRocque
– By Hovey BrockSinéad Breslin
– By Louis BlockShut Up: Joe Massey’s Messages From Prison
– By Mark BlochRichard Serra
– By Tom McGlynnRichard Serra
– By Benjamin CliffordJacolby Satterwhite
– By Amber Jamilla MusserManfred Mohr: A Formal Language
– By Charlotte KentLoló Soldevilla
– By Alfred Mac AdamAnother World Lies Beyond
– By Hovey BrockLoie Hollowell: Plumb Line
– By Elizabeth BuheWang Yan Cheng
– By Jonathan GoodmanNick van Woert
– By Robert R. ShaneJaniva Ellis
– By Simon WuForms Larger and Bolder: Eva Hesse Drawings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College
– By Jessica HolmesElaine Cameron-Weir: strings that show the wind
– By Valentina Di LisciaGuadalupe Maravilla
– By Kathleen HeftyWyatt Kahn
– By David RhodesBambitchell: Bugs and Beasts Before the Law
– By Esmé HogeveenSarah Sze
– By Jan AvgikosSue Yon Hwang: Material Manifestation
– By Robert C. MorganDoug Fogelson: Anthem
– By Daniel PatemanXandra Ibarra: Forever Sidepiece
– By Madeleine Seidel
1×1
Into the Mystic
– By Ann McCoy
Books
Saeed Jones: How We Fight for Our Lives
– By Deena ElGenaidiJokha Alharthi: Celestial Bodies
– By John DominiMark Kingwell: "Wish I Were Here"
– By Zach DavidsonSight Lines
Carmen Maria Machado: In the Dream House
– By James W. FuerstNell Zink: Doxology and Suzette Haden Elgin: Native Tongue
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Music
A Dance in the Aftermath: Peter Laughner, Smog Veil Records, 2019
– By Ron HorningWOMAD
– By Martin LongleyOuttakes
–Lighter And Heavier
TIME:SPANS 2019
– By George GrellaNewport Jazz Festival 2019
– By Vilde AaslidThe Shed is Falling Down
– By George GrellaOctober Listings
– By George Grella and Brad Cohan
Dance
One year of Dance in Bushwick
– By Doug LeCoursCARINA HO with Sima Belmar
A Dancer's Worth
– By Rennie McDougallMysterious Excavations
– By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone
Film
GRAHAM SWON with Gina Telaroli
NO EVIL EYE
Locarno 2019: Ample Opportunity for Daydreaming
– By James LattimerEvery Situation Calls for Its Own Language: Gilberto Perez′s The Eloquent Screen
– By Nicholas Forster
Theater
Anna Moench and Objects in the Apocalypse
– By Dave HarrisLIT Council: Men of Color Called to the Stage
– By Marcina ZaccariaIn Their Changing Village, Two Artists Reflect on a Lost Hospital
– By Billy McEnteeLife as a Cabaret
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Art Books
Nights on Prose Mountain
– By Megan N. LibertyThe Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows
– By Anna SouterSuzanne Lacy: We Are Here
– By Jessie RobertsonChanges: Notes on Choreography and Women's Work
– By Madeline Weisburg
Field Notes
Editor’s Note: Let's Have That Recession!
– By Paul MattickYellow Vests in a New Social Landscape
– By Jacqueline Reuss"All These Things Are Connected"
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