September 2015
The “September 2015” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on September 8, 2015.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
The Prismatic View
– By Alexander NagelAmelia Saul and St. John the Evangelist (ca. 1410)
Alexi Worth and Jan van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgment (ca. 1435 – 40)
Nina Katchadourian and the Gallery of Late Medieval Secular Art
CHARLES RAY with Alexander Nagel
R.H. QUAYTMAN with Alexander Nagel and The Judgment of Paris (ca. 1510 – 20)
Shahzia Sikander and Princely Deer Hunters (ca. 1660 – 70)
Rebecca Chamberlain and the Shoin Rooms of Japan (17th century)
Amie Siegel and 18th-century Dutch houses at the Brooklyn Museum
Art
DURABLE FUTURES AND INTIMATE ENCOUNTERS
MCKENZIE WARK with Thyrza Nichols GoodeveJOSIAH MCELHENY with Jarrett Earnest
DAYS OF FUTURES PAST
Okwui Enwezor's Eurocentric Venice Biennale– By Marcia E. VetrocqTREVOR PAGLEN with Hunter Braithwaite
BIG TALK, SMALL TALK
Why People Who Read Should Care About Emojis– By Jonathan KalbFOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA
Seeing Édouard Glissant in Miami– By Laila PedroARLENE SHECHET with Phong Bui
A Little Boy Lies Face Down on the Beach
– By David Levi StraussLandon Metz's New Paintings
– By Alex Bacon
ArtSeen
Berliner Sommerzeit
– By Tom McGlynnLetter from Paris
– By Hearne PardeeSARAH CHARLESWORTH Doubleworld
– By Simone KrugA Painted Horse by JOE SOLA
(with MATTHEW CHAMBERS, SAYRE GOMEZ, RUDY K. SLOBECK, and others)– By Liz HirschPicture This: New Orleans
Mary Ellen Mark's Last Assignment– By Charles SchultzRODRÍGUEZ CALERO
Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos– By Jessica HolmesRUTH ROOT
– By ANTHONY HAWLEYSEAN SCULLY Different Places
– By David CarrierCLIFFORD ROSS Landscape Seen & Imagined
– By Phong H. BuiMERYL MCMASTER Second Self
– By Christopher GreenType as Image
– By Jonathan GoodmanPersonal Correspondents: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn
– By Sara ChristophSTANLEY WHITNEY and LORRAINE O'GRADY
– By Phillip GriffithAGNES DENES Living Pyramid
– By Ann McCoyANDREAS SCHULZE Stau
– By Terry R. MyersEVAN NESBIT Porosity
– By David RhodesBARBARA TAKENAGA Nebraska
– By Kara L. RooneyWOLFGANG TILLMANS Book for Architects
– By Michelle StandleyMeans of Approach: New York Painting
– By Joan WaltemathSHIRIN NESHAT Facing History
– By Yasi AlipourSpace Between
– By Samuel FeldblumMICHAEL SMITH Excuse Me!?!...I'm looking for the "Fountain of Youth"
– By Andrea ZlotowitzCHOONG SUP LIM Void
– By Jonathan GoodmanEmpty House Casa Vazia
– By Margaret Graham
Books
Autumn's Picks for Young Readers
– By Jordan B. NielsenThe Physics of Bearing Witness
– By Sharon MesmerYour Body Becomes You
– By Carmiel BanaskyCruel Theater
– By Mary Ann CawsThe Radiant City
– By Dustin IllingworthDaughter of the West
– By Jill DehnertThe Secret Life of Everything
– By Madeline GresselUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS'S 21st CENTURY PROSE SERIES AUTHORS
LAUREN FOSS GOODMAN in conversation with RYAN RIDGELiving Between the Imagined and the Real
MICHAEL KLEIN with Tony LeuzziCOREY MESLER with Alex Dueben
Throw Yourself Accordingly
Roberto Montes with Andrew WeatherheadTongues Like as of Fire
– By Ryan D. MatthewsSUSAN SHAPIRO with Anne Scardino
Spells, Riddles, Potions, and Curses
– By Lucas HuntRENÉE WATSON with Linda Kleinbub
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Selling Out to Freedom
– By George GrellaA PARLIAMENT OF SOUND
The Twentieth Annual Vision Festival– By Ryan MeehanDiary of a Mad Composer
– By George GrellaSINGING HISTORY
The President's "Amazing Grace"– By Brian BaroneSpacious and Relaxed
– By Michael BlairOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Whose Island / Who is Island
– By Jaime Shearn CoanFive on the Black Hand Side / Dapline!
– By Jaime Shearn CoanABOVE THE FOLD
Hierarchy, Hedonism, and Hemlines in Walter Dundervill's Arena– By Erica Getto
Theater
The Salad Days of Sheila Callaghan
– By Tommy SmithStorm, Still:
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Fiction
Horror Story
–1997
– By Jeremy Tiangfrom Kid Coole
– By M. G. StephensYoung Mothers
– By Joanna Walshan extract from The Folly
– By Ivan VladislavićMessages from Home
– By Molly RothArrowschmitt!!!!
– By Arryan Decatur
Field Notes
Editor's Note
– By Paul MattickWe Gotta Get Out of This Place
ANSELM JAPPE with Alastair HemmensBack to School, Back to Work
– By Samuel FeldblumFighting the Fire Next Time
– By Peter St. Clair