October 2015
The “October 2015” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on October 5, 2015.
Critics Page
Visual Arts Archives and Artists' Legacies
– By Charles DuncanArchives at an Exhibition
– By Laura MorrisORAL HISTORY AND ARTISTS
New Meanings through Distinct Sources– By Sarah DziedzicFrom Reel to Digital at the New York Studio School
– By David RandallPlease Return
– By Charlotte SlivkaFirefall (The Benefit of Bad Documentation)
– By Adam FrelinRole-Playing
– By Ann ButlerFRONT AND CENTER:
The Place of Archives at the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation– By Elizabeth SmithFrom the Horse's Mouth
– By Kathy BrewResearching the Club
– By Valerie HellsteinWhose Lens is it Anyway?
– By Karen HelmersonThe Spoken Word
– By Wendy JeffersTracing an Erased Artist in Multiple Archives: Josephine Verstille Nivison Hopper
– By Gail Levin, Ph.D.The Papers Chase
– By Francis M. NaumannThe Unreliability of Primary Sources
– By Jillian Russo
Publisher's Message
Dear Readers and Friends,
– By Phong H. Bui
Art
WAYNE KOESTENBAUM with Phillip Griffith
SARA REISMAN with Kara Rooney
ROSEMARIE CASTORO with Alex Bacon
ALFRED LESLIE with Phong Bui
COCO FUSCO with Laila Pedro
Kippy
– By Debra Bricker BalkenLetter to Kippy
– By Roger ConoverTHE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
Malthus Und Der Maler– By Michael O’HareRAINER GANAHL with Sara Roffino
– By Sara Roffino
ArtSeen
KYEUNG MOOK CHOI
– By Jonathan GoodmanGRAHAM COLLINS Stadiums
– By David RhodesKYLE STAVER Tall Tales
– By Mary ProenzaSTEPHEN MAINE New Paintings
– By Tom McGlynnRICHARD LONG Crescent to Cross
– By Ann McCoyTRISHA BAGA Orlando
– By Chloe WilcoxFrom Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola
– By Phillip GriffithROBERTO VISANI In Medias Res
– By William CorwinFor a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art & Photography, 1968-1979
– By Charles SchultzThe Baltic Triennial
– By Paul JaskunasLetter from Tehran
– By Yasi AlipourROBERT OVERBY Persistence. Repeated.
– By Hovey BrockJACKIE SACCOCCIO Degree of Tilt
– By Melinda LangKELTIE FERRIS
– By Bradley RubensteinCHUCK CLOSE Red Yellow Blue
– By Jessica HolmesJosh Jefferson Head First
– By Jonathan GoodmanSUZANNE GOLDENBERG
Work– By R. H. LossinAGNES MARTIN
– By Holly GavinDANA SCHUTZ Fight in an Elevator
– By Kate LiebmanMERIDEL RUBENSTEIN The Volcano Cycle
– By Hearne Pardee
Books
HAND WEARS GLOVE
CATE MARVIN with Elizabeth TrundleThe Deadling Memo
– By Tara ToblerThe Quotidian Ephemera of Women's Lives
– By Madeline GresselElasticity Itself
– By Dustin IllingworthThe Great Denial
– By Taney RonigerUpgrade or Retrograde?
– By Geoffrey YoungVINCENT KATZ & CARTER RATCLIFF
Scrapper
– By David VarnoStories About the Storm
– By Christopher X. ShadeThe People Come First:
Alcott with Catherine LaSotaApocalypse of the Vanities
– By Casey Michael HenryThe Story of My Teeth
– By Weston CutterGiven Enough Rope
– By John DominiProdigal Thoughts
– By Scott CheshireCall Me Harry
– By Andrew Cotto
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Trans-Europe Exotic
– By Marshall YarbroughVETERANS OF DISORDER:
Royal Trux Reunites– By Michael BlairOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyDiary of a Mad Composer
– By George GrellaModern Miles
– By George Grella
Dance
PUSHING PAST OURSELVES
Jeanine Durning's To Being– By Jaime Shearn CoanWHAT DANCE CAN BE
Mariana Valencia's So Far So Much– By Cassie PetersonTREE OF CODES
An Art/Sound Environment with Fleeting Bodies– By Susan YungURGENT TOMORROWS
– By Tara Aisha Willis
Theater
Stanley Kowalski Isn't Polish Anymore
Becca Blackwell on the Making of They, Themself and Schmerm– By Jess BarbagalloEveryone is a Little Bit of Everything
Taylor Mac and Hir– By Matthew Paul Olmos
Fiction
The Dammed
– By Doug NuferLawyer in Heaven
–Ghostwriter--Crown Jewel of La Autora
–Condolences
– By Jared Daniel Fagenfrom études
–Three Stories
– By Ben Trippfrom Kid Coole
– By M. G. StephensThe Place of Storms
–Two from the memoir Shader
– By Daniel NesterTragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Art Books
Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
– By Megan N. LibertyDike Blair Gouaches
– By Rob ColvinVision Anew
– By Taylor Dafoe