November 2015
The “November 2015” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on November 5, 2015.
Publisher's Message
Dear Readers and Friends,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Social Ecologies
– By Greg LindquistAn Accumulation of Events
– By Matthew C. WilsonTough Acts, To Follow
– By Suzaan BoettgerEcological Normalcy
– By Willis ElkinsArt as Training in the Practice of Freedom
– By Nitasha DhilonOikos and Poesis: Art and Our Planetary Future
– By John ClarkREMIXING MESSAGES
A Call for Collaboration Between Artists and Scientists– By Mary MissLeave Things Open
– By Timothy MortonALEXIS ROCKMAN with Greg Lindquist
Eco-Feminism Revisited
– By Eleanor HeartneyBefore the Storm Clouds of the 21st Century
– By Mel ChinFrom Eco-Art to Biopolitical Struggle on the Eve of COP21
– By Yates McKeeAn Art of "Why Not?"
– By Jeffrey KastnerRE: Ecology Draft
– By Nancy NowacekSARAH NELSON WRIGHT and EVE MOSHER
A BUCKET LIST FOR ARTISTS WORKING IN THE AGE OF ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE
The Top Ten Things Not To Miss Before They Are Gone!– By Mark Dion and David BrooksLand of Syllepsis
– By Kevin ZuckerBeyond the Scenic Vista
– By Ian CofréAlternative Spaces and the Anthropocene
– By Gean Morenoa collective free association of "A Proverbial Machine in the Garden"
– By David BrooksNotes on Landscape/Painting/Photography/the Sublime
– By Martha SchwendenerPanel on Eco-poetics, SVA, September 16, 2010
– By Rackstraw DownesThe Appalachian Mountaintop Patrol
– By Laura ChipleyJust Act Natural...
– By Tom McGrathAll Animals That Are Not White Men
– By Dana SherwoodElene Abashidze and Gio Sumbadze
Blued Trees on the front lines journal excerpts
– By Aviva RahmaniA Little Inspiration Can Go a Long Way
– By Tara DeporteNature Morte
– By Marc HandelmanFeral Landscape Love: Novel Ecosystems in the Studio and the Street
– By Ellie Irons
ArtSeen
Bring Your Own Body
– By Rin JohnsonCLEMENT SIATOUS Sagren
– By Sara ChristophWEAVING PAST INTO PRESENT
Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking– By Christopher GreenHANNELINE RØGEBERG Off the Bone
– By Eric SutphinCALEDONIA CURRY Five Stories with SWOON
– By Alexandra HammondNaked at the Edge: Louis Eilshemius and Bob Thompson
– By David CarrierSARAH SZE
– By Joyce BeckensteinCheckered History
– By William CorwinJESSICA STOCKHOLDER
– By Terry R. MyersTell Them Stories: Origins
– By Kim PowerAMER KOBASLIJA Places, Spaces; a Survey of Paintings 2005 – 2015
– By Hovey BrockZHANG HONGTU
– By Ingrid DudekMARCO MAGGI Unfolding Marco Maggi
– By Taney RonigerADAM FUSS λόγος
– By Yasi AlipourLeo Rabkin: A Tribute: 1958 - 2015
– By Elisa DeckerTransmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America 1960 - 1980
– By Lucía HinojosaRoland Flexner and Japanese Bronzes of the Edo Period
– By David Rhodes
Books
Grey Matters
– By Hilary ReidHaving a Crystal Ball
– By Leigh Kamping-CarderMEA CUBA
On Exile and Excess– By Chris CampanioniTRANSLATING THE UNSPOKEN
PABLO MEDINA with Eloisa AmezcuaThis Physical Life
– By Diksha BasuDouble Identity
– By Tadzio KoelbMETHODS TO OUR MADNESS
CARMIEL BANASKY with Ryan KrullUndying Unica
– By Mary Ann Caws
Music
SERIOUS MIND GAMES: DISASTERS
CARLOS FORSTER with Adam KleinDiary of a Mad Composer
– By George GrellaTHINGS FALL APART:
Timur and the Dime Museum at the Brooklyn Academy of Music– By Jeff Tompkins10 LISTENS
Blueblut’s Hurts So Gut– By Michael DurekBrooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
The Shape of Jazz's Past to Come: Kamasi Washington's The Epic
– By Ryan MeehanThe Hypnotic Harmonies of Low
– By Dan JosephOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
DONALD BYRD with Jessica Lynne
– By Jessica LynneURGENT TOMORROWS
NIV ACOSTA & THOMAS F. DEFRANTZ with Tara Aisha WillisThe Evolution of the Queer Dancer
– By Jaime Shearn Coan
Theater
Baroque Meets Pop Culture
YOU US WE ALL Comes to BAM– By Marcina ZaccariaBad Boys, and the Bad Girls Who Love Them with Caroline V. McGraw
– By Sonya SobieskiThe Road to Eclipsed
Getting Lost with Designer Clint Ramos– By Addie Johnson Talbott
Fiction
from Kid Coole
– By M. G. StephensTragic Strip
– By Tom Motleyraw hamburger
– By Dane LaChiusa
Field Notes
The Grapes of Wrath Revisited
– By Nick VosIt's (Still) Chinatown, Jake
– By Richard WalkerAll Tomorrow's Parties
– By Jason E. Smith