March 2016
The “March 2016” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 4, 2016.
Critics Page
Art Encounters Law
– By Joan KeeCowboys Milking
Formerly Attributed to Cady Noland– By Amy AdlerJust More than Zero
– By Kris CohenOn the Maintenance of Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft
– By Jeannine TangVagina Dialogues
Ann Hirsch's Free Speech Battles on the Web– By Kibum KimBRANDED
On the Semiotic Disobedience of Hank Willis Thomas– By Sonia K. KatyalLegal Entanglement
The Body in Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled", 1989– By Joshua Chambers-LetsonArt and Law Enforcement in a Ring Box: TALWST's Miniature Aesthetic Revolution
– By Cristina VatulescuJustice Must be Seen to be Done
– By Carey YoungThe Law in Our Hands
– By Joan Kee
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
BECKY HOWLAND: Weeds of New York
– By Chloe RossettiPia Camil: A Pot for a Latch
– By Michelle StandleyANECHOIC* MIRROR
ANRI SALA Answer Me– By Tom McGlynnHENRIK OLESEN
– By Terry R. MyersPOPE.L WILL BOONE
– By Phillip GriffithPhoto-Poetics: An Anthology
– By Taylor DafoeI Am a Lie and I am Gold
– By Yasi AlipourJONG OH
– By Taney RonigerMIRIAM SCHAPIRO
– By Kim PowerLaura Poitras Astro Noise
– By Chloe WymaCAMERON ROWLAND 91020000
– By Terence TrouillotRegards Sur Beyrouth: 160 Ans D'images 1800 – 1960
– By Holly GavinPETER HUJAR Lost Downtown
– By Hovey BrockDANA DEGIULIO & MOLLY ZUCKERMAN-HARTUNG Queen
– By Ashton CooperMERNET LARSEN Things People Do
– By Eleanor RayReality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection
– By Samuel FeldblumNONA FAUSTINE White Shoes
– By Jessica HolmesAMY SILLMAN Stuff Change
– By Kate LiebmanHOW TO . . . IN BERLIN
How to Be Unique– By Joan WaltemathThe World is a Totality of Things
– By William CorwinCARRIE MOYER Sirens
– By Phong H. BuiMARTHA DIAMOND
– By Jonathan Goodman
Books
Single Alright Female
– By Leigh Kamping-CarderEveryone's a Critic
– By Geoffrey YoungThe Domestic Fantastic
– By Artie NiederhofferThe Visitations
– By Tadzio KoelbThe Mundane and the Miraculous
– By Daniel BlueTOD MARSHALL and TONY LEUZZI
SCOTT ALEXANDER HESS with Joseph Salvatore
Missing the Big Picture
– By Joshua Alvarez
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Outtakes
– By Steve DalachinskyCOLOR AND GROOVE:
Winter Jazzfest 2016– By Marshall YarbroughCinematic Indulgence, Rewarded
– By Daniel GoldRova's Electric Ascension
– By Chris NelsonDiary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella
Dance
The Work of Reworking
– By Erica GettoUnplugged
– By Tara SheenaRuffling Feathers
– By Susan Yung
Film
LANA LIN and CAULEEN SMITH
The Belly of a Filmmaker: Peter Greenaway’s Eisenstein in Guanajuato
– By Rumsey TaylorPlanetarium of Blended Dreams
– By Felix BernsteinJAMES N. KIENITZ WILKINS with Herb Shellenberger
THE BLACK LIBERATION KOOL-AID ACID TEST
On Chi-Raq– By Brandon HarrisADAM & ZACK KHALIL with Leo Goldsmith
Theater
The Whole Body Thing:
DODO's The Last Class: A Jazzercize Play– By Crystal SkillmanShifting Shape:
Ironbound's Martyna Majok– By Tommy Smith
Fiction
Pigeons
– By Glendaliz CamachoI'm Here Now but Hiding my Face
– By Mirene ArsaniosModern Bodies
– By Cara BensonTranslating Oneself
– By Johannah RodgersThe Golem
– By Maria Rapoportfrom Kid Coole
– By M. G. StephensTragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
BRAIN FLOWERS (from Making Water)
– By Laura JaramilloTwo
– By Toby FitchSix
– By Michael KelleherTwo
– By Allan M. Jalonfrom Orlando
– By Sandra SimondsThree
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Art Books
International Pop
– By Megan N. LibertyJOCELYN MILLER with Maya Harakawa
Field Notes
Terra Infirma:
Berning Questions– By Steve FraserSharks on the Riverbank:
A Jersey Shore Town, its White Supremacist Past, and its Supremely White Present– By Dane A. WisherSPECIAL REPORT: SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa: The State of the Movement– By Trevor NgwaneSPECIAL REPORT: SOUTH AFRICA
#OutsourcingMustFall:
Unity in Action in South African Universities–