July/August 2016
The “July/August 2016” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 11, 2016.
Publisher's Message
Dear Readers and Friends,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Performing Identities, Identifying Performance
– By John TainAgainst Identity
– By Gerard & KellySkin of the Actor, Teeth of the Artist
– By Asher HartmanLigia Lewis
Mark Aguhar
– By Young Joon KwakThings Left Behind: Black Screen 16:9
– By Erin Christovale and Rafa EsparzaThe Woman Who Married a Bear
– By Simone FortiAttention:
– By Lucky DragonsTake My Hand and Let's Get Out of This 4% Universe
– By Laub and Jennifer Moon
Art
WOLFGANG TILLMANS with Allie Biswas
LUC TUYMANS with Jarrett Earnest
THOMAS ROMA and LEO RUBINFIEN with Sara Christoph
RASHAAD NEWSOME with Laila Pedro
HARMONY HAMMOND with Phillip Griffith
JONATHAN LASKER with Phong Bui
ROBERT BORDO with Seth Cameron
IN MEMORIAM
BILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016)
A Jolt and a Gem– By David Levi StraussBILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016)
Bill Berkson: Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently– By Anne WaldmanBILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016)
"WE WERE DESIGNED FOR HEAVEN"
Bill Berkson On Arcadia, Utopia, and Collaboration– By Jarrett EarnestBILL BERKSON (1939 – 2016)
All Good Things Must Come to an End– By Robert Storr
ArtSeen
The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman
– By Brandt JunceauThe Language of Things
– By Phillip GriffithYoshiaki Mochizuki: Summer Solstice
– By Taney RonigerTurner's Whaling Pictures
– By Jason RosenfeldJean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Films and Their Sites
– By David RhodesBUT A STORM IS BLOWING FROM PARADISE:
Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa– By Yasi AlipourNICOLE EISENMAN
– By Stephen TruaxAL HELD Brushstrokes: India Ink Drawings From 1960
– By Phong H. BuiPOPS STANDARD
STUART DAVIS In Full Swing– By Tom McGlynnFinding the Major Arcana
CARIN RILEY Linear Figurations– By William CorwinALEX KATZ Drawings
– By David RhodesGERHARD RICHTER
– By Hovey BrockSon: Signal of Authority
– By Kang Kang(Not So) Still Life
– By Kim PowerSubterranean Sculptural Blues
– By Samuel FeldblumPAUL MOGENSEN Painting
– By Greg LindquistNaomi Campbell: Bread and Circuses
– By Jonathan GoodmanMARTIN PURYEAR Big Bling
– By Jason RosenfeldAndy Warhol & Ai Weiwei
– By David CarrierLEE KRASNER
– By Darragh McNicholasSurface Conditions
– By Nora GriffinSURREAL ENCOUNTERS: COLLECTING THE MARVELOUS
Works from the Collections of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch– By Mary Ann CawsN. DASH
– By Phong H. Bui
Books
JOHN DOMINI with Christina Milletti
– By Christina MillettiHarlem to the Moon
– By Jill DearmanTo Boldly Go: ANN VANDERMEER & JEFF VANDERMEER With Nancy Hightower
– By Nancy HightowerThe Critics and the Chroniclers: Four Writers on Food in Our Times
– By Alison Tate LewisSARA BAUME with Torrey Crim
Caring for the Underdog: JEROME CHARYN with Alex Dueben
Canon Fodder
– By Weston CutterNothing Embarrassing or Strange: Curating KGB Bar's Writers' Series
– By David WinnerThe What is That
– By Weston CutterStatus Update: MATTHEW VOLLMER Speaks with Joseph Salvatore
Expanding the Possibilities of Story: AMBER SPARKS with John Madera
BELINDA MCKEON with Torrey Crim
The Writers' Writers: Bookmarked Series by Ig Publishing
AARON BURCH, KIRBY GANN, CURTIS SMITH, and ROBERT LASNER with Joseph SalvatoreGIRL ON FIRE (AND ICE)
BLAIR BRAVERMAN with Leigh Kamping‑CarderFather Figures
– By Joshua AlvarezArtistic Wanderings
– By Gretchen SchmidSESQUIPEDALIAN ECCENTRICS
DYLAN HICKS with Evan Lavender‑SmithBOOKS ARE NOT CHILDREN
RUMAAN ALAM with Catherine LaSotaThe Unfinished World of the Short Story
– By Darley StewartThe Fog Machine
– By Jon KrampnerThe Barely-There Before or: Paradise Lost (& Found)
– By Chris CampanioniTrove of Secrets
– By Gillie Collins
Music
Danay Suárez, Polvo de la Humedad
– By Adolf AlzupharPneumatic Mnemonic: Pylon Live
– By Daniel GoldBrooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
MUSIC AS A VOLATILE ART FORM: Terry Allen Reissued
– By Marshall YarbroughHearing With Your Eyes
– By George GrellaJon Savage's Very Good Year
– By Jeff TompkinsOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Now More Than Ever, We Need This Party
– By Jaime Shearn CoanMARIE CHOUINARD with Stephanie Del Rosso
Ratmansky's Quiet Revolution
– By Susan YungMOVEMENT REALIZED
Anna Sperber's Prize– By Lori DeGolyer
Film
LOUIS HENDERSON with Leo Goldsmith
MIXED USE:
Spectacle's Trailers– By Mary BillyouIMAGES OF THE WORLD:
At the Harun Farocki Institut– By Jesse Cumming
Theater
The Art of Capturing the Ephemeral
Maria Baranova's performance photography– By Ivan TalijancicLindsay Joy's In the Event of My Death: New Plays Grown Down at The Farm Theater
– By Addie Johnson TalbottThe authenticity in getting Caught with Christopher Chen
– By Matthew Paul Olmos
Fiction
Excerpts from Nioque
–Bartleby on Carmine Street
– By Raphael RubinsteinThree
– By Peter WortsmanThe Crying Scout
– By Debora KuanTragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
Two
– By Amy De'AthTwo
– By Denver Butson☐ descriptions that leave out
– By Binswanger FriedmanBill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
– By Edmund BerriganTwo
– By Shira DentzFive
– By Shanna Compton
Art Books
Jon-Michael Frank and Bianca Stone
– By Megan N. LibertyRICHARD VINE with David Ebony
Field Notes
Letter from the Netherlands:
"We Refugees are Like Chemical Waste"– By Nick VosFrom Welcome to Farewell:
Germany, the refugee crisis and the global surplus proletariat– By Felix BaumWhite, Rural, and Poor:
On the Politics of Non-Identity– By Adam Theron-Lee RenschAfter Being Up All Night, We Wake up with a Political Strike1
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