Dec/Jan 16–17
The “Dec/Jan 16–17” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 6, 2016.
Critics Page
What is Criticism, Now?
– By David Levi StraussReparative Criticism
– By Kareem EstefanA Shelter for Shadows
– By Sam SwaseyCritics of the Corners
– By Alexandra NicolaidesCriticism and Civility
– By Jessica HolmesWhy I Am Not a Tech Writer
– By Will FenstermakerHow to Value Criticism?
– By Noah DillonWhat is Art Criticism?
– By Clay MatlinThe Promise of Mutability
– By Emmanuel IdumaEmbracing the Unseen
– By Aimee WallestonThe Ineluctable Task
– By Eric SutphinWords as Necessities
– By Sabrina MandaniciArt Is Our Last Hope
– By Tatiane SchilaroCritical Catastrophes
– By Amelia RinaDear Grace & Quinn
– By Charles SchultzA Sequence of Coherent Words
– By Sara Christoph
Co-Founder's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark
– By William CorbettMax Beckmann in New York
– By Tom McGlynnWilliam Eggleston The Democratic Forest
– By Sara ChristophBeverly Buchanan Ruins and Rituals
– By Jared QuintonGimme Shelter
– By Michelle StandleyCarrie Mae Weems
– By Matthew BiroThe Democracy of Touches: A New Reading of Richard Pousette-Dart
– By Phong H. BuiPipilotti Rist Pixel Forest
– By Lara AtallahÆthelred Eldridge
– By William CorwinDoris Salcedo The Materiality of Mourning
– By Timothy Francis BarryKerry James Marshall Mastry
– By Hovey BrockZao Wou-Ki No Limits
– By David CarrierRagnar Kjartansson Scenes from Western Culture/Architecture and Morality/World Light
– By Jason RosenfeldCarolee Schneemann
– By Ann McCoyAlex Da Corte A Man Full of Trouble
– By Osman Can YerebakanTetsumi Kudo
– By Ciara MoloneyDreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016
– By Charlene K. LauDecolonize This Place
– By Terence TrouillotJulia Rommel Man Alive
– By Phong H. BuiLeah Raintree: Another Land: After Noguchi
– By Taney RonigerBlack Pulp!
– By Terence TrouillotFrancis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction
– By Jason RosenfeldNo Man's Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection
– By Joyce BeckensteinSiah Armajani
– By Jonathan GoodmanReflections on The Sea is Mine: 2016 Qalandiya International in Palestine
– By Elliot Josephine Leila ReichertMICHAEL MANDIBERG | SIMON DENNY
– By Ian Cofré
Books
Intimations and Hints
– By Weston CutterThe Underground Railroad
– By Weston CutterRequiem for a Great America
– By Joshua AlvarezWhat the Darkness Was For
– By Dustin IllingworthA Poet’s Guide to Death
– By Gillie CollinsA Poet is a Mood
– By J. C. HallmanFlower or Whip?
– By John DominiDAN SIMON with Phong Bui
By Godlis!
DAVID GODLIS with Jacquelyn Gallo
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
LIMPE FUCHS with Cammisa Buerhaus
Outtakes
– By Steve DalachinskyI Thought That We Were Winning: In Remembrance of Leonard Cohen
– By Marshall YarbroughThe Return of the Legendary Pink Dots
– By Dan JosephThe Maestro and His Double
– By Jeff TompkinsDiary of a Mad Composer
– By George Grella
Dance
India, Illuminating and Inspiring
– By Ryan WenzelEnd of Party
Ionesco Meets Beckett– By Ivan Talijancic
Film
Idle in Ireland: Albert Serra's Singularity
– By Samuel AdelaarDrifting Architectures: Deborah Stratman’s The Illinois Parables
– By Joe BuccieroWild and Vocal: Flaherty NYC Autumn 2016
– By Irina LeimbacherArtist and Models: Bresson’s Interviews and Writings
– By Michael BlumUrban Legend: Matt Tyrnauer’s Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
– By Erica Peplin
Theater
Letter From Queens:
Reflections on a Homegrown Disruption– By Ben GassmanFrom Great Lakes to Porto
KATE BENSON with Ariel StessManifesting Destiny
Playwrights Traverse the Theater and TV Divide– By Addie Johnson TalbottPlaywright, Citizen, Educator
Lucy Thurber at The New School– By Emily MorseBreaking the Theatrical Fundraising Mold
Lesser America Launches The Dare Fund– By Dorit AvganimExponentially Inclusive: Brooklyn's January Performance Festival
– By Adam R. BurnettIn Mariah MacCarthy's World, "Weirdos" Take the Lead
– By Leah Nanako Winkler
Fiction
The Manifesto of the 121
(On the Right to Refuse Military Service)–an extract from Fractals in a Box
–inSerial: part four
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis WarshLOST AND FOUND ANIMALS
a misplaced bestiary
Part 4: Sound Spiders (Sondifera terrastis)– By Sid GershgorenNew Routes in Fiction: TAYLOR LARSEN with Alec Niedenthal
23 Clinton Street
– By Tom DalyTragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
Jury
– By Ann LauterbachSeven
– By Barbara Jane ReyesThree
– By Edwin TorresThree
– By Andrei CodrescuHomage to Ralph Nader
– By Garrett CaplesMy Little Envoi, For Nancy, Travis, and Roswell
– By Jennifer BartlettMake America Again
– By Greg FuchsTrump Morning, A Grief Sequence
– By Sue LandersOpinion Sonnet
– By John YauA nasty woman has a vision
– By Allison CobbNovember 9th, 2016
– By Robert BoorasFour
– By Uche Nduka
Art Books
ON DONALD JUDD’S WRITINGS
Mirror and Bridge– By Greg Lindquist“Judd’s Answer”
– By Colleen Asperbent reflections: a response to Judd’s writings
– By Joan WaltemathReply to “It’s Hard to Find a Good Lamp”
– By Jose DávilaDistance Learning
– By Ethan GreenbaumGod is Dead! Painting is Dead?
– By James Kalm[Untitled]
– By Marjorie Welish6 September 1986
– By Martha TuttleA YEAR IN ART BOOKS
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition– By Benjamin GottliebWorking Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke
– By Greg LindquistFloat
– By Phillip GriffithHow To See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More
– By Sara Christoph
Field Notes
SPECIAL SECTION: AFTER THE ELECTION
–The Stakes Are High:
An Interview with Noam ChomskyThe Road Not Taken
– By Steve FraserDonald J. Trump, or How He Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Establishment
– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch and Nicoletta RoussevaThe Presidential Election of 2016: The Rise of the Kakistocracy
– By Peter St. ClairA Door to the Unknown
– By Jose A. TapiaDelete Your Account: A Brief History of an Election Night Collapse
– By Dane A. WisherInfinite Crisis
– By Jacob BlumenfeldWhite Noise: Gun Deaths in the Background
– By Stephanie SkaffTake It Off!: An Evening on the Jersey Shore with God and Michael Bolton
– By Dane A. Wisher