February 2017
The “February 2017” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on February 1, 2017.
Co-Founder's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Art
JACK WHITTEN with Jarrett Earnest
Hilton Als on Alice Neel
EUGENE LEMAY with Phong Bui
When the Dada Daddies Got Real; Or, How I Turned Picabia Inside Out
– By Philip PearlsteinThe Death of John Berger
– By David Levi StraussDAVID SALLE with Jarrett Earnest
JAUME PLENSA
with Laila PedroCHRISTOPHER LE BRUN with Barbara Rose
“What Forms of Making Might Spin the Stories We Need to Lift Ourselves from the Distractions of the Immediate?”
ANN HAMILTON with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
ArtSeen
Gut Feeling
Martha Friedman Dancing Around Things– By Erin SweenyTM DAVY Horses
– By Stephen TruaxPainting Paintings (David Reed) 1975
– By David RhodesPETER CAMPUS
– By Hearne PardeeAlice Neel, Collector of Souls
– By Jurriaan BenschopMan-o Man-ifesto!
– By Alexandra JuhaszVel Minimum
– By Tom McGlynnMarilyn Minter Pretty/Dirty
– By Hannah StamlerKader Attia Reason’s Oxymorons
– By Osman Can YerebakanDispatches
– By Samuel FeldblumBhupen Khakhar You Can’t Please All
– By Michelle StandleyA Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
– By Mary Ann CawsA Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde
– By Hovey BrockBearing Witness, Mendieta Now
– By Vanessa ThillLenore Malen Scenes from Paradise
– By Ann McCoyPopped from Life (for E. M.)
– By Phong H. BuiColonization of Space
– By Phong H. Bui
Books
The Noise of the Rain
– By Mary Ann CawsDown with the Corpocratic Monoculture!
Holly Tavel with Angela WoodwardThe Beasts in Me
– By Gillie CollinsExile on Main Street
– By Tadzio KoelbRelationships Require Fictions to Sustain Them: Jonathan Baumbach with Charles Shafaieh
The Poet As Caretaker (having said too much having not gotten it all down)
– By Chris CampanioniPicking at the Whole Notion of Story
– By Weston CutterMAUREEN N. MCLANE with Alex Dueben
Review of The Patriots
– By Tom DeignanThe Parts That Were Mysterious Even to Me
ROBERT KLOSS with Amber Sparks
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Diary of a Mad Composer
– By George GrellaLegacy in Action: Pharoah Sanders
– By Vilde AaslidOptimism, Restraint, and Repetition
– By Marshall YarbroughDreaming Of A Not-White Winter Jazzfest
– By Daniel GoldFusing Beauty with Anger
The Liberation Music Orchestra– By Jeff TobiasOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Suffusing Form with Activism
– By Susan YungRe-performing Images of Violence and Beauty
– By Ivan TalijancicWalking On Common Ground
– By Erica GettoThe Making of Modernities
– By Sariel Frankfurter
Film
Even The Dead Will Not Be Safe
Montage, History, and Cutting Art Museums– By Madison Brookshire“You’re the Nigger, Baby”
James Baldwin on Film– By Rich BlintWOLFGANG STAEHLE Ludlow Street
– By Keith SanbornACTION MOVIES
“Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power”– By Michael Joshua Rowin
Fiction
Sand Fortress
– By Meg KaizuThe Guest
– By Roberta AllenManhattan Meets Dixie
– By Dorin SchumacherChanel at the Bottom of the Ocean
– By Stephanie YeHousehold Harmonizing
– By Dorin SchumacherinSerial: part five
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis WarshTragic Strip
– By Tom MotleyUpon waking
an homage to Mierle Laderman Ukeles– By Laura RaicovichBigly's Wall
– By William & Katy Arnold and Susan YoungNew Routes in Fiction
A Talk with Akhil Sharma–LOST AND FOUND ANIMALS
a misplaced bestiary
Part 5: The Pre-Partum Mites (Acarophenax imaginaria)– By Sid Gershgoren
Poetry
Eight
– By Anthony McCannAnkara
– By Ethan Fugatefrom Shine
– By Dale Martin SmithReckoning
– By Roberto TejadaFive
– By Elaine EquiDRAFT (September 29, 2016)
– By Anna MoschovakisSix from Existing Models With Intrusive Noise
– By Jeremy HoevenaarSix
– By Garrett CaplesFour
– By Laura HenriksenFive
– By Maureen ThorsonHIST ODRES DE PARADISE (13 poems)
– By Brandon Shimoda
Art Books
Art Systems and Hélio Oiticica
– By Gillian SneedMark Neville, Fancy Pictures
– By Adam BellRené Magritte: Selected Writings
– By Elizabeth BerkowitzExcerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer
– By Phillip Griffith
Field Notes
Editor’s Note
– By Paul MattickElephant Blues
– By Pavlos RoufosStanding with Syrians: An Open Letter to an Anti-Imperialist
– By Philip RizkPassing Notes with Refugees
– By Ilana Simons
The Well
Marie’s Crisis
– By Sara Christoph