March 2017
The “March 2017” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on March 1, 2017.
Co-Founder's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
Art as Fashion, Fashion as Art
– By Alexandra SchwartzIs Fashion Art?
– By Valerie SteeleThe Museum of Modern Art’s
Items: Is Fashion Modern?– By Paola Antonelli and Michelle Millar FisherA Dream of Identity
– By Rhonda GarelickRenaissance Fashion, Renaissance Bodies
– By Timothy McCallFashionable Distractions
– By Marika Takanishi KnowlesArt into Life—and Back Again
– By Juliet BellowThe African Roots of Modern Fashion
– By Camara Dia HollowayTexts That Are Knit To Be Worn On Me
– By Lisa Anne AuerbachSympathetic Magic
– By Mark NewportFantastical New Bodies
– By Saya Woolfalk
Art
ROBERTA SMITH with Jarrett Earnest
YOAN CAPOTE with Laila Pedro
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
On Georgia O’Keeffe, In and Out of Sight– By Gaby Collins-FernandezKatharina Grosse with Phong Bui
Douglas Gordon with William Corwin
TAMARA GONZALES
with Raymond Foye and Peter Lamborn WilsonDore Ashton in East Hampton, 2012
– By Jarrett Earnest
ArtSeen
Wangechi Mutu Ndoro Na Miti
– By Ilka ScobieLynn Hershman Leeson Remote Controls
– By Lara AtallahPerpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change
– By Alexandra JuhaszGut Feeling
– By Erin SweenyMarisa Merz The Sky Is a Great Space
– By Tom McGlynnRaymond Pettibon A Pen of All Work
– By Terence TrouillotJohan Grimonprez | blue orchids |
– By Sara ChristophMeditations on Time: Tacita Dean in Mexico City
– By Lucía HinojosaPaul Mpagi Sepuya Figures, Grounds and Studies
– By Phillip GriffithFast Forward: Painting From the 1980s
– By Jason RosenfeldJackson Mac Low Lines‑Letters‑Words
– By Rabia AshfaqueOne And One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers
– By Tim BarryJack Whitten
– By David RhodesEJ HAUSER Me + You
– By Phong H. BuiA.K. BURNS Shabby but Thriving
– By Connor HammAGNIESZKA POLSKA Little Planet
– By Anthony HawleyMorgan O'Hara Live Transmissions
– By Joan GrubinRYAN MCGINLEY Early
– By Timothy Francis BarryRobert Mangold: A Survey, 1965 – 2003
– By David CarrierJOANNA MALINOWSKA Not a Metaphorical Forest
– By Parker Henry
Books
Adventures in Self-Voyeurism
– By William LessardSame as I Ever Was
Susan Perabo with Weston CutterOn “Gay Conversion” Therapy
– By Amy DenesonTouring Trump Country in a Clown Car
– By John DominiLeft Lying
– By Weston CutterGhost Story
– By Weston Cutter
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Synchronize/Resonance/Blend
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt with Neha KirpalVarious Artists: Desconstrução
– By Adolf AlzupharSynth Pop Politics:
Austra at Warsaw– By Dan JosephWhat I Learn From... Christian Wolff
– By Craig ShepardMAKE YOUR POINTE
Dots Will Echo’s Nick Berry Sings Like a Girl EP– By Mik PointeOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Justin Peck’s New Language
– By Susan YungStrange Love at RadioLoveFest:
Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host– By Nicole Loeffler-GladstoneMr. Gaga’s (not quite) Last Work
– By Ivan TalijancicA Bicycle is Loved and Lost, Orgasm Found
– By Michael Parmelee and Mike Stinavage
Film
Without End:
Val del Omar at Anthology Film Archives– By Almudena Escobar LópezThe Maps of The Settlers
– By Michela MoscufoEven The Dead Will Not Be Safe: Part II of III
– By Madison BrookshireMixed Use:
E.S.P. TV’s Unit 11– By Mary BillyouInside the Pleasure Palace
– By Brett KashmereTwo Contentious New Waves: “Oshima x Godard” at BAM
– By Julia Alekseyeva
Fiction
Baby of the Family:
Love Lost, But Not Forgotten– By Douglas Scott MickeyESSAY
The Erotics of Restraint, or the Angel in the Novel: A Note on Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park– By Douglas GloverinSerial: part six
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis WarshLOST AND FOUND ANIMALS
a misplaced bestiary
Part 6: The Responsible Echo Birds (Echoicoicae Mimimiata)– By Sid Gershgorentwo extracts from
Nights as Day, Days as Night–Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
Rachel Levitsky with Ana Paula
Two
– By Sahar MuradiFour
– By Dustin Williamsonfrom There Have Been Some Days I Didn't Know Your Name
– By Amanda NadelbergNew Year's Eve & Day in the Anthropocene
– By Craig Santos PerezFive
– By Sommer BrowningTwo
– By Marcella DurandSeven
– By Arlo QuintReleased From Within the Turned Up Cultures
– By Leonard SchwartzTwo
– By Connie Mae OliverFour
– By Craig Morgan TeicherSeven
– By Vincent Katz
Art Books
Manifestly Haraway
– By Chloe WymaThe Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp
– By James MillerYVE-ALAIN BOIS with Alex Bacon
Melissa Rachleff, Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952 – 1965
– By Wendy Vigroux
Field Notes
India: Demonetization Indian-Style and What It Says About All Our Futures
– By Serge QuadruppaniNowhere to Go:
Automation, Then and Now– By Jason E. SmithHarvard’s Graduate Students Union Versus the Trappings of Success
– By Samuel FeldblumCulture from Horror:
On Teaching the Mexican Drug Wars– By Douglas Unger