May 2017
The “May 2017” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 1, 2017.
Co-Founder's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
Critics Page
And What Shall I Love? Looking at Giorgio de Chirico
– By Heather EwingLooking at Late de Chirico:
Matvey Levenstein, Stephen Ellis, and Lisa YuskavageThe Trouble with De Chirico:
Verifalsi and the Study of Backdated Paintings– By Sophia Maxine FarmerGiulio Paolini on Giorgio de Chirico
– By Fabio CafagnaOn Warhol’s “After de Chirico”
– By Neil PrintzThe Disquieting Muses
– By Sylvia PlathThe Anxious Journey
– By Michael DumanisSeptember Is
– By Mary Jo BangThe Disquieting Muses (from “Two De Chiricos”)
– By Mark Strand“Homeric Dawns”
Giorgio de Chirico’s Metaphysical Interior (with Small Factory)– By Ara H. MerjianGiorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of the Hour (1910): The First Conceptual Work of Art
– By Paolo Baldacci
Art
Helène Aylon with Ann McCoy
Yuji Agematsu with Phong Bui
Heide Hatry with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve and Laila Pedro
The 2017 Whitney Biennial
– By Amy OntiverosThelma Golden with Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier
Siri Hustvedt with Jarrett Earnest
THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ART
Like a Glowing Worm– By Katie AnaniaSalty/Fresh: Paula Wilson's House of Art
– By Rhonda GarelickEmma Sulkowicz with Kang Kang
ArtSeen
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin
– By Rabia AshfaqueArt or Politics?
– By Jurriaan BenschopIan Wilson
– By Mira DayalLygia Pape A Multitude of Forms
– By Yasi AlipourDoug Wheeler PSAD Synthetic Desert
– By Hannah Sage KayTeresita Fernández Fire (America)
– By Lara AtallahIan Cheng Emissaries
– By Charlene K. LauThreads of Fire and Water and Gold
– By Laila PedroPostcommodity Coyotaje
– By Jared QuintonBeatriz Santiago MUÑOZ A Universe of Fragile Mirrors
– By Sara ChristophJimmie Durham At the Center of the World
– By Anthony HawleyMax Ernst Big Brother: Teaching Staff for a School of Murderers
– By Mary Ann CawsStephen Irwin Check to see if still dead inside
– By Stephen TruaxLisa Alvarado Sound Talisman
– By Joe BuccieroSean Scully Wall of Light Cubed
– By Jonathan GoodmanAge of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C. – A.D. 220)
– By Hovey BrockPeder Balke: Painter of Northern Light
– By Jason Rosenfeld
Books
Deft, Eloquent, Shiversome, and Timely
– By Elizabeth BlockThis Ever-Migrating Curse:
Hannah Lillith Assadi with Sean Madigan HoenEmotional Tumult, Formal Play
– By Weston CutterKnott Knowing
– By Tony LeuzziKillers of the Flower Moon
– By Weston CutterSaints & Sinners: JOSIP NOVAKOVICH with Coe Douglas
Aperture for Glimpsing the Abyss: ALEXANDER BOLDIZAR with Kevin Winchester
Not Another Holocaust Novel
– By Marina PetrovaInside the Museums, Infinity Goes Up On Trial
– By Bill GattiFound Footage
– By Chris Campanioni
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Sparse Melody and High-Class Noise: Phil Kline with Jim Jarmusch
– By Marshall YarbroughFrom Watermelon to Lemonade
Sobering Up with Beyoncé– By Rachel LyonJeff Buckley’s Iconic Flame
– By Jane GabrielsBitter Beats and Vitriol
Sleaford Mods at Warsaw– By Dan JosephOriginality and Derivation
Sondre Lerche’s Pleasure– By John AmenOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Social Bodies:
Inside Work/Travail/Arbeid
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker with Gillian JakabPaul Taylor:
Dance-Dramas and Icons– By Susan YungTown, Country, and the Schoolyard
– By Ryan WenzelA Structured Life
– By Sariel FrankfurterDramaturgy for Jerks
– By Willie Filkowski
Film
Roger Beebe with Jordan Cronk
Her Eternity
On Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion– By Paul FeltenEnd of Days
Béla Tarr at the EYE Museum in Amsterdam– By Nathan DunneHow to find beauty in a sea of data
Korakrit Arunanondchai at C L E A R I N G– By Adriana Blidaru
Theater
Raising a Collective Voice:
Martín Zimmerman and Seven Spots on the Sun– By Matthew Paul OlmosAll Hail the Fever State:
Buran Theatre at Ten Years– By Sarah Matusek
Fiction
Brown Seaweed Soup
– By Stacey LevineFour
– By Steph GrayTwo
– By Matthew JakubowskiinSerial: part eight
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis WarshLOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary
Part 8: The Visual Damselfly (coenagrioniidae cinemata)– By Sid Gershgorenfrom The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories
–from My Vibe
–New Routes in Fiction
A talk with Jaroslav Kalfar–Tragic Strip
– By Tom Motley
Poetry
The Blood Barn
– By Carrie LorigVisions and Miracles*
– By Tom SavageSeven
– By Noah Eli Gordonfrom Foreign Terms
– By Divya VictorTwo
– By Ed ColettiFive
– By Linda Nochlin
Art Books
The Estrangement Principle
– By Phillip GriffithHere/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface
– By Hannah Stamler
Field Notes
Is Donald Trump a Fascist?
– By Michael MannThe New Deal Lives On in the City
– By Richard WalkerTycoons of Despair:
Austerity, Aesthetics, and Sentimentality– By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
The Well
The Fat Black Pussycat
– By Sara Christoph