June 2017
The “June 2017” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on May 28, 2017.
Critics Page
The New Figurative & History Painting
– By Donald KuspitThe Day’s Outrage:
Fearless Girl and Open Casket– By BRIAN WINKENWEDERResponse to James Cooper
– By Mark Van ProyenTemporal Nomads:
The Scandal of Postmodern History Painting– By Robert R. ShaneThe Issue of History Painting
– By Jacob CollinsContemporary History Painting
– By Adam MillerHistory Painting and the Problem with Art Education
– By Robert Zeller
Co-Founder's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
MIDTOWN
– By Rabia AshfaqueAll the Threatened and Delicious Things Joining One Another
– By Magdalyn AsimakisFelix Gonzalez-Torres
– By Phillip GriffithThe Longest Journey
– By Tim BarryWhen An Image Works, Words Don’t Need To
– By Will FenstermakerFlorine Stettheimer Painting Poetry
– By Michelle StandleyMARTIN BOYCE Sleeping Chimneys. Dead Stars.
– By Stephen TruaxRachel Harrison Prasine
– By Jane CavalierRidley Howard Travel Pictures
– By Jason RosenfeldMyths of the Marble
– By Leah GallantMaking Space: Women Artists in Postwar Abstraction
– By Ann McCoyRobert Bordo Back Flip
– By David RhodesHead Over Heels
– By Amy DenesonTales of Transformation
– By Jurriaan BenschopExhibition 1
– By Osman Can YerebakanA Fable of A Time Traveler
– By Phong H. BuiLuke Diiorio nine paintings
– By Alex BaconVenice Biennial: At a Glance, 2017
– By Barbara LondonTobias Pils
– By Ilka ScobieRoxy Paine Farewell Transmission
– By Hovey BrockAlex Katz Subway Drawings
– By Tom McGlynn
Books
Cultural Currency:
LISA KO with Nicole TreskaDefiant Duality
– By Gabino IglesiasKALEIDOSCOPIC:
MELISSA FEBOS with Ryan BergDifferent Routes to Rarified Air
– By John DominiLeaps of Faith
– By David VarnoSTACEY LEVINE with Kristy Eldredge
Refusing Removal
– By Nicole TreskaDefacing the Palimpsest:
Don DeLillo, New York Antagonist– By John DominiMai Der Vang with Alex Dueben
Fat Beautiful Stinking Bookmarks:
Joseph Scapellato with James Tadd AdcoxThe Women in the Band
– By Yvonne C. GarrettBibliotherapy
– By Yvonne C. GarrettFamily Bonds
– By Matt GrantGetting Portland
– By Yvonne C. GarrettIn the Green Chair, Talking Alternative Lives:
PAUL AUSTER with J.T. PriceModes of Stylish Knowing
– By J.T. Price
Music
Brooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Events
Brooklyn Rail Spring Mix
Relexifying the Canon of Black Music
Nicholas Payton with Vilde AaslidContinuous Variable Harmonics
– By MV CarbonSay Goodbye to Reality
Nicholas Smith (I Cut People) with Matthew AckermanLoony Tunes
– By Richard KlinOuttakes
– By Steve Dalachinsky
Dance
Titicut Follies:
A Stark Documentary Transformed into Dance– By Susan YungHitting Her Stride
– By Nicole Loeffler-GladstoneThe Slow Burn:
Hilary Easton’s Radiator– By Jen George“I’m gay,” she never said.
– By Clare Croft
Film
Intelligence Porn
– By Sarah MendelsohnScreening the Regions:
An Incomplete Philippine Cinema– By Paul GrantContent Is King
– By Will FenstermakerLooking for Lumia:
Thomas Wilfred’s Forgotten Art of Light– By Swagato ChakravortyA Prophet Against Empire: Jerry Tartaglia’s Escape from Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
– By David BruinSeems Like Just Yesterday
Revisiting the 80s and 90s at The Tribeca Film Festival– By Williams Cole
Theater
(NOT) Water:
Sheila Callaghan, Daniella Topol, and the Slow-Building Wave of Collaboration– By Katie PearlParity, Politics, and Survival: WiTFESTNYC 2017
– By Martha Steketee
Fiction
The World Without People Who Ruin It and Make It Ugly
–Extract from Autopsy of a Father
–inSerial: part nine
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis WarshNew Routes in Fiction
A talk with Colm Tóibín–Tragic Strip
– By Tom MotleyWatching TV with Steven Freund
– By Tom DalyLOST AND FOUND ANIMALS a misplaced bestiary
Part 9: The Transfinite Direwolf (Canis infinitis)– By Sid Gershgoren
Poetry
Regression,
– By Gabe KruisSix
– By Shannon TharpTwo
–Four
for Joanne Kyger– By Michael Cavuto
Art Books
Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
– By Andrew HolterKate Zambreno with T. Clutch Fleischmann
Agnes Martin: Night Sea
– By Stephanie GuyetActivestills: Photography as Protest in Palestine/Israel
– By Maria QuinataBlurred Library: Essays on Artists’ Books
– By Megan N. LibertySocial Medium: Artists Writing; 2000 – 2015
– By Tim Barry
Field Notes
Notes on a bad photo of a sick society, or, What does democracy looks like?
– By Charles ReeveDutch Treat: The General Election of March 2017 and the Populist Vote
– By Nick VosField Notes from the Anthropocene:
Living in the Back Loop– By Stephanie WakefieldWhy Conservatives Are Panicking Over a Short Story About Communism
– By Chad KautzerPeter James Hudson with John Clegg
The Well
Bar LunÀtico
– By Juliet Helmke