July/August 2017
The “July/August 2017” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on July 14, 2017.
Publisher's Message
Dear Friends and Readers,
– By Phong H. Bui
ArtSeen
CAROL RAMA: Antibodies
– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesWILLIAM POPE.L: Proto-Skin Set
– By Alan GilbertLEO VILLAREAL
– By Taney RonigerVINCENZO AGNETTI: Territories
– By Jonathan GoodmanCLIFFORD ROSS: Wood Waves
– By Hovey BrockGarden Dwellers
– By Alexandra HammondUnto each other, a new thing
– By Colin EdgingtonJO NIGOGHOSSIAN: Exotica
– By Phong H. BuiVOICE=SURVIVAL
– By JESSE BANDLER FIRESTONETHE 57TH VENICE BIENNALE: Viva arte Viva
– By David CarrierJO SPENCE: Memory Cards
– By Nicole MillerMICHEL HOUELLEBECQ: French Bashing
– By Seth CameronDOCUMENTA 14
– By Timothy Francis BarryWorks on Water
– By Nicole MillerDAVID MICHALEK: SlowDancing/TrioA
– By Vered EngelhardALEXANDER CALDER: Hypermobility
– By Jason RosenfeldALI BANISADR: Trust in the Future
– By Jessica HolmesMARTIN ROTH: In May 2017 I cultivated a piece of land in Midtown Manhattan nurtured by tweets
– By Jonathan GoodmanArtists Rising
– By Kathy BrewSYLVIA PLIMACK MANGOLD: Summer and Winter
– By David RhodesDisappearing, Inc.
– By Tom McGlynnThe Uptown Triennial
– By Magdalyn AsimakisROBERT MANGOLD: Paintings and Works on Paper 2013–2017
– By David RhodesMATISSE/DIEBENKORN
– By Hearne PardeePHILIP PEARLSTEIN: Facing You
– By Jonathan GoodmanMARINELLA SENATORE: Piazza Universale/Social Stages
– By Yasi AlipourMARKUS LÜPERTZ: New Paintings
– By Hovey BrockRICO GATSON: Icons 2007-2017
– By William CorwinIVANA BAŠIĆ: Through the Hum of Black Velvet Sleep
– By William CorwinCORDY RYMAN: Freefall
– By Colin EdgingtonKATE HARDING: Uphill Downhill Conversation, (Sister)
– By Alexandra HammondMERRILL WAGNER: Works from the 70s
– By Will FenstermakerCHANTAL JOFFE
– By David CarrierKAARI UPSON: Good Thing You Are Not Alone
– By Rabia AshfaqueFuture Library
– By Lucía Hinojosa
Critics Page
Introduction: Toby Kamps with Anne Doran
On Walter Hopps
– By Terrell JamesOn Walter Hopps
– By Sarah C. BancroftEl Bandido
– By George HermsSmoking Walter
– By Nancy KienholzOn Walter Hopps
– By Susan DavidsonOn Walter Hopps
– By Neil PrintzOn Walter Hopps
– By David SalleOn Walter Hopps
– By Don QuaintanceOn Walter Hopps
– By Michael McCall
Books
Modern Humans Are Probably Easier to Unwrap: JEFF VANDERMEER with Jacob Blumenfeld
Bed-Stuy's Many Faces of Gentrification:
BRIAN PLATZER with Liz von KlempererThe Revealing Science of Prog: DAVID WEIGEL with Rick Moody
Her Body, Herself: Hunger by Roxane Gay
– By Matt GrantChanging Climate
– By Christine MiGiving Voice to What's Unsaid: FRED MARCHANT with Olivia Kate Cerrone
God in the Machine
– By Chris CampanioniThrough the Viewfinder: PAMELA RYDER with Peter Markus
Dan Egan's The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
– By Weston CutterMATT HART with Weston Cutter
MAILE MELOY with Weston Cutter
Julia Fierro's The Gypsy Moth Summer
– By Christine SangMaile Meloy's Do Not Become Alarmed
– By Weston CutterDeb Olin Unferth's Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories
– By Yvonne C. Garrett
Music
The Emergence of A New Black Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Text
– By Cisco BradleyArt of Darkness: Wrekmeister Harmonies
– By Marshall YarbroughMake Your Pointe: Visible Cloaks' Reassemblage
– By Mik PointeOuttakes
– By Steve DalachinskyBrooklyn Rail Highly Selective Music Listings
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Dance
Small Steps
– By Erica GettoEmpowerment Waltz: Patricia Noworol's TREMENDOUS
– By Ivan TalijancicWhipped Cream, With a Cherry on Top
– By Susan YungDancing to the Historical Record
– By Gillian JakabDance Caribbean Collective's Third Year
– By Susanna SloatA Little Misery Out There
– By Erica Getto
Film
Known Quantities: Cannes 2017
– By James LattimerERMEK SHINARBAEV with Tanner Tafelski
Risk/Reward: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
– By Almudena Escobar LópezRites of Passage:
John Trengove’s The Wound– By Cindy Govender
Fiction
Returning to the Problem
– By Eugene LimThe Bar
– By Strawberry Saroyanfrom The Waste Pickers
–inSerial: part ten
Delusions of Being Observed– By Lewis WarshWe Are Fox!
– By Tom MotleyNew Routes in Fiction: David Szalay with Alec Niedenthal
Lost and Found Animals Part 10: The Tennessee Wallgroper: Murafactor Fictifioriana
– By Sid Gershgoren
Poetry
Three
– By Noah FalckVito
– By Anne Waldmanfrom LEGEND OF THE WINTER TRIP
– By Pansy Maurer-Alvarezfrom Exercises for the Hard at Work
– By Matt ReeckThree
– By Emily Skillings
Art Books
Adam Bartos and Colin MacCabe, Studio: Remembering Chris Marker
– By Sadie Rebecca StarnesE. Patrick Johnson and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera, Eds., Blacktino Queer Performance
– By Timothy Francis BarryJennifer L. Shaw, Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun
– By Phillip Griffith
Field Notes
Letter to My Neighbor Who Took Part in the Colonial War
– By Jorge ValadasOn Being a Good Ally: The Handmaid's Tale And the Specter of Fascism
– By Adam Theron-Lee RenschThe New Deal in New York, Revisited
– By Nicholas GamsoRichard Walker Replies
– By Richard Walker